Go, Vera, go! But your W80 beer mile WR could fall anytime soon
Beer milers are getting older. The record may be held by Elvira “Vera” Montes of Texas. The headline on her feat caught my eye: “Texas grandmother, 81, smashes beer mile, says she could have ‘run a lot faster’ drinking scotch.” One local report says Elvira of El Paso beat her 47-year-old daughter Renee Reynolds’ time in the 2015 FloTrack Beer Mile World Championships in Austin on Dec. 1. Montes finished at 20 minutes and 24.62 seconds, a newspaper reported. Reynolds came in just behind at 21 minutes and 15.67 seconds. Montes’ son-in-law didn’t finish. “I’m not a big beer drinker,” Montes told the El Paso Times. “I like beer when the weather is real hot and there’s nothing else to drink. I’m really a scotch drinker, Chivas if it’s available. If it was scotch we were drinking instead of beer, I would have run a lot faster. … I don’t have any secrets, I just wanted to prove to my daughter that I could run and drink beer.” I gotta think we have lots of lady milers who can crank out a sub-20 after four suds.
81-Year-Old Elvira Montez completes beer mile
81-Year-Old Elvira Montez completes beer mile #FloBeerMile –> http://bit.ly/21ylTpM
Posted by FloTrack Beer Mile World Championships on Thursday, December 3, 2015
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