Nike | Men’s Vaporfly 3 Road Racing Shoes – White/Habanero Red-Black-University Red

Advice for Road Runners: The Nike Men’s Vaporfly 3 Road Racing Shoes have established themselves as very popular carbon fibre plated road running shoes. 

Ekiden Edition – Design Notes

This particular Vaporfly 3 is part of Nike’s 2025 Ekiden Collection, which celebrates the incredible passion and devotion of Japan’s long-distance relay runners. The flame graphic pattern on the upper symbolises the fire that burns within all racers and the torches that were used to during the night legs of the earliest ekiden competitions. 

The flame graphic is borrowed from the Nike Air Streak Spectrum. The Spectrum was a 2002 silhouette from the Streak Series, which was designed with insights from Japanese racers. 

You can read more about Nike’s 2025 Ekiden Collection at nike.com. 

Underfoot Feel

The details are still top secret, but the ZoomX foam in the Vaporfly 3 is designed to be better than the ZoomX foam used in previous models of Vaporfly. ZoomX foam is incredibly light, soft and returns lots of energy. Therefore, your feet feel protected, but you should experience a lot of energy return when you are running.

The full-length carbon fibre Flyplate is there to help you to run faster.

At the heel, the midsole’s design includes a noticeable bulge. This is to help with stability.

The outsole is thinner in comparison to the outsole on previous models of the Vaporfly. This allows more ZoomX foam to be placed underneath your feet.

In summary, the underfoot feel should be very cushioned and highly propulsive.

Upper Fit

The Vaporfly 3’s upper features soft, yet supportive Flyknit yarns. It should feel exceptionally breathable. The upper conforms to the shape of your feet.

Ideal Run Type

The Nike Men’s Vaporfly 3 Road Racing Shoes are for racing distances from the 10K to the marathon. Testing and getting used to them on some faster training sessions is a good idea. However, we really recommend keeping these carbon fibre plated running shoes for race day. 

Technical Features

• Drop: 8 mm
• Approximate weight: 200 grams (based on a U.S. men’s size 10)
• Wider toe area for a roomier fit
• Internal foam pod at the heel for additional cushioning
• Colour shown: White/Habanero Red-Black-University Red

Sizing Advice

Shoe size is a personal preference and everyone’s feet are different, but we want to ensure you avoid any pain or discomfort from bruised toenails, rubbing, blistering or pins and needles.

Your running shoes should have enough width to allow you to spread your toes and should have some space at the front (we recommend having a half to one thumb’s width of space from the end of your longest toe to the front of your running shoes).

This usually means that your running shoe will be at least a half size bigger than your regular shoe size though this can vary from brand to brand.