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.