TY - JOUR N2 - This article is about selected issues in women’s sports, and above all the modest participation of women in so-called leisure sports. Statistical data concerning Poland and other countries (particularlyWestern Europe) is presented. The fashion for jogging, which is currently being seen in Poland as well, is analyzed. The author’s own research, done in 2013 and involving 865 participants in the Łódź ‘I Care About My Health’ Marathon, documents the smallness of women’s interest in participating in marathon struggles.On the basis of the information collected in the study’s survey questionnaires, it was possible for the author to create a socio-demographic portrait of the female Polish long-distance runner. It was also possible to note the sociologically interesting and elucidating difference between men and women in the sphere of training and in their running careers/biographies. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/86877/PDF/Journal10276-Volume58_Issue1-10_paper.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/86877 PY - 2014 IS - No 1 EP - 186 DO - 10.2478/kultura-2014-0020 KW - leisure sports KW - masculine and feminine sports KW - the fashion for jogging A1 - Stempień, Jakub Ryszard PB - Komitet Socjologii PAN PB - Instytut Studiów Politycznych PAN DA - 2014 T1 - The Gender of the Marathon: Leisure Sports in Women’s Experience SP - 169 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/86877 T2 - Kultura i Społeczeństwo ER -