Failed at 1 gallon in under 15m but finished it within 2h+

[Blairbob]

For my bday, I went to my friend's burgeoning CF gym. There was a doozy of a CF WOD around 30m. Big time suckfest because another gal wanted a special workout for her bday.

Anyways, post I attempted 1 gallon of milk within 15 but failed. I got about 2/3rds down but using the top off method just couldnt absorb anymore. I would burp and feel it come up my esophogus.

I did managed to finish the rest within 2 hours.

My friend was concerned about destabilizing my system because of the 1 gallon, a lot being fluid besides the change in body temperature.

I did try to keep my stomach somewhat empty before, chugging a 1/2 pint prior to the WOD because I could feel I was hungry.

To note, it does cause the runs. Milk normally doesn't but that much in that time frame has its casualities.

[Mark Rippetoe]

You FOOL. I am proud of you.

[John N.O. Main]

Some adivce for getting through that gallon of milk in 15 mins. A gallon is just over 6 pints (here we get a 6 pint carton). What you need to do is grab a pint glass and break the whole thing down into 6 sets of 1 rep, with a two minute rest in between sets.

Most useful adult males (and females) should be able to down a pint, and with a little practice 6 pints becomes fairly easy.

Disclaimer: Drinking vast quantities of milk in a short space of time can produce 'interesting' side affects.

[Mark Rippetoe]

A gallon is 8 pints everywhere, John.

[John N.O. Main]

A gallon is 8 pints everywhere, John.

Oh dear, and I teach primary school. Not sure how that one slipped by.

Luckily for me I do two four pints a day, as they are always on offer.

I'm just a little worried now as the kids have a Maths assessment next Monday...

[Chucky]

Mark is, of course, right. Though interestingly British gallons and American gallons are different in size, as the British gallon is based on mass, the American based on volume.

In 1824, the British abandoned both the Ale and the Wine gallons in favor of the Imperial gallon, based on the volume of 10 pounds of water (which works out at 277.41945 cu in). America, by this time, had already standardized on the Wine Gallon of 231 cubic inches (strictly speaking, this was defined as the volume of a cylinder 6 inches long and 7 inches in diameter, or 230.9070 cubic inches).

The result is that the US gallon is 83.267% of the British gallon. In more usable figures, the British gallon is about a fifth greater than the US gallon, and the US gallon is about 5/6 of the British gallon (or a little under 7 British pints).

And, yes, this has a knock-on to other liquid measures - like Britain, the US has 4 quarts, 8 pints or 32 gills in a gallon, so these measures are also smaller than in the UK.

As if this didn't impose enough confusion, the Americans have 16 fluid ounces to their pint, whereas the British have 20 fluid ounces to the pint. In the British system, a gallon of water weighs 10lbs, or 160 ounces, and similarly there are 160 fluid ounces in a gallon, or 20 fluid ounces in a pint - from this, it follows that a fluid ounce of water does indeed weigh an ounce.

Therefore, an American fluid ounce is greater than the British fluid ounce by about 4%, and an American fluid ounce of water doesn't weigh an ounce.

So the next time you're in the States in a British-style pub and the bartender pours you a 20-ounce pint and tries to tell you you're getting four more ounces of beer, don't even bother arguing, as it will probably just lead to a heated argument and get you barred as it did to me in my local Irish pub.

[Mark Rippetoe]

I dearly love this type of geekyness.

[Bleve]

How much of that is roughly equal to your bodyweight's worth of oral sex? In furlongs per fortnight? (old chem-engineering exam questions .. argh ...)

[justinbass]

Chucky, the next pint is on me, American or British.

[XTrainer]

It was whole milk, right? Important events like this need to be documented accurately and given due homage.