The vents in our garage don’t close, so they were open. That’s kind of why I bought the monitor. Last summer during fire season I took a purifier out to the garage and tried to take it easy on really smokey days. This year in Reno we’re right between the two biggest active fires, so things have been worse. I wanted to make sure I’m not hurting myself instead of getting faster.
Yeah, the vents in our garage are open too, and I can’t close them. I was thinking about putting something over them and taping them off, but was wondering if you tried the same thing.
I’m in the south bay area, so I was in your position last year. I’m sorry. 
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This probably deserves a separate thread, but interesting in relation to this cast’s air quality discussion:
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Another article on air quality impact
RoadBikeRider.com
This was one of my fav recent episodes. Due to both the content and the awesome guests. Thank you team TR and friends.
@Jonathan I really appreciated your “semi-deep dive” into air quality. Great job and such an important topic. I bikepacked the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route this summer, and experienced some really bad conditions in Montana and Colorado.
This is a massive issue for our community and humanity in general. As you surely know, its due is the increase in hot, dry conditions caused by climate change (which is 100% due to greenhouse gas emissions). I’m a climate scientist and coauthor of the recent national climate assessment and the science, even on the causality of changes in these regional weather patterns we’re seeing is, crystal clear. It’s also clear it’s going to keep getting worse (until we decarbonize).
I think it would be great, if the next time you mention western US smoke, fire, and air quality, you take the opportunity to explain WHY it’s happening. Perhaps you could even reflect on how it will affect us cyclists and what we can do about it. One solution I don’t support is driving an hour or two to find clean air, ie, since that’s only going to exacerbate the problem! (Although I get the urge and would be tempted to do the same).
Again, love you all and what you do. Please reach out if I can help you with resources, etc. jbruno@unc.edu https://johnfbruno.web.unc.edu/
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Just want to point out that R^2 value is just correlation/precision and does not consider accuracy of the actual readings (see link for simple precision/accuracy explanation).
Correlation is whether the sensor value changes in the same direction as the environment/control sensor. Eg the environment is at 100 but the sensor shows 150, the environment then changes to 150 and the sensor now shows 200. This would result in a 0.99 or 1.0 correlation even though the sensors accuracy is way off.
What you want to look for in that table is a high r^2 value but also the smallest MAE possible.
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