Nike’s new race-day system helps you pursue your goal.
Nike’s approach with this new line up is to give runners options that serve their goals. Each shoe serves a distinct purpose, helping runners find a race-day experience that aligns with their ambitions, experience, and preferences. Together, Nike Apex, Alphafly 4 and Swooshfly create Nike’s most comprehensive race-day offering yet, giving runners more ways to access the brand’s decades of athlete insight and innovation.
The Nike Apex (pictured above) pushes the edge of what racing innovation can become, delivering Nike’s most advanced expression of speed for runners chasing the edge of marathon performance.
Meanwhile, the Alphafly line is expanded into the latest chapter, the Alphafly 4. The latest sneaker in the race-day favorite unlocks speed for all, balancing responsiveness, comfort, stability and efficiency over distance.
Finally, the Swooshfly opens the door, offering an invitation to race day by helping runners feel confident, cushioned, and ready to take on the unknown.
This system of speed is built around Nike’s fundamental belief that race-day speed should belong to all runners. Each shoe came from the same place: a runner’s problem, studied in the Nike Sport Research Lab, solved through product, and proven through athlete testing before ever reaching a starting line.
After a limited launch, the wider release of the Alphafly 4 will hit us on October 29th. The Nike Apex is expected to launch in January of 2027, while the Swooshfly launches in Spring of 2027.
