We really felt the extra width, which made the shoe more comfortable. Runners told designers they wanted more room in the forefoot, so Nike added width. All that input from so many runners led to a few other noticeable changes from the Vaporfly 4%:
In addition to soliciting feedback from their elite athletes, Nike tested the shoe on a much larger number of runners than the previous model. We didn’t have a chance to test it on long runs or in a race, but we got a good feel for how it fit, how it performs and how it’s different from the original. Nike let us test out the shoe on the iconic track at their Portland headquarters where we put it through workouts to feel the difference between the old and new. By using the lighter upper material, Nike was able to add more of its bouncy ZoomX foam without changing the shoe’s overall weight.Īnd picking up where its predecessor left off, the Vaporfly NEXT% tallied its first major victory by Kipchoge at the 2019 London Marathon. Nike again used an articulated carbon fiber plate in the midsole to make the shoe stiffer and give it lasting shape, and engineers created an entirely new fabric to make the upper lighter and less absorbent. We think it’s even better than the first. So when Nike started designing the new Vaporfly NEXT%, they knew it had to live up to the reputation of the original Vaporfly 4%. Then Brigid Kosgei wore the shoe when she crushed the longstanding women's world record marathon time at the 2019 Chicago Marathon. The first version dominated the world marathon circuit after it was released in 2017, and it propelled elite runner Eliud Kipchoge to both the official and unofficial world record marathon times. Nike’s ZoomX Vaporfly NEXT% is the second installment in the speedy Vaporfly line.
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