Daily Archives: Friday, January 4, 2008

Today I ran 7 km at a 7:24 pace. I noticed a bit of the coil spring on my Yaktrax was broken. Near the heel, one coil had broken off, exposing a sharp bit of the coil. The interesting thing is that the other Yaktrax has exactly the same break. It is a single turn of the coil that has broken off and slid down the rubber on each shoe. It is the part of the coil that is closed, to prevent the coil from ending in a sharp bit of wire. It seems to be made of spring steel, perhaps stainless, I am not sure. Now that particular coil ends in a sharp point of unclosed wire. I may have to remove the sharp point as best I can by sanding it or something. I am afraid of trying to close the coil because it might just break rather … Continue reading →