What better way to spend earrrrrrly Sunday morning than running down Pennsylvania Ave? Well sleeping is cool too, but you can do that any day, while running on the streets of D.C. at other times will probably end with some sort of vehicular injury…depending on how quick you are at dodging cars.

So this morning I did the Thomas Labrecque Classic, a nice 5K (3.1 mile) run to get the blood flowing at 8 in the morning. My goal heading into the race was to break 22 minutes, a time I have sought after since the first 5K I did 2 years ago.

Now judging by how well I ran early in the year, that seemed like a bit of a pipe dream, but slowwwwwly but surely I cut into the time barrier and ran a few good races heading into today’s event:

Laws Run For Shelter: 25:34
GW Parkway Classic: 24:06
Vienna Elementary 5K: 22:25
Race For The Cure: 23:04
Greene Turtle 5K: 22:34
Thomas Labrecque Classic: 21:46!
(the winner was apparently flown in straight from Kenya, finishing around 14:30)

Which brings into question my training methods. Sure, at this advanced age it’s rare for someone to cut almost 4 minutes off of a 3.1 mile run, but I swear it was all natural. I was fueled by nothing more than peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and Propel fitness water, also known as the lunch of champions and the nectar of the gods.

Look for some sort of goofy mid-run picture to follow, they usually spring up in the days following the race and always catch you looking like a complete idiot 🙂