I’m recovering today from running the 3rd annual Krispy Kreme Challenge. A couple of NC State undergrads cooked up this event a few years ago and it’s grown by leaps and bounds. This year there were over 1,300 participants, and they raised $10,000 for the NC Childrens Hospital. I talked a few folks from the Carolina Rollergirls into signing up for this feat of masochism as well.
Here’s the gist. Runners start at the NC State University Belltower, run 2 miles to the Krispy Kreme, eat a dozen donuts, then run back. In under an hour.
2,400 calories
140 grams of fat
4 miles
It takes a special kind of athlete to pull this off, but NCSU’s Auburn Staples won this year in an incredible 24:32!
[...] Here’s the recap of my first Krispy Kreme Challenge in 2007. This will be my third consecutive year, but I’m doing things little different this time: I’m Training. See, I usually just show up, run to Krispy Kreme, eat the dozen donuts, the drag myself back to the NCSU Belltower with no training whatsoever. I then feel like death for a few days while basking in the afterglow of this athletic endeavor. I’ve been running semi-regularly for the past month, and hope to not feel like I’m having an aneurysm around mile three like usual. [...]