Houston Running: Wade's Beer Mile World Record Busted

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Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Wade's Beer Mile World Record Busted

I kid you not! (I had actually seen this online quite some time ago.)

For proof, I take you to the blog of Cleveland, Ohio masters runner Ben Szporluk.

The link is here:
http://rocknrollrunner.blogspot.com/2006/12/new-beer-mile-world-record.html

Wade's mile of 5 minutes and 40 seconds from August 23, 1987 has reportedly been broken by Oregon's A.J. Acosta with an effort of 5:38.9 on November 21, 2006 at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon.

The question is whether or not they were using fully automated timing (F.A.T.) or not!

2 Comments:

Anonymous said...: No real surprise that a Rice grad held the record for so long--ever been to Beer Bike? Good times...; 4:51 PM
Anonymous said...: Dang, I shoulda got a quote from him about that for the story I did.; 7:35 AM