CONCLUSIONES Y RECOMEDACIONES

At present

- Do you have a regular running routine? - When do you run during the week? - What time of day do you run?

- Do you run alone/ with others/ both?

- How does your running fit with other activities that you do? E.g. a work routine, or a weekly/ monthly routine of exercise

- Do you run on treadmills/ outside?

Other time scales

- What have these arrangements been like over the past month/season/year/ 5 years/ longer?

When you run outdoors where do you go?

At present

- Where do you run when you run in Bristol/Lancaster/surrounding area? How did you end up running there?

- Do you have routes that you repeat? How come?

- Where do you usually start and end runs? How do you travel to these places? - Do you have favourite routes? What do you like about them?

- Are there certain places you don’t like running in? But do anyway? - Does it matter what the weather is like?

- Do you run ever run in the surrounding areas of Lancaster and Bristol? How come? What about parks in urban areas?

Other time scales

- Do your routes change across the year?

- [ask similar questions as above, but in relation to other places they have lived, including within other parts of Bristol / Lancaster]

- What would an ideal run/ or set of runs look like for you? What might ideal weather conditions be?

When you run indoors where do you do it? [if applicable] At present

- Where do you run when you run in Bristol/Lancaster/surrounding areas? - How did you end up running there?

- Is that the only gym/option? Have you tried treadmill running in other places? What do you think of those?

Other timescales

- Where have you ran on treadmills in the past year?

- Have you lived/worked in other parts of Lancaster and Bristol? Did you do treadmill running then?

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Activity: career timeline in running

Please draw and annotate a timeline representing your life history in running [provide paper]. It would be helpful if you could include:

- [things that have been significant in the interview so far] - The different places you have lived since starting running

- Different clothing/ equipment that has featured at various points - The different types of running (e.g. indoor, outdoor, events, night time,

winter) you have done

- Your ‘commitment’ to different types of running over time [potentially show an example template, ask for both indoor and outdoor]

Clothing and equipment

- Can you remember what you wore at that time? [e.g. using timeline] Has the clothing you wear and equipment you use for running changed since you started?

- Are there certain things you like/ dislike/ need/ don’t need/want? - What clothing and equipment for running have you obtained in the past

year? What is the most recent thing you have obtained? [Ask for detail about why and how they use it]

- Does the clothing and equipment you use change much during the course of the year?

Different forms of running

- Are there things you particularly like/dislike about some types of running that don’t feature in others? Has your view on this changed over time? [perhaps refer to timeline] For example:

- Running alone or with other people? - Taking part in events?

Learning to run

- What were your early experiences of running like?

- Please tell me about how you learned to run, and how learning to run may have changed over time for you?

- Do you monitor your running? (e.g. in terms of timing/ distance etc.) If so, how do you do this?

- Does the way you run matter? Is technique/ gait/ style important for you? - What’s it like when you feel weak, strong, fit, unfit, are recovering from

injury?

- Has running changed how you feel about your body/ your perceptions of your body?

- What would be the three (four, five) pieces of advice you would give to someone who was about to start running?

- How did you come to realise that those aspects were the most important? Running in relation to other practices / coordinating with others

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- Does running play a role in what and when you eat?

- Do you sometimes use private/public transport to go and come back for a run? How come? Has this changed over the past year/ 5 years / since starting?

- Has running changed when you wash and do the laundry?

- What do you do when you can’t run but want to, e.g. through injury? - If your running routine gets disrupted, what do you do?

Organisations/ institutions implicated in running

- Do you run in a club? What do you think about them? Have you considered joining one?

- Have you come across initiatives that promote exercise (e.g. Change4Life). What do you think about them?

- Did you run at school? How did you find that?

- Are particular clothing/ equipment manufacturers important for your experience of running?

- How do you find out about new places to run? General trends/ future of running

- What do you think about general trends in running?

- What do you think running will be like in Bristol/Lancaster/surrounding area in the future? How about more generally?

- How do you see your future with running?

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Appendix 4: Biography interview guide – swimming