The foam of the outsole is fantastically light and responsive with a 33 mm heel and 23 mm in the forefoot with an intuitive upturned toe. The sole of the shoe is where Nike went to another level. The lacing system feels pretty standard for a top Nike shoe, utilizing minimalist Flywire and low-profile eyelets, and the insides of the upper felt pretty standard for top Nike shoe with a near seamless construction. That’s why I was excited to unbox the Zoom Flys and lace them up for a long fast workout. I did qualify and run the Boston Marathon this year (although I ran in the Saucony Freedom ISOs and not the Zoom Flys), so I think I’m in Nike’s target market for this shoe. I’m sure Nike would love EVERY runner to drop $150 on a pair of new running shoes, but this does not make sense for most people, so that’s why this shoe is best suited for those at the top of their running game. You only seriously look at the arrow when you’re struggling to improve the last few percentage points. The majority of your success will come from training, and you just need gear that’s good enough to make it the rest of the way. However, the adage, “It’s not the arrow, it’s the indian” comes up when discussing top tier running tech like this. So what we have here is best of the shoes you can by from Nike that came out of the Breaking2 project. Since the public cannot buy the elite versions, Nike had a short production run of the Zoom Vaporfly 4%, and focused the rest of production on the Zoom Fly and Air Zoom Pegasus 34 shoes.

Nike pointed some of the success to their to their Zoom Vaporfly 4% Elite shoes that were created for this event. Nike shocked many in the running community this May with a 2:00:25 near miss (although it will not be recorded as an official record due to several factors). This was an absurd attempt by Nike that needed the best of running tech to support the best of runners.

Nike announced a year ago (December 2016) that they were going to break 2 hours in the marathon. Few running shoes come with such a story.

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