{"id":144,"date":"2009-04-22T01:45:15","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T14:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/?p=144"},"modified":"2009-04-22T01:45:15","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T14:45:15","slug":"guy-leech-tripped-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"guy leech tripped me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On an unrelated note, a recent report on the benefits (or lack thereof) of running shoes from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/moslive\/article-1170253\/The-painful-truth-trainers-Are-expensive-running-shoes-waste-money.html\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Mail<\/a> is interesting because I have been, for the last year or so, been wearing relatively inexpensive running shoes emblazoned with the signature of the &#8220;iron man&#8221; Guy Leech. These are, perhaps, the exceptions which may prove the rule.<\/p>\n<p>So what is the problem? These shoes came with extremely long shoelaces. I mean very, very long. Untied, the lace that hangs from the shoes exceeds 50cm.<\/p>\n<p>This presents a real and present danger, because once tied it can leave an excessively large &#8220;loop&#8221; in the tied showlace. I discovered the hard way that this is not good. While out for a run, my left foot got caught in the loop of the lace on the right shoe. As you may be able to imagine, this does not have a pretty ending. No, particularly not when you&#8217;re running across a road (fortunately not a busy road) when it happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On an unrelated note, a recent report on the benefits (or lack thereof) of running shoes from the Daily Mail is interesting because I have been, for the last year or so, been wearing relatively inexpensive running shoes emblazoned with the signature of the &#8220;iron man&#8221; Guy Leech. These are, perhaps, the exceptions which may&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exercise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}