Nike Says Its $250 Running Shoes Will Make You Run Much Faster
The aggressive opinion on regulating these shoes seems over the top to me, the next best shoes, the relatively unheralded Nike Streak, provided a 3% performance improvement, and more runners achieved a personal best with those shoes. And improvements with the vapor fly 4% were smaller for faster runners. Also many runners choose shoes based on injury prevention and comfort - if a shoe gets you to the starting line uninjured with plenty of training miles that&#x27;s an infinite time improvement over pulling out of the race injured.<p>Wired did a good analysis on this too <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;do-nike-zoom-vaporfly-make-you-run-faster&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;do-nike-zoom-vaporfly-make-you-r...</a>