 They feel amazing. Just sliding onto the foot, different, I must say, different than the next percent. We go, ladies and gentlemen. I don't have my big knife down here in downtown Denver, but we got a car key. All right, opening it up, a new shipment. Let's see what is inside here. Oh yeah, oh my goodness. Oh my goodness, ready for this? Whoa, Nike in the house. Of course, because, oh, whoops, hold on, save that. Hold on, we want this box. Here we are, all right, the Nike Zoomfly Threes. Oh yeah, look at that. All right, the next iteration of the Zoomfly lineup from Nike, another carbon fiber plate running shoe. All right, let's lace up. Know the drill, first impressions, gut reaction. Right out of the box, here we go. Zoomfly Threes, let's do this. All right, everyone. So, these are my first steps, first steps. Oh baby, feeling good, feeling real good, everyone. Okay, I think I'm in love, I think I'm in love. All right, they feel great. Upper feels so comfy and feels springy, nice bounce. Let's go. I gotta be careful, I gotta slow down. That was amazing, first run in the Nike Zoomfly Threes. Feeling amazing, I don't even, okay, I'm not gonna turn this into a comparison video to the next percent, but these are feeling really, really nice. All right, break it down in the shoe deal. Well, that was disappointing, not the Zoomfly Three. All right, what was disappointing? I just tried to do the running shoe giveaway and the Wi-Fi did not work, it was too slow. I don't know what's going on, this is crazy. I was on the phone with tech support for over an hour. They could not figure it out either, so I apologize if you were there, ready to get some new running shoes, but we will reschedule, okay? I promise we'll reschedule very soon. Stay tuned for the make-up date. I don't know, we just do what we can around here, okay? You keep trying, you keep trying, fighting, and sometimes technology just doesn't wanna work. So, this has only happened one other time where it hasn't worked at all. So anyway, I apologize so much. Okay, let's dive into the Nike Zoomfly Three. First of all, keyword, and I'm gonna let you choose the keyword. Trainer or racer? Is this a trainer or a racer? So you choose the keyword down below, and yes, let's dive into the stack height of the Zoomfly Three. What are we talking about here? Can anybody confirm? I did some research, but can you confirm? Is this really a 40 millimeter stack height in the heel and a 32 millimeter in the forefoot, which makes an eight millimeter drop for the Zoomfly Three? That is a huge, huge stack height. So anyway, if anybody has any more information, I would appreciate it. Okay, for the weight of the Zoomfly Three. In my size, we're looking at 8.5 ounces or 200, and I believe I have 41 or 42 grams. So a little, actually, a little on the heavier side, for what, okay, I won't say it, a little on the heavier side, I was expecting closer to like 7.8. So I foresee this shoe losing weight in the next iteration, because that is, like it's, yeah, anyway, it's just a little heavier. And okay, moving on to the upper. It's that brand new vapor weave upper that you're seeing in the next percent as well, but the major difference is definitely the inside cavity of the Zoomfly Three. It's got a very comfortable sock liner inside this shoe. That as soon as I slipped the shoe on my foot today, I was, I felt it immediately. It felt so nice as my foot was going into the shoe. Okay, what else? Oh yeah, I guess, let me just think. Well, there's no flywire cables, and just so you know, Nike is phasing out the flywire cables from their uppers, which I frankly, I didn't mind the flywire cables, but some people I think thought that they created some pressure points over the top of their feet. So no more flywire cables. Okay, let's talk about the midsole. It's the carbon fiber plate inside this 40 millimeter stack height, plus the Nike Epic React midsole foam, which they developed. I'll have to find, well, there was an NBA player. Who was it? I think it was a Golden Dremon Green, I think. Anyway, helped develop the Epic React foam that you see, this was five or six years ago, but now you see it here in the Zoomfly 3, and so that is the midsole. All one huge chunk of foam there. And for the outsole real quick, it looks very similar to the next percent outsole, just so you know, they're going with these grooves, probably for a little better grip on wet roads. If you're doing a hard, fast workout on pavement or racing on pavement, so looks, and it's got this harder rubber here on the forefoot and then here on the heel. Oh, I've got thoughts on this as well, but we'll save that for the full review. And by the way, this is not my full review. This is just the first impression that'll happen after 50 miles, you know the drill. Okay, for the fit, it was running a little long in the toe box. I felt some extra space beyond my big toe, but I don't think I would go a half size down at all for definitely not. So the fit was true to size for me, even though it was a little extra space, it felt great. So good fit there and not, okay, if you don't like a narrow midfoot, you might wanna double check this shoe as you might not wanna get this shoe or test it out in a running shoe store before picking it up. And let's move on to one positive and one drawback. Here we go. The positive has to be the sock liner inside this shoe. It's amazing. It's amazing. It feels really, really nice. So I'll be excited to see how it holds up and the sock liner inside. And then also how it performs at higher speeds. Like, yeah, just what it feels like it, let's say, for me, like sub six minute pace will be interesting to find out. And for one drawback, I'm struggling. I'm struggling to find a drawback, which means this is a good sign, hopefully for the future for this shoe. If I had to choose one though, I'll go with the weight. It didn't feel heavy though, but I'll go with the weight as maybe a potential drawback for the Zoomfly three. And how do I foresee using the Zoomfly three moving forward? I'm just gonna say threshold runs so fast. Okay, when I'm ready to get ready for a marathon and I wanna go do a six mile threshold, this is probably going to be the shoe. I'm gonna stay away from pavement, gonna do it on dirt, learn my lesson from the last training block, but I foresee this shoe being saved for fast threshold. And, you know, it could be tempo. I would probably choose something else for tempo, but definitely fast threshold runs where I wanna really basically approach oxygen debt, not push through, but really come up to that line of oxygen debt. This will be the ticket for me. Okay, the price, $160. So they're not giving them away. I'll come back after 50 miles and tell you if I think it's worth $160. And my conclusion on the performance, exciting. Very exciting, very comfortable, has pop, felt fast, and you can tell I'm excited. I'm trying to figure out in my mind, I don't have them out, actually I do. Well, this is not a comparison video, but I'm trying to figure out how the Zoomfly 3 is differing from the Zoomfly Flynit. As far as feel of the ride, I know the uppers are completely different, but as far as the feel, they did feel similar, I must say, but anyway, I'll keep you posted and probably get you a comparison video very soon there. And for that question of the day, we're gonna talk about money. I know you're not always supposed to talk about money, but we're gonna go there. We're a YouTube family, we can talk about money. Does $160, question of the day, does $160 for any running shoe make you just not interested? Is that too much? What is kind of that dividing line for you, for a trainer or racer? Doesn't matter, remember the key word, I'll let you decide there, but does $160, like what's that cutoff point in your mind? I know some people that won't buy shoes that are over $90, they just go, they always buy last year's version in last year's model, or some people collect running shoes and they'll pay $250 for the next percent. So anyway, I'm just trying to gauge if you feel comfortable sharing, I'll be curious to hear your thoughts, because guess what, it matters because we're buying shoes all the time as runners, so it matters to try and I don't know how we can influence the running shoe companies, but to try and encourage the running shoe marketplace to remain, I guess, fair, competitive and available to as many runners as possible so we can continue to pursue the sport that we love. All right, all right, thank you for being here. Again, I apologize for the live stream, who knows, who knows, sometimes technology wins and you just gotta bow out and come back to fight another day. So that's what we are gonna do. Seek beauty, work hard, love each other. See you tomorrow. Woo!