its a fundraiser, not the olympics, yall need to get a life.

1/22/2006 3:06:12 PM

unless you have the runners body and metabolism, this event can only damage your body

1/22/2006 3:08:59 PM

^^It's more of an attitude problem than anything. It's the prevailing attitude that cutting corners is okay (at all levels of society and importance). The money had already been collected. There's no reason to cheat and cheapen the achievement for everyone that actually does it. If your only motivation is fundraising, you've already done your part. If you can't finish it honestly, just drop out.

1/22/2006 3:39:36 PM

so whats the difference between that and walking part of a 5k charity run. Its a "run" yet you are too out of shape to run the whole thing so you walk part of it. Who cares? If you cheated, and you lie about it, then chances are you do that with the rest of your life, and it will catch up to you. If you paid your ten bucks, only want to eat 2 donuts instead of 12, then why should anyone bitch?

1/22/2006 3:42:10 PM

fundraising fundraising fundraising

god, i don't think i've ever independantly done a race without the proceeds going to charity in some form. It's practicly a requisite for something like this. Not to mention that it was $10 (well, $15 for most) to enter, and the donations (or wherever they got their money for this from) had to cover shirts, doughnuts, hats, and possibly other costs. That seems to be clearly surpassing the amount paid to enter. Whoever you got to sponsor this event could have donated more money to charity by giving it directly to the benefactors.

There's nothing sacred about cheating in an event like that.

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"unless you have the runners body and metabolism, this event can only damage your body"

I'd say that the only people who's bodies would have a net benefit from running 4 miles and eating 12 doughnuts would be the fat asses who sit around and eat that kind of crap every day anyway.

1/22/2006 3:48:24 PM

Quote :

"so whats the difference between that and walking part of a 5k charity run. Its a "run" yet you are too out of shape to run the whole thing so you walk part of it. Who cares?"

No one, because there is no competitive advantage to walking in a 5 K race. It adds on to your time.

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"If you paid your ten bucks, only want to eat 2 donuts instead of 12, then why should anyone bitch?"

Because it's a race against the clock, and not finishing your doughnuts is falsely reducing your time (not to mention making it easier to run back), while many honest people didn't get to finish because they actually tried to eat all of theirs.

If you can't see what's wrong with this, you're just never going to get it. This is not rocket science. It's a basic question of ethics.

[Edited on January 22, 2006 at 4:09 PM. Reason : ]

1/22/2006 4:07:50 PM

Its a question of intent, if the intent is to have a good time and raise money, then who cares. If the intent is prove your athletic prowess by eating a bunch of fat, and then running, perhaps i could see your point. However from everything i have read, its like the hike. You are out to have a good time, not to prove anything to anyone.

1/22/2006 5:03:54 PM

this would be more fun naked, if krispy kreme was open until like 2am, that's a fundraiser

1/23/2006 12:21:18 AM

Next year, there should be an ULTIMATE Krispy Kreme Challenge. It'll run from the Andy Griffith statue in Pullen Park to KK, but you have to go all the way down Western to turn on to Person. The return trip will be on Peace/Edenton/whatever. Naked, at 2 AM, on rollerblades.

1/23/2006 1:26:35 AM

^
We were waiting for them to let us start and one guy suggested a Krispy Kreme Marathon: You start @ Krispy Kreme, eat 12 doughnuts, run to Chapel Hill, and throwup on Carolina's belltower.

haha

1/23/2006 7:01:18 AM

Quote :

""I'm not afraid of throwing up," David Boaz, a sophomore in political science, said -- in direct violation of the rule that explicitly prohibited acts of regurgitation. . . . Several participants were openly vocal about their intent to circumvent the informal rules laid out by the Challenge's organizers. "We're going to split the dozen three ways," Ruth Garland, a sophomore in biochemistry, Kylie Goodell, a sophomore in industrial engineering and Julie Cavenough, a sophomore in biochemistry, said clandestinely, "It's going to be a team effort.""

Poor form.

[link]http://media.http://www.technicianonline.com/media/paper848/news/2006/01/23/Features/A.Daunting.Dozen-1492747.shtml?sourcedomain=www.technicianonline.com&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com[/link]

1/23/2006 2:42:44 PM

I want some doughnuts right about now

1/23/2006 2:53:17 PM

if you ran it join the facebook group NOW!

http://ncst.facebook.com/group_profile.php?gid=2826

1/23/2006 10:17:24 PM

What does that link have to do with Krispy Kreme?

I think you mean this group:

http://ncst.facebook.com/group_profile.php?gid=11469

[Edited on January 23, 2006 at 11:20 PM. Reason : ]

1/23/2006 11:16:22 PM

opps, i posted the completley wrong link

1/23/2006 11:59:26 PM

So are results ever going to be posted? What's the deal here?

1/24/2006 7:02:31 PM

I would have blown chunks after the 8th doughnut.

1/24/2006 7:11:01 PM

i think my body was happy for passing up the opportunity

1/24/2006 9:51:59 PM

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"Results Results will be posted after race day."

grr...

1/25/2006 8:19:28 AM