Joan - I think I saw students from everywhere BUT Campbell! I felt pretty old - tons of high school and college kids, and the occasional post-college adult trying to act young!
Judy - We actually could have brought back a couple more dozen, but the idea of carrying a dozen doughnuts for 2 miles just didn't seem like a lot of fun. But I saw plenty of people doing it! I know Jeanne and Wendy did last year, and Jeanne told me to bring a bag this year, but I opted to run light.
What an experience! There are tons of photos online:
http://http://blogs.newsobserver.com/multi/first-look-the-krispy-kreme-challenge
http://www.wral.com/news/local/image_gallery/4491883/
There's no other way to describe the variety of costumed runners than to see it firsthand. 5200 runners ($35,000 raised for the UNC Children's Hospital) - the scene at Krispy Kreme was pure pandemonium. I started with DD18 and her best friend, but they quickly left me when I switched to R/W. They said they ran the entire 2 miles to KK, but I was only a little over 2:00 behind them arriving there. We split a dozen donuts, so we only ate 4 each, then started back. I won't go into details, but there was a lot of dodging on the return route... I continued R/W intervals on the way back, and about halfway back caught up to DD and friend. As I passed them I made a comment about "the old woman isn't in such bad shape after all," which sent them into an all-out sprint. After that, they made sure they were in front of me at all times, but they only finished 43 seconds ahead of me! The actual Krispy Kreme Challenge is to run the 4 miles and eat a full dozen and still finish in under an hour. My chip time was 1:01:51, which I was quite proud of considering I wasn't even trying and I took my time at KK and leisurely ate my 4 little donuts! And there was a complete logjam at the finish line - they funneled us into a chute of sorts before we ever reached the timing mat, and we had to slow down and wait to cross the mat. I'm pretty sure everyone lost at least a minute there.
Either way, it was a GREAT experience. Don't know that I'll try a repeat, since this race gets bigger every year. So far it's been run by a group of college kids, and only this year did they bring in official race organizers for any help. They ran out of water at the end, and had very few portapotties, so as far as organization goes, it's very low on the list, but it's not a race you do for quality of event!
Jackie
GO! WISH Team GO! 
You will all have great races!
