Running becomes an observational instrument in Tulumello’s study of Lisbon during pandemic restrictions. Rather than treating mobility as a neutral means of reaching research sites, the author makes the repeated bodily traversal of the city part of the production of evidence. Routes, situated impressions and a recorded account of changing urban conditions reveal uneven geographies that are difficult to reconstruct from aggregate indicators alone. The methodological value lies in disciplined exposure to spatial variation: the moving researcher encounters differences in street use, urban atmosphere and the effects of restriction across territories. This connects qualitative geography, embodied methods, pandemic urbanism and the political economy of urban change. Yet it also raises a productive limit. A researcher’s capacity to run is socially and bodily specific; the observations made possible by movement cannot stand unproblematically for everyone’s access to the city. Situated mobility is therefore both a method of discovery and a condition that requires reflexive documentation.
