UK football/soccer players posting fake 5k times, caught by strava

Soccer players run about 7 miles per game on average and do plenty of running during daily training sessions. They are paid usually over $200,000 per week at the highest level if you do that for years as a profession it would be embarrassing if you couldn't run a sub 18 min 5k.

Correction, 20:32 is 6:37/mile

Canon1 wrote:

Soccer players run about 7 miles per game on average and do plenty of running during daily training sessions. They are paid usually over $200,000 per week at the highest level if you do that for years as a profession it would be embarrassing if you couldn't run a sub 18 min 5k.

That's probably why they're doing it. A couple of players have posted pretty decent genuine times and there seems to be pressure to perform well. Keep the time believable and the Strava entry private is the lesson here

londonlass wrote:

That's probably why they're doing it. A couple of players have posted pretty decent genuine times and there seems to be pressure to perform well. Keep the time believable and the Strava entry private is the lesson here

Soccer players lying about their 5k time should be no surprise as a big part of the game is about lying and cheating - diving onto the floor, lying to the referee etc etc - it's a farce. Now in the middle of this COVID 19 lockdown all that soccer players can do is lie about how fast they ran while being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars every month - and they don't want their wages cut!

I want to see James Milner's 5k time. He always seems to be the fittest player on any team he's on. The Barkley thing is hilarious with over 1hr of elapsed time! There's a great twitter page called "Strava wankers" which calls these people out.

Adifan wrote:

I want to see James Milner's 5k time. He always seems to be the fittest player on any team he's on. The Barkley thing is hilarious with over 1hr of elapsed time! There's a great twitter page called "Strava wankers" which calls these people out.

That's where I first heard about it - love that account. Nothing much to entertain me at the moment with no races on so might as well pointlessly scrutinize my peers' running times

jesseriley wrote:

Cheating with Strava, it’s not just for virus-free eras anymore!

Wankers, all of you. From the article:

Barkley himself has never claimed to have completed the 5k challenge, but that didn’t stop the Chelsea midfielder from being on the receiving end of a few digs from people on Twitter who accused him of posting a ‘fake’ time.

It is very sad to see professional sport players to lie about their time, now i cant even trust the times other pro football players post

Can someone please post an example of someone who claims a 5k TT result where the elapsed time is much longer and it seems like they paused for breaks in between? I'm sure that it's always happened on occasion throughout the history of Strava. I haven't seen one yet that's related to this post. The OP's example article even states that the soccer player in question never mentioned any intent of running a 5k TT but merely ran some intervals. Then some Twitter keyboard warriors harassed him because the total distance was near 5k.

Actaully, nevermind. I don't care anymore, but I've already typed this junk.

Nutsack McGee wrote:

Can someone please post an example of someone who claims a 5k TT result where the elapsed time is much longer and it seems like they paused for breaks in between? I'm sure that it's always happened on occasion throughout the history of Strava. I haven't seen one yet that's related to this post. The OP's example article even states that the soccer player in question never mentioned any intent of running a 5k TT but merely ran some intervals. Then some Twitter keyboard warriors harassed him because the total distance was near 5k.

Actaully, nevermind. I don't care anymore, but I've already typed this junk.

xD

Nutsack McGee wrote:

Can someone please post an example of someone who claims a 5k TT result where the elapsed time is much longer and it seems like they paused for breaks in between? I'm sure that it's always happened on occasion throughout the history of Strava. I haven't seen one yet that's related to this post. The OP's example article even states that the soccer player in question never mentioned any intent of running a 5k TT but merely ran some intervals. Then some Twitter keyboard warriors harassed him because the total distance was near 5k.

Actaully, nevermind. I don't care anymore, but I've already typed this junk.

I think he claimed he ran the time on an Instagram story

Adifan wrote:

I want to see James Milner's 5k time. He always seems to be the fittest player on any team he's on. The Barkley thing is hilarious with over 1hr of elapsed time! There's a great twitter page called "Strava wankers" which calls these people out.

I would take Kanté against your Milner.

back in the day angel di maria had amazing stats on pes/fifa with his stamina, speed and accel ALL above 90 (out of 99 possible)

You should check out Scott McTominay's (Man Utd) time.

Impala31 wrote:

Adifan wrote:

I want to see James Milner's 5k time. He always seems to be the fittest player on any team he's on. The Barkley thing is hilarious with over 1hr of elapsed time! There's a great twitter page called "Strava wankers" which calls these people out.

I would take Kanté against your Milner.

Milner is 34 now. He's never been the fastest. He's had a great career - he's played in the PL since he was 16. Probably got another year or two at the top level before he does

a stint in China or MLS to add a few more millions to the bank account.

UK has a culture of cheating, especially in sport.

Even without the rampant moving vs elapsed time cheating, there are so many ways to cheat on strava - staging bikes along the course, downhill courses, shortcuts, handing the watch off in a relay. I wouldn't take any time without video evidence or race results to back it up as serious.