Where: Brookside Park Ames, IA
Description: The only 5K running race where you are rewarded for eating doughnuts! Time will be subtracted from your final running time for each doughnut eaten.
During the run you will have the opportunity to eat doughnuts at the aid stations. You don’t have to eat them but if you do you must eat the doughnuts at the aid stations(you cannot run with them). For every doughnut you eat you will have time subtracted from your running time. For example if one doughnut was worth 1 minute and you ate 5 with a finishing time of 20 minutes your doughnut run time would be 15 minutes. The doughnut scale is below.
You don’t have to eat any doughnuts if you don’t want to!
Our friend Chucky also made a rule that in order for your doughnuts to count they have to stay in your stomach until you cross the finish line. So if you lose your doughnuts you start again at zero.
Prizes will be given to the top three finishers with the fastest doughnut adjusted time.
Website: Click here for entry information
I did this race a few back and it was really fun. I don’t remember exactly how many donuts I ate but I do remember my brother, who ran it with me, didn’t keep all of his down at the finish line. Not surprisingly, eating a lot of donuts while running is hard. As a runner and a donut enthusiast, I enjoyed the race.