{"id":1058,"date":"2005-12-15T05:00:15","date_gmt":"2005-12-14T23:00:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-09-19T15:20:20","modified_gmt":"2010-09-19T09:20:20","slug":"speed-laces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/speed-laces\/","title":{"rendered":"Speed Laces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was while training for a triathlon that I first heard about quick-tie shoelaces. When transitioning from biking to running you want to get your Nikes on fast. So I went to the running store and bought a pair of elastic laces with a spring-loaded plastic thingy like you find on a cinch sack. It worked well enough for my first race. But then a funny thing happened. I kept using the shoes for my regular runs and found I lost nothing in support and gained a few welcome moments each time I put on, or took off, my shoes. Why would I ever want to go back to regular laces?<\/p>\n<p>Later I googled and found Speed Laces. They&#8217;ve taken the idea up a notch with low-friction eyelets you can screw into your shoe&#8217;s eyelets, plus neater cinch mechanisms. I bought half a dozen and began retrofitting my family&#8217;s running shoes.<\/p>\n<form mt:asset-id=\"3666\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/wp-content\/archiveimages\/archives\/eyelet-173x175.jpg\" width=\"173\" height=\"175\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><\/form>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want those things on my shoes!&#8221; said my wife.  But she relented once I promised to put her old laces back if she wasn&#8217;t won over. Now, she admits I was right. (I was careful to match the color of Speed Laces to her shoes.)<\/p>\n<p>The company makes claims for better comfort and support, which may be true, but I find the time savings alone worth it. Plus I&#8217;m wearing running shoes more often around the house because they are nearly as easy to slip on as loafers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick-tie shoelaces<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[42,235],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}