Bierlauf

Today is the Bierlauf here on campus. I wrote a post some months back describing this event. But Ill sum it up shortly here...

Teams of 3, each getting a case of 24 Becks. There is a course around 5km long going around the campus, with some stations set up, where you have to perform some sort of task. The goal is simple, be the fastest team to circumnavigate the course, drink all 24 beers, and complete all the tasks.

Last time I didnt know about it in time, so I did not participate, but this time, Im all over it. I joined up with some British friends here and we created a Commonwealth team appropriately named 'Trojans of Girth'.

So it gets rolling at 5 today, I cant wait. We have a pretty good plan, that hopefully will place us near the top. We decided that carrying a case of beer, while trying to drink as many as we could, was just a dumn idea. So we chose to bring straws with us, and do what i call 'sharking'. Simply, it involves chugging a beer with a bendy straw letting air into the bottom, avoiding the glug-glug that always ends with that bloating gross feeling. So were gonna try to chug ALL 8 beers each at the start, vomit immediately, then beeline for the stations, and hopefully do quite well. If all this talk of vomiting makes you a little queasy then this is not the event for you. The last time I watched this thing, nearly every team finished the event by finding an area and throwing up 8 beers. It was disgusting, yet strangely entertaining at the same time.

Anyways, so thats whats about to happen in about 5 hours. I will try to get pictures and write a blurb about my experiences.