I have access to an indoor track year-round, but the building doesn't have great ventilation and I can smell the smoke indoors. Leaning towards still trying to do my workout this afternoon, but I'm conflicted. Out the window it looks like the apocalypse outside.
I ran yesterday, but this morning I stayed inside an ran on my treadmill with a high-powered air filter on from Blueair. All kids after school outdoor activities have been canceled.
Normally, I wouldnt give a crap, but I can really feel it today and looking out my window, it looks nasty.
we have the state meet in new york this weekend. i live near the city and everything is tinted yellow. it looks apocalyptic and is really eerie. outside, the smell of smoke is really strong and way worse than yesterday. air quality was high 150s earlier now it's basically 200.
I have to deal with this every summer, and a couple of ideas.
The AirNow.gov sight is very good at assessing current situation in your area and gives recommendations on who should be exercising outdoors and who should avoid it. See link below.
On the days it suggests as not exercising outdoors for your category of health, hit the dreadmil as others have said. It pays to take care of your pumps. Why risk it?
Masks have been suggested and I got into this area a lot due to my work responsibilities and the only chance you have of protecting your lungs even a little from the ultra-fine smoke particles is a K95 mask that fits you well, and even that is only partially effective. A freakin' paint respirator is actually what you would need to be fully protected, but who would do that?
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I don't live in New York, but I'd be shocked if it isn't canceled. Just googled NYC's air quality and pretty much the entire city is 'very unhealthy' or 'hazardous' - Queens has an AQI of 392.
I don't live in New York, but I'd be shocked if it isn't canceled. Just googled NYC's air quality and pretty much the entire city is 'very unhealthy' or 'hazardous' - Queens has an AQI of 392.
Middletown is a couple of hours north of here. Another day on the treadmill.
As someone in Europe I can confirm this is true. Its been strangely warm, humid and even dry in Ireland and the UK all spring and now into Summer. Denmark also hasn't seen rain in 2 weeks for the fist time in 20 years.
I live in central New York And we are not used to the major environmental problems that others areas experience. Our air and water is very clean. We have tons of high quality streams, rivers and lakes. Many areas of the country are used to the hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, wild fires, brutal heat and stuff like that. We used to get snow storms but with global warming we hardly get any snow anymore.
So I am not used to this. Its bad. I won't run in it or do much of anything active outside. We finally are experiencing what others parts of the country experience (but not as bad). It's weird.
I live in central New York And we are not used to the major environmental problems that others areas experience. Our air and water is very clean. We have tons of high quality streams, rivers and lakes. Many areas of the country are used to the hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, wild fires, brutal heat and stuff like that. We used to get snow storms but with global warming we hardly get any snow anymore.
So I am not used to this. Its bad. I won't run in it or do much of anything active outside. We finally are experiencing what others parts of the country experience (but not as bad). It's weird.
I used to live in Upstate NY and it certainly is a gorgeous place!
I don't know if you will find similar to what we in the PNW experience every summer, but we get from 1 -3 weeks of smoke, and it has recently occurred about 3 out of the last 4 years, but it varies by location.
And some years are worse than others.
This is more of recent development and I don't remember it being nearly so prevalent 10 years ago.
I live in NY and ran an easy 8 miles with my daughter in the jogging stroller today. Haven’t been paying attention to the news so I didn’t know about the smoke. At the start I was thinking maybe people were barbecuing early on a weekday for some reason, but other than that I didn’t notice it. Had a great run otherwise as the temps are still very mild here for June. I’m actually glad I didn’t hear about the air quality, I probably would’ve still gone but enjoyed it much less and worried about problems it would cause. As it is I feel fine even sitting out in the haze now. They say it’s the equivalent of smoking 5-10 cigs, I’ve done that plenty of times.
Slept with windows open and have a sore throat now and hitting indoor bike over running. The air quality (300+) is awful in my part of Manhattan. I ran yesterday with minor issues, but today is way worse. Even walking around it was smoky and bad.