My new survey is now being piloted!
If you have run at least one race in the last two years and can spare 5 minutes to complete the questionnaire, please click here for details. …
Blog Posts
Taken at face value, the Big Running Survey data suggests that women are indeed less competitive than men. Only 16% of the women surveyed reported a strong motivation to do well in races compared to
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What’s the most common question you’re asked after finishing a race? In my experience it’s almost always ‘what was your time?’, and talking to other runners it seems this experience is pretty much universal. It
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The story of Ben Hart, the British Empire's fastest man, who made a fortune as a sprinter two centuries ago. …
Our Big Running Survey collected data on almost 3,000 runners’ behaviours, preferences and motivations. One of the most striking things that emerged from the analysis was the big difference between male and female runners’
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Whenever I get asked about the subject of my PhD I have to suppress the urge to launch into a sort of paranoid defence of the sociological relevance and intellectual seriousness of my research topic. Running
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Until recently I was sure I knew who the first person to break the four minute mile was. Roger Bannister’s achievement on a blustery Oxford afternoon in 1954 has, after all, gone down in the
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Second part of my selection of important or interesting running statistics derived mainly from the Big Running Survey. …
What stops runners from running as much as they'd like? This post explore some of the most common barriers, and how they change over the life course. …
