Should you fix shoe in a race or flick off and keep running?

[williamwindhamjr]

What Galen did in his race was truly phenomanal, but if that had been the worlds or Olympics, I dont think he would of got away with that one.I remember a guy on our high school 2 mile relay having the same thing happen, and he stopped to fix his shoe.We teased him the rest of the year.I ran a 2 mile race not even realizing until after the race, that someones spike was inbedded in my ankle.Dont ask me how that one happened[lol]

[EPelle]

It need not even go that far - to either the world and/or Olympic level. Had his NCAA competitors noticed, someone could have dropped in a huge surge at precisely that time. He'd have had no choice but to have made a correction to that problem, one which would have become an even greater one.