While looking up some other stuff on the internet (I still can't remember what it was, tire prices, perhaps?) I stumbled across a story about a Canadian named Lewis Kent's reclaiming of the world record for the Beer Mile.

What is the Beer Mile? I'm glad you asked.

The Beer Mile is a mile run, where you guzzle a 12 ounce beer every lap or 400 meters. No puking allowed. While this sounds funny, the people who participate have to be deadly serious, because the world record is 4 minutes, 51 seconds. That's a decent mile time in its own right, let alone accomplished after guzzling four beers.

I've never been a good runner, nor am I great at power guzzling beer, but I did once challenge a friend to a race aorund the block while drinking (a lot more then four) one night. It didn't end well. (Pulled hamstring anyone?)

The sport has its own web site which includes some variations on the Beer Mile like The Chunder Mile (which allows for vomiting), The Clydesdale (for guys over 200 pounds) and the Vodka Steeplechase (7 and a half laps, with hurdles, a water jump and seven shots of vodka).

It's now on my bucket list of things to do before I kick it. Unless you jump and save me, because after all, friends don't let friends run drunk.

And now back to the efforts of Lewis Kent. The 22-year-old ran a beer mile in an incredible time of 4:51, breaking the previous record by six seconds.

Shoemaker Brooks Sports was just as impressed as everyone else and they offered Kent a two-year deal to endorse their running shoes. Terms of the deal were not released, but maybe they include a new line of beer resistant shoes to allow your feet to stay dry from the spillage.

Kent's personal best time for a mile, without drinking beer, is 4:15. The world record is 3:43.13.

Doesn't he deserve a beer endorsement too? He was drinking Canada's Amsterdam Blonde.

Many of the previous record-holders in the beer mile are also Canadian. What's up with that, eh?

 

 

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