Forest fire smoke protection while exercising?

[Filliam H. Muffman]

The only thing I can think of is too heavy and expensive. Get five or six portable oxygen concentrators (7 lbs each) all running at once. They are about $1,600 each if you do not get them through Medicare.

Edit: when exercising/running inside on a treadmill or riding/rowing on an exercise machine, you should still be monitoring the air quality if it is bad outside. If the AQI outside is 200, it can be 50 inside because you can't see the smallest stuff that gets through coarse filters.

[cbelt3]

Filliam H. Muffman wrote:
The only thing I can think of is too heavy and expensive. Get five or six portable oxygen concentrators (7 lbs each) all running at once..

Never ever ever put yourself on high oxygen without a doctors order and monitoring.

Oh and you can get used oxygen concentrators on eBay. They are advertised “for glassblowing “.I got two as spares for my father in law when he visited.

[Racer X]

ztirffritz wrote:
Where are you located out of curiosity? I'm in the middle of WA. The smoke actually isn't too bad at the moment. Last year it was like sandpaper on my eyes though, so I can sympathize.

weird. Just got back from Cle Elum and I didn't see or smell a thing.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

cbelt3 wrote:
[quote=Filliam H. Muffman]
The only thing I can think of is too heavy and expensive. Get five or six portable oxygen concentrators (7 lbs each) all running at once..

Never ever ever put yourself on high oxygen without a doctors order and monitoring.
Excellent point. I didn't know that CO₂ buildup could be such a major issue.

[kj]

An idea I've had is putting a bunch of filters on separate tubes that come together into a larger tube with something like a snorkel mouthpiece. You could mount the filters on a backpack or something. With enough filters, you'd think you could reduce resistance. I haven't been able to find stuff to build it though. I looked at aquarium stuff, all kinds of weird stuff at McMaster-Carr. Not sure it would work anyway.

edit: There are also boxes you can mount sheets of filter in. Seems like you could attach a tube to one of those and wear it on your back. I worked with a guy who road a small scooter to work from about 45 miles away, and he bought a surplus cosmonaut suit to wear in the winter. Maybe I could find one ;-)

[Speedy]

We had been walking three miles a day, nearly every day, but with the air quality being what it is from Canadian fires, we just take days off and will until it gets better.

[kj]

Speedy wrote:
We had been walking three miles a day, nearly every day, but with the air quality being what it is from Canadian fires, we just take days off and will until it gets better.

That's pretty much what I've been doing. If Purple Air says less than 100, I go. That hasn't happened much for a few weeks. Plus, it's been hawt. Real hawt.