Phantom pains and other ways to tie running shoes

Your friend could be talking about simply running the laces through the second to last hole on one side and then, staying on the same side run the lace through that hole.  Repeat on the other side.  Then cross the laces and run the lace through the new "lace eyelet" you just made.  It is supposed to keep your heal down without over tightening I believe.

I'll be honest, when I start hitting 11-12 miles in my long runs, I almost ALWAYS have some odd pain or interesting sensation...

As for lacing, I use a standard lace pattern AND I have bunjee laces on all my shoes.

This is what I do. 

Well, since it was your first time at the distance, I wouldn't think twice about it.  All sorts of pains arise in that situation.

But yeah, there are a zillion ways to lace your shoes.  Check this site out, written by someone who's got way too much time on his hands:

http://www.shoe-lacing.com/shoelace/lacingmethods.htm

I did find that varying the tension in my laces (less near the heel, more near the toes) helped with some issues similar to what you describe.  Others do it the opposite way (since lower tension near the heels can lead to slippage for some, and blisters.)  For how to do something like that, see the site above.

Hey all thanks. Next time I run I'll have some different lacing in them, the video's were helpful.

Yeah that website above is pretty in depth.  I use to lace my lacrosse stick years ago with a traditional pocket, some of those shown blow that away!

It's not my 1st time at ~13 miles, I did 13.1 a couple of times before in a HIM and training but the 1st since PF  in 07-08. 

Thanks again, BT rocks!

I have the same issue with my current running shoes and adjusted my lacing to something similar to the last example on the shoelace site that was called Lock Laces.

The difference is that I do the straight up to the next eyelet instead of crossing thing one set lower so it is right over where the pressure point was happening. I found that this relieved the pressure, but allowed more slippage than I liked. So at the top of the shoe, I went ahead and laced up to the very last eyelet that most people never use.

Also using Locklaces which I'm liking for the way the let the fit sort itself out and keep me from over/under tightening every time I tie my shoes.

Runners world mag has some articles on that.

Check it out: http://www.runnersworld.com/article/0,7120,s6-238-267--12334-0,00.html

I see i'm a little too late with reply but iether way i use Lock Laces also