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‘Tis the season of outrageous marathon challenges here at BroBible. We have recently featured all sorts of challenges from a ‘Culver’s Marathon’ where I guy ran store-to-store crushing deep-fried cheese curds and concrete mixers in between to another person running a ’24 burgers, 24 beers, in 24 hours’ challenge.
And now this. Preston Lopez wanted to run a complete Beer Marathon with 26 beers in 26 miles. 26 beers for most people in a day would be a LOT, especially when exercising, but your body is burning so many calories in the race it does seem like a somewhat plausible challenge under the right circumstances.
According to his TikTok bio, Preston’s at Bookit Sports which is ‘the center of sports betting entertainment’ and I mention that because honestly, I would’ve liked to have been able to bet the over/under on the number of beers he drank in this challenge. His effort was admirable but he simply had goals that were too lofty. 24 beers is a LOT of foam!
When I initially scrolled past this video on TikTok I wasn’t sure if it was a parody or not but he’s out there doing the dang thing. Stopping early in the race to buy supplies seemed like a misstep. Come prepared with a handful of friends who can navigate the course and set you up with beer stations throughout which would also stop you from needing to carry more than one extra beer at a time.
Furthermore, the optimal way to tackle this challenge is a plastic beer helmet with the 2 rubber straws. Sure you might generate more heat because you would be wearing a hat the entire time but it would free up your hands and you would be protected from the sun. The beer helmet is the way.
At the end of the day, he was able to drink 14 beers and finish the 26.2 miles in 5 hours and 44 minutes.
Interestingly, this 26 beers in 26 miles challenge was in the same Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon in San Diego where this dude ran the marathon with 24 hours notice just to spite his wife. She was bothered that he had been boasting he could complete a marathon with zero training. He doesn’t exercise at all. So she challenged him to do it and he went out and did it just to spite her:
@mizifbaby I’m never going to hear the end of this 🙃 Logan didn’t train, has no running experience, and NEVER works out 😂 when he said he could complete a marathon everyone thought he was crazy because even walking 26.2 miles is tough… Well he proved us all wrong 🥲 Congrats Loggy, im quite literally shocked #marathon #marathontraining #rocknrollmarathon #surprisingmyhusband #husbandprank #firsttimemarathoner
He will now be able to walk around for the rest of his life with that looming over the marriage. Anytime she claims he can’t do anything he can bring up ‘remember the time I ran that marathon with zero training?’ and it’s a nuff said moment.