It is a small but well-conceived feature and expresses how much Nike considered minute details. The tongue is thin but not overly, and has a little cut out for the tendon that runs from your big toe back toward your ankle. These loops create a very nice compact fit. The laces are held in place not by the regular holes but with (something like) Flywire loops. It fits like a sock – remember Nike’s pedigree with it’s 80s-era Sock Trainer and Racer – and the forefoot area also feels more like a sock with just a very minor supportive piece at the toes. It’s just the Fly in this review.įirst the upper: Light, flexible and pretty breathable. Very hard to get your hands on! And I haven’t yet! So that review is still forthcoming. The 4% is the more expensive and lighter version with a full carbon plate. The Zoom Fly and the other version, the Zoom Fly 4%, flow from the models used by the Breaking 2 project (below). Not that these employees blabbed about the shoe! Just, that special project has since translated into a product for sale and therefore I thought I’d write about it. Although we are not a Nike dealer a lot of their employees come in to chat, to discuss product, and to buy tri stuff. We had an interest in this shoe for the obvious reasons, but also because of proximity: Our retail store is just around the corner from the Nike EMEA headquarters. This I found interesting because the trend is toward racing flats that are lighter but that have less cushion (or, it was before Hoka barged in and altered the trajectory). These marathoners asked for more cushioning than they had in the shoes they had been running in. The shoes used for this exercise were built to match the shape of the foot of each elite runner, and with the runners’ input. Its technical contribution to the paced-event on a Monza race track in Italy was a new shoe. Last May Nike tried the break the 2 hour barrier for the 26.2 mile distance.
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