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Five miles, twelve donuts, one hour. 2,400 calories and 144 grams of fat, and they print the numbers.

An annual charity run in Raleigh: 2.5 miles to a Krispy Kreme, a dozen donuts, and 2.5 miles back, inside an hour.

The story Cited · wp-krispy-kreme-challenge

It began in December 2004 with about a dozen friends and is planned and run by Park Scholars at North Carolina State University. Profits go to the North Carolina Children's Hospital; the 2023 race brought total donations past $2.1 million. The event is not affiliated with the Krispy Kreme company.

Today Cited · wp-krispy-kreme-challenge

The published calorie and fat figures are the only per-dozen nutrition numbers in this directory that a race gave out rather than a label.

The particulars

whenFebruary
statusopen
stateNC
founded2004
regionThe American South
addressRaleigh, NC · Wake County Cited · wp-krispy-kreme-challenge
where35.7796, -78.6382 (town) · OpenStreetMap · open in maps Harvested · osm-nominatim
confidencehigh · updated 2026-09-16

Who it runs with

organizationsKrispy KremeThe shop at the turnaround.and of this page it says: The race students run at it.wordsThe dozenThe unit being eaten.stylesThe hot lightThe regional habit it parodies and honours.

Who talks about it

stories · on this pageThe price of a dozenThe published dozen.

Where we got it

Where it came from: Cited a source we name · Harvested pulled from an open dataset · Tradition what the tradition says, hedged · Inference this project's reasoning · Field somebody stood there. This record as JSON.

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