Epic Race/Playing With

Basic Trope: A race so long that just covering the distance is considered an accomplishment.

• Straight: Alice and Bob are entrants in a fifty-mile footrace.
• Exaggerated: Alice and Bob are entrants in a five-hundred-mile footrace.
• Downplayed: Alice and Bob are entrants in a marathon.
• Justified: ???
• Inverted: Alice and Bob are entrants in a hundred-meter dash.
• Subverted: Alice and Bob enter a marathon -- as a training run for an upcoming fifty-miler.
• Double Subverted: ...but the marathon takes place on a difficult mountain trail course.
• Parodied: Alice and Bob enter a five-kilometer race, but they're so out of shape that none of their friends know if they can finish.
• Zig Zagged: ???
• Averted: The race is rained out.
• Enforced: The episode is intended to deliver An Aesop on persistence.
• Lampshaded: "Wow -- I don't know if I could run a mile."
• Invoked: The race is advertised as "so hard, only 30% of entrants finish!"
• Exploited: Bob was bragging to Alice about how fast he is, so when he challenges her to a race, she picks one where endurance matters more than raw speed.
• Defied: ???
• Discussed: ???
• Conversed: ???

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