Texas grandmother, 81, smashes beer mile, says she could have 'run a lot faster' drinking scotch

Elvira "Vera" Montes, an 81-year-old woman from El Paso, became the oldest person to complete the FloTrack Beer Mile World Championships in Austin on Dec. 1, 2015, finishing at 20 minutes and 24.62 seconds. Elvira "Vera" Montes, an 81-year-old woman from El Paso, became the oldest person to complete the FloTrack Beer Mile World Championships in Austin on Dec. 1, 2015, finishing at 20 minutes and 24.62 seconds. Photo: Caleb Kerr/El Paso Times Photo: Caleb Kerr/El Paso Times Image 1 of / 35 Caption Close Texas grandmother, 81, smashes beer mile, says she could have 'run a lot faster' drinking scotch 1 / 35 Back to Gallery

A Texas grandmother who became the oldest person to complete an annual beer mile contest says she would've run faster if she'd been drinking scotch.

Elvira "Vera" Montes, an 81-year-old woman from El Paso, beat her 47-year-old daughter Renee Reynolds' time in the 2015 FloTrack Beer Mile World Championships in Austin on Dec. 1, The El Paso Times reported.

Montes finished at 20 minutes and 24.62 seconds, the newspaper reported. Reynolds came in just behind at 21 minutes and 15.67 seconds. Montes' son-in-law didn't finish.

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"I'm not a big beer drinker," Montes told the El Paso Times. "I like beer when the weather is real hot and there's nothing else to drink. I'm really a scotch drinker, Chivas if it's available. If it was scotch we were drinking instead of beer, I would have run a lot faster."

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To complete a beer mile, runners must chug a beer before the start of the race then down a beer after each quarter mile. Puking means failure and disqualification.

This isn't her first time, either: Montes ran the beer mile in 2014 and has also completed five Boston Athletic Association 5Ks, according to Runner's World.

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"I don't have any secrets, I just wanted to prove to my daughter that I could run and drink beer," Montes told the magazine.

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