Sindler, Jesse2024-06-182024-06-182023https://hdl.handle.net/1794/2952767 pagesWhile playing or engaging in many sports an athlete only demands performance from their apparel and equipment for, at most, several hours and sometimes for only several seconds. Often, during these moments of engagement, the athlete is performing a repetitive set of movements, such as running, lifting, kicking, dribbling, or peddling in environments that have been curated to be as consistent as possible in order to both literally and figuratively level the field of play. This consistency allows the design of the related apparel and equipment to provide for a more shallow set of needs and jobs to be done. Other sports, by their very nature, demand a greater level of immersion, both in terms of participation and design. Some even require an entire shift in lifestyle to participate, sometimes for only a day, but often for weeks and sometimes months at a time. While engaging in such sports, an athlete’s entire way of being changes. While any athlete will be experiencing the world in a different way during the brunt of their physical exertion (and possibly for a brief time before and after), these particular sports change how the athlete rests, sleeps, and shelters, how they consume and prepare nutrition, how they maintain their personal hygiene and provide for their healthcare, how the use and maintain their equipment and apparel and even how they relate and engage with their environment and other people. Because of this, these sports require equipment and apparel that is designed with a consideration of the athlete’s needs during the peak of their physical exertion as well as many other user moments.en-USCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USbikepackingbackpackingbicyclesenvironmentTerminal Project