After close to a month of online debate, a poll questioning BobG’s dedication to the cause and more trash talk than a middle school locker room the big day arrived.  A moment of full disclosure before we continue: I have run this race before.  I was able to finish a total of five doughnuts and it was disgusting.  I don’t know that I have eaten more than a single doughnut since.  So despite what you may read here I do have a great deal of respect for everyone that participated in the race.  It is not easy – if you think it is go grab a box of doughnuts and start eating.  Prior to doing it I thought the run was the hard part – after last year I know better.

All that being said congrats to all the runners.  Slide show with commentary after the jump so open the first picture and proceed to see the time line of events. I know we will have years of debate over BobG’s performance and the over 28 minutes it took him to eat 11.75 doughnuts.  We will also stand in awe of Eric’s friend Joey who ate a box of doughnuts in such a fashion that the cops almost arrested him for assault. (By my count Joey was done in around 5 minutes – that is under 30 seconds per doughnut.)

I know BobG isn’t pleased with his performance and will likely put such witty comebacks as “Those who stand and watch have nothing to say” on this post too. Well – I’ve see the climb and I’ve seen the pictures from the top.  I’ve got no reason to think I want to climb that mountain.  Congrats to him though on once again getting close – maybe you’ll have better luck next year or at least pick up that last quarter of a doughnut you left on the side of the road.

How many doughuts will BobG eat in the KKC?

• Less than six.
• Six and stop.
• Six to nine.
• More than nine - less than a dozen.
• A dozen.
• Hurl.

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Tomorrow is the Krispy Kreme Challenge here in Raleigh -yes the one you’ve heard about and seen in ESPN.  You run approximately two miles from the belltower at NCSU to the Krispy Kreme on Peace Street, eat a dozen doughnuts and run back.  The challenge?  To finish in under and hour and with the doughnuts in your stomach and not on the side of the road.  Several of us did it last year and none of us made it past five doughnuts.  Acceptable behavior if you are a Casual Runner but not if you are a Challenger.  BobG ran this race last year and finished three doughnuts as a Casual Runner – this year he is swinging for the fences signing up as a Challenger and agreeing to finish the dozen.

The question isn’t whether or not Bob can run the distance – we all know he is more than capable of having an excellent running time.  The question is how many doughnuts will put him into submission?  Make you pick to the right and we’ll have video of his success or failure shortly after the race is completed.

We of course wish him the best of luck we just don’t think he can do four times the doughnuts he did last year.

There isn’t a lot to be said here except combining Star Wars, the Japanese and Tuna might not be a good idea. Especially if they year is 1978 and you think C3PO is a waiter-bot.

The only way to possible feel good about this is if instead of Tuna they were eating Jar Jar Binks.  That’s right – Jar Jar was part fish maybe he would taste good on a cracker or made into a little salad.

The best part of this is the “wookie” jump done by the most pathetic looking Chewbacca I’ve ever seen.  I don’t think he celebrated that much either time he helped blow up the Death Star.  That’s right – more excited over tuna than destroying the “ultimate weapon”, a space station capable of destroying a planet in a single attack.

That must be some good tuna.

I am starting to hate that I missed Where the Wild Things Are in the theater.  Looks like it was a much better movie than I imagined.

We’ve had an Alaska Nanooks Hockey Intro on here before and it was awesome. Polar bears blowing stuff up? It doesn’t get much better than that.  Twitter is calling this updated version “the greatest film our species has ever created.”

I am optimistic that the video being created by Sterling and company for the St. Patrick’s Day parade will top this so enjoy but don’t worry about that greatest label being too comfortable.  It isn’t going to stick around for long.