Stories about design by sportswear brand Nike including footwear, performance gear for athletes, football strips, design for the Olympics and retail design.
Nick is a keen runner and also the founder of YouTube channel The Run Testers, which specialises in reviewing running shoes, watches, headphones and other gear. Nick ran his first marathon in 2016 after six weeks of training for a magazine feature and subsequently became obsessed with the ...
while Kipchoge won the 2023 Berlin marathon in September wearing the Alphafly 3. On the same day as Kiptum's feat in Chicago, Sifan Hassan set the second-fastest woman's marathon time wearing -- surprise -- the Alphafly 3. Now, mere mortals will finally get a chance to get their feet...
Students Run LA (SRLA) creates a safe, supportive community at 190 public schools, welcoming more than 3,200 students of all backgrounds and abilities to train alongside their volunteer teachers to complete the Los Angeles Marathon. Good360 partners with socially responsible companies to source high...
REI Memorial Day DealsHoka Memorial Day SaleBest Running Shoe SalesSummer Running GearHow to Master the 5k Running Shoes & Gear What Shoes Do the U.S.’s Fastest Runners Wear? We counted every pair at the Olympic Marathon Trials and found 94% of finishers wore shoes with carbon-fiber ...
Over the past few years, versions of the Nike’s Vaporfly series have evolved to make runners even faster and help them set world records, like when Brigid Kosgei broke the women’s world record at October’s Ch...
Since the Alphafly’s original debut in 2020, the racing silo — predicated on a blazing fast combo of ZoomX foam, carbon-fiber Flyplate and Dual Nike Air Zoom units — has gone through subtle transitions to finetune the sneaker specifically for the marathon distance, with the latest version...
Jeff is Runner-in-Chief for, guiding the brand's shoes and gear coverage. A true shoe dog, he's spent more than a decade testing and reviewing shoes. In 2017, he ran in 285 different pairs of shoes, including a streak of 257 days wearing a different model. ...
Open tennis championships sported Nike gear; Nike sponsored New York City marathons; the company even outfitted major league soccer teams. In 1995, sales were just under $5 billion, and Nike was indeed the top athletic shoe and apparel manufacturer in the marketplace. By the following year, ...
The Gear Dr. Geng LuoNike Sport Research Lab Senior Researcher, Biomechanics Growing up as a sneakerhead in China, Geng never imagined that he would work on the forefront of performance footwear. Since joining Nike in 2013, he has done just that — creating cutting-edge shoe concepts for elit...