AM: Beer Mile! this morning. Four of the QuaffON! guys and I decided to give this silliness a try. The challenge is this: Chug a beer, run 0.25mi., Chug another beer, run 0.25mi., chug/run, chug/run. This was not as fun as it sounds. First of all, the weather was not ideal - 55 degrees, but pouring rain. So, I decided to go for broke and ran shirtless as well...
After beer number one in about 30 seconds, I ran my quarter and was back at the start line for beer 2. At this point I knew I would be a DNF. Beer 1 was really hurting the stomach, already. Beer 2 barely went down in about a minute, and I was a solid 2 minutes behind the leaders. I dragged my butt another 0.25mi. and was in misery. I got back to star for Beer 3 and could barely manage to sip any of it. Fortunately, 2 of the other guys were in the same shape, and we agreed to call it quits.
Props to Dan and Tim for finishing. Final time for them was 8 something. World record for this is like 5 minutes...
ANyway, after that craziness, further craziness ensued - the rain here in Indiana had not quit since the night before, and alot of more remote roads and ditches were flooded. The group went on a sobering 8-9 mile jog through the park in Brown County. We mostly stuck to the very soggy trails, but ran in to a portion of the road part we were running where the water was rushing over it in a river like flow. Fortunateley, the other guys are very familiar with the park, and waded a cross.
We kept a pretty good pace it felt like and this became a good adventurous hour or so of running.
Calling it 10 miles for the day, and about 80 minutes
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