Progressive Sunglasses
I asked on the dashboard about progressives. Our Rudy Project discount sadly is not in effect for progressive lenses or bifocals which Rudy Project can't fill online. You have to go to one other their approved providers. So, since I LOVE my Oakley Flak jacket's I started to look around. I ended up ordering from an online firm out of Texas...ADS Sports Eyewear that is an authorized Oakley dealer and the lenses are Oakley lenses as well as the frame.
I spoke with a gal named Julia, she answered all my pesky questions and helped me identify the exact frame I have so I could order new. I could have even ordered just the lenses for my current frame, but for $90 for the frame, case, cleaner etc. I just got the new frame. Ended up costing $560 in all shipped. I should have them in about 1.5 weeks.
After riding 104 miles over the weekend in a new area I am looking forward to seeing a bit better up the road!
Comments
William, I would check out the website to see if they can work with your prescription, or just call and speak to someone. They were VERY patient with me!
Robert - for the pool, the smart and cost effective thing is to buy either Tyr or Speedo "optical" goggles. They come in the same shape as their main racing goggles (e.g., I have "vanquisher opticals") and cost about $20 instead of about $15. They come in increments of 1 diopter. They won't fix your astigmatism, but they will fix your nearsight. If you have very different prescriptions, you can buy two pairs and switch goggles between them, and voila. If you are having the "bifocal" issue of reading small numbers on your watch, buy ones that are 1 or 2 diopters less than your normal far prescription, ie. about what your reading glasses prescription would be anyway. Besides, in the water, 1 or 2 diopters of "nearsight" is fine. (You might want full strength ones for racing to see the buoys best.)
If you do have some astigmatism, take half the astigmatism correction and add it to the strength (rounding down), for example if you have a prescription of -3 spherical (nearsight) and -2 cylindrical (astigmatism), then buy a -4. (The angle of your astigmatism doesn't come in to play here.) It won't be perfect, but it will be quite good enough for the pool. Then, if you want them for reading small numbers (i.e., reading glasses), instead of buying the -4, buy the -2 or -3, depending on how severe your "bifocal need" is.
It's a bit of a guessing game to get the very best one, but they are cheap and it works well unless you have very strong astigmatism. I have a -5 astigmatism in one eye and -4 in the other...I still use this solution for the pool, though I do have a more sophisticated solution for racing in open water.
I usually switch glasses in T2. Sometimes from one pair of sunglasses to another (transition ones so they are clear after dark), or I take out my contacts in T2 (actually, during the first mile of the run - I love just throwing them away!), and put on transition prescription glasses - my regular glasses. Just take off the sunglasses with my helmet, and have the other pair in my Go Bag.