running up stairs

• koffee

  19 May 06, 14:26

  hi all, any ideas y so many guys like to run up stairs? very often they're walking very slowly in flat roads... but once there's a flyover or else they start leaping and running up the steps... then walk slowly again!!! stupid to ask but that really puzzle me...
• mase101

  19 May 06, 14:33

  For me, climbing up stairs is tiring, therefore I rather get it over quickly.
• Agenda

  19 May 06, 14:42

  thats a very good question
• kaobeikaobu

  19 May 06, 14:45

  u want an instant or slow painful death?
• hisoka

  19 May 06, 14:46

  Originally posted by koffee:

  hi all, any ideas y so many guys like to run up stairs? very often they're walking very slowly in flat roads... but once there's a flyover or else they start leaping and running up the steps... then walk slowly again!!! stupid to ask but that really puzzle me...

  taking stairs a few steps at a time impies less energy output mah. + faster then tiring stuff over faster or and more momentum
• newcomer

  19 May 06, 14:47

  It's all about efficiency.