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Event Tiles
Relay or Solo
Cottonmouth 8 Mile (Relay or Solo)
$35
$29
($15:
Ages 1 - 17)
5:00PM EDT
- 8:00PM EDT
Registration ends June 7, 2025 at 11:59pm EDT
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$100
5:00PM EDT
- 8:00PM EDT
Registration ends June 7, 2025 at 11:59pm EDT
The Upstate Race Series Presented by Snyder Construction Introduces
Drink - Run - Repeat.
Cottonmouth BYOB Beerlay
Lakewood Nature Preserve
Included in Registration
🏅 Finisher Medal
🎫 Custom Race Bib
🍺 Event-Themed Giveaways
🍕Post-Race Pizza Slice
🎟️ FREE Admission to Lakewood Nature Preserve
🏆 FREE Beer Olympics Admission
🐍 Race Sticker
📸Complimentary Race Photos
🎶Music & Post-Race Party
🥇🥈🥉 Team & Solo Medals (Top 3)
⏱️🔁 Chip Timing w/ 4 Lap Splits (Solo & Relay)
Information
🐍🍺 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 may run with non-alcoholic alternatives.
🧊 BYOB Russian Roulette (a Cottonmouth Classic)
Each runner brings 4 beers (5%+ ABV), which are tossed into our giant iced community kitty pool.
When it's your turn to run, a volunteer will hand you a mystery brew, already cracked and poured.
You drink it, you run it. Deal with the consequences.
No swapping. No peeking. No mercy.
🏆 Post-Race Beer Olympics
The party definitely doesn’t stop at the finish line.
Once everyone’s stumbled their final lap, we crank up the music, toss some pizza your way, and break out the Beer Olympics yard games:
🍻 Beer Pong
🪢 Tug of War
🔫 Dodgeball
🌽 Cornhole
🏌️♂️ Hillbilly Golf
🔄 Spike Ball
🐍 Race Details:
📍 Location: 220 Lakewood Preserve, Greenville, SC 29607
🕔 Start Time: 5:00 PM
8 Mile Solo – 4 laps, 4 beers
8 Mile Relay (2-4 people) – 4 laps total, 1 lap per runner per round
📝 Packet Pickup: On-site starting at 4:00 PM
📍 Strava Course Map – COURSE MAP HERE
🌲 The Course:
Held at the scenic and shady Lakewood Nature Preserve just outside Greenville, SC, the course features:
- A 2-mile grassy trail loop
- Rolling hills (they feel bigger after a beer)
- Wildlife sightings (deer, foxes, and maybe your dignity)
- A rustic barn that serves as our race HQ and beer-staging zone
- This isn’t just any trail—it’s a celebration of running, nature, and fermented grain-based hydration.
💥 Bonus Vibes:
🍕 Pizza & party after you finish
📸 Free race photos
🧢 Custom race bibs + giveaway swag
🎶 Good tunes, loud laughs, and a wild crew
🐾 Support for a local nature preserve & sustainable fun
Post Race Beer Olympics
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💪🪢 Team Tug-a-War
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🏐✨ Spike Ball
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🌽🎯 Cornhole Tourney
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🍻🏓 Beer Pong
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🧢⛳ Hill Billy Golf
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🤾♂️🔥 Dodgeball

Race Awards and Relay Divisions
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Top 3 Male and Female Overall (SOLO)
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Top 3 Team Awards in each Division Below
- 🍺👨🦱 Men's Division
- 🍺👩🦰 Women's Division
- 🍺👯 Mixed/Open Division
- 🍺🧓 Masters Male (40+)
- 🍺👵 Masters Female (40+)
- 🍺🧒 Youth Division (Under 21)

Any questions? Contact us today!
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Lakewood Nature Preserve
220 Lakewood Dr
Greenville, SC 29607 US
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