Gnarly air quality

I live in the tri state area and have to say my run today was terrible. At home I closed all my windows. Planning on taking at least a couple of days off. You can actually smell the rancid smoke. Not worth the risk.

When I lived in Delhi for 7 years the air quality was the worst in the world and I sure didn't suffer any immediately diagnosable medical conditions.

Run with a mask if you are worried about air quality.
Unless you have some prior conditions (asthma, etc), running 1-2 days in garbage air quality will have negligible effect on your health.

If you lived daily in this for 70 years, you would have 2-5 years less to live on average.

Get out there and put the miles in, mate. Air quality is garbage in my state too. Guess what? I still strapped on my shoes, slapped my watch on, and hit the roads for an epic 4 mile tempo in 20 min. I sucked that air right down, boy. I ain't scared of nothing and nothing's getting in the way of me being the best. Now dig on that.

I am afraid to death they are going to cancel states this weekend.

It's the kind of thing bureaucrats love to do.

Air quality isn't real. Run anyway. WHO'S GONNA CARRY THE BOATS??!

just did a 30 min tempo with a wu and cd out there. air quality is 161 where i am in NY. i might’ve been a little slower than usual, and my throat might hurt just a teeny bit, but otherwise i feel normal…doesn’t mean it’s not unhealthy/risky tho.

150 is just a sh!++y normal day in any big city during summer. 200 is when it starts to get undesirable. You guys are being soft. Unless you already have respiratory issues, 150 won’t do anything. I ran during the cali wildfires in 2020. Smoke so thick I couldn’t see neighbors house in the morning. Would come back and clothes reeked of smoke. Had to wash my nostrils repeatedly. Now that was a high AQI. I think it was around 350.

Must say I'm a bit surprised today I can really smell the smoke. I wondered if there was a fire in town. Yesterday was I like "oh that looks like forest fires somewhere far away"

Good thing climate change is a hoax! *cough cough*

Yeah forest fires never happened before climate change. Smh you people are so stupid.

I got some gnarly crabs!

I'm from LI. Staying on the dreadmill today.

What about one of those cheapo cloth buffs from early pandemic times?

(You know, the things that we runners would donn to appease the scolders trying to hold the line on outdoor masking.)

would this do a darn thing against all these fine particles?

Oh yeah, bro. Canadian wildfire smoke regularly engulfs wide swaths of America. This is all very normal.

They probably will postpone it. Theres some law if the AQI is above 100 there can't be athletic competition. I don't know if it's NY or federal.

Almost always caused by humans.

I never wore a mask when running. My city technically had an outdoor mask mandate, but - like pretty much all crime here recently - they didn't enforce it for 'equity' reasons since that'd have disproportionately affected certain groups. So I never wore one and I could actually breathe.

An obese 300 pound pink hair feminist swung a stick at me once for running within 10 feet of her (or they?) which was funny

I ran this morning and 6 hours later my lungs still feel like sh!t. Kind of shocked that it had that kind of impact on me.

It is looking VERY erie outside. Visibility is about half a mile and the air is glowing yellow / orange. Ready for this to be over.