Nothing makes me more angry than having to stop and re-tie shoes during a race. It doesn’t usually happen during 5K’s because the laces tend to keep themselves together for that short amount of time. But for anything over that, it’s kind of nice to not have to worry about it and focus on the run.
Over the years, runners develop their own techniques for fixing this potential problem (and many others.) Here are a few lace techniques that I have used over the past four years without fail: