I've tried the Lock Laces (Nathan brand) and they worked great at first. But within a few months the spring that locks the laces weakened and the mechanism became worthless. This happened with two different pairs bought at different places. One a white-colored pair online, the other lime green ones from a local running store. Damned bean-counting companies that cheap-out on something that could be made right with a better part costing a few cents more.
Nooway wrote:
Bill Rodgers stopped in the last 6 miles of the Boston Marathon in the 1980's to tie his shoe. He ran a 2:09 and won.
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My feet tend to swell and shrink while running - sometimes this means that my laces become untied if the laces loosen due to my feet shrinking since there's no tension to keep the knot firm.
Other times, the knot stays firm, but the foot is now too loose in the shoe, and so I have to untie and retie. Or alternately, my foot swells, and same issue. Triple knotting doesn't help here. If I'm racing, I just suck it up. But on easy runs, I'll absolutely pull over and re-tie.
It's very common for my shoes to get looser during a running workout. If I'm doing intervals, I'll just retie during the recovery. If it's a straight tempo, I just suck it up unless the shoe becomes untied.
On most of my shoes there is plenty of length to double tie and then pull the bunny ears under few rows of the crossed laces going towards my toes and tuck them in, maybe even tie them again where they come out down the foot. Houdini could not get them undone while running. Double ties have come undone before, though never at any important time that I can remember.
Nooway wrote:
Bill Rodgers stopped in the last 6 miles of the Boston Marathon in the 1980's to tie his shoe. He ran a 2:09 and won.
So we should all do it?
Something Swallowed wrote:
I didn't learn how to properly tie my shoes until I was 26 and it was life changing.
I am going to have to look into this. I'd like to change my life as well.
It's called a reef knot or square knot.
Something Swallowed wrote:
A significant portion, probably easily a majority, of people tie their shoes incorrectly. I cannot explain how using words. Look up a video on youtube of how to tie shoes correctly. There is never any need to double knot when you tie your shoes the right way. They will never come undone. Meanwhile double knots are not untie proof when you tie your shoes incorrectly. This is a serious post btw. I didn't learn how to properly tie my shoes until I was 26 and it was life changing. Before that I tied them the common, but ineffective way, which is how most people do it (it is an easier way to learn - most of us are slow learners).
I usually ask my mom to tie my shoe laces and I'm 38 btw.
Tuck your loops under your laces
In races, I have always put a safety pin through the knot so that it can't come undone but is easy to remove quickly if needed. My question regarding laces is why, when I have to untie my shoes mid-run (to get a rock out or whatever), is it IMPOSSIBLE to get them right again? Life's imponderables.
I run sock less in galoshes .
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fisky wrote:
I switched to elastic laces 10 years ago. Never gets untied, 5 seconds to put on shoe, 5 seconds to snug up laces just before the gun, eliminates top of foot bruises under eyelets.
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Thanks for all the wonderful tips. Now that I've mastered shoe laces, can anyone fill me in on how to do up my seatbelt on an airplane. Even instructional those all videos can't I out figure.