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• [1] nat from brooklyn July 16, 2007 - 11:49AM

  I'm a cyclist. I'm also a former smoker.

  I mainly ride my bike as transportation. I have often anecdotally noted that my lungs hurt more than after riding over the bridge on a "bad ozone" day than a night of chain smoking. This is a frightening realization and feeling.

  
  
• [2] Jason from Brooklyn July 16, 2007 - 11:50AM

  What are the risks of running in parks (i.e. Prospect Park, Central Park, etc.)?

  
  
• [3] Manissa from bronx July 16, 2007 - 11:52AM

  I commute on my bike so am biking during rush hour and when the city is hot and muggy and trapping all that soot I get home and my throat burns...so much fun living in the big city.

  
  
• [4] Amy Baehr from Manhattan July 16, 2007 - 11:57AM

  If I exercise indoors, when the air right outside the window is unhealthy, why can it be healthy inside the building?

  What happens when air enters the building that makes it clean?

  
  
• [5] Joe E July 16, 2007 - 01:09PM

  When I first moved tothe city shortly before memorial day I went running over the Brooklyn bridge for about 25 minutes (in the evening - which I now know to be the worst time to go). Unbeknownst to me I was running during an ozone alert.

  The next day I had a terrible cough that I never thought would go away and I was sick for 10 days.

  Until I moved here I hadn't been sick in ten years.

  
  
• [6] Joe E July 16, 2007 - 03:27PM

  I should also say that for the first time in my life I got a spontaneous bloody nose toward the end of the ten day period. not exactly fun to be walking down 5th ave with blood spurting out of your nose.

  
  
• [7] ryan jones from setauket July 18, 2007 - 08:20PM

  I have heard that the bricks and masonry in apartment building "filter" the air, so that the air can be cleaner inside the apartment than outside. That's why I always do my exercising on a machine inside the apartment...with plenty of towels too.