I run worse if I drink the night before a run. I however keep testing this different beers. Unfortunately...same results.

my senior year of high school, we'd have saturday morning meets, kick the sh*t out of the rest of the state, and then get trashed that night.

in college? well, after a good race, the celebration process hasn't really changed

I've never tried drinking before a race, seems like it wouldn't be a good idea though

impossible

quote:<HR>Originally posted by therealman:

It's Jan 11th and we still don't have a beer thread? <HR>

Oh, there you are!!!

Where's everyone else: IR, MM, LT, etc.???

Are we gonna give it a better go than last year???

Let me tell you of a project I'm working on ... (you'd understand it 'cuz your were here for the Great Beer Thread of '03)

I have next year's book project on the board. It's Called "400 Beers"

"400 Beers???" Well, I've been working on a book called "The Iguana Chronicles: Tales of Love and Adventure in the Caribbean" This is essentially a memoir of our trip to St. Thomas which produced my daughter Mariel, with some pirate stories thrown in. "400 Beers" will be the sequel. It came out of a math exercise.

About a month ago, while on the stat bike on the gym, I started wondering how much I weighed when I was racing really, really, well (39:20 10K PR, 18:36 5K) I figured I've gained 10 pounds since then, most of it in the past 5 years. Ten pounds X 16 oz./pound X 28 grams/oz. (don't ask how I remembered that) X 9 calories per gram of fat yields 40,320 extra calories I've neglected to burn off. Divide by 100 calories per (light) beer and it's roughly 400 beers. Actually, it's 403.2 but I didn't think "403.2 Beers" had a good flow (so to speak) and I think I burned up the extra 3.2 while doing the math (I had to figure it right then, right there, on the bike, sans calculator)

The book is going to be one part reflection of how I gained the weight ... I have journals for Mariel's first couple years; one part journal of losing it again (maybe in the form of a training diary for the Philly Marathon or Timberman 1/2 Ironman or both); and one part bullsh!t stories - whatever I can come up with for filler ... poems, jokes, illustrations, etc.

I might even ressurrect some good passages from the Original Beer thread

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For "The Apprentice"



Flavor Enticement
Dry Hopped with a "sh!t-load" of Cascade hops grown in the Pacific Northwest. Doggie Style has enough hop character to satisfy hop-heads, but isn?t overpoweringly hoppy. It?s brilliant amber-copper color and pleasant malt flavor comes from the addition of Carastan malts.
Original Gravity: 13.0 Plato
Specific Gravity: 1.052
Alcohol by Volume: 5.3%


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http://This message has been edited by randymar (edited Feb-01-2005).

I <heart> Ralph Steadman. Thanks for the images (I could have done without the third one, but oh well).

I miss beer. I sure can drink me an IPA once in a while. Mmmm love the sharp edge.

Ahhh, flying dog ... haven't heard that for about 6 months.

I'm in the military and was recently sent to Germany for 2 years. While the beer here is great ... my husband and I sure do miss some of our favorite beers back in the states!!

Drink one or two or three or ... for us!

I used to be able to drink and run when I was in college, now adays I limit it to one or none before a morning run.

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