Recreational running has been a widely popular form of leisure for half a century, and many countries have experienced a marathon boom in the past decades. In recent years, however, runners have started to run in new ways, often in unconventional settings, and compete in races with various alternative formats. Through an ethnographic approach that builds on in-depth narrative interviews with recreational runners, analysis of runners’ blogs, and participant observation in running events in Estonia, I suggest that as completing a marathon becomes a routine activity, increasingly many dedicated runners turn their bodies into veritable “arenas of experimentation.” Drawing on Zeiler’s concept of bodily “eu-appearance” and Ingold’s concerted approach to movement, perception, and knowledge, and building more generally on Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological perspective, I argue that such corporeal experimentation is motivated by novel sensorial experiences that lead to a heightened awareness of one’s own body as well as by a pursuit of altered and intensified perceptual awareness of the environment one runs in.

娱乐性跑步已经成为半个世纪以来广泛流行的休闲形式，并且在过去的几十年中，许多国家经历了马拉松式的繁荣。然而，近年来，跑步者已经开始以新的方式奔跑，通常是在非常规的环境中进行比赛，并以各种其他形式参加比赛。通过以人种学方法为基础，该方法建立在对休闲跑步者的深度叙述访谈，对跑步者博客的分析以及参与者在爱沙尼亚的跑步活动中的观察的基础上，我建议，随着完成马拉松成为一项日常活动，越来越多的专注跑步者会转身进入真正的“实验领域”。借鉴Zeiler的“欧盟外观”概念以及Ingold对运动，感知和知识的一致态度，