My aching lungs and Bogota's ozone

I got paranoid about the air quality in Bogota after exhibiting asthmatic symptoms for the first time in my life and visiting an excellent pulmonologist, Dr. Alvaro Morales. He prescribed Symbicort, which includes a a steroid that has rid my lungs of inflammation and that also opens the bronchial passages. Attempting to mitigate the effects of Bogota's pollution on my lungs, I did two things. First I researched the devastating health effects of ozone. And then I began monitoring the city's air quality to make sure I wasn't running when conditions were dangerous. Most serious Bogota runners go out early. Even if it is COLD at 6 a.m. (about 8-10 degrees celsius, or 50F).