Join us for the 21st Annual Tulsa McNellie's Pub Run! The annual downtown Tulsa tradition that combines running (or walking) with beer drinking! A perfect combination! This event is a timed on street race! The event will start at 3 in the afternoon, as is tradition.
Three options for the event are available - the Guinness Challenge 4 Mile Pub Run, the normal 4 Mile Pub Run, and a 1 km fun run. All events include a race shirt and finisher medal, as well as two post race beers. If you elect to do the Guinness Challenge, you will also have the opportunity to consume THREE beers during the 4 mile Pub Run - the famous beer and running challenge!
Drink Guinness and run or walk to prepare for either the Elgin Park Spring Training Pub Run or the McNellie's Pub Run. Both sessions are 8 weeks of fun. Why limit yourself to just the pub runs when you can join fellow beer lovers for the extra 8 weeks of fun leading up to each event?
Spring Session begins Wednesday, February 25, 2026
If you are in the Guinness Challenge, your race bib (number) will have FIVE beverage tabs on the bottom – three of those are for the three beers you will receive on the course and two are for the two beverages after the race.
At each beer stop you will need to pull off the correct tab for the location and drop that into a collection box before picking up your beer. So do not lose your tabs! You must drink the beer inside the fenced in area at each beer stop. Do not carry your beers outside of those zones.
Pub Run History
The idea for the Pub Run was hatched in late 2005, less than one year after the Pub opened, when Elliot and Meg Nelson and Lori and I met for a lunch at the Pub downtown. Of course, it included a beer. I had seen other Pub type races in New England, and they tended to be the odd distance of 4 miles. So that’s how the distance was arrived at. Anything other than a 5k was my thinking. As we enjoyed our lunch and perhaps a second beer, I presented an idea – to make this thing interesting we really need to have beer(s) during the race. Elliot of course thought that was a great idea. He figured he could get Guinness to sponsor the beer. And so, the Guinness Challenge was born! That first year, we had 381 finishers! Since that time the race has grown to over 1500 annual racers..
- Tim Dreiling
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