Krispy Kreme run 🏃‍♂️ 🍩

“To achieve something you’ve never had before, you must do something you’ve never done before.”

– Unknown

So what is the Krispy Kreme run?

It is a grueling, one hour long charity race that takes you from NC states’s iconic bell tower to Krispy Kreme and back again to raise money for the UNC children’s hospital.

This 5 mile round trip wouldn’t be so bad – but as a rule you must eat a dozen original Krispy Kreme glazed donuts at the location before turning back – and you cannot throw up.

“I’ve done a lot of hard things, and I’m a hard man, but this – this is different” – is what I think David Goggins would have said if he heard about the challenge. Pretty sure.

The practice run

“The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.”

– Joe Paterno

Before taking on the challenge – I challenged myself to complete a practice consisting of only 8 Krispy Kreme original glazed donuts.

Huge shoutout to my friends at the atlas who brought me the donuts at halfway and cheered me on yall are real ones for that! (@moody, Aubrey, and Olivia!)

Day of race:

“Sometimes, once a fight starts, you have to do what you have to do to win”

-Canelo Álvarez

Morning of – getting ready to go

Woke up before the sun, ready for the challenge that lay before me haha

Notable other racers

Ofc huge shout out to macho man Randy savage, Bret hart, a literal T-Rex, banana man, Batman, the escaped convict, and all of the other awesome costumes that were were there also running haha – def one of my fav parts of the race!

There were so many ppl it was awesome!

This was the closest that I could get to smiling after eating the donuts… my body was in shock haha 😂 I think the fear of ever having to do anything like that again really pushed me haha but…

Drumroll please…