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May 25, 2006
Beer running
Two of my favorite activities, running and drinking beer, are usually mutually exclusive. But on a glorious June Sunday in Milwaukee, these two pasttimes converge in a delightful event called The Beer Run: 1.8 miles, 4 mandatory beer stops.
The shady group of characters you see above are the intrepid beer runners that make this one of the wackiest traditions known to man. (You can see me on the upper left with the mandatory sideways Mickey's hat.) For obvious reasons, it is not enough to simply participate in the beer run. Instead, we fire up some plungers, dress in orange, and drink our beer from said plungers, and pretend to be plumbers. And dammit, some glorious bastard actually set up a plumber's website. The Beer Run goes down in about three weeks. You bet your ass I am pumped.
Posted by oz115 at May 25, 2006 10:26 AM
Comments
Honey, I haven't registered yet... have you? I did it on raceday last year... what ya doing this year? NO MORE jager the nigth before! Even if it's $2 a shot!
Posted by: christy at May 25, 2006 09:42 PM
BEER RUN!!! BEEEEEEEEER RUUUUUUUUUUN!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Q at May 26, 2006 01:52 PM
I re-routed a weekend in luscious vermont to make it to this years beer run. Pumped, is an understatement!
Posted by: G at May 29, 2006 03:49 PM