Running On Air By Budd Coates
Rae Puleo
Other popular running models, such as Chi Running, also suggest an odd-numbered breathing pattern. But Bill Leach, a running coach who has served as head coach for DePaul University and the University of Montana, argues that athletes should actually be exhaling for three breaths and inhaling for two, the reverse of what Coates recommends.
To practice breathing from your abdomen, lay on your back and breath deeply, said Coates. You can then work your way up to breathing in sync with counting in your head and then progress to walking, jogging, and running.
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Daley MA, Bramble DM, Carrier DR. Impact loading and locomotor-respiratory coordination significantly influence breathing dynamics in running humans. PLoS ONE. 2013;8(8):e70752. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0070752
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Running up stairs at the park or stadium is a tough workout for even the fittest of athletes. Proper breathing will enable you to tackle stairs without hyperventilating and supply your muscles with the oxygen they need for the tough trek to the top. Budd Coates, M.S., author of "Running on Air: The Revolutionary Way to Run Better by Breathing Smarter," recommends a staggered breathing pattern to distribute the impact of running over both sides of your body. Practice breathing in a stationary position to master the technique before you head up the stairs.
Adjust the pattern. Budd Coates explains that as your run becomes more strenuous -- and running up stairs is very demanding -- your body will require more oxygen. A 3:2 ratio for breathing isn't sustainable for a fast-paced clip up a steep flight of stairs, but you should keep an odd-to-even breath pattern. Try inhaling for two steps and exhaling for one.
As is so often the case with advice given to runners, an assumption is made that what works for one will therefore work for all. It happens with running styles, footwear, cadence, footstrike, and more.
There is no reason it will be the same as the person you are running with, and it may well vary according to what speed you are running out, whether you are going up or down hill, or even what type of terrain you are on.
Focusing too much on one small part of a complex movement like running can inhibit the overall performance. If you are hoping to change or develop a habit, you need to introduce it slowly in small doses so that conscious effort can eventually become unconscious competence.
Though there are health conditions such as exercise induced asthma that can cause breathlessness (which is why you should always check with your doctor if you are concerned or in any doubt as to whether running is for you) the chances are you cannot breathe properly because you are working at too high an intensity.
When you are running, a significant amount of tension is absorbed by your body whenever your exhalations coincide with your foot strikes. Running with a rhythmic breath helps to equally transfer stress over both sides of your body.
Stay in control: Budd Coates, Runner's World coach and author of Running on Air, recommends running 10 to 15 seconds per mile slower than goal pace in the first third of the race, near goal pace in the second third, then slightly faster than goal pace for the final miles.
Depending on the type of exercise, the pattern may be three beats (such as foot strikes during running) for the inhale and two beats for the exhale. This 3:2 pattern, for example, alternates between feet as they hit the ground at the beginning of the exhalation, which is when your core is weakest. This more evenly distributes the landing impact stress across both sides of your body, reports a 2013 study published in PLoS ONE. This technique also keeps you calm and relaxed even when performing difficult or high-intensity movements.
VOLUME IX.-NUMBER 2133.
CHARLESTON, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 15, 1872.
EIGHT DOLLARS A YEAR.
BOSTON'S GREAT DISASTER.
A GRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE CON?
FLAGRATION.
Its Probable Origin-Fatal Delay or
tbe Fire Department-Singular Coarse
of fae Flames-Tbe Carse of Mansard
Roof*-Miraculous Salvation of tbe
Old South Church-Eighty Acree of
Smouldering Ashes.
[Correspondence of toe New York Tribune.]
BOSTON, November ll.
How tbe great fire began will perhaps
always remain a mystery. Tbe first alarm
was given about seven o'clock on Saturday
evening, when tbe flamea were discovered
bursting from the fourth floor of a large five
story granite building on the corner of Klng
aton and Summer streets. The building was
occupied by Tebbetts, Baldwin & Davis, dry
goods1 Jobbers; A. E. YOUD g & Co., manufac?
turers of stays and corsets; and Damon, Tem?
ple & Co., dealers In fancy goods. It stood In
a part of the city which Is as desolate alter
dark as Broad street ls In New York. The
heavy dealers in domestic and foreign dry
gooda had tbelr headquarters near here.
A. T. Stewart's great branch concern was
within a stone's throw. Jordan, Marah A Co.
have (heir wholesale and retail houseB close
by. Jgmes M. Beebe & Co. gave their name
to a splendid block in which they have car?
ried on a magnificent establishment. Nearly
everybody In this district, where there are no J
dwelling houses and lew retail shops, had gone
away for the night, and tbe fire might have
been burning long before lt was discovered.
It la supposed to have caught In the engine
room and crept up the holst way. This 1B a
very probable theory, for in a few moments
from the time lt was first seen, lt was bursting
from every floor in the building. The edifice
waa crowned by that curse of all our cities-a
Mansard roof. Instantly the tinder box orna?
ment was IQ a biaze, and the flame was leap?
ing across the narrow streets to meet similarly
Inflammable roofs on the other side, while
?bowers ol cinders and burning iragments,
borne aloft by the blast created in the hatch?
way, fell noon the lower buildings on either
band.
FATAL SLOWNESS OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.
The alarm was promptly sounded, but here
occurred one of those fatal mishaps which
nobody knows exactly bow to account for lt.
It was thirty-six minutes before an engine ar?
rived upon the ground. The Boston Fire De?
partment has tbe reputation ot efficiency, and
she last two days have proved that Its mem?
bers In general are men of the true herolo
stamp, who lace danger and do their duly
silently, and as a matter of course day and
night until they fall to the ground through
sheer exhaustion. Tbe reason given lor the
delay ls that the horses were all pick and the
steamers had to be drawn by hand. Sven so,
the delay was unreasonable. Besides, there
were well horses enough In Boston, and if
hacks aad horse-cars were all running, lt can
only be through grave mismanagement that
?team fire engines co lld not run too. By the
time water was brought to bear, the fire had
become a conflagration. Both sides ol King?
ston street, and both sides of Sum?
mer street were blazing, making two fiery
lanes ID which beat was absolutely insupport?
able. Then the corner building fell, scatter?
ing fife In every direction, and the disaster
. began to assume the most threatening aspect.
AU the engines tn Boston were summoned,
and telegrams were sent for aid from the
neighboring towns. The great height of the
warehouses and the narrowness of the streets
proved serious d lill cul ties, In hardly any case
could a stream ot water be thrown upon the
baot part ol the roofs, and lt was on the roofs
that, alter the first outbreak, the fire almost
Invariably caught; nor was lt possible to ap
?roach In those lanes very near the buildings,
he firemen put up barricades for their pro?
tection, but'the barricades were soon con?
sumed. They carried hose np to tbe roots,
bot the height was so great that very little
water could be forced through them. After a
while some large establishments, supposed to
be m the path of the flames, were blown np.
This did no good.
THE PATH OF THE FIRE.
The flames followed no particular palb.
There was a moderately strong wind, but they
travelled right in the teeth ot lt. They made
tbelr own current of air and tallowed that,
now to one side, now to the other. Wherever
they went .hey found a Mansard roof to feed
upon. Wherever a brand waa shot Into the
air lt had a good chance of falling on a Mac
Bard root. To-day lt ls the com moo belief
that Mansard roofs have cost Boston $250,000, .
OOO. From tbe corner of Summer and Kings?
ton streets the fire travelled simultaneously in
all directions. Southward lt burned about
taifa block. Eastward it took both aldea of
Bummer street, passed Arch, Cuauncey and
Hawley, and thence ran diagonally to
sear the. northeast corner of Summer
and Washington, sparing the corner
building occupied by Bobbins, Apple?
ton St Co.,' ot the American Watch Com
pany,and Andrew C. Mudge, fancy goods, but
taklrkg every thing at the rear and side of lt.
7'0enoe lt ran along the ease side of Washing?
ton street, as far north aa Milk, that Is to say,
within a lew feet ot School. street, tbe Parker
l?ense, the city hall and the Old Corner book
store. On the west side ot Washington street,
nothing was bumed, but many of the shops
were scorched and the glass was nearly all
broken. From Kingston street, east and west,
the fire took both aldeB ol Summer and Bed?
ford streets, aad never stopped until lt reach?
ed the water? destroying the wharves and
depot of the Hartford and Erie Railroad.
Meanwhile it had swept northward along De?
vonshire, Federal and Congress streets toward
the water. There were here some tenement
booses, liquor shops and other buildings
of the poorer c?as?, and before midnight
the wretched occupants were turned in?
to, the street. The general direction of
the flames at this time was north?
west, and from about Congress street to
Washington street lt formed an Impassable
barrier, moving up closer and closer toward
State street, and the great financial centre of
New England. Milk street was destroyed by
ten o'clock, and toward morning tbe Are
reached the rear ot the poe to rh ce, tbe front of
whbh ls on State street. The malls were re?
moved to tbe customhouse, and thence taken
last night to Faneuil Hall, where the distribu?
tion of letters began thia morning, nothing
having been lost. What stopped the flames In
this quarter nobody seems to know. The
buildings were not a whit more substantial
than those which had crumbled to fragments
behind them; but Ibey were not seriously me?
naced until everything elsewhere was a mere
heap ol ruins and ashes, and the firemen were
able to concentrate their efforts here. At any
rafcVfothlDg was Injured except tbe poatofflce
and toe Merchants' Exchange, on the corner
of Washington and Milk streets.
MARVELOUS ESCAPE OF THE OLD BOOTH CHURCH.
Two currents of flame, one sweeping north
from Franklin Btreet, the other westward
along Milk Btreet, encountered one of the
Choicest historical buildings of Boston-the
Old South Church. Sober citizens who had
borne the loss ot tbelr own fortunes without a
word, were seen absolutely iran tlc with dis?
tress as the conflagration approached the ven?
erable pile. It la a medest brick building with
wooden blinds, and lt seemed ImposBsible that
it should escape. But here the fire, which bad
destroyed stone and iron as II they had "been
straw, was strangely stopped. Save for a few
broken windows and a little blistered paint.
the old church ls unhurt. Soldiers are quar?
tered t here to-day, and a battered sale Hes In
the door.
Further along on Milk Btreet the fire en?
countered another barrier. This was the new
noQnlsbed postofllce, occupying the block be?
tween Milk, Water, Devonshire and Congress
streets. It was of beautiful granite, with
Iron beams, and had cost thns far $1,600,000.
The roof was not on,-and the floors were not
laid, and there was no woodwork about lt ex?
cept the scaffolding. Tue Milk and Congress
ntreet sides, and a part ot the Water street
iront are ruined by the beat, but tbe building
Itself did not burn, and it prevented the fire
from spreading any further northwestward.
It stands now, however, a conspicuous exam -
pie ol the defects of granite as a building ma?
terial. The stone has crumbled and split like
lime when lt Is slaked. The streets are
heaped with fragments finer than gravel,
workmen are creeping along the cornices
balconies throwing off the pieces wt
threaten to fall. It ls supposed that net
a third of the building will have to ct
down. Opposite, on water street, ls
building of the Post newspaper. That eau
fire, but was not much injured, and ii
there westward Water street ls sale.
SUBSEQUENT DESTRUCTIONS.
Such wa; tbe condition of th i ogs on Sun
morning. It seemed to be then reasons
certain tba: the fire had reached its north
and southern limits, and so the dwelling
the South lind and the banks and various m
eyed Institutions on State street, as well as
bus! ness district beyond, were considered si
There was still an unharmed region, howe\
between Congress and Broad streets,