Ultra-endurance running (UER) poses extreme mental and physical challenges that present
many barriers to completion, let alone performance. Despite these challenges, participation …

This narrative review study seeks to consolidate the existing knowledge on motivational
factors that influence marathon and ultramarathon runners. The primary aim is to collect and …

Endurance running is well-documented to affect health beneficially. However, data are still
conflicting in terms of which race distance is associated with the maximum health effects to …

Background Recreational running has greatly increased over the last decade, and different
research has tried to understand the motivation that leads these amateur athletes to run …

The current COVID-19 pandemic has paralysed whole countries, which have had to confine
their entire population and this changed people's lives worldwide. The aim of this study is to …

Aim: This study was aimed to investigate the influence of age on the motivations of various
types of runners, namely, marathoners, ultra-marathoners, and non-starters. Methods: A total …

Introduction: The aim of this review was to systematically synthesize the published literature
describing the psychological and behavioral correlates of recreational running in adults …

Despite the growing interest in extreme sports around the world, researchers have rarely
investigated the complex factors that have led to a developed commitment to extreme sports …

The explosion of popularity of ultra-endurance (UE) sports in the last 20 years has attracted
a lot of interest amongst sport psychologists who studied many aspects of their participants …

The aim of the study was to investigate if years of running experience influence the
motivations of marathon athletes. An empirical study was conducted during the last (20th) …