Telling the future: uncovering tensions of competitive running and fatherhood through letters from future selves
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In the parenthood and recreational sport participation nexus, researchers are exploring fathers’ sport participation to advance understanding of fatherhood in the context of changing masculinities. We aimed to build on this research by using narrative inquiry to explore six competitive runner fathers’ negotiation of their identities brought to life in stories. Thematic narrative analysis resulted in two themes shaping identities, running practices and hybrid masculinities: ‘running vs. sacrifice and responsibility’ and ‘running allows responsibility’. Themes were (re)presented as creative nonfiction (CNF) letters from future selves (i.e. letter from an older wiser self, letter to a friend) to show features of these themes. These findings expand insights into fatherhood, endurance sport and men's embodied identities as runners, related to gender ideologies in family and sport. Using CNF letters opens pedagogical possibilities. Through telling and witnessing, accessible stories are created to show constraining and emancipative aspects of caring and hybrid masculinities in sport, family and society. These findings highlight the need for more research exploring fatherhood in additional sport contexts within an era of involved fatherhood.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".