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If you've participated in any prolonged athletic activity, you're undoubtedly too familiar with heel blisters and jacking up your toes in the front of your sneakers. It turns out that the solution to ...

The extra eyelet at the top of running sneakers has puzzled us for years — what is it for?! Turns out that extra hole helps runners tie their shoes extra tight with a "lace lock" or "heel lock" method ...

I worked in a shoe outlet store eons ago. The heel lock lace-tying method is an industry standard when a shoe fits almost perfectly but the heel area is just a little too loose for the wearer’s liking ...

Have you ever stared at those extra shoelace holes in your running shoes and thought, "What in the world are these for?!" You can now wonder no more. According to an eye-opening YouTube video that’s ...

WASHINGTON — The secret is out about the mysterious shoestring holes on the top of your sneakers — it turns out they are there for a reason. Most runners, hikers and walkers don’t even bother with ...

We have all been living a shoe lace lie. Years of blisters could have been prevented if only we'd known of this hack earlier. Introducing the 'heel lock', the genius use for that extra set of shoelace ...