Immediate Euphoria — Chasing the Ultimate Runner’s High at the Beer Mile World Classic
The Beer Mile World Classic is the annual world championship for people with the unique ability to chug beer and run really fast. It’s a simple and relatable race: Short enough that anyone can attempt it, hard enough that most will fail miserably, absurd enough that anyone who learns about it will want to hear more.The event consists of four 400-meter laps around a running track, beginning nine meters behind the official starting line to reach the metric 1,609m of an imperial mile. That extra nine meters becomes the designated “chug zone” in which, before each lap, runners have to down one 12oz beer.