Serious question. Why does every jogger wear Goodr sunglasses?
Serious question. Why does every jogger wear Goodr sunglasses?
because they're cheap and they work
Effective (free) marketing, they hit the market during a hobby jogger boom and didn't really have any mobilized competitors. No one was making cheap, decent quality mass produced sunglasses in a huge variety of colors and styles either. Suddenly every third person in your Saturday run group was wearing them, then every other, and so on.
Performance wise, they last 500-1500 miles generally before the UV coverage starts peeling off. And if you lose them or sit on them and break them, who cares?
And if variety is your spice your life, you can have several colors / styles to rotate through for the half the cost of one "premium" pair.
I wear Oakley. Love them. Don't care if they are out dated. You do you bro.
zdf wrote:
Effective (free) marketing, they hit the market during a hobby jogger boom and didn't really have any mobilized competitors. No one was making cheap, decent quality mass produced sunglasses in a huge variety of colors and styles either. Suddenly every third person in your Saturday run group was wearing them, then every other, and so on.
Performance wise, they last 500-1500 miles generally before the UV coverage starts peeling off. And if you lose them or sit on them and break them, who cares?
And if variety is your spice your life, you can have several colors / styles to rotate through for the half the cost of one "premium" pair.
Do they fall off your face if you run instead of jog?
The thing is - they are terrible sunglasses - they have just marketed well toward hobby joggers and faster runners too. They push them as being polarized, but however they polarize them is really cheap, we've had a number of pairs returned as the coating leaches off the lens. The Tifosi cheapos are way better quality even if they aren't polarized.
Never heard of them.
Check out Knockaround
They basically the only brand on runningwarehouse.com and if you google running sunglasses they are the first thing that pops up. Also they are cheap and effective like sports sunglasses should be. I got a pair.
Cheap is cheap. Just get a pair of Rokas after doing a strava event.
I have a couple pairs of sunglasses from them and they are about as solid as it gets for running.
I need to wear sunglasses when I go outside due to having light eyes and a sensitivity to light.
Because they are good glasses for the price.
You get what you pay for. They suck. The polar coating rubs off easily. They break with slight trauma.
I bought a pair and won't again. Like others mentioned, the coating started to peel off after only a few weeks, quickly becoming unusable.
More people should rock the Molly Seidel sunglasses
I also had a pair of goodr's but the lens got scratched really easily and they are now unwearable now after probably 6 months of use
Replaced with a pair of roka's from a 50% off flash sale they had a few months ago. And they are so much better. I don't think their retail price is worth it, but at a discount, they are very much worth the higher price tag. stay on my face just as well, look doper, and are actually durable and feel less cheap
goodr's are still fine. They are cheap so I can be more careless with them like wear them if I am on water in case they fall off or something like that
If you are going to spend $275 on some Alphaflys, you don't have too much money left to look cool while running 11 minute miles in your fifth pair of Alphaflys. I love Goodr's! You can have 20 pairs and don't cry when you leave a pair on car roof, drive off and crush them. I love Roka, Rayban, Maui Jim, etc but geez, spend money where it counts. You don't need $300 sunglasses!
I didn't even know that sunglasses wore out or lost uv protection over time. I've been using a pair of nike tailwind sunglasses for close to 10 years now.
Im an actual, serious runner and I wear them all the time. Easy miles, workouts, races. They're cheap but effective. Thats why
I'm a jogger. I'd never heard of Goodr sunglasses. Googled them and they look pretty good.
Thanks for the tip.
TMADDOX wrote:
I wear Oakley. Love them. Don't care if they are out dated. You do you bro.
It is my opinion that goodr occupies the slice of the market for people who do not want their sunglasses to look like oakleys or other overdesigned sunglasses. I am someone who bought running sunglasses for performance. They work great. But I'm embarrassed in them. Completely unstylish, and I do not like looking like a cyclist with my sunglasses. There's a very specific type of personality that typical running performance sunglasses evoke. "Out of the way, REAL runner coming through!"
It says something that Goodr came along with a successful pitch that essentially amounted to "ugh! Don't most running sunglasses look awful??" They didn't need to say much more. People were willing to throw away "performance" (whatever that is) just to get out of their disgusting sunglasses. Sounds like a market position that people didn't know existed, yet it was there if anyone would bother to look.
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