- Each of these goggles serves a good and different purpose.
(upbeat electronic music)
And 15k later.
You're the best.
(loud whooshing)
Oh my god.
Four hours, 42 minutes of swimming, and 15k later.
Let's talk goggles after a smoothie.
(sighs) All right.
Now that's all done, let's talk swimming goggles.
Now on the scale of least cushioning to most,
the swimming goggles that I'll tend to go with
are number one, Socket Rockets
are just one step up from a Swedish goggle.
It's like as basic as it gets but it's got
a little bit of rubber on the part
that touches your eye so that it's not
quite digging into your eye sockets.
Speedo Vanquisher 2.0s, these here
are a little bit more cushion.
They've got kind of about an eighth of an inch
of silicone around the part that touches your eyes.
But not so much that you've got
just a whole mess of rubber and silicone
for a gasket that's gonna get in the way
of swim caps and have to suction
to a huge part of your eye socket.
Then today, first dance out with these,
these are the Aqua Sphere Vista.
This is a big horker of a goggle.
Each of these goggles serves a good and different purpose.
The Socket Rockets are about as cheap and as minimal
as it gets, but they're really good for in the pool.
Because in the pool, the chlorine
is gonna just rip apart goggles,
so you don't wanna be going with a really
expensive 40, 50, $60 set of goggles
that you're gonna have to replace every
six to nine months because the gaskets get chewed up
no matter how much you take care of them.
Contrary to what you might think,
Socket Rockets are actually really
comfortable on your eyes for about
an hour to two hour kinda workout
because there's not so much gasket
all around the eye socket that
you have to squish it down really tight.
It kinda just sits on your eye and friction fits.
That said, there's not a whole lot of give to anything here.
So after the course of about an hour, hour and a half,
two hours, it does tend to wear on
your eye sockets and get a little bit uncomfortable.
But as far as pool workouts go, this is awesome.
When you have to replace it every
six to nine months, it's only 10 to $15 bucks.
The Speedo Vanquisher 2.0s, I see the Speedo Vanquisher 2.0s
on more eye sockets than anything.
I think that's for a few reasons.
Number one, it comes in a nice mirrored finish,
which works okay in the pool but it works really
really well in open water when you've got glare.
Number two, it's not so built up that
it's hard to fit onto your eye.
Because it's just a small amount of silicone,
the fit finickiness is not so difficult
that it doesn't fit too many people.
In addition to that, this nose bridge here,
I don't wanna take it off because it's hard
to get back in, comes in different lengths.
You'll get about six different options
when you buy the goggles, so you can make
it wider, you can make it narrower,
and make sure that you're not
getting pinched in between your eyes.
This gasket that's around here
is probably about the exact right
amount of gasket that you'd want
to give you a nice balance between comfort and good suction.
Good suction, comfort, and not complicated suction.
This is a real meat and potatoes goggle.
If you're only getting one goggle, get this,
get a mirrored goggle, you're gonna be able
to wear it in the pool or in open water,
and it's only gonna cost you I think $20 bucks.
Now, this big horkin sucker, I see a lot
of beginner triathletes going to something like this
because they think that the more suction they get,
the easier it's gonna be able to be to stay on their face,
and the more comfortable it's gonna be,
and the better they're going to be able to see.
At this huge level of gasket, yes I'd agree with that.
It's really comfortable.
You've got a huge viewing area.
There is no pressure on your eye socket at all
because everything is on your forehead and on your cheeks.
But there's a fair bit of drag with this.
So you might be saying, "Well hey, you know, okay Taren.
"I don't need to go to that quite a huge level of goggle.
"I'll go for something in between
"the Speedo Vanquisher and this Vista."
That's the goggle that I'm not a huge fan of.
The goggle that has like a fairly large gasket
but not so large that it gets all
the way outside your eye socket.
In that case, what I found is that
the fit becomes really really specific to your face.
So something like an Aqua Sphere Kayenne,
a ROKA F2, the TYR Speed something,
the really cool tie-dyed looking one.
They'll look really sharp, they all fit really
sharp when you can get them to fit.
But they're very specific depending
on the face shape that you've got.
That's why I say this is definitely gonna fit you.
You can buy it online.
You can replace it a lot.
It's not gonna cost a lot.
Really good goggle.
I wouldn't necessarily recommend this
as your meat and potatoes only goggle
because it does sit outside your face
and it creates a fair bit of drag.
There's also a heck of a lot that
can get punched into your face
when you're actually in a triathlon.
Yeah, it happens, guaranteed.
But why I ended up being this is because as you can see
we are doing super crazy long mileage right now
for the marathon swim that's coming up in 23 days
and I figured I would give this big
pillowy mammojama a run and see how it sat.
It worked out really well for that five hour swim.
That said, I did my last marathon swim
that was eight hours in something that was more like this.
So is this nice?
Yes.
Is it necessary for the $60?
No.
Would I recommend it as your meat and potatoes only goggle?
Certainly not.
To spend $60 and have it be chewed up
in a pool with the chlorine?
You're gonna be spending a lot of scratch, bruh.
This is the first real open water swim of the year.
I was jacked.
Park is beautiful.
This is Birds Hill Park.
Hang on, I'll show ya.
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How this swim went is I would start
right here by the fountains.
I would swim all the way across the beach.
Then down here as we get to the end of the beach,
there's another fountain that I'd go around.
I would swim around this.
Come back to this fountain that I started at.
Turn around and go back to that middle fountain,
do a loop, and that was 1,800 meters.
(loud whooshing)
That is how you fly a drone in high winds.
That's my open water swimming hole.
Pretty nice, eh?
I am so glad to have this drone back.
I didn't think I was getting it back.
The wind was pushing it out.
All right, I have goggled, I have droned, I have swam.
Now let's go see my buddy Super Dave.
You know Dave.
Dave that has all the windburn jacket,
and toque, and swim cap that I'll wear.
Yeah, that's Super Dave.
He just got a new puppy, a lab puppy.
If you don't like puppies, feel free to tune out.
I love puppies.
Ooh, she's hot.
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(laughing)
Yeah.
(knocking)
Oh.
(coughing) Holy smokes, Trainiacs.
Oh, serious swim.
That was it.
That was the swim.
That was the key swim.
Last week with the 13k.
This week with the 15k.
Next week we'll bring it back down
to I don't know, nine or 10?
Then we're in taper mode for the 37 kilometer
marathon swim in the Red River.
(exasperated sighing)
The amount of swimming that I did today would be. (gasps)
Dogs!
Smell puppy?
Do you smell puppy?
Whoa.
No eating grass.
Grace eats a lot of grass.
I'm hittin' the wall right now.
You good.
All right, I guess I gotta go inside
and play with these non-puppies.
Later, Trainiacs.