My Running Shoes: Nike LunarGlide+ Review

During my high school days, I wasn’t good at sports. We get even lesser exercise especially when we start to work. I didn’t intend to buy any running shoes few weeks ago. Until recently I visited Nike web site, although I really don’t love it because of their slow loading flash.

From Nike’s Footware Finder page, I get to know my feet belong to medium arch and I have underpronated feet!

1. Overpronation: 45% runners
2. Neutral: 55% runners
3. Underpronation: 5% runners

Only less than 5% runners fall into this underpronation category! Anyway, I’m not pro runner, so don’t think this underpronation is an issue to me. OMG, this also explains why all my shoes bottom always end up damage in an unnatural way.

So according to Nike web site, they recommended me Nike LunarGlide+, one of the reasons, of course, this is their latest running shoes! Another reason is because these shoes can overcome my underpronation with the lightweight LunarLite foam support cushioning.Upon that, there are advantages such as super light weight, stability, Flywire technology and etc.

I did my homework by just google about this pair of shoes. Just too bad, Nike’s web site has faded out their earlier Lunar series running shoes such as LunarTrainer and LunarRacer.

My First Impressions

These three days half an hour jogging should be my first longest run I have after graduated from university. The shoes overall performance is very comfortable, superb lightweight and very bouncy for a running shoes! Must be the foam doing the work, not only absorb but also the return energy quite amazing. I’m quite satisfy with this as a casual runner.

I will find a day and take my running shoes for whole day long walk, see whether the cushion really can prevent my arch pain.

Price

The retail price in Singapore is SGD189 and in Malaysia is RM399. These shoes aren’t cheap. I seldom buy sport shoes and it is still quite reasonable than my leather shoes. I got mine at Queensway, with 15% discounts that make the price tag of SGD160. A currency exchange conversion math, RM399/2.46 = SGD 162. Getting these shoes from Malaysia is also another good option.

If feel the price tag quite steep, you can look for older Lunar series, because there are more discounts around, I saw 30% discount and I don’t think the technology is far lag behind since they are also using LunarLite foam.

Nike+

This is a pair of Nike+ shoes. There is a slot under the foam for Nike Sport sensor. The sensor can communicate with iPod and track down the runner’s speed, running pace and then upload your workout to internet, sharing with the rest of the world. Nike is very brilliant in doing this by bringing sports to the internet social networking.

However it is too bad currently Nike Sport sensor could only work with iPod Nano, 2nd gen iPod Touch and iPhone 3GS. My 1^st gen iPod Touch will not work with this. Besides, I also saw some others complaining about that the sensor recognition is difficult and the inaccuracy of the sensor.

I think a better system can be built by just using iPhone. Since the iPhone built in GPS already can do the job. So users can have a more accurate running pace tracking and also can track your running path.

Additional Notes

When buying, please take note the shoes come in Men and Women. There are some differences for women:

The Women’s Nike LunarGlide+

Includes more soft foam under the heel than the men’s model and is more flexible under the forefoot because, on average, a woman weighs 10 to 15 percent less than a man of the same stature, and therefore has less mass with which to compress and flex a shoe’s midsole.

The women’s Nike LunarGlide+ has a two-part, gender-specific external heel counter engineered to accommodate a woman’s distinct needs for comfort, fit and support around the heel.

Nike has applied its Dynamic Fit Technology, a stretchy material, adjacent to the big toe, which expands to accommodate varying widths. Women tend to have broader forefeet which can lead to fit issues and abrasions.

source: Nike

My Nike LunarGlide+ Photo

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