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Feb 2020
2:45pm, 14 Feb 2020
68,595 posts
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Gobi
I have been impressed with how the upper has held up
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Feb 2020
3:17pm, 14 Feb 2020
8,318 posts
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Boab
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.
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Feb 2020
3:21pm, 14 Feb 2020
68,596 posts
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Gobi
sadly doesn't change the fact I think they are over working my hamstring :¬)
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Feb 2020
8:28pm, 14 Feb 2020
907 posts
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SKR
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 ....
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Feb 2020
8:41pm, 14 Feb 2020
3,349 posts
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K5 Gus
The latest version of Next is on Nike website as "coming soon"
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Feb 2020
9:16pm, 14 Feb 2020
4,477 posts
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Windsor Wool
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.
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Feb 2020
9:16pm, 14 Feb 2020
4,478 posts
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Windsor Wool
moaning
Still yawn!
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Feb 2020
8:05am, 15 Feb 2020
68,598 posts
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Gobi
I saw something about sub 14 min 5km runners - 1 in the top 20 not in them or something
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Feb 2020
8:56am, 15 Feb 2020
8,442 posts
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ITG
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!
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Feb 2020
5:02pm, 15 Feb 2020
2,010 posts
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Canute
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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Nike Pegasus
Jul 2024