Boards Beer Mile 2015, June 13th

TRR_the_turd

laura_ac3 wrote: »

I could be meeting a friend home for the weekend but if not I might head over with "bunny" girl and help out

Or you could bring your friend

emerald007

TRR_the_turd wrote: »

Ok so just so we can get an idea of numbers, here's the list I have so far

adrian522
DogSlySmile
the dune
razor12345
simonw
MaggotBrain
Oregano_State
Chivito
Meno
TRR
dublin_runner
thirstywork2
davedanon
pacing_mule
yaboya
RedRunner (now injured?)
Dubgal72 (competing or helping?)
DrQ* (if he hasn't been lynched)
shels4ever (unconfirmed)
eldiva (unconfirmed)
Quest1 (SC)
emeraldjava

Now I just need to figure out

a - how I'm going to get there
b - what choice of beer i'm going to use
c - how I'm going to get home

just like any night out really.

laura_ac3

TRR_the_turd wrote: »

Or you could bring your friend

That's one option alright. The other is not to subject her to this

RedRunner

TRR_the_turd wrote: »

Ok so just so we can get an idea of numbers, here's the list I have so far

adrian522
DogSlySmile
the dune
razor12345
simonw
MaggotBrain
Oregano_State
Chivito
Meno
TRR
dublin_runner
thirstywork2
davedanon
pacing_mule
yaboya
RedRunner (now injured?)
Dubgal72 (competing or helping?)
DrQ* (if he hasn't been lynched)
shels4ever (unconfirmed)
eldiva (unconfirmed)
Quest1 (SC)

Yep I'm out with injury unfortunately.

DogSlySmile

TRR_the_turd wrote: »

ultraman1 has kindly supplied some race entries for Donadea 5k and 10k (2 each, so they are up for grabs for top finishers). There is also an entry for the Donadea 50k which will be awarded to the last finisher and they must complete the 50k in Feb

"Accidental" penalty lap for me so

kit3

DogSlySmile wrote: »

"Accidental" penalty lap for me so

Reckon there could be a bit of a race for last (not referring to myself in case I cause confusion )

yaboya1

DogSlySmile wrote: »

"Accidental" penalty lap for me so

You'll still do well to finish behind last year's back marker

Krusty_Clown

TRR_the_turd wrote: »

Have i missed anyone? Krusty/Kiely? Are you two in this year? We will even allow you two lovers to hold hands while you compete!

Having taken silver and bronze over the two previous years, there was only ever one outcome to competing this year. The result was clearly inevitable, so what's the point in competing?! Unfortunate timing issue this year. 6 months of training comes to an end this weekend, so I've got to try and use all of that training for something constructive, before I focus on the destructive. If it had been two weeks later, I'd have been all over it (but I think TRR knew that when he scheduled the race. ).

I'll be there anyway, to hold back KU's hair during the post-race chunder and capture the inevitable meno frothiness on camera if needed.

DogSlySmile

yaboya1 wrote: »

You'll still do well to finish behind last year's back marker

Oh crap yeah.. Just looked up last years results. I'll have to pull a 16:00 minute beer mile out of the bag to have any chance of finishing last. I am still coming back from a three month lay-off so maybe I better take it easy and just walk this one... :cool:

I'm in. No idea what to expect but sure, I'll give it a lash

Pacing Mule

yaboya1 wrote: »

You'll still do well to finish behind last year's back marker

Was it running fitness or beer drinking prowess that he fell short on ? Presume penalty lap came into play too !?

TRR_the_turd

Krusty_Clown wrote: »

I'll be there anyway, to hold back KU's hair during the post-race chunder and capture the inevitable meno frothiness on camera if needed.

Great stuff, so you are happy to be camera person for the day? Ecoli is not doinf it this yer so we should be finished under the hour

DogSlySmile wrote: »

Oh crap yeah.. Just looked up last years results. I'll have to pull a 16:00 minute beer mile out of the bag to have any chance of finishing last. I am still coming back from a three month lay-off so maybe I better take it easy and just walk this one... :cool:

Regards the race entries/prizes how about 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th get to chose which entry they want. The person with the quickest last lap gets the remaining entry.

I'm off to Dunnes at lunch to purchase some of that moose head ****e! Taper madness has commenced!

Chivito550

Just to clear up the constant confusion surrounding the penalty lap:

1) you only do 1 penalty lap, regardless of how often you spew. So if you are the type to throw up 3-4 times, this is great value, as opposed to those who puke just once.

2) penalty lap is to be completed at the end of the race, after you have completed 4 beers, and 4 regulation laps. Penalty laps are not to be done mid race, to build up a bigger gap between beers. This is against the rules.

TRR_the_turd

Just looking back at the original post I stuck up. Start time was stated as 6pm! Ireland are playing Scotland at 5pm so if people wanted to watch this we'd have to go with a 7.30pm start. What's the general consensus? Personally I don't care about the football and would prefer the earlier evening start but 7.30pm works for me too!

shels4ever

There are prizes this year ?:) , Was going to pussy out of it this year but might now need to rethink.

yaboya1

Pacing Mule wrote: »

Was it running fitness or beer drinking prowess that he fell short on ? Presume penalty lap came into play too !?

No penalty lap.

The pure difficulty of trying to get 4 beers down the hatch in such a short space of time while running was his undoing. The video captures it all. I underestimated it myself tbh, but this year I've put in some specific training.

Morale of the story (much like the marathon): Don't underestimate the beer mile folks

menoscemo

TRR_the_turd wrote: »

Just looking back at the original post I stuck up. Start time was stated as 6pm! Ireland are playing Scotland at 5pm so if people wanted to watch this we'd have to go with a 7.30pm start. What's the general consensus? Personally I don't care about the football and would prefer the earlier evening start but 7.30pm works for me too!

I think 7:30pm works fine; we should be in town before 9 and we can catch the match before the race (warmup beers in the Horse and Hound anyone?). You'll be well buzzed after necking 4 beers anyway.

Also 7;30 gives the track fairies a better chance of making the beermile and an added advantage is that the Sonia 5k is on at the same time so hopefully the local athletics fans will be down in DunLaoghaire watching that.

Maybe get a mod to change the OP?

ArtieFufkin

Count me in for this, it should be great fun although I've been concentrating more on the beer side recently, need to do some speed work this week!

Chivito550

TRR_the_turd wrote: »

Just looking back at the original post I stuck up. Start time was stated as 6pm! Ireland are playing Scotland at 5pm so if people wanted to watch this we'd have to go with a 7.30pm start. What's the general consensus? Personally I don't care about the football and would prefer the earlier evening start but 7.30pm works for me too!

I thought it had been moved to 7:30??

If it's 6pm I won't be able to make it from Leixlip in time.

TRR_the_turd

Chivito550 wrote: »

I thought it had been moved to 7:30??

If it's 6pm I won't be able to make it from Leixlip in time.

I think everyone was working off the 7.30 assumption
Grand, 7.30 it is!!

so..............anyone heading in from the santry/glasnevin area?

Krusty_Clown

TRR_the_turd wrote: »

Great stuff, so you are happy to be camera person for the day? Ecoli is not doinf it this yer so we should be finished under the hour

Yup, not a bother. May also be able to help out with lifts, if anyone's coming from the LUAS, DART or Fox and Hound (strange forms of transport!).

Chivito550

Anybody planning any beer/run combo sessions? Want to try one myself but worried about getting seen in broad daylight.

Timmaay

Chivito550 wrote: »

Anybody planning any beer/run combo sessions? Want to try one myself but worried about getting seen in broad daylight.

Man the f7ck up, the beermile is too serious to sacrifice training because of petty issues as such. If your really concerned dig out a Nike trackie and set of airmax and go to tallaght, nobody will bat an eyelid ha.

davedanon

Timmaay wrote: »

Man the f7ck up, the beermile is too serious to sacrifice training because of petty issues as such. If your really concerned dig out a Nike trackie and set of airmax and go to tallaght, nobody will bat an eyelid ha.

Not with a poncy beer like Moosehead. He'd get f*cking killed. Dutch Gold at a pinch.

Ron Gomall

Chivito550 wrote: »

I thought it had been moved to 7:30??

If it's 6pm I won't be able to make it from Leixlip in time.

Chivito - am heading from Leixlip myself - whats the best way to get there ? Or meet you in Leixlip & travel across together ? Cheers

Chivito550

Ron Gomall wrote: »

Chivito - am heading from Leixlip myself - whats the best way to get there ? Or meet you in Leixlip & travel across together ? Cheers

I'll probably be getting a lift home from Leixlip first if one of my training partners races IMC too. But best way is to jump on the train. Station is right by the track. Think it goes to Heuston. Red Line to city centre, then green line or bus (145?) out.

AdpRo

I would love to join in the madness but probably won't know till saturday afternoon if I will make it. I live fairly close to the 'stadium' so hopefully will but don't put me down as a definite.

adrian522

I went out to the off license to get some Moosehead, came home with one of these. Heard great things but I'd never seen it anywhere.



My moosehead trianing may have to wait a while.

TRR_the_turd

adrian522 wrote: »

I went out to the off license to get some Moosehead, came home with one of these. Heard great things but I'd never seen it anywhere.



My moosehead trianing may have to wait a while.

On behalf of all of us (maybe just me) who hate hipster craft beers, may I say feck off!

Ron Gomall

Chivito550 wrote: »

I'll probably be getting a lift home from Leixlip first if one of my training partners races IMC too. But best way is to jump on the train. Station is right by the track. Think it goes to Heuston. Red Line to city centre, then green line or bus (145?) out.

Thanks, am doing a "beer agreed " Hell n Back 12km the morning so wont be doing a fast time but still good to get my first Beer mile out of the way... May show up in fancy dress for the craic, cheers

simonw

Had a warm up session tonight, 3 beers, 30secs recovery, and I learned I will not be breaking any records on Sat and Moosehead isn't the mae west

38secs/41secs/51secs

shels4ever

Well decided to give up the ticket for the same on Saturday and do this race. Haven't run faster than a 10 minute mile for a long time so think this could be an interesting event.
Need to get a few bottles of moose head today to reacquaint myself.

kit3

Sales of Moosehead must be showing a spike around now - wonder how many beer miles it will take for them to notice the trend :rolleyes:

shels4ever

kit3 wrote: »

Sales of Moosehead must be showing a spike around now - wonder how many beer miles it will take for them to notice the trend :rolleyes:

official sponsor and prizes maybe

kit3

shels4ever wrote: »

official sponsor and prizes maybe

Worth a shot although you'd better not tell them why most people are choosing it !

adrian522

As long as the prizes don't involve more Moosehead I'm fine with that.

menoscemo

kit3 wrote: »

Sales of Moosehead must be showing a spike around now - wonder how many beer miles it will take for them to notice the trend :rolleyes:

My local offie has been sold out for the last week :eek:

TRR_the_turd

kit3 wrote: »

Sales of Moosehead must be showing a spike around now - wonder how many beer miles it will take for them to notice the trend :rolleyes:

Just back from Dunnes Stores, was thinking the exact same myself as I was buying 6 bottle of moose piss!

menoscemo

With all the moosehead on the track on Saturday, should we be taking measures to mark our own bottles? What happens if someone drinks one of yours, do you just nick one of someone else's bottles?

Toulouse

H'okay, so I'm thinking about throwing my hat into the ring for this.

How crazy would I be to attempt it with no chug and run practice?

ArtieFufkin

TRR_the_turd wrote: »

On behalf of all of us (maybe just me) who hate hipster craft beers, may I say feck off!

That's a bit like saying you only like instant coffee and that the real stuff has too much flavour! Now pass me that blueberry, agave, spiced raspberry IPA.

menoscemo

Toulouse wrote: »

H'okay, so I'm thinking about throwing my hat into the ring for this.

How crazy would I be to attempt it with no chug and run practice?

Only one way to find out

I'd imagine very few people do any 'chug and run' training. The few that do any training mostly limit it to chugging.

adrian522

So is it going to be all Moosehead on Saturday?

I saw a viable alternative in the offie yesterday, Brooklyn Summer ale, 5% and 355ml, decent beer. Only problem was they only had 2 cans at the time.

I currently have 8 mooseheads so probably just going with those.

menoscemo

adrian522 wrote: »

So is it going to be all Moosehead on Saturday?

I saw a viable alternative in the offie yesterday, Brooklyn Summer ale, 5% and 355ml, decent beer. Only problem was they only had 2 cans at the time.

I currently have 8 mooseheads so probably just going with those.

Myself and KC had that summerale last year. Lovely beer and just as easy to chug as Moosehead IMO, but it really is an expensive waste of a nice beer. It's more of a beer to sup on.

BTW Brooklyn Lager (cans and bottles available) is also an option. Ditto Sierra Nevada. Cans are slightly easier to open than bottles too which might save you a few seconds.

TRR_the_turd

ArtieFufkin wrote: »

That's a bit like saying you only like instant coffee and that the real stuff has too much flavour! Now pass me that blueberry, agave, spiced raspberry IPA.

I suppose you like ethically sourced coffee beans, grown on organic Kenyan goats turd from the great Rift valley served in a hand made cup produced by a fixie cycling bearded, tight jeans wearing, ironic hipster bastard?

They really need to reopen that rant thread!

kit3

TRR_the_turd wrote: »

I suppose you like ethically sourced coffee beans, grown on organic Kenyan goats turd from the great Rift valley served in a hand made cup produced by a fixie cycling bearded, tight jeans wearing, ironic hipster bastard?

They really need to reopen that rant thread!

Ah Jaysus Turd, surely his parentage makes no difference !

+1 for the rant thread

adrian522

TRR_the_turd wrote: »

I suppose you like ethically sourced coffee beans, grown on organic Kenyan goats turd from the great Rift valley served in a hand made cup produced by a fixie cycling bearded, tight jeans wearing, ironic hipster bastard?

They really need to reopen that rant thread!

It doesn't need to be ethically sourced. The rest is more or less the way it needs to be though.

TRR_the_turd

adrian522 wrote: »

It doesn't need to be ethically sourced. The rest is more or less the way it needs to be though.

bastard!

kit3

TRR_the_turd wrote: »

bastard!

So, who or what rattled your cage this fine day - Moosehead hangover ??