🐍🍺 Welcome to the Annual Cottonmouth Beerlay! 🍺🐍 Run fast. Drink hard. Don’t get bit. What do you get when you combine trail running, random beers, and your most competitive (and possibly least coordinated) friends? The Cottonmouth Beerlay, baby! This wild race at the beautiful Lakewood Nature Preserve is back for another year of glorious chaos, beer-fueled miles, and unforgettable memories. You can run it solo if you're a one-person party machine, or grab a few beer-loving buddies and tackle it as a relay team of 2–4. Either way, you're in for 8 miles of pure, ridiculous fun. Are you fast enough to outrun the Cottonmouth? Or will the beer bite first ? 🐾 How It Works: Each lap is a 2-mile trail loop through the preserve. You’ll do it 4 times total. Before every lap, runners must consume a randomly-selected beer from the BYOB community pool Solo runners do it all themselves. Relay teams tag in one runner per lap. 🍻 21+ only for the drinking portion, of course. Minors and Sober folks may
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Race Travel Insurance
Don't forget travel insurance for June 6.
You've trained for months and booked a trip to Greenville, SC.
A pre-race injury, a delayed flight, or a family emergency can derail the whole thing.
Travel insurance can help cover your race entry fee, hotel, and flights if you can't make it,
and may cover medical costs if something goes wrong on the course. Plans typically only run
5-7% of your total trip cost — and running events are covered under standard plans with no
additional coverage needed.
Trip cancellation up to 100% of prepaid costs
Running events covered under standard plans — no add-ons needed
Trip interruption up to 150% of non-refundable costs
