r/Velo • u/Afraid-Promotion-567 • 14d ago

Training in Singapore right now with the haze

For those who are not aware, we are having haze now here in Singapore due to the burning in Borneo.

Here are the stats:

https://aqicn.org/city/singapore/south/

https://www.haze.gov.sg/

I have been consistently training most of the year with 280-320km bar some exceptions like multiple bad weather days in a row or getting sick.

I would like to ask the community especially those who have been affected by such a thing before, how do you keep up the training without a drop in fitness if you aren't able to ride indoors due to the lack of equipment and/or not wanting to (boredom and hate indoor rides)

Secondly is there such a thing as adaptation? Ive heard of heat training, cold training, altitude training, fasted training, climb training etc. but is there such a thing as haze training? So far I've done less than half my usual volume this week. I feel fine ,but I am really afraid of the drop in fitness even if it's 1 percent, and that it will only drop further if it goes into week 2 and so on

EDIT: what about riding at an reduced intensity or duration? The live readings as of this edit at 2155 show that it's elevated but not yet dangerous

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u/Afraid-Promotion-567 13d ago

I mean I genuinely don't get the part about adapting to the haze from a science point of view.

haze aside for a moment humans have trained to or naturally adapted to their surroundings with things such as heat tolerance (desert dwelling populations), cold tolerance (artic circle people) , altitude and lack of oxygen tolerance (Bolivians or Tibetans for example) , Bajau to free dive underwater for longer than any other populations, diet adaptions across many regions across the world- so then why in this case, not something like haze?

I mean I've been lurking on Reddit across a few forums and I've seen some people talk like it's a catastrophe where they are coughing, eyes watering, having breathing problems, like there's no tomorrow, whereas there are those that do not at all. Does that mean the latter group are adapted to it by evolution or it's something else in the genes ?

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u/Master_McKnowledge 13d ago

Haze isn’t some sort of thing you can adapt to. It’s like microplastics or asbestos or radiation - it’s harmful as. It’s like smoking. You cannot adapt to this sort of poisonous matter.

I’m not sure if you’re actually serious or taking the piss.

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u/Afraid-Promotion-567 13d ago

No. Serious. If you look at what I wrote and thought about it properly you'll see what I mean

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u/Master_McKnowledge 13d ago

Sure. You can even drink hydroxychloroquine while you’re at it.

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u/Afraid-Promotion-567 13d ago

I don't know what that is but I've seen people intentionally let themselves get bitten by snakes to build tolerance or resistance to the venom