How fast can you run a mile while chugging four beers? How about doing it while running with just one shoe?
Canadian beer-mile phenom Corey Bellemore ran an impressive 4:30.80 mile under those conditions on Saturday to win the Beer Mile World Classic in Chicago, coming up just short of his 2021 world record of 4:28.10. American Elizabeth Laseter won the women’s championship race in 6:03.75 to claim her first world title, but Shelby Houlihan, a 2016 U.S. Olympian who is under suspension for a doping violation, stole the show by breaking the women’s beer mile world record in an earlier heat with a stunning 5:43.81 effort.
What Exactly Is a Beer Mile?
Basically, it’s a mile race on a track in which each runner chugs a 12-ounce beer, runs one 400-meter lap, and repeats that three more times, a beer for each lap, as fast as possible—all without having it come back up, which is politely referred to as a “reversal of fortune.” The clock stops for each runner after the fourth lap is completed, unless they spew, when an additional fifth 400-meter penalty lap is typically required.
The Beer Mile World Classic—the…
