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I get a very similar pain. I even got it last night. The main cause for me is doing up my laces too tight, especially at the top by the knot. My running shop, which includes a sports injuries clinic, does say that overtightening the laces is a major cause of the injuries that they deal with.
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@ewanmac and @The_Seldom_Killer.
If you often overtighten your laces, try tying them with your foot dorsiflexed (flexed upwards) as that position will probably be largest size around your foot. That way they should never be a point where the trainer pinches your foot whilst running...
Compare it to tying the laces with your foot in plantar flexion and you will probably notice them get very tight when you dorsiflex.Loop/lock lacing the top of your trainers gives an extra couple of passes of lace right at the top, which then doesn't stretch so much under load. So you dont need to tie them quite so tight to prevent the trainer slipping on your heel.
user69121
I've got a slight soreness in the top of my foot and have just been googling foot anatomy to try and describe it.
The pain is located on the instep in the area around the medial cuneiform bone, or where the tibialis anterior tendon seems to run over the top of it. On my feet this area seems to have a slightly raised bone which doesn't seem to appear on many of the anatomy diagrams.
For me it feels like I have bruised it (possibly by having my new spikes too tight in Sunday's XC) but this isn't the first time it's been sore so I wonder if other shoes also aggravate it?
Anyone else suffer from this? Any suggestions? I was wondering about trying some funky lacing on my spikes if it persists.