The “Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner” No More

Robinson, Robinson; Patterson, Ian; Axelsen, Megan

doi:10.1080/00222216.2014.11950333

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“…), they have so far largely focused on keen practitioners who undertake ‘performance running’ (Howe and Morris ) or belong to running clubs (see Robinson et al . ; Shipway et al . ).…”

Section: Studying Green Exercise and Accounting For Cultural Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Indoor versus outdoor running: understanding how recreational exercise comes to inhabit environments through practitioner talk

Hitchings

Latham

2016

Trans Inst British Geog

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Starting with a series of perspectives on why and where humans run, this paper considers how running comes to happen in some environments instead of others and how it is experienced thereafter. More specifically, we are interested in the processes by which contemporary recreational running has come to take place either indoors on treadmills or outside on pavements and paths. Running has been recently positioned as an obvious target for those hoping to encourage public health among increasingly time-pressured populations and running outdoors can often lead to additional benefits. Yet how it is that runners and environments come to coalesce has yet to be examined in any great detail. This paper responds by drawing on theories of how embodied practices spread through society to further an emergent geographical interest in the speech patterns of everyday life. With reference to a project involving accompanied runs and interviews with groups of both indoor and outdoor recreational runners in London, we ask what the subtleties of their running talk tells us about how exercisers become attached to the environments they currently occupy and how they might feasibly be encouraged elsewhere.

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“…), they have so far largely focused on keen practitioners who undertake ‘performance running’ (Howe and Morris ) or belong to running clubs (see Robinson et al . ; Shipway et al . ).…”

Section: Studying Green Exercise and Accounting For Cultural Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Indoor versus outdoor running: understanding how recreational exercise comes to inhabit environments through practitioner talk

Hitchings

Latham

2016

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…Despite every effort to include a wide range of runners from the community in the nonevent participant sample the research team had difficulty in finding "lone-wolf runners" or in other words runners that prefer to run in isolation and outside of organized events. Although training for endurance events often occurs in isolation, an organized running event provides access to an environment with similar people (Shipway & Jones, 2007) and individuals can immerse themselves into the social world of running through training and participation (Robinson, Patterson, & Axelsen, 2014). Thus, capturing individuals that choose to not to participate in running events is a novel idea as some individuals may prefer running alone (Robinson et al, 2014), but they are harder to locate than event participants.…”

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“…Although training for endurance events often occurs in isolation, an organized running event provides access to an environment with similar people (Shipway & Jones, 2007) and individuals can immerse themselves into the social world of running through training and participation (Robinson, Patterson, & Axelsen, 2014). Thus, capturing individuals that choose to not to participate in running events is a novel idea as some individuals may prefer running alone (Robinson et al, 2014), but they are harder to locate than event participants. Future research investigating nonparticipation should focus on capturing the perspective of lone-wolf runners perhaps through the use of qualitative inquiry and a mallintercept method at popular running locations.…”

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Participation Versus Nonparticipation in a Charity Running Event

Mirehie¹,

Buning²,

Gibson³

2017

Event Management

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Hosting sport events to raise money for charitable causes has become pervasive, yet we know little about why individuals choose to participate or not. This study examined the differences between participants and nonparticipants of a hallmark small-scale charity running event. Data were collected via an online survey containing measures of charity event participation frequency, enduring involvement, negotiation efficacy, family support, running participation patterns, and demographics. Nonparticipants were also asked about event-related participation constraints. The sample was comprised of N = 322 event participants and N = 112 nonparticipants (committed runners). A one-way ANOVA demonstrated no statistically significant differences between the two independent samples with respect to the variables of interest. Nonparticipants indicated relatively low constraints to event participation. The most commonly reported constraints solicited in an open-ended question format were injuries and participation in an alternative event. Findings revealed that event participants and nonparticipants are very similar in terms of their running participation patterns. However, definite nonnegotiable constraints or preplanned involvement with other events inhibited participation in the studied event. Over time, this can result in either the expansion or contraction of their involvement in the running event. By illuminating nonnegotiable constraints, this study may help event organizers improve planning and management towards event sustainability.

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“…The smooth operation of the marathon also depends upon the thousands of runners who must make themselves 'race-ready' (Goodsell and Harris, 2011;Robinson, Patterson and Axelsen, 2014;Smith, 2002). This preparatory training can be considered to be a form of what Lefebvre terms 'dressage', training bodies to absorb rhythm through prolonged practice so that it becomes habitual, a 'second nature'.…”

Section: Rhythms Of Training: Dressage and Runningmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Always like never before’: learning from thelumitopiaof Tivoli Gardens

Edensor

Bille

2017

Social & Cultural Geography

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This paper draws on Lefebvre's rhythmanalysis (2004) to investigate the multiple rhythms of the Berlin Marathon, exemplifying and expanding understandings about the rhythms of places and mobilities. First, we discuss how prescribed rhythms are imposed on the city by urban managers and race organizers for this mega-event. Secondly, we show that a marathon depends upon the preparatory training or 'dressage' performed by the thousands who have made themselves 'race-ready'. Thirdly, we explore the changing individual and collective rhythms that continuously emerge according to contingencies and stages of the race to compose an unfolding drama of rhythms. INTRODUTION Running is currently a highly popular exercise, part of everyday city life (Cock, Shaw and Simpson 2017; Latham 2015). Streets and parks are full of runners and organised road races punctuate weekends. Despite being very demanding, marathons are the most popular form of road race-for example, 330,000 international runners apply for the 40,000-capacity Tokyo Marathon. As spectacular occasions, they are part of an international 'event ecology' that structures the calendar of the 'commercially promoted culture of sport' (Roche, 2003: 107).

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The “Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner” No More

Cited by 49 publications

References 38 publications

Indoor versus outdoor running: understanding how recreational exercise comes to inhabit environments through practitioner talk

Indoor versus outdoor running: understanding how recreational exercise comes to inhabit environments through practitioner talk

Participation Versus Nonparticipation in a Charity Running Event

‘Always like never before’: learning from thelumitopiaof Tivoli Gardens

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