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| BEER MILER NEWS BC Beer Milers dominate Canadian National Cross Country Mark Bomba avenged his 2nd place finish (7:17) to Peter Cardle (6:39) at the BC Beer Mile back in August by winning at the Canadian National Cross Country.Meet on November 25, 2000. Cardle finished 2nd at the national meet. Randy Moody who ran 11:51 at the BC Beer Mile also placed well finishing 19th. Other beer milers at the national meet: Dan Michaluk, who holds the world beer mile record(5:48), finished 70th. Jim Wardle, who is the 8th best mile performer ever(6:32), finished 71st. |
| California International Marathon Sacramento, CA December 3. 2000: Juan Ramirez, who serves as the official timer of the Orange County Beer Mile, set a 6 minute PR to run 2:31:41 and finish 13th. Seanna Robinson, who holds the women's 4 beer record in a godly time of 6:56 and the 3 beer record, also ran well. She finished 6th in a time of 2:51:30. Habib Torfi, who may be making his beer mile debut on December 9th ran a big PR of 3:08:26. |
| Mark Bomba Interview On November 25, 2000, Mark Bomba competed in Canada's National Cross Country Championship Meet. He had the motivation. He was hungry. The guy has never won a beer mile, so he had to win something. He ended up shocking everyone but himself by placing first at the national meet. He will now be representing Canada at the World Championships Cross Country Meet. Hopefully, this outstanding performance will serve as inspiration to beer milers around the world. We are very fortunate to get an interview with Mark. Can you tell us how you went from a 17 minute beer miler to a 7:17 beer miler? Well, I like to say that an endurance runner is like a steam train....you can see it coming in the distance. If you had been hanging out in any Vancouver pubs, clubs, etc....or running on the trails/tracks you would've found me plugging and chugging away. Well that and the beer intravenous and EPO I began taking. Did you do any cross training? Well I found that specificity helps, so I did a lot of run, drink, run drink. But from time to time I would also do specific interval sessions of training (ie 3 x 2 beers with 30 seconds of rest, or 3 x 1000m off 1minute of rest). I have to say that those long hard steady sessions of something like 40 minutes running or 40 minutes of straight drinking sure were tough. The running was painful, but the drinking was murderous. My stomach was full after 20 minutes. |
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| Juan Ramirez taking splits and thinking I am glad I am not doing this. |
| What beer did you use in your 7:17 performance? Hmmmmmm.......does it really matter as long it isn't any of that 'American' crap? How is your training for the next BC Beer Mile going to be affected now that you are going to run in the world championships in cross country? Well actually the fellow who was 2nd at our national cross country meet (Peter Cardle who beat Mark in the August BC Beer Mile) is actually a 6:39 guy. As well as we have some great drinkers on the team already, and with some of the short course team guys like say Graham Hood (2 time Olympian and 3:51.55 miler) who by the way did the very first Kingston Beer Mile, I am sure that we'll push each other to new levels...of drinking that is. As well I figure being in Ireland, how can you not learn how to drink more efficiently? And once you get to a certain fitness level it's all about efficiency. Please note that is was all in fun. It is just some silly humor. It is a joke and should be taken that way. Mark Bomba does not advocate drug use and would never take EPO. Mark worked hard for months to prepare to win at the cross country nationals. He is accomplished runner and a good guy to do this interview. Even though he is from Canada, I got to give this guy his due. He is a true kung fu samurai warrior. |