Wilson Kipsang did it! He ran a 2:03:23 marathon at the Berlin Marathon, breaking the record by 15 seconds.

In other news Irina Mikitenko smashed the womens masters record by almost 50 seconds in the same race!

google will be happy to provide my references for me. :>

So if your like me you hate it when your shoelaces tickle your ankles, especially when running. If so I have a quick fix for you, and a slightly quicker fix as well.

First the quick fix. Take a short piece of Velcro (hook and loop tape, whatever you want to call it) and poke a few holes in it and add two grommets to it.

Once it is laced onto your shoe it does a fine job.

And now the quicker method. Take a twist tie and use it to tie the flapping laces to the crossed laces. This works great, I used it for more then a year, until you need to take your shoe off in a hurry and you have stripped off all the plastic from the twisty. Sorry no pics.

Now I’m off to make a few more lace controllers for the motorcycle boots. The last thing I want is to get the laces caught in the chain or rear wheel. Yikes!