Run and Travel: The Passion for Running and Tourism in Contemporary Argentina

Abstract

The activity of running, as it is usually called by its enthusiastic and highly-engaged practitioners, constitutes not only a sport, but also a lifestyle that is characterized by the adoption of a broad set of ethical and aesthetic precepts that transcend mere physical exercise. In Argentina, it entails a wide variety of experiences that, for certain types of "serious" runners, serve to define such lifestyle. In this article it will be shown how trips are precisely one of those defining experiences, and how such trips demand an intense tourist planning to runners and their eventual companions.