Who is doing a run with the running boom? The growth and governance of one of Europe's most popular sport activities / Jeroen Scheerder, Koen Breedveld and Julie Borgers -- Belgium (Flanders): trends and governance in running / Julie Borgers, Steven Vos and Jeroen Scheerder -- Denmark: running for the sake of running? A profile and segmentation of runners / Peter Forsberg -- England: the governance and history of running, the decision to run, and trends in running participation / Andrew Spiers, Spencer Harris, Angela Charlton and Peter Smale -- Finland: from elite running to mass running events / Hanna Vehmas and Jukka Lahti -- Germany: running participation, motivation and images / Kirstin Hallmann, Christoph Breuer and Sören Dallmeyer -- Greece: mass running, a new trend from ancient times? / Leonidas Petridis -- Hungary: the popularisation and expansion of amateur running culture / Szilvia Perényi -- The Netherlands: rising participation rates, shifting segments / Paul Hover, Harold van der Werff and Koen Breedveld -- Slovenia: the case of Ljubljana marathon participants / Mojca Doupona Topi? and Samo Rauter -- Spain: a sociological analysis of the evolution and characteristics of running / Ramon Llopig-Goig and Anna Vilanova -- Running across Europe: the way forward / Koen Breedveld, Jeroen Scheerder and Julie Borgers
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Scheerder et al. (2015) studied this question.