A new temporal framework for the passionate engagement journey of ultra-endurance athletes: A qualitative investigation.

ABSTRACT: 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. However, a temporal perspective on the development of the UE engagement was missing. With this research we aimed to explore the long-term individual journeys of UE athletes and how their passion developed over time from the moment of inception to full adoption of UE as an identity and a lifestyle. For this purpose, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 16 UE athletes (12 male and 4 female, mean age 43.4, SD 10) in cycling, trail running and triathlon. Five key themes (with 13 sub-themes) of their UE engagement journey emerged as the result of the interpretative phenomenological analysis of the inte

SUBMITTER: Bill T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10681185 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature