THE OFFICIAL ZOOM/VAPORFLY STUDY THREAD.

Honest post here - I have had 2 pairs of Vaporfly 4% and at least 7 Zoom Fly pairs.

ZoomFly

*No problems whatsoever. No pain. Good daily training shoe. A little on the stiffer side.

VaporFly 4%

*First pair I raced in I had no pain but didn't wear the shoe again until my final 4 weeks of my next Marathon cycle. It was only then that after that first race the shoe started giving my little aches on the inside of my knee during my Long tempo runs (22 miles). It eventually went away so my guess is one of my muscles in my leg was probably tight and just needed to stretch. But this didn't start to happen until I used them for my longer Tempos. I did get over 400 miles on them though.

*2nd pair. I raced in these during the 2018 Boston Blizzard. Couldn't feel my feet to begin with from start to finish. Funny thing is the next day my right foot was in pain. Don't know if i was landing properly due to the fact I had no feeling in my feet and legs nor body. Was just too cold and somehow sprung a niggly. I could run on it but It took 4 weeks to go away.

Honest opinion - I'm not racing in them anymore. I have a fall thon coming up and will be using another shoe. Can't take no chances.

Or I just race in the regular ZoomFly. I have no issue with them. I trained properly. One stupid shoe is not going to make a difference. I trust my training.

Let me preface this by I was a long time Nike hater and eventually made the switch (after I tried the Zoom Streak LT/6 series)

I was on vacation and saw the Zoom Flys marked down to $75 so I bought 2 pairs the regular and the SP version I bought my true to size normal size they fit and felt fine I had a thumbs width space and was excited to run in them. Coming from something minimal I knew it would take a while to get used to the stack height but right away I noticed it was hard to make cuts etc and had to slow down around turns etc due to adjusting to the stack height. But no biggie I expected that.

My issue came from I constantly had top of foot pain and banging my toe into the toe box. It was unbearable so I sent them back. I chalk it up to sizing issue and not the shoe for the toe box.Even with the thumb space I didn't feel it was enough and didn't want to stick around to find out cause I've always preferred a more minimal shoe and didnt think the top pain would subside with a longer shoe.

Like any shoe gotta find one that fits your feet, I can see the potential just didn't work out.

I got the Zoom Fly Flyknit on sale two weeks ago, Achilles flared up immediately... Coming from the pegasus turbo's I am pretty disappointed.

Zero issues with either shoe. I've currently got about 250 miles on the Zoom Flys and 130 on the Vapors.