Not fat, not skinny, functional enough to finish: interrogating constructions of health in the Ironman Triathlon

Bridel, William

doi:10.1080/14927713.2013.776745

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“…With increasing numbers of middle-aged men turning to triathlon (Simmons et al, 2016) and emerging discourses centred on becoming 'fit enough' to finish rather than adopting sustainable healthy lifestyle behaviours (Bridel, 2013); more research is needed to understand how partners supporting those who swim/ride/run at 'the back of the pack' cope with fear, if they do.…”

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Understanding Event Sport Tourism Experiences of Support Partners: A Research Note

Clarke

2017

Leisure Sciences

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The purpose of this research reflection is to set the stage for a more detailed research agenda in exploring event sport tourism experiences of support partners (SPs) during events. Using photo elicitation the article presents a preliminary empirical case study. Visual materials were assembled by three female participants to interrogate how SPs experience 'spectator space' and explore the processes that produced those experiences, an area of study that remains relatively unexplored in leisure research. Initial findings show how waiting to see the triathlete can be anxiety-provoking but the release of emotion when smiles are exchanged constitute core activities of being there. However, there are more questions than answers and there is a need for further inquiry. Suggestions for future research on the impact of serious leisure on intimate others are given.

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Section: Toward a Research Agendamentioning

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Understanding Event Sport Tourism Experiences of Support Partners: A Research Note

Clarke

2017

Leisure Sciences

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“…Moreover efforts to engender a sense of personal responsibility for ones' own health and well-being can all too easily align with ideas of individualisation and neoliberalism (Sassatelli, 2017;Bridel, 2013;Andrews and Silk, 2012;c.f. Wiltshire, et al 2018).…”

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“…Finally there has been an emphasis on people who take their sport very seriously, often training like elite athletes (Bale, 2004; Bunsell, 2013). Here Foucauldian concepts of discipline (Bridel, 2013), and the individualisation of society (Sassatelli, 2017) come into focus.…”

Section: Geography Sport and Citiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Research that has gone beyond the world of professional sport has coalesced around the idea of ‘lifestyle sports’ – sports associated with distinct subcultures – surfing (Butts, 2001; Ford and Brown, 2006; Olive, 2015; Anderson, 2013a, 2013b, 2014), snowboarding (Thorpe, 2011; Humphreys, 1997), rock-climbing (Rickly, 2016), parkour (Ameel and Tani, 2012; Mould, 2009), and skateboarding (Beal, 1995; MacKay and Dallaire, 2013; Howell, 2005). Worth including here are studies of extreme endurance events; ironman triathlons (Bridel, 2013), marathons (Shipway and Jones, 2008; Edensor and Larsen, 2018), and long-distance swimming (Throsby, 2016). These kinds of activities have been useful for illustrating the constitutive significance of sport in shaping identity formation and social relations.…”

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Kinaesthetic cities: Studying the worlds of amateur sports and fitness in contemporary urban environments

Latham

Layton

2019

Progress in Human Geography

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Developing the concept of kinaesthetics, this article undertakes a critical re-description of amateur sports and fitness to explore the topographies, materials, innovation, and socialities that make up urban environments. Extending work on affect and urban materiality within geography and elsewhere, we argue that amateur sport and fitness animates many cities in ways that are frequently overlooked. The paper aims to 1) broaden understandings of amateur sport and fitness practices; 2) reframe perspectives on the kinds of environments cities are; 3) develop a prospective politics of provision involving the design and maintenance of a social infrastructure of amateur sport and fitness.

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“…Focusing specifically on running, Geographers and Sociologists have traced the extent to which Neoliberalism has instrumentalized the positive feelings of empowerment derived from running so that fit subjects are rendered more productive subjects (Bridel, 2013;Hockey & Allen-Collinson, 2006;Howe & Morris, 2009;Latham, 2015;Lorimer, 2012;Tulle, 2007;Van Ingen, 2004). In combining these accounts of Neoliberal fitness with critical scholarship on global tourism (Bianchi & Stephenson, 2014;Hall & Tucker, 2004;d'Hauteserre, 2004), this paper calls attention to how discourses of fitness reproduce the colonial tendencies of Western tourism in the Global South, but it also demonstrates the 4 many ways that fitness-tourism intersections lay bare the contested, negotiated and ambivalent character of all cross-cultural encounters in postcolonial space.…”

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Exotic endurance: Tourism, fitness and theMarathon des Sables

Lisle

2015

Environ Plan D

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This paper critically examines the intersections of global tourism and fitness in the Marathon des Sables, an annual ultramarathon in the Sahara desert in which over a thousand athletes run the equivalent of five marathons in six days. It demonstrates how the globalization of health and fitness resonates with familiar Western productions of exotic cultures for the purposes of tourist consumption. Of particular interest here is how established colonial asymmetries are recast in a neoliberal context as runners test their resilience, endurance and strength against an ‘extreme’ Saharan landscape. While the paper calls attention to these asymmetries, it is more concerned with troubling reductive colonial encounters in order to reveal their instability, heterogeneity and ambivalence. Indeed, the central conceit of the Marathon des Sables – that superior Western fitness regimes and technologies will dominate the race – is inverted by the overwhelming success of Moroccan runners and disaggregated by the biopolitical regulation of elite running bodies. These unexpected intersections of global tourism and fitness demand further attention because they reconfigure our received notions of who (and what) is capable of exerting agency in postcolonial encounters.

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Not fat, not skinny, functional enough to finish: interrogating constructions of health in the Ironman Triathlon

Cited by 16 publications

References 41 publications

Understanding Event Sport Tourism Experiences of Support Partners: A Research Note

Understanding Event Sport Tourism Experiences of Support Partners: A Research Note

Kinaesthetic cities: Studying the worlds of amateur sports and fitness in contemporary urban environments

Exotic endurance: Tourism, fitness and theMarathon des Sables

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