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...The other day I stumbled upon "Lacing the Lydiard Way" and - POOF! - no more foot pain. Ran 14 in the new flats yesterday and the foot feels fine...
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And if that techniques doesn't work, here are 32 others.
http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/lacingmethods.htm
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I've got about three pair going in rotation. Lydiard lacing in two of them. The third pair is a pair of trail shoes that don't feel right laced differently, but I have noticed more bumpage on the back of my foot when wearing them. Maybe I should figure out how to lace them up the Lydiard way as well.
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...The third pair is a pair of trail shoes that don't feel right laced differently,...
Actually, this describes it perfectly, doesn't it? I mean, why even try that if it doesn't feel right? I do most of my shoes the Lydiard Way but not all--simply because it doesn't feel right. There's this one pair that L-way felt a bit loose so I switched back to a regular way. After a while, it was pinching my feet so I went back to L-way and it felt so much better so I stayed back there.
It does get a bit tricky if the material is very frimsy or those "rings" or the eye-lets (on single side) is odd numbered. There's one pair of shoes that it just didn't feel right; but when I went back to a regular lacing, the front half of my feet felt too tight. I ended up applying a half-and-half; L-way the front half and regular on the top half. It works well now.
I was talking to Patti Dillon a few years ago and I asked her one thing I always wondered--her lacing system. She always had this weird lacing system where she misses middle part of it. "I have very high foot on the top," she said; "and it hurts if I tie it all the way." A simple thing like lacing DOES make a difference.
I concur here.....
My shoes always seemed tight across the top of my foot (i know they were the right size for me) and my feet never really felt comfortable while running......just before a race i would tie and re-tie my shoes over and over and still they never really felt right........sometimes I would stop during a training run to re-tie my shoes because they seemed too thight across the top of the foot.....and kind of pinched.
i also found 'Lacing the Lidiard Way" and theoretically, it made sense to me so i tried it.........PROBLEM GONE IMMEDIATELY........Now all my running shoes are laced this way and I never have these problems......this lacing system really works for me...
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You're welcome! ;o) Good to know what we do actually does help some people...
It absolutely does. And did. Thanks.
And if that techniques doesn't work, here are 32 others. http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/lacingmethods.htm
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I use the lace lock technique on all of my shoes. The only problem this sometimes poses is laces that aren't long enough. So I often will skip a row across the ball of the foot to offer more length--this helps solve the issues of shoes that are often a hair too narrow, too.
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Apart from on cross country races where the mud can suck a shoe off I use elastic laces they never come undone and allow your feet to expand on longer races.
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This link worked after I googled running show lacing methods
I use Lydiard lacing that I found on runnersworld and then saw it in a Lydiard paper that I found. Runnersworld didn't give him credit for it. I leave it loose near the to to reduce pressure on nerve of left foot.
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replace http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/lacingmethods.htm with
http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/lacing.htm Don't how "methods" got inserted.