The data mavens at the route-tracking app RunKeeper provided a glimpse into how people have changed their workouts to account for World Cup-watching.

RunKeeper has seen some dramatic swings in how users have altered the timing of their runs, walks, or hikes since the soccer tournament began. They've also seen some unchanged behaviors.

Here are RunKeeper's findings (RunKeeper has given Runner's World permission to republish these charts and text):

In Brazil, we saw users replace their usual evening runs with morning workouts to leave the rest of the day open for cheering on their home team.

The first game in the 2014 World Cup was at 5 p.m. Brazil--right when we usually see peak activity levels in Brazil. But during the game, the number of runners (and walkers, cyclists, hikers, etc.) was down more than 80 percent from the same time a week earlier on June 5. However, almost 90 percent more Brazilian users were out and about at 10 a.m.

(Croatia doesn’t yet have the critical mass of RunKeeper users needed to run this kind of analysis. We looked for countries where at least 3,000 RunKeeper users were working out on a given day.)

Spain and Netherlands both showed a somewhat different pattern—down quite a bit during the game, but no major bump earlier in the day.

Spain in particular was down throughout the day. This could be largely due to high temps that day: The high in Barcelona on June 13 was 91 degrees, as compared to only 73 degrees on June 6—it was warm enough that a lot of people may have been discouraged from running, period. The weather in Amsterdam, on the other hand, was very similar week over week, so we’re not quite sure what their excuse was!

Despite having more than 18 million U.S. viewers (the biggest viewership of any sporting event outside of the Super Bowl and collegiate football events), the U.S. v. Portugal game barely changed U.S. workouts—in the evening or in the morning. This suggests that in the U.S., our users didn’t explicitly plan their workouts around World Cup matches. (The was outside of normal running hours for most Portuguese runners. Because of this, we can’t draw hard conclusions about the impact of the game on their workout behavior.)

However, this doesn’t mean U.S. users won’t change their workouts for a big game. To compare, we looked at this year’s Super Bowl:

Perhaps if the U.S. had made it to the later rounds of the World Cup, we would have seen this pattern emerge. Speaking of later-round games…

If you checked your social media feeds, it felt as if the whole world was watching and reacting to this match. The impact on RunKeeper was noticeable:

We saw a big dip in Brazil traffic starting just before game-time, which doesn’t recover after the game, even though that would usually be prime-time for running in Brazil. It’s worth betting that their post-game depression got in the way of their evening workouts.

Germany, on the other hand, was down throughout the day (possibly because it was raining in Germany, while it was clear a week earlier), but their traffic started to recover after the game.

Interestingly, our U.S. traffic, which was slightly down for most of the day, spiked during game time.

With this game, we saw some interesting parallels to previous matches:

The Netherlands traffic was way down week-over-week, just like Germany's was. Is there a common cause we aren't aware of? Germany, Netherlands, speak up!

Argentina traffic spiked big-time during the morning before the game, then dropped to almost nothing during and after. Looks like Brazil--except Argentina won this game and the Netherlands lost. Maybe it was the post-game celebrations that got in the way this time around?

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