![]() The overall goal is to reduce injury-and Nike claims to have an impressive amount of data backing up the new kicks, calling it one of its "most tested running shoes" in the company's history.Īfter a 12-week external study of 226 runners conducted by the British Columbia Sports Medicine Research Foundation (BCSMRF), the subjects that wore the new shoes had a 52 percent lower injury rate than the control shoe, the Nike Structure 22. Now, Nike is flipping the script and releasing a shoe specifically for those types of runs, too.Ĭounter to most performance athletic gear, the new React Infinity Run is designed for more "moderate" runs, not killer speed. ![]() Ideally, athletes will mix some mid-level and even laid-back recovery jaunts in their training splits to stay fresh. Pushing the pace on every session is the road to overtraining and, even worse, overuse injuries. Independent studies even showed that the shoes could actually help to improve race finish times.īut runners can only operate at top speed for so long. The activewear giant made waves with its too-fast-to-be-true running shoes, the ZoomX Vaporfly 4% and Next%, which use special foam and a carbon plate, were part of a sub-2 hour marathon ( along with elite runner Eliud Kipchoge), a slew of major marathon wins by pros, and countless PR runs from amateur competitors. Nike, especially of late, has been all about speed-but its latest running release, the React Infinity Run, is in a different lane.
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