Even if the Bierathlon Zurich website wasn’t in German, I’m still not sure I’d understand what on earth is going on in this weekend’s race. When I do translate it, there’s something about the event being “nothing less than survival.”

What I can glean from this video involves costumes, racing, carrying crates of beer, chugging beer and more racing. Also, projective vomiting, though I’ll spare you a link to that video.

An Irish adventure racer’s blog reveals some more specifics of the challenge:

• Carrying a crate of beer for 8km
• Drinking 1.5 litres of beer and running 8km
• Keeping the beer in your stomach
• Burping on call to eliminate gas
• Stopping the face paint from running onto your clothes
• Making it to the party afterwards

I think this is in the running (no pun intended) for one of the most epic beer runner race of all time. Know of anything that tops this?

Thanks to Silicon Sky for the heads up about the Bierathlon.