Doughnut Racers…meet the PU!
Glazed and Confused was the North Carolina Univer-sity website headline. The article went on to say, "More than 5,500 participants took part in the student-run event this year, raising $35,000 for North Carolina Children's Hospital."
"Participants must run two miles from the landmark Belltower on campus to the Krispy Kreme store in Raleigh, eat a dozen doughnuts, then run back to the Belltower, all in less than one hour. The challenge for many is the additional, but not required, step of keeping the doughnuts down." This triple bypass triathlon is so popular they are going to limit the size next year. With half the cops at Krispy Kreme already, security has become a problem.
No glaze in the PU about doughnut races! "They're nothing new to us, we've been having them for years," said Yaquina City Mayor, Daniel Dunkin. "Each year we celebrate Saint Paddy's Day with a doughnut race from the BiValve Bar & Grill to Saddie's Doughnut Shop and back." Yaquina's Finest are the team to beat each year as the race route covers their daily foot patrols; always starting at the BiValve and ending at Saddies. And, they've never lost a doughnut yet.
This year our photographer captured a training run of "Team Dunk" down Main Street (above). "It's our year round training that gives us the edge," said coach, Shawn ("Shot") Glasser.
Juggling the Juggernaut Under the category of unnerving dreamscapes are those bad dreams we all have of being chased down, run over, crushed under the wheels of the Juggernaut. Do you feel like that today? Many do!
The Hindu Juggernaut was a massive cart with Vishnu & Co. on top, rolling on giant wheels; it's overzealous devotees sometimes throwing themselves under those wheels, greasing its skids, so to speak. It was an unstoppable force. Yikes …what to do?! Well, the first thing "to do" is to know who's skids you're dealing with; now is not the time to be 'greasin' around.' It's a time for discernment. Good dieties don't ask for suicide. Despite the President's early successes juggling this financial juggernaut, it requires a steady supply of willing victims; martyring themselves under the wheels of promised prosperity; hoping for 70 virgin hedge funds in heaven. And the Juggernaut will get them. The only question is, will you be among them?