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Nike's New React Infinity Run Shoe Is All About Injury Prevention

Nike, especially of late, has been all about speed—but its latest running release, the React Infinity Run, is in a different lane.

The activewear giant made waves with its too-fast-to-be-true running shoes, the ZoomX Vaporfly 4% and Next%, which use special foam and a carbon plate, were part of a sub-2 hour marathon (along with elite runner Eliud Kipchoge), a slew of major marathon wins by pros, and countless PR runs from amateur competitors. Independent studies even showed that the shoes could actually help to improve race finish times.

But runners can only operate at top speed for so long. Pushing the pace on every session is the road to overtraining and, even worse, overuse injuries. Ideally, athletes will mix some mid-level and even laid-back recovery jaunts in their training splits to stay fresh. Now, Nike is flipping the script and releasing a shoe specifically for those types of runs, too.

To really gauge the React Infinity Run's performance, I put it to the test myself, using it for recovery runs over the past three months.

- Brett Williams (Men's Health Associate Fitness Editor)