Foggy Glasses

I've worn glasses since the 7th grade. I've never had a pair of contacts, though there were a few weeks in the summer of 1997 when I considered it. Now, the idea of regularly sticking my finger in my eye to put a piece of plastic on it kind of freaks me out.

What does any of this have to do with running? Well, I run at 6:15am. It's cold and dark. (Well, relatively cold. I do live in Silicon Valley, it's not like there's snow on the ground.) And it turns out that running in the cool mornings means that when I stop running, my glasses fog up.

It took me a ridiculously long time to figure out that they fogged up when I stopped running, by the way. The nature of the c25k program means that you run for a bit and then walk for a bit, and my glasses always fogged up about a quarter of the way into the run. For awhile I just thought it was the exercise that was doing it, though they did clear up when I was in the running part of the program. Sometimes, I'm slow.

It turns out that there's not much you can do about foggy glasses. You can a) run when it's warmer, b) get fit enough to run more and walk less, or c) wipe them on your shirt a lot. I ended up doing c, while working on b. I'm at the run-all-the-time part of the program now, so they only fog up during my cool-down walk back home. Since I'm not totally blind without them, I'll often just take them off and carry them home. That works pretty good too.