Older ('Masters') athletes strive to maintain or even improve upon the performance they
achieved at younger ages, but declines in athletic performance are inevitable with ageing. In …

Objectives An 'ultra-marathon'is a footrace over a distance> 42.2 km. There is considerable
interest in the psychological characteristics of ultra-marathon runners ('ultra-runners') and …

An emerging challenge in sport event tourism is to incorporate events more strategically into
the host destination's overall mix of tourism products and services. An effective means is to …

Method Participants Marathon runners participating in one of six Midwestern marathons
were recruited during marathon pre-race registration. While registering they were asked to …

The purpose of this study was to investigate how serious leisure and flow contribute to
subjective well‐being (SWB) in the daily lives of older adults. Twenty‐two older adults were …

Amateur trail runners and endurance mountain bikers are compared with regard to
motivation, involvement in their sport, competitive-event portfolios, and event-travel careers …

With this monograph we introduce a new, systematic taxonomy of Sports Interaction
Technology (Sports ITech) that defines a design space of existing and future work in this …

Originally, running was a sporting activity which was mainly, if not only, practised by
competitive athletes in private track and field clubs or through extracurricular school and …

The main goal of this study was to recognize the motives of participation in mass running
events (Poznan Half Marathon case study). The second aim was to examine the motivations …

This study explored motivations of amateur triathletes using an interpretive approach. In-
depth interviews were conducted with 21 triathletes in two Australian east coast states. Data …