I saw on Clayton Murphy’s story that he’s chosen the Streak LT4 for the road mile, and also saw that Vincent Ciattei of OTC won a road mile in the Vaporfly. It looks like the adidas sponsored athletes in the races were wearing Takumi Sen 8. Is the consensus that Nike dropped the ball on their short distance racers in terms of them actually being used as racers? I know that personally, they just feel like a light trainer but are too soft for that old school racing flat feel. They seem like a great speed trainer but a little left behind in the racing department.
I have the next %, dragonfly, and Streakfly and it’s definitely a better workout shoe. I don’t have to spike up for sessions and my legs are protected from the zoomx. The takumi has a better pop and a lot faster!
I don't have the streak fly's, but I think if I bought them I would really just use them as workout shoes and not racers. if I were doing a roadrace even at 5k or 10k I think I would just wear vaporflys even though the streakflys are marketed as 5k/10k racing shoes
Streakfly is being driven by high schoolers not wanting to train in spikes or train in super shoes. My daughter uses her SF's on track days of race week and then laces up Dragonflies for meets. She'll also wear SF if running a low-key dual meet, etc.
I probably won't race in them, but they feel more like a good longer distance option than mid-distance flats. They don't quite get out of your way at speed, if that makes sense. But they're a nice training option for me @ 5k - marathon pace, and some pretty durable if you avoid rough surfaces.
I did a 5K in the streakfly and absolutely loved them. Think they will be my go to shoe for road 5ks and below. Would still stick with spikes on the track and the Alphaflys for any distance over 5k tho!
I saw on Clayton Murphy’s story that he’s chosen the Streak LT4 for the road mile, and also saw that Vincent Ciattei of OTC won a road mile in the Vaporfly. It looks like the adidas sponsored athletes in the races were wearing Takumi Sen 8. Is the consensus that Nike dropped the ball on their short distance racers in terms of them actually being used as racers? I know that personally, they just feel like a light trainer but are too soft for that old school racing flat feel. They seem like a great speed trainer but a little left behind in the racing department.
If you bought a Porsche 911 to drive in a Formula 1 race, you’d be really disappointed. Until you realized that you have a hell of a fun daily driver that you’ll use all the time and can still take it to the track if you want.
Streakfly is a good shoe, but marketed totally wrong. It should have been marketed at the lightest weight, most fun daily trainer ever, rather than a 5k/10k super shoe. I enjoy running tempos and intervals in the Streakfly, but it’s also comfortable enough to do recovery runs in as well. That said, it’s not coming close to giving you the same energy returns and efficiency improvements as the Next%.
obv Adidas athletes would never race in SF, Clayton seems to be quite 'old school' with his shoe choices so im not surprised by him specifically, which leaves Vincent and tbh from my experience I love the SF's for workouts on road or track, but I would probably go with Next%'s aswell only because there that little bit better
The problem Nike have created is that (while I totally agree with another poster about using SF's for workouts) in race situations most people are left with the question of 'why would I not use the Next%?. By coming out first it will choke the marketability of future Nike shoes
I saw on Clayton Murphy’s story that he’s chosen the Streak LT4 for the road mile, and also saw that Vincent Ciattei of OTC won a road mile in the Vaporfly. It looks like the adidas sponsored athletes in the races were wearing Takumi Sen 8. Is the consensus that Nike dropped the ball on their short distance racers in terms of them actually being used as racers? I know that personally, they just feel like a light trainer but are too soft for that old school racing flat feel. They seem like a great speed trainer but a little left behind in the racing department.
I love the Streakfly for training. I have never worn it for a race, but I haven't been racing in the past few years.