Fit-Pic: Elvis is Alive

August in Chicago can mean a lot of things. Lollapalooza. The Air and Water Show. The Chicago Triathlon. And tonight it meant the 16th running of an August classic: Fleet Feet Chicago's Elvis is Alive 5K. Call it a chance to put on your blue suede shoes, grow out your sideburns, poof your pompadour, and pull on your Elvis-inspired jumpsuits to party like you're in Vegas and run.

"One for the money, two for the show, three to get ready, now go cat go!" Joe "Elvis" Tirrito, the star of the post-race Elvis tribute performance, blasted the start horn, and runners, all-Elvis dressed first, sprinted down the path in Lincoln Park.

Not all Elvis-dressed runners started at the front of the pack, like this duo back where a friend and I were running. But hey, we all earned our peanut butter and banana sandwiches at the finish line.

Fit-Pic: Running of the Elvi(s)

Think you can run faster than Elvis? If it were the real Elvis Presley, who was known to have a penchant for peanut butter and banana sandwiches (often with bacon) and was a bit on the pudgy side when he died 35 years ago today, you probably could. But if you had to challenge the Elvis impersonators at this year's Elvis is Alive 5K, then you could find yourself sprinting to the finish and gunning down those jumpsuit-wearing, microphone-toting runners. And lucky for them, it wasn't a sweltering evening for a fun run in polyester.