Investigation And Analysis On The Current Situation Of Marathon 's Participation In Sports In Shandong Province

The marathon which is featured by a set of competition, popularity and performability in a track and field events is the popular long-distance race project of word. The marathon was set up in the first Olympic Games at Athens in 1896, and the distance was 42.193 kilometers from the victory of Dipitz. Until the fourth Olympic Games at London in 1908, the total race distance was measured as 26 miles 385 yards, which is equivalent to 42.195 km. Later, 42.195 km race officially identified as the standard distance by IAAF. Until Los Angeles held the twenty-third Olympic Games at 1984, woman’s marathon became a formal event. The first marathon of China was held at Beijing in 1981. Since then the marathon gradually developed in China’s urban. In2008, the first session of the Yellow River Estuary(Dongying) International Marathon was the milestone of being introduced to Shandong Province.Marathon is a very long distance and endurance project based aerobic exercise, although safely finish it to a great extent with the test with human body’s blood circulation, respiratory and urinary system organs, marathon in the world still got extensive popularization and development, more and more people participate in it. Analyzing the status quo of Shandong Province marathon enthusiasts and exploring the motivation and influencing factors of enthusiasts has an important role to promote Shandong Province to carry out the marathon sport and to health enthusiasts actively participate the marathon sport.This paper uses the literature method, the questionnaire method, the expert interview method and so on to collect the data, applies the mathematical statistics method, the logical analysis method statistical analysis data, draws the conclusion as follows:1. In recent years, the number of people participating Marathon has been increasing year by year, most of them are the male, young adults, and enterprise staff and civil servants;2. Route of transmission of Shandong province marathon is limited which is mainly introduced by friends. Most of the enthusiasts prefer to take part in the half marathon and full marathon, and more than half enthusiasts prefer to participate in the marathon over 50 years old;3. Enthusiasts in choosing the location of the training, distance and training methods are more reasonable, but less reasonability in time, which is associated with the working time of enthusiasts;4. The sport injury of most enthusiasts, marathon consumption investment increasing, living and working environment adverse orientation and so forth have an effect on the enthusiasm of marathon enthusiast;5. The participation motivation of enthusiasts mainly includes self-challenge, physicalexercise, and develops a healthy lifestyle, in order to keep healthy, strengthen willpower, and improve the physical quality and so on.