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The vaporfly thread

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Gobi
Gobi
Feb 2020
2:45pm, 14 Feb 2020
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I have been impressed with how the upper has held up
Boab
Boab
Feb 2020
3:17pm, 14 Feb 2020
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To be fair, the current VF4%'s are half a size up on normal and they are holding out. The others were what I though were the right size, but maybe just a tad on the tight side. Hence the burst uppers.
Gobi
Gobi
Feb 2020
3:21pm, 14 Feb 2020
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sadly doesn't change the fact I think they are over working my hamstring :¬)
SKR
SKR
Feb 2020
8:28pm, 14 Feb 2020
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The uppers of the Nike flyknit uppers are basically indestructible in my view. The last few VFs i had which totally ripped soles still had pristine uppers, same for my Zoom Flys.

I doubt the low stock of VFs will affect their appearance at races, i still have 2 new pairs and most people reserve them just for races. Nike tend to release new stock just before marathon season and with Tokyo just around the corner ....
K5 Gus
K5 Gus
Feb 2020
8:41pm, 14 Feb 2020
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The latest version of Next is on Nike website as "coming soon"
Windsor Wool
Windsor Wool
Feb 2020
9:16pm, 14 Feb 2020
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Given all the loaning about the times at last night’s Armagh 5k, it seems the consensus is that the Nikes work over 5k.

Yawn.
Windsor Wool
Windsor Wool
Feb 2020
9:16pm, 14 Feb 2020
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moaning

Still yawn!
Gobi
Gobi
Feb 2020
8:05am, 15 Feb 2020
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I saw something about sub 14 min 5km runners - 1 in the top 20 not in them or something
ITG
ITG
Feb 2020
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Bad news is my mum is in hospital so I need to fly over.

Good news is vaporflys are there... (that sounds really terrible and it is only the smallest of silver linings). I'll only parkrun in them if it is very very dry because I couldn't bear to soil them on their first run!
Canute
Canute
Feb 2020
5:02pm, 15 Feb 2020
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WW,
The word moaning has an unfortunate resonance. I am not sure whether I want to classify myself as a moaner, but I am nonetheless disappointed to see the effect Nike has had on running.

To extend Sean Ingles’ lament, Nike has, almost single-handedly, transformed running from a sport governed largely by the natural laws that govern the human body, to a sport that is governed by the laws of the commercial market.

This is neither any more immoral nor any more illegal than the developments in many other aspects of the modern world that are now largely dictated by the commercial market.

Elite sport is now utterly dominated by the commercial market. One of the happy by-products of commercialization is that people can watch elite athletes on the tele, and be inspired by them.

That is a big change from the days when there were typically two or three rows of skinny young men, most of whom who were household names only in the own households, on the starting line of international-class marathons. A little bit of me regrets the passing of those Spartan days. But I can easily put aside those regrets when I see several hundred people lining up at parkrun on Saturday morning. However I am more regretful to see that enthusiastic amateurs who simply want to run a PB at parkrun feel under pressure from the commercial market.

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