Thoughts?
That’s when the prototype colourway version of the hotly anticipated racer will drop on the Nike.com website, Nike app and select speciality running stores. Nike is also sticking to the same $275/£275 price it cost to hit that purchase button on a pair of Alphafly 2. That’s despite the emergence of rival Adidas’ race shoe, the Adizero Evo Pro Evo 1, which did some record breaking of its own and also raised eyebrows when it went on sale for an eye-watering $500/£400.
Fortunately, for those eyeing up the new Alphafly, Nike hasn’t followed suit and it seems for now it won’t be asking the seriously big bucks for its top-tier performance shoe. “I think our stance on the price of the shoe is kind of the same as it is on durability and performance, which is that we’re proud that we’re not passing on sacrifices to the runner, says Bret Schoolmeester, Senior Product Director, who oversees running footwear at Nike.
In terms of performance, it seems as if it was just wasn't the pros who found the Alphafly to be uncomfortable as compared to the Vaporfly.
So now that ZoomX foam sits on a continuous bottom, a design change Schoolmeester believes is going to surprise people and aims to offer smoother heel-to-toe transitions for all foot strike patterns. “This was in service of what we were hearing both from two hours to four hours of the marathon,” he says. “It was pretty consistent feedback of wanting better transition, comfort and stability in the product.”