Ragen Chastain, Elite Athelte! I was reading her experience of doing the Seattle Marathon just now and I noticed this paragraph: "At mile 14 the sag wagon lady  pulled beside me and said “You can quit now and still get a medal for finishing a half marathon.”  I explained to her that I set out to complete a marathon, not a half marathon, and that if I didn’t complete this one I would have to do another one which I did not want to do. I leaned into the car and said “I. Will. Not. Quit.”" So she is a self described elite athlete and her thoughts on running a second marathon is HELL NO!  That's interesting.  I'm always looking forward to my next race.  I had a blast at every race I did this summer and I've got one more big one left in October.  I guess that's the difference between an elite athlete and myself.  I actually enjoy running and I LOVE races.