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Jul 2018
12:28pm, 4 Jul 2018
883 posts
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Andrew65- Cmon England!
I always imagined that footballers would do a lot of intervals to improve their burst speed. The frequency with which they get cramp in extra time indicates to me that they probably don't do much endurance running.
I read somewhere that the average midfielder runs about 10k over the course of the 90 minutes, don't know if that is true or not.
Anyway, re Parkrun....I am having a crack at a sub 30 this saturday. This would be the fastest I have done 5k since 2012. I don't think that I will ever be troubling my lifetime PB of 22:06 ever again 
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Jul 2018
12:39pm, 4 Jul 2018
64,177 posts
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Gobi
Yes i did a lot of intervals
But
I liked being FIT:-)
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Jul 2018
12:54pm, 4 Jul 2018
940 posts
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Oranj
When I was a teen in Watford (1980 ish), it was said that Graham Taylor had the team doing 5 miles around Cassiobury Park most mornings. I don't know whether that was true or not, but they were certainly a lot fitter over the whole 90 minutes than much of their opposition at the time.
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Jul 2018
1:29pm, 4 Jul 2018
204 posts
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BexleyKev
When I were a kid.. Graham Taylor and the Grimsby Town team all trained on the beach, the club captain at the time had an Ice Cream van near the Pier. Not sure whether the two were connected in any way
Gareth Southgate ran past me on the Cleveland Way a few years ago - getting a bit of trail vert in. Obviously still keeps up the running but has trouble staying on his feet.
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Jul 2018
1:35pm, 4 Jul 2018
6,282 posts
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The_Saint
On Radio 5 they said he fell trying to beat his training time for 10K of 42 something which if true is an impressive pace for a training run.
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Jul 2018
1:50pm, 4 Jul 2018
23,078 posts
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LazyDaisy
Going back to when I hijacked the thread regarding the wearing of club vests if you've entered a race as an affiliated club member -
I had a reply from EA today. It is compulsory if you enter as a team to wear your club kit, but if you enter as an individual it's optional. Which is what we thought
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Jul 2018
1:52pm, 4 Jul 2018
49,384 posts
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swittle
Indeed it is!
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Jul 2018
2:15pm, 4 Jul 2018
174 posts
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Spideog
90 minutes to run a 10km isn't that impressive for an elite sports person, and one whose sport involves a lot of running around. Even allowing for all the walking they do inbetween the bursts of sprinting it's got to be pretty poor. If you are able to do a sub 40 10km then changing that to a majority of walking with lots of short sprints then you should still be covering 10km in under an hour and a half. You could walk 5km in an hour easily, and then run a 30 minute 5km and not look as knackered at the end of it as the premiership footballers do.
Of course there is more to it than that as they have to actually think and be ready to respond to things happening instantly during those 90 minutes whilst a runner just has to put one foot infront of the other quickly. But covering 10km in 90 minutes in a football match isn't any major physical achievement.
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Jul 2018
2:24pm, 4 Jul 2018
884 posts
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Andrew65- Cmon England!
I think that the two activities are quite different and probably can't be compared. But, like I said, that is just something that I read somewhere, it might not be accurate at all.
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Jul 2018
2:42pm, 4 Jul 2018
38,539 posts
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Velociraptor
Going back to the Guardian article, I note that although it says "walking is not sufficient on its own", it does NOT say "running is better than walking", it is recommending cross-training activities (some of which I'd regard as trivial in exercise terms - "carrying things around", yoga) in addition to walking.
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