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Very rarely go over 8.5, rarely below 7.5. always get marked up for fitness and proximity to play.

Polar Grit X pro. Polar vantage V and polar v800 have agreed for many years now.

george.g said:

Since we're having a fun little chat about distances, I realised I was idling too much, and really letting my proximity from play drop. Avg. per game went from 7-8km to 9-10km once I began to make the effort to change this.

Learnt a few lessons this season in being fit enough vs fit

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Couldn’t have put it better than that last line myself. Always thought I was fit enough and used to get occasional compliments about my fitness. Now I almost always get marked up on fitness (by clubs and observers) and I feel far more able to get to counter attacks quickly!

As others have said, simply running what seems like a marathon doesn't necessarily make you a good referee. If anything, it can be a sign of the opposite, as you're having to make up for poor positioning with extra movement!

I really don't see how anyone could run 16km in a game, at least not whilst refereeing it properly. They'd have to average running 10.7 km/h over the 90 minutes, and there will be lots of points where you can't run at all.

Even in the fastest game I ever refereed, an EFL U23 game on a huge pitch that was completely end to end, I only got to 12.5km. And back then I was very fit and got a lot of praise for how I was always on top of decisions in that game, but I was completely drained after and had nothing left in the tank.

george.g said:

Since we're having a fun little chat about distances, I realised I was idling too much, and really letting my proximity from play drop. Avg. per game went from 7-8km to 9-10km once I began to make the effort to change this.

Learnt a few lessons this season in being fit enough vs fit

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Yeah this makes a big difference too, easier to keep moving consistently over walk-sprint over and over