hello. i think i have been tying my shoes too tightly.

no, i am not shitting you here, this is an actual problem. apparently i have a sort of manic approach to lacing up, like my shoes are going to just spontaneously fall off or something. since i've had the two pair of NB that i have now, i would describe the approach as "yanking the hell out of them". i was like, hey i've got narrow feet! and, i do have narrow feet, but this was more along the lines of scarlette o'hara clinging to the bedpost whilst mammy corsets her up. what the hell was i doing?? 

i am sorry to say that i realise now that the tingle in my left big toe was actually my foot crying for help, but i didn't listen and now both my ankles, both insteps, and a smattering of toes are alternately hurting, tingling, buzzing, itching, et cetera. although the itching is possibly fungal, all the rest is just classic nerve stuff. i also realise now that it wasn't just the running shoes, but it was everything from keds to chucks. 

i'm now reforming this behaviour, and lo & behold, NOT leaving shoes strewn across the village. 

i am contrite. i am reforming.

how long till my feet feel better?!?

tl dr

If she tied those too tight, what would happen?

Not sure. I bet it wont' be long though.  A week, maybe less?

I'd say the same. 

I tightened the heck out of my shoes in the 8th grade during tryouts for the baskeball team.  I was a little nervous (5' 6" and no muggsy bogues, mind you). Same tingles. 

To try to clarify, do you mean laces like this:

or like this:

If ya gotta clamp down on the laces, then you don't really have a great fitting shoe.  If you're foot is narrow, get a narrow shoe dumbass. 

heh.  Only because my running p has to special order her extra narrow shoes and then the lace them so tight that the flaps touch and they are still too loose. 

I must not have an over tightening problem because lately if I am doing burpees or mountain climbers my shoes fall off eventually

thanks for the advise ilene, but clearly i have shoefalloffaphobia, so i don't think crocs are going to help.

I have kinda narrow feet and tightened the living shit out of my laces.  Had all the symptoms you listed, and a blood clot in a superficial vein to boot.  Unable to completely break myself of the habit, I tried stretchy laces (I like the iBungee brand in particular).  I can cinch 'em up fairly snug, but they still have some give to keep my feet from going all pins 'n' needles.  For the most part.  And I can adjust where the tension is/isn't without undoing them, which is nice.

Funny - I rarely untie or retie my shoes - I leave them tied and slip them on to run.  I guess I like them loose.

 

 

+1

I generally tie my shoes only once, the first time I wear them, and after that just slip them on and off.  It's not as if they feel like they're moving around on my foot or anything, and if I tie them too tight, I get soreness on the top of my foot.