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That the Vaporflys are Nike Air Max 270 Mujer available at all was not necessarily foreordained. When Nike first announced the magical shoe that Kipchoge, Desisa, and Tadese would wear for the Breaking2 attempt in Monza, Italy, there was little indication it would be available Nike M2k Tekno Dames to the general public. The company even joked via Nike Air Max 97 Donne Instagram about running ads for a shoe that was unavailable for purchase.“Even months later, guys were hitting me up to buy the cardboard box that they came in, no sneakers necessary,” says Knox Robinson, the founder of Black Roses NYC and a founding coach of Nike+ Run Club, who was on site in Monza, Italy, for Breaking2. “I laughed. I left that in the woods outside Monza.”
But in May, Nike did a limited release of the Elite in light blue. The non-Elite Vaporfly 4% had its commercial release in late July; by August, it was nearly impossible to find. In Adidas ZX 750 Mujer September, the crimson Elite hit Europe. The black Elite was released ahead of November’s NYC Marathon.
No one truly knows how many pairs of the Elite exist in private hands. The website Hypebeast claimed 99 pairs of the crimson Elite Adidas Ultra Boost Dames were made available in Europe in September. An email Nike Air Max 270 Dames sent to an Elite-hunting sneakerhead offered exclusive access to buy one of 100 pairs. When asked, Nike would not confirm the number of Elites that have been sold.
“I think there’s only one factory that can make the Vaporfly to the quality-control standards of the swoosh,” says Robinson. “Due to challenges in fabrication, new materials, lays, quality controls, that’s why we won’t see as many available units.”
Nike did confirm that only one factory makes this shoe, adding that since the ZoomX foam and carbon-fiber plate are totally new and unique Nike Air Max 2017 Donne technologies, they’re complicated to get right. Even so, Nike wouldn’t reveal the size of production runs of either the Elite or the 4%.
There are many hypotheses about the marketing of the Vaporfly, says Greg Dutter, editorial director of Footwear Plus, a trade publication. While he believes Nike Air Max 270 Womens that Nike wants to build this “hard to get” aura around the shoe, he doubts the company is concerned about what wider distribution would do for the shoe’s credibility.
“For decades, average Joes and Janes have been buying into all sorts of ‘breakthrough’ running technologies and elite runner endorsements in the hopes they will run faster,” Dutter says. “So what if the shoe doesn’t work as well for the average athlete? Did Air Jordans work as well for average basketball players? Absolutely not. But they ‘worked’ for M.J., and that’s what Nike Air Max 2017 Mujer millions of people bought into.”
Which is why when the Vaporfly does occasionally come up for sale, runners across the globe troll this release closely. In the closed Facebook group Running Shoe Geeks, 8,350-plus members truly geek out when small amounts are released, racing one another to snag their Adidas Hamburg Dames own. One user, for example, would post a buy link but Nike Air Max 95 Dames note, “Sharing info only after I ordered another pair.” These are the folks who notice that, on November 6, Nike’s Australia website suddenly had Vaporfly in stock, with its details already updated to tout Shalane Flanagan’s NYC Marathon win the day before.
Most important for sneakerheads and shoe geeks, Nike has held limited releases, announced exclusively through the Nike+ Run Club app. Sometimes, you simply have to respond to an app notification, reserve a pair right away, and hurry over to a particular Nike shop to pick them up.