For the long-run months
Marathon training is 700 kilometers of wondering what’s behind you.
Group intervals, open-road long runs, cyclists overtaking on the path — one glance in the lens keeps your form and your flow.
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Every head turn is a small tax on the posture you’re training to keep.
You’re building one thing this block: the ability to hold form when everything wants to fold. Cadence steady, shoulders loose, chin level.
Then a bike bell rings behind you on the towpath, and you throw all of it away for half a second of blurry glance — thirty times per long run. Neck stiff by kilometer 25. Stride broken exactly when you’re practicing not breaking it.
The long-run compromises
Turning to look
Posture folds, cadence stutters, and on tired legs a twisted glance is how ankles roll.
One earbud out
Hours of half-music to maybe-hear a bike that’s already braking behind you.
Hugging the edge
You surrender the smooth line of the path to everything faster than you — for the whole run.
The fix
A mirror in the lens. Form stays. Flow stays.
The View puts a small adjustable mirror inside the lens. Set it once, and everything behind you — bikes, runners, the group you’re pacing — is a glance away.
Your chin never drops, your shoulders never twist. And with a photochromic lens it rides along from grey dawn starts to full midday sun, so the 30-kilometer Sunday run needs exactly one pair.
Set it once. Then log the kilometers.
- 1
Set the angle once
A fingertip before you start your watch. It holds from warm-up strides to the last surge.
- 2
Glance, don’t twist
A flick of the eyes checks the path behind — cadence and posture untouched.
- 3
Hold your form
Kilometer 5 or kilometer 35: your neck runs the race, not the traffic report.
From one training block to the next
“I bought them for safety. I kept them because my neck stopped aching after long runs.”
One long run is all it takes — the glance becomes part of your stride.
What runners say
Love these — I’d recommend them to all cyclists, and even runners!
Love being able to see behind me at a glance!
No more turning my head to see what’s behind me. Easy glance, great fit, and the mirror doesn’t move at all.
Train the form. Keep the form.
The View — running glasses with a rear-view mirror in the lens.
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