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I've got a fever...
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Wow, I may never eat a doughnut again!
It was "fun". Will I do it next year? On race day, I was like "no fucking way." Now, I'm already trying to plan a strategy to improve on the 13:27 doughnut split, which I think I can cut in half next time. Gotta aim high, right? In the final analysis, eating after running was harder than running after eating -- the actual act of consuming the doughnuts after a medium-hard run was tougher than the run afterward. Maybe I'd think otherwise if I'd really tried to run the last leg hard. It was probably best summed up by the runner I overheard after the race who said, "I ran a marathon last week. This was harder." And stupider.
One final note: The doughnuts were 200 Cal each, and I burned roughly 600 Cal running 4 miles. So for this race, my net calories were +1800.
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Nice work, Jeff. Hopefully the pain and anguish also served to help forget Saturday's other misery as well.
Congrats on your second place. I'm sort of speechless. I eat one doughtnut only very rarely and with great attention to the potential impact of so many calories on my overall diet. Eating 12 at once? and all the 'training' needed? I can't even imagine.
2nd place? No. I have no idea what place I got. It was a second t-shirt for completing the full challenge.
Way to gut it out. You may have finally passed over the line which makes you a true transplanted Alabamian.
I'm sure you will do much better in the moonshine challenge which is run each year near Boaz in the Sand Mt. area. Just don't look like a potential revenuer.
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This deserves a segment on ESPN.
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=4000801
Note: this is not from my race, but from one earlier this year.
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Nice job, Jeff. Good for you for wanting to improve for next year!
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Too bad there isn't a "half" version of this with 6 doughnuts. I think I could do that.
Well, there were plenty of people that only ate some of the doughnuts, then got back to running. They just didn't get the magical green t-shirt that we 12-doughnut pigs people received.
I do wish they had actually kept track of times/places instead of simply handing out shirts to those who did the 12 doughnuts and 4 miles in under one hour.
Love it! Great effort to eat all 12 & finish!
Did you try the Dopple Bock suggested technique for any of them
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