How to Eliminate Fogging In Goggles

- This is gonna get me through years
of fog-free goggles, huh?
(swooshing) (hip hop beat)
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't afraid, though.
(swooshing)
Morning, Trainiacs.
On Sunday, for the Megalong Marathon Swim,
one of the biggest battles that I'm gonna have
is fogging up of the goggles.
We're solving that problem today.
When you first start swimming, you're gonna find,
yeah, goggles are fogging up.
There's a lot of different ways that you can approach
getting rid of said fog.
If you're like me, the first thing
that you're gonna think is, oh, there's gotta be
some defogging stuff out there, like this?
Some of it is for hockey masks,
some of it is for Ski-Doo masks.
You take a little bit of it.
I think it's kinda like antifreeze,
and every few weeks you ch-ch-ch-ch,
all over the inside of your goggles.
Two problems with that.
First one, doesn't work.
Second one, you're basically putting chemicals in your eyes.
I don't know what's in there.
It's blue, do you think nature makes neon blue things?
No, so I don't ever use that.
I bought that seven years ago,
and it's still more than half full.
Or you can lick, or spit in your goggles.
This is something that swimmers have been doing for decades.
In my experience, however, basically just putting spit
in your goggles takes away the fog for a little bit,
and then when you do it in the middle of the swim set,
of course you're gonna lick off the fog, but it's not like
it creates this long-term lasting coating, in my experience,
that reduces fog for a long time.
If you want spit in your eye.
You're gonna, whoa!
You're gonna have to excuse the echo chamber
that is this wash room, but it's gonna be worth it.
The best option that I've ever found,
that a lot of people around the world use,
is hand soap for reducing goggle fog.
In our case, magic pink hand soap in this pool is our go to.
All you do is, you take a little teeny dab, see that?
Just one little drop, swish it around.
(water running) Give it just a tiny rinse,
so you don't have a big amount of soap
that's risking getting in your eyes.
Then, you can use things that are a little more natural.
A lot of people use Baby Tears, tearless baby shampoo.
That works, too, and this hands down, has been
the best anti-goggle remedy that any of us have tried.
So, we're gonna load up for the long sweat.
It's like milking a soap dispenser.
Voila, this is gonna get me through years
of fog free goggles, huh, huh, huh, huh?
Hacks, baby!
Now I've gotta be less of a creep and get out
of this bathroom with my camera and go for a swim.
It's okay, it's like a secret bathroom
that nobody knows about, nobody's ever in, only part creepy.
(energetic techno music)
That thousand meter, thousand yard set, that has been
the bread and butter of training for this marathon swim.
It's like a 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 or a 4, 3, 2, 1,
doing 400 yards, 300 yards, 200 yards, 100 yards,
or meters, or 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, whatever.
I typically do the first challenge
with snorkel, bend, and pull, just to
have a steady long set of turning those arms over
'cause that's all it's really gonna be
during the marathon swim.
Don't have to worry a ton about kicking.
Then, towards the end, with that last one- or two-hundred,
we do some real quick pops, just to make sure
that when this long swim is over,
I haven't completely lost my speed.
So many cards, so many cards.
Then, we do those middle chunks with a lot of kick
and bend and drill, just to work on like,
the little niggly things that you ignore
when you're just training for volume.
The best part about having that chunk of a thousand is that
you gotta do massive, massive volumes in the pool,
To do, say, a thousand continuous meters or yards, or
1500s, things like that, your brain's gonna go crazy.
That 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 or 4, 3, 2, 1 is a really nice way
to break it up, so that mentally, all of a sudden,
doing thousands at a time doesn't feel so hard.
(tropical music)
- Whoa! Put away those guns!
(woman laughing) Those weapons.
Surprised Marion would travel with those things!
(tropical music)
- Well, Trainiacs, we are really dark.
Hang on, that's better.
We are 109 hours away from Dot, Jacques, and I,
starting the 37 kilometer swim in this.
I was damn afraid coming into the weekend,
literally right up until the few minutes before, or,
right up until the first few strokes of
getting into the water and doing that test swim last Sunday.
But, we got through 10% of the total swim.
We got through 3.8 k in just 45 minutes.
We're flying, the current is so strong,
that at times, we're going 5.3 k per hour.
I think we might have to slow down
to make it seem like it's harder than it actually is,
so nobody does it for a few years
and we keep bragging rights.
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't afraid, though.
Says here, where I'm at is called The Forks.
This is basically the middle of the city.
This is where the city developed around because there's,
this is the Red River and then
just around the corner is the Assiniboine River.
That's where you see me biking down, when right over
my shoulder, there's Little River going beside me.
This is where the fur trade centered around because
people could get in through boats,
through the north, the south, the west,
and this is where the city basically expanded from.
So, when we pass through here, I think that it's going to be
right around 11 a.m., right mid-day.
It's gonna be Sunday, this place gets completely hopping
'cause there's a dozen restaurants, thousands of people
that come here, the media are then gonna be aware of it.
We've kept it kind of quiet, besides just the
15,000 of us that talk about it.
I know there's gonna be a live hit radio show that calls in
and talks to somebody, our support crew in the boat.
From what I hear, some of the media are trying
to book boats for themselves to follow us
a little bit before we get to this point.
The police are going to be escorting us.
So, by the time we get here, right here,
I would not be surprised if there were
thousands of people onshore watching.
That's gonna be either really cool and motivating,
or really embarrassing because I'm in so much pain
and I'm wining like a little bitch.
Could be both, you never know, but,
I am now, for the first time in the three months
since starting to train for this,
actually looking forward to getting started.
Yeah, pumped, pumped!
Oh, by the way, for all new Trainiacs that are here,
this Sunday, June 25th, two friends and I,
we're swimming 37 k in the Red River in Winnepeg.
Now you're caught up, alright.
Been training for it for a long time.
People have been making jokes that I've been
Swimming Teran and not Triathlon Teran.
It's gonna go back to Triathlon Teran right after Sunday.
Okay, alright, there we go.
Later, Trainiacs!

How to Eliminate Fogging In Goggles

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