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I love to exercise. I could do it all day long. I have often walked 3-4 hours a day when the air quality is good ... and thats the problem. Many people, myself

I love to exercise. I could do it all day long. I have often walked 3-4 hours a day when the air quality is good ... and thats the problem. Many people, myself included, live in areas where the AQI leaves me wondering if I'm actually harming myself by being outside and exercising. Right now the Airnow AQI for Denver, PM 2.5 is yellow (Unusually sensitive people should consider reducing prolonged or heavy exertion). I think that includes people that exercise, so I won't walk. But these mathematical models leave me wondering about their accuracy, how many sensors were used, are they accurate at this exact moment, etc. I wish there was better information at our disposal where we could make better decisions on when a dosage of exercise is worth it given a certain AQI (PM2.5, PM2.10, Ozone, etc).

Swizec 9y ago
Maybe I’m misreading something in the tone, but when unusually sensitive people should consider maybe changing their planned a activities a little bit what does that mean for the average healthy person? It kind of sounds like a non-warning. I mean what’s prolonged exertion anyway? A marathon? 10 hours of physical labor like construction? A light jog in the park? And what is “reduce”? Stop completely? Switch from marathon to half marathon? Work a 5 hour construction shift instead of 10? Somehow I don’t think physical laborers are reducing their workload for this.