Here are some general guidelines when attempting to do your first beer mile, in no particular order of importance.
- DO dress like a fool. You will look like a fool during your first attempt, why not dress the part?
- DO NOT wear shoes 2 sizes too small for women
- DO NOT run a beer mile after a hard race. Not trying to play down being a BAMF, just try to avoid any unnecessary injuries.
- Avoid any kind of crap beer that is ice cold. This was probably my biggest downfall. I did not come prepared with the proper brew, so I was stuck with throat numbingly cold MGD. Highly NOT recommended.
- DO have your race timing friends give you splits for each lap + transition!
- The more effed up the course the better. We did 4 loops on someone's land, which was largely trail running. Also resulted in my friend Jordan and I getting lost on 2 of the loops.
- Did I mention to dress like a fool?
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| Me on the left sporting borrowed shoes and shorts and my amazing wool socks. Ryan on the right, who also ran a marathon that morning. |
Although I don't remember my official time (definitely 10+ minutes), I had an awesome first lap. It was somewhere around 90 sec including the beer. After that, things went downhill quickly. I think each beer after loop 1 took around 1 minute because of the cold beer and me just being a terrible cold beer drinker. The running was not bad at all. Next time around I will be prepared with shitty warm beer in hand.
