January 28, 2010
I love lists. They give me a sense of accomplishment. I have two different “To Do” lists at work, all prioritized from High, Medium, and Low. So I will admit that when it comes to THIS list, I sometimes get caught up in the activity of getting things checked off; I turn it into work. However, the point of even having a 101 Things to Do Before You Die list is to be encouraged to embrace life and experience all there is to offer. In that vein, there are often some random things that I encounter that while not necessarily on THE OFFICIAL LIST, I should probably still experience.
You know, like the the Krispy Kreme Challenge.
I wrote about this last year but here is the description again: The race, scheduled for Feb. 6, is the brainchild of a handful of N.C. State University students who came up with the idea several years ago to run from campus to the Krispy Kreme store on Peace Street and back, eating a dozen donut in between. Fast forward a few years, and the KKC attracts thousands of runners, and raises money for the N.C. Children’s Hospital.
The true challenge is to run the two miles from the N.C. State University Bell Tower, eat the dozen donuts, and run back in an hour, while keeping the doughnuts down. Stretches of Peace, St. Mary’s and Hillsborough streets end up getting littered with the partially-digested doughnuts by those runners who can’t quite hold on to the baked goods.
If all the runners eat their donuts, that will mean a total of 72,000 doughnuts inhaled in one morning. Probably not a fun day to be on the clean-up crew.
I know quite a number of people that have either done it before or are doing it for the first time. The limit of 6,000 runners was this past Monday, but I’m really thinking I need to add this to my 2011 goals (although probably as a “Casual Runner”). Afterall, by that time I will have ran a Marathon, so this would be easy! Would make for a good story, anyway.
Can I say that the Krispie Kremes here has closed? And the one from where I’m from in Illinois has closed? I am nowhere near a Krispie Kreme. So I say this is totally something you need to do next year!
Yeah, I think Krispy Kreme overextended themselve a few years back, opening up stores everywhere. But Krispy Kreme began here in NC, there are still a good number of places around. Now that Dunkin Donuts has made an agressive move into the South, I have to say that I go there pretty often, but I still prefer Krispy Kreme!
Dunkin hasn’t made out West yet. I’ll be honest, I am a dunkin girl at heart (Midwest loving, you know). The morale of the store is: there is no chain donut places near me. Therefore, I have to damage myself with In and Out.