article about how far athletes run during their sport.
How Far Do Soccer Players Run During a Match?
here are some quotations from the article:
soccer:
but it's not uncommon for a player to
average seven miles per game. Seven!
SportVU has tracked players running as much as 9.5 miles in a game.
american football:
players are only actually moving for 11 minutes on average during an NFL game. Only 11 minutes of action!...it seems that even the players that run the most (cornerbacks and wide receivers, generally) only run about 1.25 miles per game.
baseball:
Ah-hahahahaha. Seriously? C'mon, cut it out. Most baseball players won't run 100 yards during the course of a game, unless you count the slow trot on and off the field between innings. The bases are only 90 feet apart, so even if you hit three homers in a game, that's only 1,080 feet. Even if an outfielder did that and chased balls like crazy on defensive he probably wouldn't break half a mile. Nobody measures how far baseball players are running, because nobody cares and the answers would likely just be embarrassing.
maybe there's a reason that soccer players are usually considered one of the top athletes.
