Running in Glasses and Contact Lenses: How to do it Better?

If you're under -3.50 myopia, there are good sports frames available.

Look into ROKA glasses or consider talking to your eye care professional about gas permeable lenses.

Oakley, Smith, Roka, and a handful of other brands make prescription glasses specifically suited to endurance athletes. You can even get prescription photo-chromatic lenses now, which look absurdly dorky in eyeglass frames but look totally fine in sport/sunglass frames. Even with heavy thick lenses (less of a weight penalty if you go with polycarbonate rather than glass lenses) you shouldn't have a problem getting frames that fit great and also accommodate your lenses.

Beyond that, I've been wearing 2-4 week contact lenses (never dailies) just about every single day for 20 years, often stretching them out for months per pair. Maybe I'm just lucky in that my eyes handle them well, eye doctors have recommended against wearing contacts so much but also say my eyes are perfectly healthy and fine apart from the near-sightedness (-3.75, btw). Trying different brands of contacts could also really help if you've been rocking the same kinds of dailies for a long time.

I had SMILE 3 months ago and never looked back. Never had problems running in contact lenses though, I was -3.5 so mostly ran with blurry eyes

Just switch to two week contacts, I find them (Accuvue Oasys) more comfortable than dailies anyway. If you don't wear contacts when you're not running you could probably make a pair last for a month or more.

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I have worn glasses almost my entire life. I used to wear those that have nose pads and those cut my face from friction caused by running-induced bouncing. Now, I wear plastic frames that have molded nose supports and never have any issues at all. Sure, they can slip down my face a little when I get sweaty, but never so much that it's problematic. Nose pads are awful - really made my face bleed!

Unless your uncorrected vision is so bad that you literally can't see the ground right in front of you just leave your glasses in the car.

Reach out to Zouhair Talbi and ask him.

My prescription isn't too bad so I use sports frames instead of glasses with nose pads. Another benefit of the frame is it's easier to clean than nose pads which can get pretty gunky with all the sweat, sunblock and other running byproduct stuff.

I also use a sweatband that sits right above the glasses that help hold them in place. This works for normal glasses too.

Almost no nose issues and barely even notice the glasses since they don't bounce on me.

so much depends on the contact and eyeglass Rx. w/o knowing the Rx but generally a different type of contact ( sweet and salt and some types of contacts just may not work for some people ) also for running a contacts Rx just for the times you run maybe not disposable maybe milder Rx in order to produce a thinner lens and if you can tolerate switching between Rx's.

as for eyeglasses a small lite frame (small eyeswire with frame pd that matches your pd and proper bridge width and temple length)) to minimize weight and a baseball cap to catch sweat and block sun glare. I do find that really well fitted eyeglasses maybe a small titanium frames (KameMannen as a brand for example) in some locals may not be easy to come by.

I use daily disposables for events and races; the problem appears during regular long-dist running for training. There are times that I caught myself avoid going because I don't want to put on a new pair of contacts and my myopia glasses are very uncomfy to run in. My nose bridge was even bruised at one time from the impact of foot strike though the glasses have nose pads.
Does anyone share similar experience? Are there better ways to get around this? I want to remove as much resistance as possible to make myself run more.

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I used to struggle a lot with running in glasses—every time I hit my stride, they’d start slipping, and adjusting them constantly just threw off my rhythm. At one point, I even ended up with a bruise on my nose bridge from the impact. Contact lenses seemed like a better option, but I hated using dailies just for a training run, and my eyes would get dry halfway through.
I finally talked to an optometrist about it, and it was a game-changer. She helped me find a better lens type for sports, and I also switched to lightweight sport frames for when I prefer glasses. If anyone’s dealing with the same issue, I’d definitely recommend getting a fit check with an eye doctor.

I've never had a problem with contacts. I use the longer lasting ones(acuvue oasys) because the daily disposables feel terrible. I had a lot of problems with them folding up and falling out. More than 20K miles and I've never lost an Oasys during a run.

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