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If you have issues with your shoes being too tight in some places or causing blisters, do some searches on the Internet. There are a bunch of different ways to lace your shoes to resolve these problems.
Also, if you lace your shoes too tightly you might bruise the top of your foot. Your shoes don't have to be glued on, just snug.
If you have trouble with your shoes getting untied or if you always tie your shoe strings with double knots that are hard to untie, try this.
After you have made one ‘ear’ with the string, the next step is to wrap the other string around it and bring it through the hole. Instead make an extra loop around the ear and then take it through the hole. This provides a more secure knot, but it unties just like a normal knot and you don’t have to mess with it like you do a double knot.
Another option is to simply tuck the ends of your shoe laces under the criss-crossed laces.
They make some neat devices to take the place of a knot, too.
If your feet are really sensitive to how tight/loose your shoes are tied, during your training after a run when your shoes are laced just right, make a mark with a permanent marker at the spot on both sides of the lace where they go into the first hole. You can use this as a reference in the future but it may change with different style socks or foot swelling. But at least these marks provide you with a good starting point.
Runner's World has a good page with Alternative Ways to Tie Your Running Shoes.
Have you ever wondered what those last holes above the eyelets in your shoe are for? Well, thanks to Michael Bauer I finally know. After lacing your shoes, run the shoe string under and out of hte last eyelet. Then poke the lace through the extra hole from the outside and on the same side to create a small loop. Repeat this on the other side. Now run your lace through the loop on the opposite side. Repeat on the other side. When you tighten your laces and tie them, the laces are closer to your ankle and this helps to hold the shoe on your foot more securely, locking them in place. This is particularly helpful for trail runners because on steep downhills your foot tends to be jammed against the toe box of the shoe sometimes giving you a black toenail.
