‘Please finish all of your beer’: Cerebral’s beer mile relay

On your mark. Get set. Chug.

There was no pistol to fire off the race, but on Wednesday night at Cerebral Brewing’s West Highland location, an announcer with a megaphone kicked off an “unsanctioned” 4×400 — a one-mile relay where teams of four sprinted around the block.

But before they took off running, racers first had to down a pint of beer.

The tradition is known as a beer mile. Classic renditions of the race would require runners to run four laps around a track — stopping every quarter-mile to chug beer. But Cerebral’s race only required each runner to down one pint and run one lap.

“We wanted it to be more accessible to people,” said Carmen Graves, who founded Cerebral’s weekly running club. “So the relay portion of it was really important just to make sure no one’s puking, everyb