A shoe provides a gear assembly mounted within a heel portion, the gear assembly providing an actuator gear communicating with a plurality of drive gears. Threaded couplings are fixedly engaged with a sole portion and a plurality of spikes are threadedly engaged with the couplings. Drive shafts, transfer rotation from the drive gears to the spikes. An actuator gear is manually rotated for extending, and retracting the spikes.

 
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