As a runner and someone who relishes living a healthy life, you always do your research before making a health product purchase. When you purchased your last pair of running shoes, you learned about the importance of the following:
- Wear patterns
- Running distance
- Where your foot strikes the ground
- Your foot type
- Injuries you may have sustained.
If you have a heel pain condition or bunions, you may have also had orthotics made by your Seattle podiatrist. But there's one hack that can improve comfort even more.
The lacing hack!
Recently the Washington Post wrote an article on this topic focusing on how you can lace your shoes so that you can get better performance when you run and feel better too.
Here are 3 Running Shoe Lacing Hacks To Improve Your Running Performance
Orthotics can help tremendously with correcting the biomechanics of your foot to offload your bunions but proper lacing can help even more. This specific lacing technique can widen your forefoot to accommodate the bunion. From the bottom of the eye row, lace up the sides of the shoe. You won't start cross-lacing until you reach your midfoot and then tie the top as usual.
How to Lace Your Running Shoe For Bunions, Morton's Neuroma, and A Wide Forefeet
Orthotics can help tremendously with correcting the biomechanics of your foot to offload your bunions and prevent a flare up of Morton's neuroma but proper lacing can help even more. This specific lacing technique can widen your forefoot to accommodate the bunion. From the bottom of the eye row, lace up the sides of the shoe. You won't start cross-lacing until you reach your midfoot and then tie the top as usual.
How to Lace Your Running Shoe For A High Instep
The runner with a high instep does the best in a neutral, cushioned shoe. In addition this lacing tip will help with your comfort and performance. This technique starts at the toe of the shoe with a cross-lacing pattern and then doesn't lace again until the top of the shoe. It provides the room you need at the middle of the foot and keeps the shoe from feeling too tight across the arch.
How to Lace Your Running Shoe For Narrow Feet and to Prevent A Black Toenail
The runner with narrow feet or a narrow heel often can't find a shoe that fits snugly enough and so their feet end up sliding forward and jamming into the front of the shoe which can cause a black toenail or Runner's Toe. Fortunately, all runner's shoes come with two eyelets at the top of the shoe as shown in the photo on top of this blog. A technique called the Lace Lock or Heel Lock can be used to help the foot stay back in the heel.
