{"id":4384,"date":"2014-11-12T12:04:27","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T19:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=4384"},"modified":"2014-11-12T12:04:27","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T19:04:27","slug":"former-billings-athlete-shatters-beer-mile-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2014\/11\/former-billings-athlete-shatters-beer-mile-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Billings athlete shatters beer-mile record"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4385\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 336px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"addboard wp-image-4385 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/kim.png\" alt=\"Kimbrough\" width=\"336\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/kim.png 336w, https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/kim-140x140.png 140w, https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/kim-60x60.png 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kimbrough with friend Andy Bitner.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chris Kimbrough, formerly a star athlete at Billings Senior High and Rocky Mountain College, has done us proud.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last week, she set a new women\u2019s beer-mile world record with a time of 6:28.6 in her first attempt at the event. That means she ran four laps around a track, having drunk a beer before each lap. She shaved 13 seconds off the old record.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Did we mention that she is 44 years old and has six children? There&#8217;s much more information in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.runnersworld.com\/general-interest\/44-year-old-mother-of-six-shatters-beer-mile-world-record\">this article<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flotrack.org\/coverage\/251607-Flo-Beer-Mile-World-Championship-2014\/video\/753478-Meet-Beer-Mile-WR-Holder-Chris-Kimbrough#.VGOos_TUvrR\">this video<\/a>, but here are some of the questions I&#8217;m sure you want answered right now:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Her beer<\/strong>:\u00a0Alteration Ale, made by the Hops and Grain Brewery in Austin, Texas, where she lives now.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Alcohol content of the beer<\/strong>: 5.1 percent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>What she learned<\/strong>: &#8220;I think learning how to get the burp out more before you get to that next beer would probably help.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/billingsgazette.com\/sports\/for-kimbrough-marathon-isn-t-her-only-trial\/article_72f864a2-c8ab-5dec-bf1c-8fee76fb1277.html\">one more interesting piece<\/a>, an interview with Kimbrough in 2008, conducted by the Gazette&#8217;s Bill Bighaus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Kimbrough, formerly a star athlete at Billings Senior High and Rocky Mountain College, has done us proud. Last week, she set a new women\u2019s beer-mile world record with a time of 6:28.6 in her first attempt at the event. That means she ran four laps around a track, having drunk a beer before each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[741,1622,333],"class_list":["post-4384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-billings-senior-high","tag-chris-kimbrough","tag-rocky-mountain-college","prominence-category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}