Running Tourism in Poland Example of Tourist Activity of Polish Marathon Runners

Nowak, Paweł F.; Chalimoniuk-Nowak, Marta

doi:10.9734/bjesbs/2015/13374

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“…The dynamic development of mass sports events comes with questions about the motivations of the postmodern man to participate in them. Recently, researchers focused mainly on mass, popular, street runs/cycling events in the context of their meaning for sporting events and active tourism or in the context of motivation for running/cycling or health implications for runners/cyclists [22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29]. Sporting events have been analyzed as a tourist phenomenon [30][31][32][33][34] and the social identity of athletes is rarely investigated in this area.…”

Section: Ultramarathons-from Extreme To Mainstream: Discussionmentioning

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The Impact of Modern Ultramarathons on Shaping the Social Identity of Runners. The Case Study of Karkonosze Winter Ultramarathon

Kazimierczak

Dąbrowska

Adamczewska

et al. 2019

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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 in recent years. Precisely, the social identity of ultramarathoners remains a research niche. The aim of the article is to analyze the impact of a sports event on shaping social identity of ultramarathon runners on the example of Karkonosze Winter Ultramarathon (held in Poland). The qualitative method used in the article-interviews with runners-made it possible to examine the factors that create social identity, among which the motives for participation, sports subculture, and the authenticity of the experience play a key role. The first part of the article describes the theoretical aspects of social identity in sport. The second, empirical part presents the research results supplemented by the statements of the contestants. In this case, the subject of analysis is the motives for participation in a winter ultramarathon and their characteristics. Lastly, the article analyzes the subculture of ultramarathoners and the experience of contestants' authenticity. The investigated winter ultramarathon created the perfect space for creation, deepening and celebrating the social identity of ultramarathoners assessed as a value in itself. The article enriches the present knowledge about the motivation of ultramarathoners because, unlike the results of quantitative research, it presents in-depth responses of runners who were not always concerned by existing research questionnaires.

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Section: Ultramarathons-from Extreme To Mainstream: Discussionmentioning

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The Impact of Modern Ultramarathons on Shaping the Social Identity of Runners. The Case Study of Karkonosze Winter Ultramarathon

Kazimierczak

Dąbrowska

Adamczewska

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“…The latter gather thousands of people with different levels of skill who are keen to run such a distance ( Buning and Walker, 2016 ). Due to this popularity, a wide-ranging approach has analyzed these mass sports events, in an attempt to describe, among other aspects: the physical health benefits of running ( Hulteen et al, 2017 ; Oja et al, 2017 ; Mujika-Alberdi et al, 2018 ; Kozlovskaia et al, 2019 ); psychological benefits and mental change ( Mazyarkin et al, 2019 ), finding, for instance, that marathon runners’ mental health was better than that of non-athletes ( Raglin, 2007 ; Boudreau and Giorgi, 2010 ); endurance running performance-related research ( Ferrer et al, 2015 ); social, tourism, and leisure-related research ( Shipway and Jones, 2007 ; Waśkowski, 2011 ; Nowak and Chalimoniuk-Nowak, 2015 ; Summers et al, 2016 ; Malchrowicz-Mośko and Rozmiarek, 2018 ; Malchrowicz-Mośko et al, 2019 ), coaching-related research ( Malchrowicz-Mośko and Rozmiarek, 2018 ), and research involving analyzing psychosocial factors related to marathon running ( Summers et al, 2016 ); and psychological motivational characteristics of amateur or recreational runners ( Larumbe et al, 2009 ; Hammer and Podlog, 2016 ).…”

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Do Sex, Age, and Marital Status Influence the Motivations of Amateur Marathon Runners? The Poznan Marathon Case Study

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The purpose of this research was to describe reasons for participating in a marathon and their association with marital status, age, and sex. Four hundred and ninety-three runners in total, 144 of whom were women and 349 of whom were men, completed the Polish version of the Motivations of Marathoners Scale (MOMS), containing nine dimensions, which was released through an online survey at the Poznan Marathon in Poland (2019). Athletes’ age (ranges 19–25, 26–35, 36–50, 51–70 years) and marital status (single, married, divorced) were asked of the participants. The results showed that statistical significant associations were found between athletes’ motivational aspects and athletes’ sex and age. To this end, three MOMS dimensions were statistically associated with athletes’ sex, a further three dimensions were different age-wise, and, lastly, marital status did not show differences in any of the dimensions. Moreover, statistical differences were not found in the multivariate analysis comparing marital status, sex, and age range according to MOMS. Recreational runners’ reasons for participating in a marathon are different depending on certain sociodemographic variables; therefore, these characteristics should be considered when addressing different athletes in order to provide them with the most suitable information for taking part in such events.

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“…There are also studies on the motivational differences between local runners and sports tourists [32,33], and some papers have been published on university students and female local runners and female sports tourists. Test results indicated that local runners and sports tourists had similar motivations to run in mass events, albeit with some statistically significant differences [34,35].…”

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Do Years of Running Experience Influence the Motivations of Amateur Marathon Athletes?

Malchrowicz-Mośko

Gravelle

Dąbrowska

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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) PKO Poznan Marathon, one of the largest and most popular mass running events in Poland, which was held in Poznan (Poland) in October 2019. A total of 493 marathon runners (29% of whom were female, and 71% of whom were male) took part in the cross-sectional study, which used the diagnostic survey method. The questionnaire employed the division of motives from the motivation of marathoners scale (MOMS) by Masters et al., adapted to the Polish language by Dybala. Running motivations have already been analysed for variables such as age, gender and place of residence, but there is a research gap regarding existing research, as the relationship between motivations and running experience has not yet been studied. One-way analysis of variance for independent samples was used to verify statistical hypotheses. Prior to making the relevant calculations, the assumption of homogeneity of variance was checked via Levene’s test. Variances were assessed with an F-test, and if they were unequal, Welch’s correction was applied. Eta squared (η2) was used as a measure of effect size. The calculations carried out showed that running experience was not a statistically significant factor in the motivations of runners taking part in a marathon.

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Running Tourism in Poland Example of Tourist Activity of Polish Marathon Runners

Cited by 18 publications

References 12 publications

The Impact of Modern Ultramarathons on Shaping the Social Identity of Runners. The Case Study of Karkonosze Winter Ultramarathon

The Impact of Modern Ultramarathons on Shaping the Social Identity of Runners. The Case Study of Karkonosze Winter Ultramarathon

Do Sex, Age, and Marital Status Influence the Motivations of Amateur Marathon Runners? The Poznan Marathon Case Study

Do Years of Running Experience Influence the Motivations of Amateur Marathon Athletes?

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