Is it normal to think that running for exercise

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Is it normal to think that running for exercise alongside a busy roadway is not healthy?
Every time I see someone running alongside a busy roadway I sincerely feel they are doing much more damage to themselves than not exercising at all.
We all know that what comes out of an automobile's exhaust pipe are very poisonous gasses. When one is exercising near a roadway, one is breathing heavily, inhaling these gasses deep into their lungs and then the poisons are distributed throughout one's system by their blood.
It just seems incredibly counter-productive to me.

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  • dom180
    10 years ago

    It probably depends where you live. In a smoggy city you might be right, but anywhere else I don't agree. And if you live in a smoggy city you'll be breathing in all that smoggy air even if you're sitting on your arse, so you might as well be exercising :P

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  • wasd75
    9 years ago

    Whatever excuse you need not to run. Even if you think you believe it do you really?

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  • thatchickyouhate
    10 years ago

    maybe if it was like on the freeway during rush hour traffic. otherwise I doubt it's much different than running in a quiet neighborhood of the same city/area.

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    • thegypsysailor
      9 years ago

      I believe the operative words in the OP's post are, "busy roadway".

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  • RomeoDeMontague
    10 years ago

    Only if you get hit by a car is it unhealthy

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  • Terence_the_viking
    10 years ago

    Next time you see someone doing that you should tell them.

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  • [Old Memory]
    10 years ago

    I've wondered the same thing myself. All that carbon monoxide and brake dust coming from a busy street cannot be good for the lungs while they're being worked hard.

    I once lived in an apartment directly beside a busy intersection. When it came to dusting and clean it, there was a very apparent layer of black grit over everything. It was revolting and didn't come off easily. That black grit was never there when I lived in other apartments which were not as close to traffic. I wouldn't want to be filling my lungs with it.

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  • [Old Memory]
    10 years ago

    You realize cars are everywhere right? I don't think it makes a very big difference where you run really. The earth is so full of environmental toxics that newborn infants test for hundreds of them before even taking their first breath. It's too late. Are you another one of those deluded fat pride shit heads?

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    • thegypsysailor
      10 years ago

      Just exactly what does "deluded fat pride shit heads?" have to do with this post?

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      • [Old Memory]
        10 years ago

        Nothing I was thinking about another matter and it bled through onto the comment.

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  • hitchman
    10 years ago

    Sounds like u got those women in one hell of a clusterfuck!

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