My daughter who played in Europe has a former teammate from the Netherlands staying with us tomorrow for several days. This girl bounced around from soccer(football) team to soccer team at the English club level and apparently just gave it up. My daughter said she’s running ultra marathons now? Or Mega Marathons? I can’t remember what they’re called. In any event, it’s twice the distance of a marathon? I can’t imagine who would want to do that to themselves.
My nephew is training for a 50-mile run, he's run the marathons in Pittsburgh, Philly, NYC and he's a former soccer player. He says he runs in like 5 hours, I agree with you, I don't see the appeal? But really in the end, it's mostly just to say you did it.
I have to say, the heavier people there, all respect to them, especially in 2022 where you have Lizzo spreading the message that Fat is as good as Fit so why bother
Oh, me too for sure. Just the play on the name cracks me up. I lost about 100 pounds about 8 years ago, and kept it off (for the most part) by running. I used to be the fat guy on the treadmill, so I know first hand how miserable that is. I definitely didn’t mean to disrespect anyone in that position. It’s a damn hard thing to do.
An ultramarathon is basically any distance over a marathon. Lots are on trails and they a miserable and awesome. I just completed #21 this past weekend, with distances varying from 50k to 100 miles.
thats crazy to me too. To be able to run for 50-75 miles is just something i cant even comprehend. it's like me going outside and running to morgantown or meadville lol.
Think of it as “moving efficiently.” There is walking (or as we like to call it to make it sound good - power hiking) based on terrain. If you’re on a really hilly course, walking is far more efficient and keeps you from completely dying.
I was going to say that barely below a 13 min mile -
a 13 min mile is walking. briskly but still walking. this coming from a guy that isnt breaking any records on the treadmill with the speeds i use.
I’m a jog 5 minutes walk for 90 seconds guy - and I still average 10min 20 seconds/mile and that was Tuesday in the cold
Tennis is an incredible workout. So much lateral movement and quick bursts. Also a fun game to play. Unfortunately it is hard on the joints for big guys and damn near impossible to play after knee injuries.
Walking at a reasonably fast pace for long distance is generally considered 15 minute miles. Therefore, a reasonably fast walk of 6 miles should take 90 minutes. For you treadmill guys, that equates to walking on a treadmill at 4 mph for 90 minutes. Not at all an athletic achievement. I think soccer players are great athletes, but it is not because the can cover 6 miles in 90 minutes.
Guys playing football run much more than baseball players, and it's not even close. However, both sports do have sprint speed as a key for performance. Hockey has that too. I assume that soccer has instances where sprint speed comes into play, but not nearly as much as the three mentioned above. Basketball much the same. Basketball players run their asses of on a small court. Soccer players run their asses of on a much larger field. Hockey players do it on ice. Running, speed, and fitness measure is sport dependent.
Soccer doesn’t have sprint speed nearly as much as the others? Wow I don’t even know what to say.
I would say the big difference is that races have time cutoffs. I did a 50k this past weekend that had a time limit of 8.5 hours.
Ok, the average offensive football team has 60 plays a game. Could not find an actual time for it but I would suspect from most snaps to the end of a play the average offensive play lasts about 6 seconds. So 60 plays for 6 seconds results in at maximum 6 minutes of running.
