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Iron Dads - Managing Family, Work, and Endurance Sport Identities (Hardcover)
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Iron Dads - Managing Family, Work, and Endurance Sport Identities (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Issues in Sport and Society
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Among the most difficult athletic events a person can attempt, the
iron-distance triathlon - a 140.6 mile competition - requires an
intense prerace training program. This preparation can be as much
as twenty hours per week for a full year leading up to a race. In
Iron Dads, Diana Tracy Cohen focuses on the pressures this
extensive preparation can place on families, exploring the ways in
which men with full-time jobs, one or more children, and other
responsibilities fit this level of training into their lives. An
accomplished triathlete as well as a trained social scientist,
Cohen offers much insight into the effects of endurance-sport
training on family, parenting, and the sense of self. She conducted
in-depth interviews with forty-seven iron-distance competitors and
three prominent men in the race industry, and analyzed triathlon
blog postings made by Iron Dads. What sacrifices, Cohen asks, are
required - both at home and at work - to cross the iron-distance
finish line? What happens when work, family, and sport collide? Is
it possible for fathers to meet their own parenting expectations
while pursuing such a time-consuming regimen? With the tensions of
family economics, how do you justify spending $5,000 on a racing
bike? At what point does sport become work? Cohen discovered that,
by fostering family involvement in this all-consuming effort, Iron
Dads are able to maintain a sense of themselves not only as strong,
masculine competitors, but also as engaged fathers. Engagingly
written and well researched, Iron Dads provides a penetrating,
firsthand look at extreme endurance sports, including practical
advice for aspiring racers and suggestions for making triathlons
more family-friendly.
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