“I run because I like it” – on the motivations of amateur runners from an andragogical perspective

Abstract

The article presents fragments of the results of own research on motivation to take up amateur running activity. The adopted andragogical perspective shows running activity in the perspective of experiencing adulthood in the era of fluid modernity which, in the author’s considerations, has been further specified through the categories of ontological security, biographical suspension, as well as identity processes. The activity of amateur running in light of the presented results appears as a way of dealing with adulthood tasks.