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In the 1970s Engineering students from Canterbury University organised an annual event known as the Chunda Mile at Rugby Park. Contestants had to eat a pie and down a jug of beer, then run around the athletic track. The fourth circuit and the fourth jug and pie lead to explosive vomiting. Always very popular with the crowd in the grandstand. There would be false starts and the organisers would make certain contestants swill another jug if there was too much spillage, always popular.
It is worth stating that probably as much beer was being consumed in the grandstand as on the track.
The “Chunda mile” also involved spectators and that was largely drinking huge quantities of beer. The drinking would start well beforehand and that also involved the organisers. Spectator participation was encouraged and there was one young man who started shouting that the contestants were all useless and he could do better. And could drink in one go all the beer put out for each circuit and came from the grandstand to prove the point. There were 10 contestants in 1977 and 10 jugs were placed on a table and off he went with a roar of approval and chanting from the crowd. He literally went from one jug to the next and tipped the contents down his throat, but only barely finished the tenth in a matter of minutes. Evenso this was an amazing example of drinking prowess, without any vomiting. The interesting thing was that he was with a group of students drinking heavily in the grandstand who had been drinking before the event. Beer in those days was a low strength brew.
There other side to drinking prowess was pissing prowess. Contestants would piss on the field. The organisers at one point formed a circle and pissed before the crowd. Students in the grandstand had to use the men's urinal.
In 1977 a workmate came with me, and he was knocking back liquor also in the grandstand. He went downstairs early on and found the men’s urinal and changing room jammed with drunken and high spirited students. He joined others pissing against the walls in the changing room. Later on students finding no urinal or wall space were just pissing on the floor.
The area was quickly flooded with urine which crept out the door into the corridor and along the corridor and into the way out of the park. Even when it was over there were students who rushed past us, trying to make our way out, with others, through the lake of urine, explosively pissing on the floor. You could see this from the door as you tip toed through the urine. Interesting times. The Chunda Mile was subsequently banned by the University authorities.
It is worth stating that probably as much beer was being consumed in the grandstand as on the track.
The “Chunda mile” also involved spectators and that was largely drinking huge quantities of beer. The drinking would start well beforehand and that also involved the organisers. Spectator participation was encouraged and there was one young man who started shouting that the contestants were all useless and he could do better. And could drink in one go all the beer put out for each circuit and came from the grandstand to prove the point. There were 10 contestants in 1977 and 10 jugs were placed on a table and off he went with a roar of approval and chanting from the crowd. He literally went from one jug to the next and tipped the contents down his throat, but only barely finished the tenth in a matter of minutes. Evenso this was an amazing example of drinking prowess, without any vomiting. The interesting thing was that he was with a group of students drinking heavily in the grandstand who had been drinking before the event. Beer in those days was a low strength brew.
There other side to drinking prowess was pissing prowess. Contestants would piss on the field. The organisers at one point formed a circle and pissed before the crowd. Students in the grandstand had to use the men's urinal.
In 1977 a workmate came with me, and he was knocking back liquor also in the grandstand. He went downstairs early on and found the men’s urinal and changing room jammed with drunken and high spirited students. He joined others pissing against the walls in the changing room. Later on students finding no urinal or wall space were just pissing on the floor.
The area was quickly flooded with urine which crept out the door into the corridor and along the corridor and into the way out of the park. Even when it was over there were students who rushed past us, trying to make our way out, with others, through the lake of urine, explosively pissing on the floor. You could see this from the door as you tip toed through the urine. Interesting times. The Chunda Mile was subsequently banned by the University authorities.
