ABSTRACT
Drawing on and contributing to the growing literature on the senses of running, this chapter explores the sensuous geographies of urban running. In part, it discusses the uniqueness of running with respect to its sensuous nature by comparing it with walking. The first part establishes what a sensuous ethnographic account of running must entail. The second part highlights the sensuous features and differences between walking and running as embodied, emplaced practices. The third part establishes some of the unique sensuous geographies of urban running—in the ground and air, and weather worlds, in environments charged with certain atmospheric qualities and social relations. The chapter concludes by extending the discussed sensuous approach to all sensory ethnographies concerned with bodily movement.
