An Enduring Event: 20 Years of One Athlete’s Negotiation with Pain at the Ironman Triathlon World Championships

Implications With a dearth of “embodied” studies on the sociology of sports-related pain, particularly by elite athletes who lived much of their youth in a physical culture that requires the near-constant negotiation of pain, this chapter provides a deep inside-out look at one case with its sensorial, phenomenological, and temporal insight to pain management.