At 45, I guess I qualify for Boomer-dom, though the very tail end of it. I feel like i have more in common with Gen-Xers though. I mean my experience growing up was pretty much the same as someone who is now 43.

I don't know jdmom3, I'm 44 (45 later this year) and my husband is 364 days younger than me. I'm a boomer, and he's not. Sometimes, we are worlds apart in reference to the world. He was an only though, and my sis, as well as all my cousins, trail all the way up through the boomer years, so that probably has a lot to do with it. Thank you everyone for the treadmill responses. It's not an entertainment device by any stretch of the imagination, but I look at it as another brain training game: If you can do these 2 on the 'mill, think how great those first two outside will be next time you can run outside! And other thoughts like that. I am setting the incline up to about 4% for most of the time, as I figured I might as well get some uphill out of it. But even at 0%, I just can't seem to run at the faster speed without overstriding. So I'll just use it for my easy, uphill runs. My husband's flight from Seattle was delayed which will leave him firmly in a rush hour commute out of Northern NJ back to us here at the southern tip. Renee and I don't care -- we're waiting him out. The anticipated 20 mph winds with up to 35 mph gusts in 25 F are gonna feel great out there! Just 4 easy miles scheduled for out there under the stars tonight, but we'll probably enjoy them more than words can say.

BTW, for those of you coming to Seattle RnR, The courses are now posted. They did indeed minimize the hills, and managed to work in some cool stuff including I-90 tunnel (opposite direction as the regular Seattle Marathon), downtown, space needle, Aurora Bridge (#2 bridge in the US for suicide jumps), battery street tunnel, and the viaduct. I'm really impressed by the course.

sweet!! I forgot that today was announcement day! Very excited about this course. And thanks for that bit of trivia about the Aurora Bridge , that'll be forefront in my mind as I am cursing whoever it was that talked me into running a marathon. I think I'll need one of those 'curse bands' come to think of it. Thanks Ribs - staying off my feet and flattening out my bottom side today.

Yee Haw! National Margarita Day!!!!!

Oh, and while I am at it, did I really read among the other incomprehensible things Tet posts here . . . Spareribs

Oh, thank God! Love ya, Tet, but half the time I'm scratching my head trying to figure out what yer sayin'!

Thanks for the course link, sr! Still a couple of good hills in there, but not too bad at all. I wish we were going around Seward Park like in the Seattle Marathon; that's a really nice part of the course. Tammy

erika........glad you are reading my posts...I placed it there deliberately... hey that Seattle marathon route looks friendly...can't wait.

Seattle RnR....not many hills, nice. I'm glad I'm not doing the full....I'd hate to have to pass so close by the finish area at mile 13 and again at mile 21. Don't forget, it is a Saturday race. 4 recovery miles, first one on the TM to warmup then 3 outside. Gorgeous sunny day, bare legs. [rant on/] I almost got run over twice by cars that wouldn't stop at the cross-walk. The one car was NOT slowing down and so I picked up my pace to cross safely, then he/she had the nerve to honk at me. Big fat @ss SUV going too fast and thinking pedestrians don't have the right of way for some reason. I gesticulated at him/her. This happens to me almost everyday, a car not seeing me about to cross at the 4-way stop. The bright red running jacket doesn't seem to help either. [/rant off]

Seattle RnR....not many hills, nice. I'm glad I'm not doing the full....I'd hate to have to pass so close by the finish area at mile 13 and again at mile 21.

After I look up the word gesticulate, that's probably what I'll be doing at about mile 21. I'll be a gesticulating homicidal, (and knowing my luck ), hormonal runner woman.

hey guys. It's been a crazy week with work so I haven't been able to keep up here. Missed a couple days of running, too, but am making it up as best I can. Tried a 13-mile "wave" run tonight with 3@MP and 3@HM. Legs were feeling heavy from the start but I got through it okay. Looking forward to kicking back a bit this weekend. I need it. P.S. Another "technical" boomer here who never identified as such and, culturally, relates much more to Gen-X'ers. I think they should have made 1959 or 1960 the last "boomer" year.