Following a meet the Sat just gone I would like to share my disasterous experience with you all and to create a thread where people can share their similar dissapointing experiences...
I was all physced up to do 100BR - hoping for a new PB - dived in and - oh no my goggles start fill up! I completethe first 50 and just have to stop as I can't see the wall or anything. I of course get DQ, but was so angry since the goggles were fine in the warm up. As you can imagine for every other event that day I had my goggles strapped so tight I could have stopped my blood flow!
Anyone else want to share simillar experiences? Suits fallen off - stopped too early - wrong stroke?
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I just swim without the goggles during the meets. I know that a lot of swimmers wear them since all the elite swimmers do now. But as people hear stated they can fall off. I too now wear eyeglass but I was so use to swimming without them in meets as a child, that as an adult it doesn't bother me, it just hard to read the electorical timer boards sometimes. Some pools are getting away from using chorine, I notice this in two meets that I swam in Arizona without goggles and no problem. I do use them in practice since I don't want to have the high level of chroine in my eyes that I did during the first three years that I workout as a child. Some I know also use them in races to see more clearly but its up to the individual depending upon how they weight the minuses and minuses.
I just swim without the goggles during the meets. I know that a lot of swimmers wear them since all the elite swimmers do now. But as people hear stated they can fall off. I too now wear eyeglass but I was so use to swimming without them in meets as a child, that as an adult it doesn't bother me, it just hard to read the electorical timer boards sometimes. Some pools are getting away from using chorine, I notice this in two meets that I swam in Arizona without goggles and no problem. I do use them in practice since I don't want to have the high level of chroine in my eyes that I did during the first three years that I workout as a child. Some I know also use them in races to see more clearly but its up to the individual depending upon how they weight the minuses and minuses.
