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This ethnographic examination of practices of quantification among competitive recreational runners focuses particularly on New York City-based writers and the [ING] New York Marathon. Precision timing, race management, differing conceptions of time, time-based training practices, and the publication, exchanges, and circulation of times, as well as meanings attached thereto, are discussed. Numbers allow for competition to take place and personal meanings to be embedded in mass participation athletics by representing and structuring the experience of the individual runner as a unique set of events within a mass context. This abstraction further extends comparison to other bodies, in other races, on other courses. In contrast to many popular understandings of numbers in social life, number, with its status as empirical data, here emerges as a locus of pleasure and play, even as it remains an index and icon of seriousness and work.

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