Even if you don’t wear lace-up shoes regularly, you are probably still quite familiar with the experience of a knot in your shoe string coming undone, irrespective of how well you thought you had tied ...

When I lived in Boston, there was one memorable 5K where I remember needing to stop because my shoe became untied. Worse—the temperature was below freezing and my ungloved fingers were uncooperative ...

Dear Running Doc: For the last year, when I go out for a run of four miles or more, the top of my foot hurts and I get a numb feeling that spreads to the tops of my second, third and fourth toes. My ...

When I lived in Boston, there was one memorable 5K where I remember needing to stop because my shoe became untied. Worse—the temperature was below freezing and my ungloved fingers were uncooperative ...

Tying your running shoes. It’s something so simple, yet so many runners still do it incorrectly. While it should be easy to properly knot your shoes, there’s more than one way to tie a standard ...

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With a little show-and-tell, and possibly a second pair of laces, you can transform your sneakers into a real conversation piece — and maybe even make them more functional. These styles work best when ...

The 2n eyelets of an idealized shoe are the points of intersection of two vertical lines and n equally spaced horizontal lines in the plane. The two columns of eyelets are one unit apart, and two ...