Runner who smashed 27-year record for fastest mile celebrated with his first beer in months

Nothing like the sweet taste of beer, I mean victory. Scottish runner Josh Kerr broke a 27-year men’s mile record with a blazing 3:42.66 time on Saturday and celebrated with his first beer in months. Kerr said he had not drank since he was married in December, but decided to indulge in the alcoholic beverage to “slow [himself] down a little bit.” Britain’s Josh Kerr celebrates after winning the men’s 1 mile final and setting a new world record at the 2026 World Athletics Diamond League. Xinhua/Shutterstock “Athletes tend to move through moments too quickly and that beer was necessary for me to savour it,” he wrote in The Telegraph. The runner said he did not sleep much after the beer, and woke up at 5 a.m. the following day to start training for another record; this time at 1500 meters. Ke