Nike’s decades-in-development foam will propel Olympic marathoners this summer in Paris — and not long after that, you and me.
I started to walk at a 3.0 pace, slowly getting into it. I am a casual jogger mostly, though I prefer low-impact activities like Pilates. But on this day, I needed to prove I knew what I was doing. Before I knew it, I was in my comfortable 7.0 jog, but I was still a bit self-conscious about what I looked like on the screens surrounding me. And after three minutes, it was over. I did it.
Having five iPhones capture me running isn’t something I regularly do. But I was recently in Portland at the Nike Headquarters , where I was able to test out the Alphafly 3 running shoe, which incorporates Nike’s technology Air.Air, for those who don’t know, is a cushy cushioning platform that consists of pressurized air inside a flexible fabric that was introduced in 1978 It has come a long way, though. It’s “40 year-young technology,” joked John Hoke, Nike’s chief innovation officer.
The Air technology will also be a part of a 13-shoe collection called the Blueprint Pack coming out July 3. And for us non-professional athletes, it will be available at nike.com and select retailers. The collection includes updated spikes for track athletes, with the Nike Victory 2 and Nike Maxfly 2; a new basketball shoe, the Nike G.T. Hustle 3; and a boot for footballers, the Nike Mercurial.
So back to my running. After those three minutes in the Running Analysis room, I got the results. To my surprise, my running form was well rounded in the six areas they measure: cross, bounce, lean, slide, roll, and reach. On my way to the treadmill from the locker rooms, I might have felt like a puppy trying to take its first steps — wobbly, awkward, and a bit clumsy since the shoes feel like clouds.
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