Krispy Kreme Challenge

February 3-5th

The dream. The Krispy Kreme Challenge. 2,400 calories, 12 donuts, 5 miles, 60 minutes.

Everyone has to try this at least once. But I am getting ahead of myself. Friday night Jed and I headed down to Raleigh to spend time with friends before the big race day. Peter had a great idea and 5 of us rented a 2 bedroom suite just outside of the airport. We had a fun night laughing, talking and reminiscing about old times. The next morning came pretty early but we were so excited that sleep didn't really matter. We got dressed in our silly costumes and headed out the door.

There were some crazy characters running this "race". Our costumes were nothing compared to some of the people we saw. One of the most impressive were the 2 guys that were dressed in full bear outfits. We saw them before the race, during the race and after the race and they stayed in the bear costumes the entire time. That is crazy!

 The race itself was a lot of fun. The seven of us started the race together but pretty quick into the race we started to separate in the crowd. Kilby and I ended up running the 2.5 miles to the Krispy Kreme together. We got our boxes of donuts and waited for Jed, Peter and Dave.

 We waited and waited and waited but couldn't find then so we decided to start the run back and accidentally ended up taking a shortcut to get back on the running course. We made it the entire 2.5 miles back while carrying our leftover donuts. We had a really great time.

Some how we were all able to find each other at the finish line. We all made it in one piece. It was so much fun! The two big things that everyone should know about the race was #1. they don't provide much water and none of us were able to get any and #2. there are no bathrooms anywhere. We had to ask a student to let us into a dorm so we could find a bathroom.

Donut Count:
Alayna - ate 4 donuts
Brian - ate 4 donuts
Jed - ate 6 donuts
Peter - ate all 12 donuts
Dave - ate 5 donuts
Me - ate 3 donuts
Kilby - ate 6 donuts

After the race we went back to get cleaned up and a few even took naps before lunch and heading our separate ways. Somehow after eating donuts, we wanted to get lunch so we tried a BBQ fast food place called, Smithfields. I was disappointed, but I don't eat BBQ so I guess I can't really judge a BBQ place but I think all BBQ places should have mac and cheese to go with there BBQ or other tasty sides and these guys didn't. Silly I know but just my opinion.

Jed and I headed to Charlotte to spend time with family after lunch before heading home on Sunday. It was a very memorable weekend.