Laces

Colin Biggs

16/02/2003 at 12:48

This may sound a silly request but has anybody any ideas how to keep your laces from coming undone while your running. I have a race coming up in the next couple of weeks and my laces are forever coming undone even though i tie them as a double knot.

Hope someone has an answer !!!

cougie

pirate

16/02/2003 at 13:28

Use elastic laces like the triathletes use. No probs there.

Johnny J.

16/02/2003 at 16:32

1. Double bow.
2. Small bit of sticky parcel tape wrapped round either side of the centre knot.
JJ

Johnny J.

16/02/2003 at 16:37

3. Walk
JJ

greyhound

16/02/2003 at 17:10

Try changing the laces. I had a pair of Nikes once with round laces and they kept undoing no matter how many knots I put in them. Changed them to flat type laces: problem solved.

Jon.

16/02/2003 at 17:17

I got ribbed for mentioning stretching laces (you know when they're new)... Anyone else suffered this terrible problem?!

cougie

pirate

16/02/2003 at 17:51

You are a bit of a shoe/lace affiocionado aren't you Jon ?

The Evil Pixie pirate

pirate

16/02/2003 at 19:17

Lock Laces .... £5 from the sweatshop ... elastic as mentioned above so you can also take shoes off quickly!
Very glad I bought mine .. may get some for my other running shoes!

Jon.

16/02/2003 at 20:02

Couglemeister? Wouldn't say affiocionado exactly... (!)

Munners

16/02/2003 at 21:21

Thread them back through the last hole to form a loop on either side...then thread the lace through this new loop and tie the shoe lace as normal but with a double knot.

Jon.

16/02/2003 at 21:22

Isn;t that supposed to prevent the heel slippping or someat?

Mim

16/02/2003 at 23:35

Mmmm. But you need long laces to do it. Not long enough on my Stormy Pegs! Which ave laces that never ever come undone, unlike my old asics which undid thenselves like Houdini, regardless of how many knots I put in them.

V annoying! Especially when I fell over them on the treadmill, and was thrown off and landed in a pot plant!!!

popsider

17/02/2003 at 00:20

By far the easiest way is just to tie them as normal so you have two loops and two "ends". Then thread one of the loops over the other and back under and then pull tight.

In other words you just tie a knot in them - can be difficult to undo them after in cold weather but I've never not been able to - it's also 100% guaranteed which a double bow isn't.

The anti heel slip thing mentioned above is also useful and I wish that Walshes would add the extra eye so that people could do it properly with them.

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