<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bo Peng</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Iron woman, shoreline fish: an ethnographic case story of being depressed and the (Un) becoming of a runner</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2026</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676X.2025.2563284</style></url></web-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Routledge</style></publisher><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">18</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">174-189</style></pages><isbn><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2159-676X</style></isbn><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">This paper presents a longitudinal narrative ethnography tracing the embodied experiences of Hippo, a young woman navigating clinical depression and a shifting relationship with physical activity over 6 years. Set against prevailing discourses that promote exercise-as-cure for mental illness, the paper does not seek to test efficacy, but to explore what movement does, emotionally, socially, and existentially, for someone living with chronic distress. Rather than offering generalisable claims or neat resolutions, this study privileges temporality, subjectivity, and storied complexity. Hippo’s journey unfolds not as a linear transformation, but through slow, recursive encounters with walking, swimming, running, and moments of stillness. Her initial curiosity about movement was sparked not by medical advice but by reading a running narrative. Over time, she experiments with exercise as a form of survival, not salvation. The story was co-constructed through diaries, unstructured interviews, conversational dialogue, fieldnotes, and collaborative storytelling. Grounded in storytelling and phenomenological sensibility, the paper argues that physical activity can foster a mode of ‘being-with’ depression rather than simply offering a route out. Hippo’s story highlights traits of slowness, coexistence, ambivalence, and embodied re-sensation, challenging dominant health narratives that assume movement leads to measurable recovery. In advocating for narrative as a method and as knowledge, this work contributes to growing calls for research that centres the lived, affective, and complex realities of those whose stories do not fit mainstream frameworks. It invites readers to understand movement not just as medicine, but as a mode of being with difficulty and of becoming.</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2</style></issue></record></records></xml>