Beer Ad

While I was running the other day along my beloved Harshman Road, as I customarily do when I see such litter, I picked up a beer bottle lying in the alfalfa field beside the road to dispose of it properly.

Note that since my road rage incident that I blogged about here, by "properly" I now move bottles out of the fields and deposit them at the nearest telephone pole, not someone's yard.

Anyway, posed on a fence post, here's the bottle:

I'm a big fan of the Yuengling brand but I'm not sure that this ad is particularly effective: a goat enjoying a beer.  

When I think "flavor" or "discerning palate" the first thing that comes to mind is definitely NOT a goat.

Stupidist Beer Can Ever

I am on top of the topic of beer can litter where I run, as evidenced by my previous posts, here and here.

But over the weekend I found a roadside discard that takes the cake:

 

A blaze-orange can of Busch beer, very Naturey-looking, with the inspirational message "Cold as a a mountain stream, smooth as its name."

 

Yep, after we all go hunting, we'll drink some beers and toss the empties out the window.

 

Morons.

 

 

More Beer, Litter...and Ultrarunning

I posted a few weeks back about "Beer in the Morning."  This post continues that theme.

Today's run beer can count, along a mere 6 mile run, was as follows:

3  Natural Light
2  Keystone Light
2  Busch Light
1  Budweiser Ice
1  Budweiser (regular)
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9  TOTAL

The Keystone is from the Coors product line, but the rest are in the Anheuser-Busch family of beers.

I should not be surprised, I suppose.  Anyone who would deliberately choose one of these beers (all of which taste like a word that rhymes with "miss") clearly possesses the warped kind of mentality that thinks it's OK to litter. 

The obvious connection to Ultrarunning is that although I blog about it here in a public space, when we pick up litter, whether along roads or on a backcountry trail, it's really an unremarkable event.  It's just the right thing to do to.

Beer in the Morning...and Ultrarunning

On Tuesday morning, I had the bride drop me off on her way to work.  I have unlimited distance and route options here in rural southern Franklin County, PA, and today's run was nothing fancy, just a short 5 straight back to the house.

Well, a couple miles into the run, I saw a can in the road.  I usually smash and carry aluminum cans back to a neighbor (she uses the recycling $$ to support the American Heart Association).  I have carried up to 12 recyle cans at a time, which is kinda cool but also sad that I can find so many cans along the road.

So I veered over to the center of the road, where I found a can of Natural Lite beer still with a couple ounces inside.  Since it was in the middle of the road and had not been smashed or blown off to the side, I presume it was a brand new litter, which got my mind racing:

• Who drinks beer at 7:30 in the morning?  (I like beer but I do wait until at least noon to imbibe)
• The littering is unconscionable.
• Natural Lite is, well, something that rhymes with "miss."  Yuengling--made in PA since 1829--is my beer of choice.

Oh, and the link to Ultrarunning?  I like to stash a can of my beloved Yuengling in my running bag to enjoy after a training run or race.