Archive for February 11th, 2009
Krispy Kreme Challenge 2009
by Luis on Feb.11, 2009, under Photography
For those who don’t know the Krispy Kreme Challenge (KKC for short) is where people race to Krispy Kreme (2 miles away) eat a dozen doughnuts and run the 2 miles back. The starting point is at the Belltower on Hillsborough St. on N.C. State’s campus. This was the 5th annual year of the challenge and had 5,000 people racing. This was quite a big jump from last year where there was around 1500. It was so big this year that it was covered by ESPN. As being a photographer for N.C. State’s paper, I covered the event from Krispy Kreme (while we have other various photographers at the starting point and in a rickshaw inbetween). Because not all of my pictures can be used and I still want to show them (that’s what happens when you have 10 photographers on an assignment).
But anyways please go view our offical coverage at Technicianonline.com
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- Krispy Kreme before 8 am with the sun just starting to shine in.
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- the doughnuts glisten as the sun shines on the glaze.
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- Volunteers move boxes of doughnuts to stations so the runners can pick them up.
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- Michele early in the morning, cold, hungry, and slightly content.
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- The machine that kept track of all the runners and their times as they ran over them.
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- Runners finishing up the first leg of the challenge, just before entering Krispy Kreme.
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- A NCSU student stuffy doughnuts into his mouth while sporting ESPN 8 (“ocho”) as a pun from Dodgeball.
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- An NCSU student sits down to rest while eating her 12 doughnuts before getting back on her free to run back the 2 miles.
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- People dress up, including this UNC undergrad student dressed up as Waldo with is friends as he competes in the challenge.
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- Runners are asked to throw away their empty boxes into a giant pile that stands next to the Krispy Kreme sign.
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- Volunteers finish their job with cleaning up Krispy Kreme after the race. They had to pick up everything from boxes to throw up, left behind by competitors.
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- The winner of the Krispy Kreme challenge standing infront of the Belltower with part of his prize. He was dethroned from his first place pedestal the following day after finding out there was some else who beat him.
