Do any of you wear glasses or contacts? I dont mean just for reading but I mean all the time? Has it affected your swimming in any way? What do you do about not being able to see?
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I am very nearsighted. There was no such thing as goggles when I was a kid, much less prescription/corrective goggles. A little over a year ago, I purchased View goggles. The first time I used them was one Saturday morning. Until that morning I had never seen sunbeams through the water, or the 'spiderwebs' the motion of the water makes on the bottom of the pool, OR BUBBLES! I had never seen BUBBLES! That morning I swam back and forth through the sunbeams and made bubbles with my hands on purpose. Seeing the pace clock is still a problem so I have one of those little rings... LOL, I can't read it, or the workouts I take with me, either unless I lift my goggles up, because I need bifocals. But, being able to glance down the lane and actually tell how much further you have to go, etc. is worth thirty dollars. I will never go without a pair of corrective goggles again.
I am very nearsighted. There was no such thing as goggles when I was a kid, much less prescription/corrective goggles. A little over a year ago, I purchased View goggles. The first time I used them was one Saturday morning. Until that morning I had never seen sunbeams through the water, or the 'spiderwebs' the motion of the water makes on the bottom of the pool, OR BUBBLES! I had never seen BUBBLES! That morning I swam back and forth through the sunbeams and made bubbles with my hands on purpose. Seeing the pace clock is still a problem so I have one of those little rings... LOL, I can't read it, or the workouts I take with me, either unless I lift my goggles up, because I need bifocals. But, being able to glance down the lane and actually tell how much further you have to go, etc. is worth thirty dollars. I will never go without a pair of corrective goggles again.
