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"TritonRider" wrote in message ... This was just linked to over at URC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3991633.stm Air pollution caused by traffic and factories may cause heart disease, a US study suggests. I wonder how much more intense the effects would be in an endurance athlete due to moving that much larger a volume of bad air through their lungs regularly. Would the training benefits offset the damage done by the pollutants? Hopefully someone here has some thoughts on this. Bill C I'll do some digging and see if I can locate the article I read this past summer in our local paper. It talked specifically about high ozone levels and athletic activity. It concluded that it was potentially quite harmful (long term) to exercise during an ozone alert. The article was quite specific about the kinds of damage that would be done. It was quite a compelling case and I steered clear of some late afternoon club rides and training sessions during the hot and hazy days of July and August. Though I live in a remote, rural area, I'm about 2 1/2 hours down the prevailing wind from Atlanta. Usually you can only smell cows around here. Sometimes you can smell Atlanta. Bob C. |
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"psycholist" wrote in message ... "TritonRider" wrote in message ... This was just linked to over at URC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3991633.stm Air pollution caused by traffic and factories may cause heart disease, a US study suggests. I wonder how much more intense the effects would be in an endurance athlete due to moving that much larger a volume of bad air through their lungs regularly. Would the training benefits offset the damage done by the pollutants? Hopefully someone here has some thoughts on this. Bill C I'll do some digging and see if I can locate the article I read this past summer in our local paper. It talked specifically about high ozone levels and athletic activity. It concluded that it was potentially quite harmful (long term) to exercise during an ozone alert. The article was quite specific about the kinds of damage that would be done. It was quite a compelling case and I steered clear of some late afternoon club rides and training sessions during the hot and hazy days of July and August. Though I live in a remote, rural area, I'm about 2 1/2 hours down the prevailing wind from Atlanta. Usually you can only smell cows around here. Sometimes you can smell Atlanta. What's the difference :-) PH |
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"psycholist" wrote in message ... "TritonRider" wrote in message ... This was just linked to over at URC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3991633.stm Air pollution caused by traffic and factories may cause heart disease, a US study suggests. I wonder how much more intense the effects would be in an endurance athlete due to moving that much larger a volume of bad air through their lungs regularly. Would the training benefits offset the damage done by the pollutants? Hopefully someone here has some thoughts on this. Bill C I'll do some digging and see if I can locate the article I read this past summer in our local paper. It talked specifically about high ozone levels and athletic activity. It concluded that it was potentially quite harmful (long term) to exercise during an ozone alert. The article was quite specific about the kinds of damage that would be done. It was quite a compelling case and I steered clear of some late afternoon club rides and training sessions during the hot and hazy days of July and August. Though I live in a remote, rural area, I'm about 2 1/2 hours down the prevailing wind from Atlanta. Usually you can only smell cows around here. Sometimes you can smell Atlanta. What's the difference :-) PH |
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"Philip Holman" wrote in message ... "psycholist" wrote in message ... "TritonRider" wrote in message ... This was just linked to over at URC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3991633.stm Air pollution caused by traffic and factories may cause heart disease, a US study suggests. I wonder how much more intense the effects would be in an endurance athlete due to moving that much larger a volume of bad air through their lungs regularly. Would the training benefits offset the damage done by the pollutants? Hopefully someone here has some thoughts on this. Bill C I'll do some digging and see if I can locate the article I read this past summer in our local paper. It talked specifically about high ozone levels and athletic activity. It concluded that it was potentially quite harmful (long term) to exercise during an ozone alert. The article was quite specific about the kinds of damage that would be done. It was quite a compelling case and I steered clear of some late afternoon club rides and training sessions during the hot and hazy days of July and August. Though I live in a remote, rural area, I'm about 2 1/2 hours down the prevailing wind from Atlanta. Usually you can only smell cows around here. Sometimes you can smell Atlanta. What's the difference :-) PH |
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"Philip Holman" wrote in message ... "psycholist" wrote in message ... "TritonRider" wrote in message ... This was just linked to over at URC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3991633.stm Air pollution caused by traffic and factories may cause heart disease, a US study suggests. I wonder how much more intense the effects would be in an endurance athlete due to moving that much larger a volume of bad air through their lungs regularly. Would the training benefits offset the damage done by the pollutants? Hopefully someone here has some thoughts on this. Bill C I'll do some digging and see if I can locate the article I read this past summer in our local paper. It talked specifically about high ozone levels and athletic activity. It concluded that it was potentially quite harmful (long term) to exercise during an ozone alert. The article was quite specific about the kinds of damage that would be done. It was quite a compelling case and I steered clear of some late afternoon club rides and training sessions during the hot and hazy days of July and August. Though I live in a remote, rural area, I'm about 2 1/2 hours down the prevailing wind from Atlanta. Usually you can only smell cows around here. Sometimes you can smell Atlanta. What's the difference :-) PH |
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"Philip Holman" wrote in message ... "psycholist" wrote in message ... "TritonRider" wrote in message ... This was just linked to over at URC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3991633.stm Air pollution caused by traffic and factories may cause heart disease, a US study suggests. I wonder how much more intense the effects would be in an endurance athlete due to moving that much larger a volume of bad air through their lungs regularly. Would the training benefits offset the damage done by the pollutants? Hopefully someone here has some thoughts on this. Bill C I'll do some digging and see if I can locate the article I read this past summer in our local paper. It talked specifically about high ozone levels and athletic activity. It concluded that it was potentially quite harmful (long term) to exercise during an ozone alert. The article was quite specific about the kinds of damage that would be done. It was quite a compelling case and I steered clear of some late afternoon club rides and training sessions during the hot and hazy days of July and August. Though I live in a remote, rural area, I'm about 2 1/2 hours down the prevailing wind from Atlanta. Usually you can only smell cows around here. Sometimes you can smell Atlanta. What's the difference :-) PH One smells like methane and the other smells really bad. Bob C. |
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"Philip Holman" wrote in message ... "psycholist" wrote in message ... "TritonRider" wrote in message ... This was just linked to over at URC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3991633.stm Air pollution caused by traffic and factories may cause heart disease, a US study suggests. I wonder how much more intense the effects would be in an endurance athlete due to moving that much larger a volume of bad air through their lungs regularly. Would the training benefits offset the damage done by the pollutants? Hopefully someone here has some thoughts on this. Bill C I'll do some digging and see if I can locate the article I read this past summer in our local paper. It talked specifically about high ozone levels and athletic activity. It concluded that it was potentially quite harmful (long term) to exercise during an ozone alert. The article was quite specific about the kinds of damage that would be done. It was quite a compelling case and I steered clear of some late afternoon club rides and training sessions during the hot and hazy days of July and August. Though I live in a remote, rural area, I'm about 2 1/2 hours down the prevailing wind from Atlanta. Usually you can only smell cows around here. Sometimes you can smell Atlanta. What's the difference :-) PH One smells like methane and the other smells really bad. Bob C. |
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In Chicago, we used to joke that the pollution thinned the air and thus was
like training at altitude, at sea level. I was a bike messenger in Chicago before I was a racer and I never noticed any ill effects. My asthma got a lot worse when I moved to Colorado in 1994. Regarding the asthma part of this thread, I have had asthma my entire life. My childhood was a sterile bedroom and many pills and clueless Doctors. One doctor told me to take up swimming so I would learn how to breathe. Later on I was a bike racer. The solution for me as a cyclist was threefold: (1) meeting a doctor that knew what he was doing, (2) allergy shots to minimize the effect of allergy induced asthma and (3) a warm-up I devised to prevent exercise induced asthma. HTH John Bickmore www.EmeraldRecycle.com "psycholist" wrote in message ... "Philip Holman" wrote in message ... "psycholist" wrote in message ... "TritonRider" wrote in message ... This was just linked to over at URC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3991633.stm Air pollution caused by traffic and factories may cause heart disease, a US study suggests. I wonder how much more intense the effects would be in an endurance athlete due to moving that much larger a volume of bad air through their lungs regularly. Would the training benefits offset the damage done by the pollutants? Hopefully someone here has some thoughts on this. Bill C I'll do some digging and see if I can locate the article I read this past summer in our local paper. It talked specifically about high ozone levels and athletic activity. It concluded that it was potentially quite harmful (long term) to exercise during an ozone alert. The article was quite specific about the kinds of damage that would be done. It was quite a compelling case and I steered clear of some late afternoon club rides and training sessions during the hot and hazy days of July and August. Though I live in a remote, rural area, I'm about 2 1/2 hours down the prevailing wind from Atlanta. Usually you can only smell cows around here. Sometimes you can smell Atlanta. What's the difference :-) PH One smells like methane and the other smells really bad. Bob C. |
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In Chicago, we used to joke that the pollution thinned the air and thus was
like training at altitude, at sea level. I was a bike messenger in Chicago before I was a racer and I never noticed any ill effects. My asthma got a lot worse when I moved to Colorado in 1994. Regarding the asthma part of this thread, I have had asthma my entire life. My childhood was a sterile bedroom and many pills and clueless Doctors. One doctor told me to take up swimming so I would learn how to breathe. Later on I was a bike racer. The solution for me as a cyclist was threefold: (1) meeting a doctor that knew what he was doing, (2) allergy shots to minimize the effect of allergy induced asthma and (3) a warm-up I devised to prevent exercise induced asthma. HTH John Bickmore www.EmeraldRecycle.com "psycholist" wrote in message ... "Philip Holman" wrote in message ... "psycholist" wrote in message ... "TritonRider" wrote in message ... This was just linked to over at URC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3991633.stm Air pollution caused by traffic and factories may cause heart disease, a US study suggests. I wonder how much more intense the effects would be in an endurance athlete due to moving that much larger a volume of bad air through their lungs regularly. Would the training benefits offset the damage done by the pollutants? Hopefully someone here has some thoughts on this. Bill C I'll do some digging and see if I can locate the article I read this past summer in our local paper. It talked specifically about high ozone levels and athletic activity. It concluded that it was potentially quite harmful (long term) to exercise during an ozone alert. The article was quite specific about the kinds of damage that would be done. It was quite a compelling case and I steered clear of some late afternoon club rides and training sessions during the hot and hazy days of July and August. Though I live in a remote, rural area, I'm about 2 1/2 hours down the prevailing wind from Atlanta. Usually you can only smell cows around here. Sometimes you can smell Atlanta. What's the difference :-) PH One smells like methane and the other smells really bad. Bob C. |
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"Warren" wrote in message I don't disagree, but athletes are more likely to seek asthma meds than your average person who doesn't feel the effects of asthma as much, or isn't bothered by the effects as much. -WG That was my point. |
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