It started off all fine and dandy, with everyone running in a pack, when Zeus decided that it would be beneficial to pull ahead in the first light year. And I was going to say that by doing this he would encounter an exponential amount of air resistance... But it would seem I brain CRAPPED and forgot that there is no air in SPACE. hence the name SPACE. Zeus then had to fight his own way through the void of black matter, and in doing so cleared a path for all the others. Pretty soon Hermes was level with Zeus, and then passed him. Zeus was slightly annoyed, but he could catch up with Hermes. Then OTHERS started passing him, INCLUDING the D god who only eats grapes and gets fat. (Dionysus in case you were wondering) so he (yet again) whipped out his fly swatter and began zapping gods. That then didn't work because they couldn't be grounded for the current to pass through them, and also gods have a higher tolerance than humans, so he just began taking them out. He launched an asteroid at a few, then ran into a giant present, and actually aquired a boost. By pressing the space button, he passed a few more, dodged around a banana peel, and hit the nitrous bottle. Ow. That dazed him a, but hitting the next present gave him a parachute thingy, which actually just slowed down all of the other gods, allowing Zeus to take them out more effec.... WHAT?! That's not the point of slowing them! Oh well, we never made any rules. By grabbing Athena by the ankles, and swinging her around, he took out all of the others except Hermes who had sped back up by now.

After preparing every day of every week of every month of every year of every decade for about half a century, Zeus finally felt prepared to run in a marathon. Sadly enough, Godly marathons are held every century, so he would need to prepare for another five decades before he would actually get to run in one. Stupidly enough, Hermes heard about his relentless vigour towards training, and began watching him (secretly). One day Zeus heard his door bell ring (a vibrant chorus of C#, B, and of course Y [flat] (It is not yet known how to make the b thingy on a computer)), and lo and behold, it was Hermes standing there with a chartreuse slip. (in case you didn't know (ignorant reader) a chartreuse slip is like a pink slip (the deed to a car (really ignorant reader)) just for a house instead). Hermes wanted to bet on the race. HAHAHA. Zeus had a good laugh at that, before accepting his offer, with the slip for MOUNT BRAINN FARTT.... OLYMPUS! that's it! MOUNT OLYMPUS was being BET to HERMES over a RUNNING race. Stupid, stupid, stupid Zeus. A few days later, the race started...