<human>: *Background* I've been dealing with an injury since my last marathon 18 months ago (bone spur caused a stress fracture between my first metatarsal and philange). Things have been a little better lately, I've been pushing it doing insanity and I'm up to running twice a week for 30-40 minutes (my average back at full health right before the marathon was 30 miles/week, usually sub 8 minute miles) and some new shoes have helped a lot in terms of how painful the injury gets (it never seems to get worse than it was last month, last, week, last year etc. only better!). 

**Problem** BUT I've noticed that the way I lace my shoes, as I work out, the knot always seems to slide over to the inner part of my shoe, such that my laces are tied almost directly above my injury. I theorize that this may be a hindrance to recovery, or could have been an initial cause to the injury. Is there a way to tie my laces to stop the knot from sliding to that side of my shoe or is that totally normal and unpreventable?

*Visuals* I usually do the lace style listed on this blog under the sub-head "PROBLEM: Heel-slipping"

and I'm fairly new to reddit/have never used imgur before but I tried to upload an image of where the knot slides to for a visual, let me know if it didn't work.

Also, I'm 23, female, 5'10", size 10 1/2 running shoes, history of ankle problems, run in Asics for the support, and I tie my laces bunny ear style if any of that information makes a difference. Can provide more details on the injury if necessary, but I've already rambled long enough and it's a long, sad, complicated year and a half old story (though if you have inspirational stories of coming back from long injuries, I LOVE hearing those :) or a simple "you're 23, your body will recover just fine" is also nice to hear!)

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<bot>: How do I tie my laces such that the knot sliding to the inside of my shoe doesn't exacerbate a long term injury on the top of my foot?  Thank you!