Up to the Challenge

Yesterday, I ate my usual nutritious breakfast, a light healthy lunch, a sensible dinner..... and 4 Krispy Kreme doughnuts smashed together for speedy ingestion. (Which, for my fellow calorie counters, represents 800 calories and 44 grams of fat.) Yes, there was a dare involved, but it was sort of part of my training - for the Krispy Kreme Challenge 1 month from today.

For the uninitiated, this race consists of running 2 miles - from The NCSU bell tower in downtown Raleigh to the Krispy Kreme on Peace St. - downing a dozen doughnuts, and running the two miles back without puking. The 6,000+ runners do it for all sorts of reasons, but overall, the proceeds benefit the NC Children's Hospital. As one of the most high profile races in the area, it's the one that, over the past year, every non-runner I know has jokingly asked if I was going to do.

Well, the answer is yes. As a now somewhat seasoned distance runner, the 4 miles will be no sweat. The doughnuts however......

So, I have determined my strategy (which was originally only theoretical) of smushing 4 doughnuts together so that I will only have to do it 3 times. And, no water - doughnuts expand. It sounded good enough to not really need to personally test it out; but at the end of our annual meeting at work yesterday, we coincidentally had several left over Krispy Kreme doughnuts. I caved to the peer pressure, but only after a coworker agreed to do it with me.

The eating part really wasn't that bad - not unlike a super sweet bagel. I'm confident that I will be able to do it three times. The feeling it left me with wasn't so good, though. My companion in this effort (who, as you can see is a foot taller than me) and I were both 'donut drunk' the entire rest of the day, and 3 hours later I could barely hold my eyelids open. Its probably a good thing that I did this a month out because I now don't want to see or smell another KK doughnut for at least that long.