It sounds odd but I don't really look at my goggles much. Just out of the bag, on my face and back into the bag. The other day, I was sitting at the edge of the pool and smelled something funky. I looked all around and couldn't identify anything and then, to my horror, realized it was coming from my goggles. Somehow I'd never noticed that over the years a gruesome, crusty black/green mung was building up on the inside in the plastic crevice around the lens. In fact, the actual viewing window of each eye is probably down to 85% of its original circumference as the edge got consumed by the goggle mung. It's just happened so gradually that I never noticed.
The sad thing is that I love these goggles. I had them for two years then they were in a piece of luggage lost by the airlines in Hawaii. A year after returning from the islands, United called us up and said they had found my bag and my beloved goggles. That was two years ago now and I still haven't forgotten the pain of trying pair after pair during that year that they were missing and having none of them fit quite right.
So I guess this is both a cautionary tale and a bit of a eulogy. Presumably the technology exists to clean my goggles but having actually smelled them rotting I don't think I can go back to them and must now strike out anew.
Any advice on replacements? Is the Shark mask all it's cracked up to be?
p.s. The ironic thing is that I keep my bike absolutely pristine, change my running shoes constantly and yet was putting these little petri dishes over my eyes day in and day out for months...
The sad thing is that I love these goggles. I had them for two years then they were in a piece of luggage lost by the airlines in Hawaii. A year after returning from the islands, United called us up and said they had found my bag and my beloved goggles. That was two years ago now and I still haven't forgotten the pain of trying pair after pair during that year that they were missing and having none of them fit quite right.
So I guess this is both a cautionary tale and a bit of a eulogy. Presumably the technology exists to clean my goggles but having actually smelled them rotting I don't think I can go back to them and must now strike out anew.
Any advice on replacements? Is the Shark mask all it's cracked up to be?
p.s. The ironic thing is that I keep my bike absolutely pristine, change my running shoes constantly and yet was putting these little petri dishes over my eyes day in and day out for months...