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Haze drives Malaysian runners indoors as Indonesia fires rage on

Runners took their sport indoors at a shopping center in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, on Wednesday as haze from Indonesian wildfires continued to blanket the region. At Atria Mall, fitness group Active Chimp organized an indoor run along shop-lined corridors. The group's founder, Keith Tan, said the haze made outdoor running unsafe. Runners lapped the air-conditioned halls, free of traffic, haze and uneven pavements — though some missed tracking their pace outdoors.

The persistent fires have caused hundreds of thousands of cases of respiratory illness in Indonesia and badly affected air quality in neighboring Singapore and Malaysia, with the transboundary haze drawing heavy criticism across the region.

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00:24So I'm the founder of ActiveChimp, so we co-organized this event with Atria.
00:29So basically it's because of the haze outside and we see people running outside and we feel like it's actually
00:35not so safe to do it now.
00:37So hence why we have this initiative of organizing an indoor run with Atria more and they are super supportive
00:44to organizing this event.
00:57Totally different. Because first of all you don't have GPS, so you cannot see whether the thing occurred or not.
01:05And somehow this one is an aircon, it's a bit dry. So it makes you thirsty faster compared to what
01:13you run outside.
01:15Here traffic control is very good. You won't crash with what we call the crowd here.
01:24So the organizers organize very well because they take care of all the accelerator entrance.
01:47I think it's quite fun because it's very safe running outdoors, you have to worry about cars, you know whether
01:53the pavement is actually even or not.
01:54So running indoor is actually more, I would say more safe and more fun as well.
01:58Yeah.
02:09So the next one, we are going to go for the four girls' calls.
02:13So you can be happy.
02:20So you can be happy.
02:51You'll be happy.

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