About correct breathing should talk much. The ability to breathe while running is just as important as all the other qualities. This is especially necessary for runners on middle and long distance. Before the start of the short distance, the athlete takes a few deep breaths for 30-60 s. After the command "On your marks", taking a starting stance, he makes 2-3 deep inhalation and exhalation.
Lifting the command "Attention!", takes a deep breath and a full exhale, simultaneously with the rejection of the pads. While running for distance, mouth half open, frequent shallow breathing alternating with several deep breaths in and full breaths. During a quiet and long running high school athlete needs 2-3 steps to inhale and exhale for 2-3. During the entire running breathing rhythm changes: from the start, the runner is breathing deeper and less frequent during acceleration more often. Breathe through open mouth and nose.
If the sprinting tactic is not very important, on long distances it sometimes plays a pivotal role. Here, before the runner can have two main tactical objective: win the race or to show good result. Each of them requires to correctly distribute forces at a distance. Because you can very quickly start running and not to leave forces to fight to the finish. Or Vice versa: you can delay, losing initiative and losing, unfortunately, any chances of success.
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