I didn't like them and the price sucks for what you get. Nike took several parts of other shoes and slapped them together. They are nothing like the Next%. At recover paces this shoe is awful, at fast race paces its much better but this shoe is billed as a trainer for $200. Upper is
flyknit'ish and it holds sweat. They get heavy when wet.


Nike makes really good race shoes but their trainers blow.

Just got to 46km on my pair, this one was a 16km run going on and off half pace and I must say, I am liking this shoe more and more. I rotate between this and the zoom structure with the structure being for slow/easy runs and thus the majority of my running. Before this, I would rotate between the structure and the zoom fly and while I noticed a difference in speed and fatigue, it wasn't that much, not enough for me to feel any worse in the structures. Now with going between the structure and the tempo next, I feel like I am running in bricks when with the structures and my legs just feel destroyed. I have two pairs of structures and both are relatively new so it isn't a quality control issue.

Speed-wise, there is a huge difference between how I feel running 4min/km in both shoes. In the structures, that pace feels hard but doable, after a couple kms at that speed I feel like it starts to hurt the legs and I need to keep an eye on the pace to keep the speed up. In the tempos however, my struggle is keeping the pace at 4/km and not 3:50, I feel I could run 4/km for days.

Given all that, I am now considering winding down the amount I run in the structures and phasing them out altogether. My only fear is that when the next innovation comes in, it may not work as well with me but I guess I'll cross that bridge when it comes to it.

As the previous thread on these shoes were all about the price, I thought I'd start a new one to get peoples thoughts on how this shoe actually runs.

I had my first run in them now. Some background - I have never tried any of Nikes 4% shoes (neither Vaporfly / Next % or Alphafly), as I have never got a hold of a pair. Wanted to try the Next % Tempos.

So far only 1 run, and my initial feeling was they feel really "cluncky". To start with they didnt feel smooth at all, and my gait felt kinda strange. Part of this I accredit to the fact that they are very wide on the forefoot. I tend to land abit on the outside of my forefeet, which feels strange wigh a pretty wide, stiff sole on the forefoot of the Tempos. The shoes also give quite a "stiff/Firm" ride, and are not as plush as some every-day trainers are (I dont think these are everyday trainers, though). One strange this was that my speed was noticably higher in these shows than my normal trainers. For the same effort (PE and HR) it almost felt as these shoes were 15 sec faster pr km (!). Im no speedy runner, and my everyday easy pace is around 5:00. When running in the tempos, my slow run was a steady 4:40-4:45, at same HR I usually hold during 5:00-runs. Hard to peg all this on the shoe, I figure, especially after just 1 run.

I did one fast Km just to try (or semi-fast - did a km a tad over 4/km. The felt much better for running fast than slogging away - this was probably the easiest sub 4:10 km I feel I have run.

In summary a really strange shoe - for me. It didnt really fell very smooth or fluid to run in, but at the same time the felt really fast! I also liked the good cushion under the forefoot. I often find shoes to have too much cushion in the heel, and too litle in the forefoot, so this was good or my toeballs:)

Never ran in the alphas but if cost were no issue I’d ha e my rotation full of Next%! So I’d assume the answer would be the same with alphas.

As the previous thread on these shoes were all about the price, I thought I'd start a new one to get peoples thoughts on how this shoe actually runs.

I had my first run in them now. Some background - I have never tried any of Nikes 4% shoes (neither Vaporfly / Next % or Alphafly), as I have never got a hold of a pair. Wanted to try the Next % Tempos.

So far only 1 run, and my initial feeling was they feel really "cluncky". To start with they didnt feel smooth at all, and my gait felt kinda strange. Part of this I accredit to the fact that they are very wide on the forefoot. I tend to land abit on the outside of my forefeet, which feels strange wigh a pretty wide, stiff sole on the forefoot of the Tempos. The shoes also give quite a "stiff/Firm" ride, and are not as plush as some every-day trainers are (I dont think these are everyday trainers, though). One strange this was that my speed was noticably higher in these shows than my normal trainers. For the same effort (PE and HR) it almost felt as these shoes were 15 sec faster pr km (!). Im no speedy runner, and my everyday easy pace is around 5:00. When running in the tempos, my slow run was a steady 4:40-4:45, at same HR I usually hold during 5:00-runs. Hard to peg all this on the shoe, I figure, especially after just 1 run.

I did one fast Km just to try (or semi-fast - did a km a tad over 4/km. The felt much better for running fast than slogging away - this was probably the easiest sub 4:10 km I feel I have run.

In summary a really strange shoe - for me. It didnt really fell very smooth or fluid to run in, but at the same time the felt really fast! I also liked the good cushion under the forefoot. I often find shoes to have too much cushion in the heel, and too litle in the forefoot, so this was good or my toeballs:)