Negotiating the weather in recreational running: understanding strategies and response to inform public health

该项目利用休闲跑步作为一个机会，加深对锻炼如何应对不同天气条件的了解。在伦敦，人们很难获得所谓的“健康”环境（清洁的空气、绿地），本书将探讨人们是如何体验和管理天气的，以及这对日益城市化的社会中人们在何时、何地以及如何跑步意味着什么。这在气候变化方面尤其重要，因为人们认为变化的条件可能会影响户外活动模式。尽管休闲跑步是英国等国家发展最快的运动形式，但人们对跑步如何随着天气变化而变化知之甚少。尽管地理学对自然与社会的相互作用有着根深蒂固的学科兴趣，但日常生活中的天气经验在地理学中仍然研究不足。尽管运动研究者已经开始强调环境因素如绿色植物的有益影响，但他们经常低估其他因素如温度、降雨量、湿度和空气的影响。在公共卫生领域，人们关注的焦点是消除参与锻炼的障碍，同样令人好奇的是，天气和季节明显影响人们锻炼，并继续这样做，同样很少有人探索。本项目旨在解决这些问题，结合调查和人种学方法，跟踪一个样本的休闲跑步者，因为他们的跑步响应一年中不断变化的天气。在这样做的过程中，本项目将提供重要的知识，如何鼓励锻炼的做法，以发展积极的和有弹性的方式，随着城市社会在气候变化下的演变。

This project uses recreational running as an opportunity to deepen knowledge of how exercise practicesrespond to different weather conditions. Investigating this in London where access to perceived 'healthy'environments (clean air, greenspace) can be harder to come by, it will explore how weather isexperienced and managed, and what this means for where, when and how people run in increasinglyurban societies. This is particularly important in respect to climate change where it is thought changingconditions may influence outdoor activity patterns. Though recreational running is the fastest growingform of exercise in countries like the UK, little is known about how running practices evolve in responseto weather.Weather experience in everyday life is still under-researched in geography despite deep-rooteddisciplinary interest in nature-society interactions. Although exercise researchers have begun toemphasise the beneficial effects of environmental features such as greenery, they have frequentlydownplayed the influence of others such as temperature, rainfall, humidity and air. In public health, givenfocus on removing barriers to exercise participation, it is also curious that weather and seasons whichclearly influence people exercising, and continuing to do so, remains similarly little explored. This projectseeks to address these issues integrating survey and ethnographic approaches to track a sample ofrecreational runners as their running responds to the changing weather of one year.In doing so, this project will provide vital knowledge of how to encourage exercise practices to develop inpositive and resilient ways as urban societies evolve under climate change.