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Nike Vaporfly 4 Proto Review
The Greatest Running Shoe Ever Made?
Welcome to my review of the Nike Vaporfly 4. Firstly, I would like to say I paid for these shoes with my own money, so there’s no outside influence keeping me from giving you an impartial review.
Price: $260.00 US | ¥29,700
Weight: 190 g/6.7 oz (Men’s US 10)
Heel Height: 35 mm
Forefoot Height: 29 mm
Introduction — Off to a Bad Start?
When these shoes were released on March 1, 2025, I was queued up at Nike Ginza to be one of the first in the world to get my hands on them. Luckily, I could walk out of the store with my hands on them before they had imminently sold out. Two days before the worldwide release, Nike lent me the new Vaporfly 4 to try out. I made a YouTube video about my experience with them; they weren’t the greatest. But I speculated that nothing was wrong with the shoes as a whole or in mass, just that the ones I was using were either defective or that whoever was using them before me…
