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ABSTRACTGastón Julián Gil is professor of anthropology at the University of Mar del Plata (Argentina) and researcher at Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). He is author of Terapia de la felicidad. Etnografía del running en la Argentina contemporánea[Hapiness Therapy. Ethnography of running in contemporary Argentina] (2021), Las Sombras del Camelot. La Fundación Ford y las ciencias sociales en la Argentina de los ‘60[The shadows of the Camelot Project. Ford Foundation and social sciences in Argentina during the decade of 1960] (2011), Universidad y Utopía. Ciencias sociales y militancia en la Argentina de los 60 y 70[University and Utopia. Social Sciences and Militancy in Argentina during the 1960s and 1970s] (2010) and Hinchas en tránsito. Violencia, memoria e identidad en unahinchada de un club del interior[Fans in transit. Violence, Memory and Identity in football supporters from an inland club of Argentina] (2007).

The activity of running, as it is usually called by its enthusiastic and highly-engaged practitioners, constitutes not only a sport but also a lifestyle that is characterised by the adoption of a broad set of ethical and aesthetic precepts that transcend mere physical exercise. In Argentina, it entails a wide variety of experiences that, for certain types of 'serious' runners, serve to define such a lifestyle. In this paper it will be shown how trips are precisely one of those defining experiences, and how such trips demand an intense tourist planning to runners and their eventual companions.