Experiencing the Run:

The recent interest in movement and mobile practices within human geography and social sciences (Adey, 2009; Cresswell, 2011; Sheller and Urry, 2006) has asked new questions of and challenged existing research methodologies. The upsurge in 'mobile methods' (Büscher et al, 2010; Fincham et al, 2010; Hein et al, 2008) has proposed several new techniques aimed at capturing the fleeting nature of mobile experiences, techniques which are regularly put into practice. Yet very few studies adopt more than one method in meeting this aim and thus a direct comparison of the merits of such methods is somewhat lacking. My paper addresses this issue by utilising a multi-method approach to researching the mobile practice of road-running. More specifically, I will be looking at the methods of video-ethnography (Spinney, 2009) and 'go-along' (Anderson, 2004) as tools for exploring the experiences of road-running; discussing their comparative advantages and disadvantages as well as evaluating the multi-method approach. I argue that each method offers nuanced and differentiated knowledges about mobile practices, entailing that the adoption of a multi-method approach to be particularly fruitful. To summarise, this paper, by closely examining video-ethnography and 'go-along' methods, sheds new light on the uses of multi-mobile-methods.