Is it cringe to wear Alphaflys to your local parkrun?

Only if you worry about what other people think. If you want to wear them and race for a good time there’s no reason why not.

No. Have you even been to any parkruns lately? Everyone and their gran shows up kitted out in the latest carbon-plated racers. The most popular by far seem to be vaporfly 2s and any iteration of the endorphin pros. 9/10 people lining up at the front will be wearing supershoes, and probably about half of the people around the 20 minute mark will too. I mean I'd question whether you need a pair of supershoes to break 20 for 5k, but at the end of the day most of the middle-aged people buying them are probably well off enough that dropping £200 on a pair of shoes is a drop in the bucket. Certainly pales in comparison to what hobby cyclists are spending on their gear.

Every parkrun I do has a couple of dudes running low 15s in super shoes. Nothing cringe about that.

(Yes, I know everyone on here can bust out 13:high or better, but parkruns are usually hilly, muddy, and you're dodging dog walkers and prams on lap 2 or 3 so low 15s is no joke).

Wearing alphaflys to a local parkrun is perfectly normal.

To answer the question you didn't ask: using cringe as an adjective, or however you misused it and many others misuse it, makes the user look like a complete dolt.

I powerwalk at Parkrun events in Alphafly 2 just to make people cringe. Then I make a big deal celebrating my new 42:36 PR to make them cringe more and then complain about me on LRC.

You know what's even worse? Sitting around the office in Beaverton, realizing there are no threads about any Nike shoe on the front page of the Board, and starting something like this.

That guy is definitely rocking some Alphafly 3 in his cubicle, lifting at The Coach K, and grabbing a coffee at Glo's.

They're always cringe, like running in moonshoes

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Languages evolve over time; they do not have permanently-fixed words or grammar. Cringe is now used as an adjective in modern society, and dictionaries such as Merriam-Webster include the adjective (as slang) in its list of definitions for the word. So unless you are seeking to eliminate the use of all slang from message boards (a task that is both quixotic and doltish), then stick to running comments.

Using the word 'cringe' as an adjective makes me cringe.

it's cringey to wear the cheat shoes at any point, ever. that's a not a person running anymore, it's a person using advanced technology to move them from point a to point b faster than they ever could on their own. what a strange strange thing to do unless all you care about is what other people who don't realize you are cheating think of you.

I don't know how to break it to you, but no one spends any time thinking about you or what you are wearing or how fast you can run a 5K.

It's worse to use the word cringe as an adjective.

I find it cringe but then again I wear shorts over tights which a lot of people find cringe. I guess we're all cringe at times. The important thing is to find people who will accept you for your uncoolness.

When you are in your mid 30's and the some of your friends are either in rehab or doing very poorly with their lives....being a hobby jogger isn't the worst thing in the world.....

No different from doing park run in roller blades

When I bought my Alphaflys Nike didn't ask me what pace I am able to run with them. And I also didn't have to get permission from the "parkrun-equipment-controlling-police". So, even if I walk on crutches and finish dead last in my local parkrun I'll happily wear them.

I will wear my alphaflys for a solo track workout if I feel like it. Most days I try not to because they´re so dam expensive per mile you get out of them, but if my legs are feeling flat, I would rather use the right tools for the job if I have them.