| Orange County Kingston Beer Mile | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Official Kingston Beer Mile Rules |
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| Anyone can drink after a race. Some runners can even handle drinking before a race -- Henry Rono was reportedly running with something other than just a runner's high during a few of his record runs, and two-time Olympian Steve Lacy split a six-pack with a buddy a few hours before he broke 4:00 for the mile for the first time. But drinking during a race? That requires a special breed of runner. Why beer mile? Suffice it to say that in the space of four laps of a track,you can do what it took Bob Kempainen nearly 26.2 miles to achieve duringthe 1996 Olympic Marathon Trials. Preparing for a beer mile is simple. For Dustin Hoffman's character in "The Graduate," the one-word key to success was "plastics." For beer milers, it's "quarters"--namely, frequently run quarters, and frequently play quarters. Building your capacity to buffer lactic acid and chug will stand you in goodstead on that fateful day when it comes time to do both simultaneously. |
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| Upcoming Beer Mile Info | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The top 1000 Beer Mile Times in History | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| American Mile Record Holder, Steve Scott, with two time Orange County Beer Mile Champion, Steven Robinson. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inaugural Orange County Beer Mile | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2nd Orange County Beer Mile | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Orange County Beer Mile Take #3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Scott Douglas - author of Road Racing for Serious Runners and Advanced Marathoning. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Orange County Beer Mile Take #4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Old News and MUST read Interview with 2000 National Champion Mark Bomba | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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