With the React Infinity Run Nike uses more React Foam than ever and the shoe features an 8mm drop (30mm heel, 22mm forefoot). Nike’s React foam has been on the market now for about two years, and this foam’s resiliency is highly lauded. Nike React Infinity Run Flyknit – Lateral Side Nike React Infinity Run Flyknit Sole Unit The other very noticeable feature of the shoe was a very loose and unstructured heel collar that I’d heard was a deal breaker for some runners. The rockered sole design is obvious when trying on the shoe as is the incredible amount of soft cushioning. The design of the React Infinity Run is very unique with its elegant and simple knit upper on top of a very wide and flared midsole. I was expecting to unbox a stability version of the Nike React shoe and be disappointed. Nike claimed that those runners wearing the React Infinity Run had a 52% lower injury rate than those wearing Nike’s more traditional stability shoe, the Structure 22. I’d enjoyed running in the original Nike React Flyknit shoes and I was looking forward to trying a new iteration.Īdditionally, I felt like Nike’s contracted study to measure the efficacy of the shoe’s claim to reduce injury was inherently flawed and unreliable as there was little control in the design which consisted of 226 runner being divided into two groups to train for a half marathon. It is clear that as a company they are willing to do their research and development, and the midsole foams they’ve created in the past two years have left would be competitors in the dust. I was intrigued by the React Infinity Run since Nike announced it would be creating a shoe to reduce injury. ![]() The experience of running in the React Infinity Run is very unique in both its cushioning and ride. This is a shoe that most closely resembles the most well cushioned and protective shoes on the market including the New Balance 1080v10, Hoka’s Bondi or Clifton 6, Brooks Glycerin 17, ASICS GlideRide, the Adidas Ultraboost, and Nike’s own React and Structure series of shoes. If you’ve run in past versions of the Nike Epic React be ready for a completely different experience. ![]() The React Infinity Run doesn’t aim to correct pronation, rather it creates stability due to having a wider platform for the shoe. However, there has never been any evidence to support this and the use of medial posting and dual density midsoles has fallen out of fashion in the last several years as more runners have migrated back to neutral shoes. Reducing pronation was thought to reduce stress through the rest of the kinesthetic chain including the knees and hips. The general thinking behind injury prevention in the past with running shoes has been to reduce the amount of pronation (think inward roll) that the foot goes through during the gait cycle. Seems like a very moral pursuit for Nike, a company whose moral compass has been called into question quite a bit in the past year. Its quite something different for a company to take on the inevitable and worst part of our sport injury.Īs one of Nike’s Moonshot projects the idea of creating a shoe that reduces injury and the amount of time that athletes have to avoid running due to various niggles. ![]() It is one thing for a running shoe company to try to build the lightest racing flat or best carbon plated marathon racing shoe.
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