If you're going to ride in bad air, what do you do?
08-04-17, 01:12 PM
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Well this hardass isn't riding today. Unlike the last two evenings of riding where the smoke was pretty much just a visual phenomenon, things apparently just took a drastic turn for the worst. We've got maybe 1 mile of visibility here at work in Quincy, and it smells like a large campfire is going on just around the office trailer. I'm staying home tonight and getting my pushups and situps in, I guess.
08-04-17, 01:45 PM
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The first few days were pretty brutal and I tied a cloth over my nose for the ride home, not that it helped that much. The other days I rode real easy and tried not to breathe. There were several people wearing surgical masks.
08-04-17, 02:44 PM
#28
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Rode yesterday. The air tasted dusty. And it was HOT.
I know a guy who was doing 90 miles through the smoke at the same time. He lost 5% of his body weight; he had planned to do a century, but skipped the last 10 miles because he didn't feel so good.
I know a guy who was doing 90 miles through the smoke at the same time. He lost 5% of his body weight; he had planned to do a century, but skipped the last 10 miles because he didn't feel so good.
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