Turner Ellen
Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Front Sports Act Living. 2023 Feb 13;5:1031934. doi: 10.3389/fspor.2023.1031934. eCollection 2023.
Recent years have witnessed great interest in mass-participation running events (1), and organisations such as parkrun and fitness programmes like Couch to 5 K, have been instrumental in enabling participation for inexperienced runners. Concomitant with this has been a number of fictional works which centre on the 5 K run. I contend that exploring fictional texts can offer a fresh take on how movements such as parkrun and Couch to 5 K have entered the popular imagination. The four texts explored are Wake's (2020), Park's (2019), Boleyn's (2022), and James's (2020). The analysis is arranged thematically around the categories of health promotion, individual transformation, and community building. I argue that these texts frequently operate as health promotion tools and can help familiarise would-be runners with how parkrun and Couch to 5 K work.
近年来，大众参与的跑步活动备受关注（1），像parkrun这样的组织以及诸如“从 couch 到 5K”的健身计划，在让缺乏经验的跑步者参与其中发挥了重要作用。与此同时，出现了一些以 5K 跑为主题的虚构作品。我认为，探究这些虚构文本可以为 parkrun 和“从 couch 到 5K”等活动如何进入大众想象提供新的视角。所探究的四部文本分别是韦克（2020 年）、帕克（2019 年）、博林（2022 年）和詹姆斯（2020 年）的作品。分析围绕健康促进、个人转变和社区建设等主题展开。我认为这些文本常常作为健康促进工具发挥作用，能帮助潜在的跑步者熟悉 parkrun 和“从 couch 到 5K”的运作方式。
