Spirit's 5K & Beer Mile benefiting MANNA HOUSE

🏃‍♂️ Event Overview

• Benefiting: Manna House
• Date: 2025-01-25
• Location: 1200 Texas Avenue, Alexandria, LA
• Race URL: Spirit's 5K & Beer Mile

🎉 Race Details

• Description: Please join us for the 25th Annual Spirit's 5K & Beer Mile. This race will start and finish at Spirits. You will run through the beautiful Historic Garden District.
• Post-Race: Join us after the race for a great finishing party including food, drinks, and fellowship with great friends.
• Packet Pickup: Packet pickup will be at Run Wild on Friday from 12 Noon until 5:30 pm and at Spirits on Saturday starting at 12 noon and finishing at 1:45.
• Race Schedule: 1 mile will start at 2pm, 5K at 2:00 with beer mile to follow at 3pm.

🍺 What is a Beer Mile?

• Concept: The concept is simple: a beer every quarter mile for 1 mile. Sounds easy? Not quite.
• Start/Finish: The race will start at Spirits and finish four beers later with a heart-pounding sprint to the finish.
• Registration: If you are feeling courageous you can sign up for both races at a discounted rate.

📜 Beer Mile Rules

• Drinks and Laps: Each competitor drinks four beers and runs four quarter laps.
• Transition Area: Beer must be consumed before the lap is begun, within the transition area which is the 10 meter zone before the start/finish line on a 400m track.
• First Beer: The race begins with the drinking of the first beer in the last meter of the transition zone to ensure the competitors run a complete mile (1609 meters).
• Women Competitors: Women also drink four beers in four laps (past rule lists only required ladies to drink three beers).
• Alcohol Content: Beer must be a minimum of 5% alcohol. Beer will be provided by Huckleberry Brewery.
• Can Opening: Each beer can must not be opened until the competitor enters the transition zone on each lap.
• Penalty Lap: Competitors who vomit before they finish the race must complete one penalty lap at the end of the race (immediately after the completion of their 4th lap). Note: Vomiting more than once during the race still requires only one penalty lap at the end.