Article by Sam Winebaum
Nike Zoom Fly 6 ($170)
With the dramatically lighter Zoom Fly with more Zoom X foam in the mix, Nike re enters the growing category of supercritical foam (or mostly supercritical foam) well cushioned plated super trainer/racers.
Nike pioneered the plated super trainer way back in 2017 with the original Zoom Fly, a training companion to the Vaporfly. They then re upped in 2020 with, for the time and still by stats, the massively stacked Tempo Next %, an all time favorite for long fast runs for all our testers.
Then we see a series of lackluster minor updates to the Zoom Fly with shifts from React foam to heavy recycled Zoom X foam (Zoom Fly 5), with that last update way back in 2022.
The market charged ahead with well received shoes and updates to them such as the Endorphin Speed 4, ASICS Magic Speed 4, Hoka Mach X 2, and adidas Boston 12. How will the Zoom Fly measure up? We'll get to that in our upcoming multi tester review but here is what we know so far.