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Artist: Sensiva
Album name: Different Listening 3

1. Quintet Attack

Artist: TSCHELJABINSK65
Album name: Erntezeit

1. Crystal Tears in the Float

Tscheljabinsk65 The Demons Of Iron & Titan Woods Ancient Forest Landscapes

Author: shanamiraj11

Keywords: Tscheljabinsk65 The Demons Of Iron & Titan Woods Ancient Forest Landscapes

Added: August 4, 2009

Artist: Chill Outcayote
Album name: Chill out Made in Mexico

1. Nada Quedara

Artist: Faze Action
Album name: The Chillout Lounge 2

1. We Don't Know How

Artist: Primal Instinct
Album name: Mysterium Magnum volume 4

1. Mystic River

why do people run in stairways but walk otherwise?

People seem to be more prone to run in stairways. I am guilty of this too. There's just something about a stairway that makes me want to run--both up and down. I see other people do this too. There was even a comedy sketch on "Almost Live" many years ago about the office workers who only run in stairways.

I have a couple hypotheses: running up stairs is more comfortable than running on flat surfaces due to the way our legs work; running allows us to utilize the elasticity of our tendons to maximize our locomotive efficiency, stairs are more private than hallways and sidewalks, so we're less afraid to be seen running; or there is a primal instinct to run up stairs just like the instinct a hamster has in a wheel.

Of course, running down stairs is just more fun--that goes without saying, right?

What are your thoughts? Are there any studies out there on this phenomenon?
I agree with Noel that it feels like more work to go slowly, even though you get more winded going fast. From a newtonian physics standpoint, its the same amount of work no matter how fast or slow you go, but it seems that biologically it takes more work to move something slowly--maybe energy that must be used just to keep a muscle flexed?

But there also seems to be a psychological aspect, too...

Artist: Eighth Wave
Album name: Cafe Del Mar volume 03

1. Panama Bazaar

Artist: Sarah Brightman
Album name: Compact disc Club

1. Harem

Artist: Electric Light Orchestra
Album name: Space Night volume 1

1. Ticket to the Moon

Artist: Seefeel
Album name: Ambient 4

1. Lief

Artist: Ajja
Album name: Healing Ananda

1. Grain Funk

Artist: Shen
Album name: Moonshadow Beats

1. Tenryu-Ji

Artist: Pressure of Speech
Album name: Free Your Head

1. Surveillance

Artist: Various Artists
Album name: Meditation 2001

1. Meditation (mix)

Artist: Aeoliah
Album name: Oreade Healing Music (A Special Selection from Oreade)

1. Angels of Victory

Artist: Oophoi
Album name: The Spirals of Time

1. Back into the Great Mystery

Artist: The Sabres of Paradise
Album name: This is… the Best of Chillout

1. Smokebelch Beatless mix

Artist: XL Singleton
Album name: Klassik Lounge Werk 4

1. Take Five (Kool Summer mix)

Artist: Nino Drum Quartet
Album name: Oriental Beats

1. Fever (Drummer Boys mix)

Artist: Various Artists
Album name: African Spirits mixed by DJ Mocca

1. African Spirits mixed by DJ Mocca CD1 (mix)
2. African Spirits mixed by DJ Mocca CD2 (mix)

Artist: Somnivore, Vuon Alinen I
Album name: 1818-1991

1. Hukuin (Baltimore 1849)