![]() ![]() Nike Zoom Fly Flyknit Sole UnitĬarbon fiber. I did a 10 mile run around Boston and decided these shoes were good enough for the 5k race I had the next day.Īfter doing well in the race, I got into chipping away at testing these shoes for 50 miles, and then accidentally ran too much in them and I’m sitting north of 100 miles right now in these shoes. This was something that felt good to run on. Normally, an inflexible shoe like that is as good as garbage, but the shape of the midsole lets you follow through with your stride and the stiff carbon fiber smoothly. I tried to grab both ends of the shoe and bend it in half, but that carbon fiber plate resisted HEAVILY. A few strides in the shoe and you can clearly feel a platform springing back some energy to you inside the midsole. Looked a bit like a reentry vehicle.īut, the biggest feature I noticed about these shoes when I first put them on was the carbon fiber plate. The color was also pretty striking, with a Pink outsole and orange highlights. These would help increase the longevity of the shoe. I put them on and was happy to see Nike using a tougher material for the upper, and that they moved away from Flywire to integrating the laces into the upper. However, you’ll still feel slightly faster in these shoes than in most others. The best of the best from Nike is claimed to improve your time by 4%, so given this is slightly worse than what they have.Ī solid week of training for most folks can improve racing times by more than 4%, be careful thinking you can spend money for speed gains instead of working harder. And clearly, I was being sarcastic there, as there’s a limit as to how much gear can improve the athlete. ![]() This Zoom Fly Flyknit with Carbon Fiber and heavily tested midsole design is the leading wave of faster shoes to the average consumer from Nike.Ĭlearly, you can take this shoe and drop your 5:00 marathon to a 4:00, and climb 4 steps at a time instead of 2. Now, track spikes can be purchased for $20 and could probably out perform the ones Bill made.Īnd also now, Nike has wind tunnel tested, carbon fiber reinforced, fancy shoes that are making their way into the early adopter market. The running shoe world operates in a similar way, where only the elites get the latest and greatest, and the remainder of the population waits decades for the tech to turn into commonplace consumables.īack in the 50’s Bill Bowerman (Nike’s original innovator) was hand crafting track spikes for his athletes. Other shoes with a large stack height, similar price point, and a focus on distance running would be the Altra Torin IQ ($199, 28mm stack height, and a thin footbead sensor), the Hoka Clifton 5s ($130, 9.4 oz, 30mm heel stack height) and the Brooks Glycerin 16 ($150, 10.8 oz, 32 heel 22 toe stack height).Įver watch a really old nascar race and realize the car you were just in has way more horsepower and safety features, yet you use it to commute around? The Zoom Fly Flyknit is 8.4 oz in size 9 which places it similar in weight to the previous Zoom Fly shoes, and has a 10mm offset from the thick 33mm heel as seen in the previous Zoom Fly shoes. So I jumped at the opportunity to review the Zoom Fly Flyknits. ![]() I never got the chance to run in the Zoom Vaporfly 4% shoes, but I did get the Zoom Fly shoes and was thoroughly impressed. The Zoom Fly Flyknit featured in this review takes most of that tech and simplifies it down to a price point that some top level runners could rationalize as affordable. It does give an edge, but that shoe is $250 and was in limited production. ![]() The Zoom Vaporfly 4% made news headlines when it was used to almost break 2 hours in the marathon, and again when the New York Times wrote a piece investigating if that shoe gives you an edge. There’s some hype surrounding Nike’s Zoom Fly set of shoes. ![]()
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