Nike Streakflys as high school XC flat?

I’m using them for Eastbay for sure and most of my meets other than maybe 1-2 on perfect golf courses which I’ll use Dragonfly.

Isn't Eastbay at Van Cortland? wouldn't you go spikes there? Just wondering.

Streakfly are a terrible shoe imo… I love Vaporflys, Alphaflys and Dragonflys but the Streakfly are not in this category of shoe.

Go for an adidas flat or maybe Asics

I would say the Streakflys were horribly marketed shoes. They are super light yet very cushioned. I enjoyed running in them. They are not, however, fast. They are more of an easy day shoe honestly. Labeling them a 5k race shoe was just dumb.

They are also not very durable. I was wearing them for track workouts and the entire bottom was starting to break down after only 100 miles. It was like the track surface was sanding down the outsole.

I just switched to the Sketcher GoMeb Speed 6 Hyper for my track workouts and it is SO much faster.

My pair has been plenty durable (over 200 miles so far), but wouldn't race XC in them. The ZoomX just seems too fragile to survive much beyond asphalt and track.

I had been using them on the roads and they weren’t breaking down any more than a regular shoe, but something about the track surface seemed to break down the outsole.

I ran in spikes last year and it sucker in super dry fast hard conditions. It was my first time but runs a lot like asphalt especially the technical section. Realized I want more cushioning to be more confident.

I guess there is a lot of packed down cinders at Eastbay. Everyone I knew wore spikes, but maybe they didn't know better. A lot of first timers. Same reason I was thinking about the Streakflys. I wish they made a medium cushioned real flat that was still lower in height.

The courses by me are at least half asphalt. There's no dirt hills or grass, but there are some soft sand sections and some end on tracks, so the streaks might work, but I guess I'll just suck it up and take the pounding on the legs for a few races. I don't see anything else new that's cushioned and fast without being high stack Hoka/Next type shoes

The Streakfly was designed with mostly two things in mind:

1. workouts

2. California HS XC

For road racing, there are better things out there. For what you're using them for, I actually think the cushioning, flexibility, and positioning of the midfoot shank makes them appropriate for XC.

So maybe the Streakflys could be a replacement for say, the Waffle 5 XC's? (The spikeless flat version of the Victory XC 5's that I have now?

An adidas flat would be the ideal choice for me. It provides me with an excellent wearing experience.

I do half my training miles in Streakflys. If your XC courses are relatively flat and you don't need any special traction, I would think that those shoes would be fine to race in. I do not think they are good for uneven surfaces, mud, or grass (beyond short patches).