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Shoe reviews, long-distance durability testing, and GPS watch reviews from brands including Garmin and COROS.
Nike unveiled a new racing lineup with three models: the everyday-racer Swooshfly, the PR-chasing Alphafly 4, and the top-tier Apex. The Swooshfly debuts supercritical SkyX foam with a carbon fiber plate, returning up to 16% more energy than the Vaporfly 4, priced at $145 for a Spring 2027 launch, including a China-exclusive debut in February.
Skechers launches its first race day shoe, the Aero Elite, with a full ATPU midsole, carbon-infused Quantum Plate, and TPEE upper. It costs $225 and is available October 1. After a launch event run, the author calls it soft, bouncy, and under 6 ounces for a US M9.
DC Rainmaker reviews the Garmin Fenix 9 series in depth. The lineup extends LTE and satellite connectivity to solar models and the 43mm AMOLED model, raises base display brightness to 2,000 nits and Pro to 3,000 nits, and makes titanium cases and sapphire glass standard on Pro models.
DC Rainmaker's in-depth review of the Apple Watch Ultra 4 finds its optical heart rate sensor is Apple's best yet, but notes that Apple's white paper only compares timestamps where Apple has data and excludes missing points from error calculations, making the 'most accurate heart rate' claim hard to fully support in real-world scenarios.