Running is one of the world's most widely practiced sports and
recreations but until now it has intended to elude serious study
outside of the natural sciences. John Bale brings the sport into
the realm of the humanities by drawing on sources including
literature, poetry, film, art and sculpture as well as statistics
and training manuals to highlight the tensions, ambiguities and
complexities that lie hidden beneath the commonplace notion of
running. The text explores both local and personal, as well as
communal and global aspects of running and its practitioners. It
examines the streets, tracks and stadiums where athletes run, the
races in which they compete, and the running relationships such as
exist between the athlete and the coach, between runners and
between the athlete and spectator. It discusses the importance of
speed and records, how running has been used to symbolise
resistance and transgression, and the extent to which it can be
associated with a healthy lifestyle. Running Cultures provides new
ways of seeing a familiar sporting phenomenon. it will appeal to
both students and researchers with an interest in running in
particular, and sport and leisure cultures more generally.
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