How good is Lumpini park air quality?

[moontang]

I walked from Sathorn Pier to Asok last week.  A nice walk, but the river breezes and air beat the park, IMO.

[torturedsole]

I'm not sure about the data but now is the best you'll ever get it.  

[ThailandRyan]

9 hours ago, josephbloggs said:

Thanks for posting!!  Not sure what the point of it was but I am curious - what is the difference between your recorded POWER WALK and, er, a walk?

The point was about Air quality in Lumpini park and I just included the fact I had just finished a jog/power walk there.  Yes a little off topic but still a good representation of the trails in the park you can walk around instead of just the outside track.  The map my walk program I use for tracking does not have a jog feature to list your activity.  They have  Walk, Dog Walk, Power Walk, Run, or a few others.  Since my Jog is a slow jog and faster than my walking pace I just listed it as a power walk in the settings.  It makes me happy because if I put it down as a run that equates to an extremely slow pace, which since my triple neck fusion and double back fusion is the best I can do, and I do not want to remind myself about how slow my injuries and repairs have made me.

[Hanuman2547]

I used to run a lot at Lumpini back in the 90's and early 00's.  Sometimes while running the outer "normal" path you come close to the busy roads but at least you are a little bit away from the road.  The best time to run is in the morning due to less traffic all night and into the early morning.  I generally ran between 5:30am and 6:30am when there is less heat and pollution.  I've also ran in the late afternoon.  Trying to finish before the National Anthem is played.  I used to run between Lumpini and the Tobacco Monopoly and the Queen Sirikit Centre as well.  Even ran that route well before the Green path was built.

Another good area to run with a lot less traffic, and wider more open spaces, is at the Rama IX park and also at Nong Bon which is right next to the park.  Nong Bon offers more shade but there are also a lot of cyclists (including me) that ride there.  

[eljaybe]

I couldn't live in Bkk. Just a visit when the pollution is moderate to high will mean a headache, wheezing and generally feeling like <deleted>. So runing in Lumpini is out for me, It seems im vulnerable to pollution and poor air quality.

On the subject of filters or air purifiers I have noticed a lot of talk about HEPA purifiers, which historically have done little for me when the pollution is up. They also seem to have the ink cartridge syndrome with the filters which are always over-priced

A couple of months ago I bought a lightAir Ionflow purifier from Lazada which does not have filters or produce ozone, it has made such a difference i bought a second a couple of weeks later.

My allergies have almost dissapeared, I can finally sleep like I only dreamed of months ago.

I am actually in a semi rural area of Chonburi but the air quality here is still bad enough to hit me on bad days, but indoors no problem now, we have trees everywhere.

I think with me its the really fine particles that my Hepa purifiers couldn't filter, my IonFlow units work to PM0.007 (so they say, although I havent tested). It was quite expensive, about 15k but there are no replacement filters to buy and it runs on 5w, it's also good for up to 50m of floorspace.

As far as my health goes there is no way i'd buy hepa again.

Edited July 28, 2020 by eljaybe
spelling and grammer corrections

[thecyclist]

14 hours ago, Hanuman2547 said:

I used to run a lot at Lumpini back in the 90's and early 00's.  Sometimes while running the outer "normal" path you come close to the busy roads but at least you are a little bit away from the road.  The best time to run is in the morning due to less traffic all night and into the early morning.  I generally ran between 5:30am and 6:30am when there is less heat and pollution.  I've also ran in the late afternoon.  Trying to finish before the National Anthem is played.  I used to run between Lumpini and the Tobacco Monopoly and the Queen Sirikit Centre as well.  Even ran that route well before the Green path was built.

Another good area to run with a lot less traffic, and wider more open spaces, is at the Rama IX park and also at Nong Bon which is right next to the park.  Nong Bon offers more shade but there are also a lot of cyclists (including me) that ride there.  

Rama 9 park is great, but it's just too much of a hassle to get to for anyone living 'downtown'. Also for evening joggers it closes too early. Most parks close at 9 pm but Rama 9 does at 7.(unless they changed it, haven't been there in a while.) 

[freebyrd]

I was in the fitness business for 30 years, including several in BKK in the 90's. I worked in Thaniya Plaza and use to run a couple of laps of Lumpini 5 or 6 nights a week, I was never a jogger. Having been a PTI in the army I accepted long ago that while exercising I was also doing a certain amount of damage to my body. I also worked in Hanoi, Manila and Phnom Penh, same story 5/6 nights a week. In 2010 I had pneumonia and found out that I had lung fibrosis, not exactly a surprise. If you enjoy exercising outside then Asia, unless you're way out in the sticks isn't exactly conducive for a healthy respiratory system. Three years ago I had a massive stroke and the thinking by the boffins was all the exercise previously had saved my life. I walk with a quadstick now and can barely make it across the road. You can't have your cake and eat it, so enjoy the relative peace and relaxation of Lumpini and think about the positives. No one lives forever.

[ThailandRyan]

The trailer at lumpini park has now been removed as of yesterday. Unknown where it went. Still I look at my meters and of course the sky before I head out to the park. Today for whatever reason my readings outside at home have been between 8 this morning at 6am to 32 this afternoon at 3 pm. Now atv4 back down to 8. Maybe it was from all of the traffic today after people returned and headed to work. Still pretty fair outside and the sky is clear.

Edited July 29, 2020 by ThailandRyan

[Hanuman2547]

On ‎7‎/‎28‎/‎2020 at 12:24 PM, thecyclist said:

Rama 9 park is great, but it's just too much of a hassle to get to for anyone living 'downtown'. Also for evening joggers it closes too early. Most parks close at 9 pm but Rama 9 does at 7.(unless they changed it, haven't been there in a while.) 

You are correct about the hours.  Rama 9 park opens at 5:00am and closes at 7:00pm  Nong Bon opens at 5:00am and closes at 6:30pm.