James Nielsen of California trained hard and studied hard. His work paid off.
Nielsen posted a video of himself attempting to run under 5 minutes in the beer mile. Nielson made his attempt Sunday and the footage, which has previously been posted to Competitor.com and Flotrack.org, is below.
What is the beer mile, you ask? Drink a beer, run a lap, repeat. Drink four beers, run four laps, don't throw up and you've run a beer mile.
Beermile.com keeps track of "official records" and lists Josh Harris of Melbourne, Australia as the beer mile record holder with a time of 5:04.9.
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Nielsen finished in 4:57, then got a ride home from his wife.
