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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