Cottonmouth 8 Mile & Beerlay
About this race
🐍🍺 Welcome to the Annual Cottonmouth Beerlay! 🍺🐍
Run fast. Drink hard. Don’t get bit.
What do you get when you combine trail running, random beers, and your most competitive (and possibly least coordinated) friends? The Cottonmouth Beerlay, baby! This wild race at the beautiful Lakewood Nature Preserve is back for another year of glorious chaos, beer-fueled miles, and unforgettable memories.
You can run it solo if you're a one-person party machine, or grab a few beer-loving buddies and tackle it as a relay team of 2–4. Either way, you're in for 8 miles of pure, ridiculous fun.
Are you fast enough to outrun the Cottonmouth? Or will the beer bite first?
🐾 How It Works:
Each lap is a 2-mile trail loop through the preserve. You’ll do it 4 times total.
Before every lap, runners must consume a randomly-selected beer from the BYOB community pool
Solo runners do it all themselves. Relay teams tag in one runner per lap.
🍻 21+ only for the drinking portion, of course. Minors and Sober folks may run with non-alcoholic alternatives but must be carbonated.🧊 BYOB Russian Roulette (a Cottonmouth Classic)
Each runner brings 4 beers (5%+ ABV), which are tossed into our giant iced community kitty pool. When it's your turn to run, a volunteer will hand you a mystery brew, already cracked and poured. You drink it, you run it. Deal with the consequences. No swapping. No peeking. No mercy. Non Alcoholic Drinks are of course permitted. We love sobriety but we just haven't practiced it yet! 😂
🏆 Post-Race Beer Olympics
The party definitely doesn’t stop at the finish line.
Once everyone’s stumbled their final lap, we crank up the music, toss some pizza your way, and break out the Beer Olympics yard games:
🍻 Beer Pong
🪢 Tug of War
🔫 Dodgeball
🌽 Cornhole
🏌️♂️ Hillbilly Golf
🔄 Spike Ball
🐍 Race Details:
📍 Location: 220 Lakewood Preserve, Greenville, SC 29607
🕔 Start Time: 4:00 PM
8 Mile Solo – 4 laps, 4 beers
8 Mile Relay (2-4 people) – 4 laps total, 1 lap per runner per round
📝 Packet Pickup: On-site starting at 3:00 PM
📍 Strava Course Map – COURSE MAP HERE🌲 The Course:
Held at the scenic and shady Lakewood Nature Preserve just outside Greenville, SC, the course features:- A 2-mile grassy trail loop
- Rolling hills (they feel bigger after a beer)
- Wildlife sightings (deer, foxes, and maybe your dignity)
- A rustic barn that serves as our race HQ and beer-staging zone
- This isn’t just any trail—it’s a celebration of running, nature, and fermented grain-based hydration.
💥 Bonus Vibes:
🌭 Hot Dog Bar & party after you finish 📸 Free race photos 🧢 Custom race bibs + giveaway swag 🎶 Good tunes, loud laughs, and a wild crew 🐾 Support for a local nature preserve & sustainable funJoin fellow runners on June 3, 2022 for the Cottonmouth 8 Mile & Beerlay. It's a fantastic 12.9K featuring a flat and fast course in Greenville.
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Trail running
Cottonmouth 8 Mile (Beerlay Relay)
This is a relay of up to 4 people per relay. During the registration you will be able to create a relay team and have members join. Each person is responsible for registering and signing waiver. The course will be a 2 mile loop that each individual will run at least once.
Running
Cottonmouth 8 Mile (Individual)
The course is a 2 mile loop that this runner will complete 4 times.
Weather Overview
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About Greenville
Cottonmouth 8 Mile & Beerlay takes place in Greenville, South Carolina, United States. The local timezone is America/New_York.
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