Sunday, January 24, 2010
Harbor holds on to his lunch at the Challenge

On Saturday, 23 January 2010 the Krispy Kreme Challenge came to Tallahassee, brought here by the Student United Way of Florida State University. The event originated in Raleigh, North Carolina at North Carolina State University, where, a few years ago, a student must have wondered aloud if he could run two miles to the nearest Krispy Kreme store, eat a dozen glazed doughnuts, and then run back, all in under an hour. Science demands that such a proposition be tested, and twelve runners attempted the Challenge in 2004. By 2009 over 5,000 were taking the Challenge in Raleigh. The Challenge acquired a web site, merchandising, and a story in Sports Illustrated. Of course it was going to be imitated elsewhere, such as in Tallahassee.