As if running a mile in under five minutes wasn't hard enough, James Nielsen did it while drinking beer. In a record-breaking race now seen on YouTube by over a million people, Nielsen, of Novato, California, ran the Beer Mile, "a perhaps less prestigious (although still extraordinary) feat of athleticism in which a competitor must finish a 12-ounce beer before each of the four laps on a 400-meter track, with penalties for throwing up," Runner's World reported. He clocked in with an official time of just 4:57.1. Most of us can't even dream of running a sub-five-minute mile. And most
