Utilizing Nike’s newest rendition of Lunar foam, the Lunarcharge BN is a comfortable running inspired lifestyle sneaker. Throwing things back to beloved Air Max colorways isn’t a bad way to introduce the line either.
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The hyperbole has been building for weeks now as is standard with all major product releases. Social media has been teased, glimpses and rumours are shared and now we have reached the grand reveal. All this fuss for a running shoe, yet it’s important to consider why there's this song-and-dance made.
It’s often easy to be cynical, but new products aren’t just about unit sales; they’re not sacrificial offerings to the sales wall, these products are the next phase in what a brand is trying to achieve, this is a new benchmark for them and their reputation is at stake. That’s quite a commitment, so what have Nike done differently with the LunarEpic?
When talking to Nike about the launch of this shoe, they were very careful to make clear they don’t want to position this shoe as a game-changer.‘We’re not making any such claims,’ said Global Running Product Director Phil McCartney, a Geordie who now works at Nike’s global HQ in Portland, Oregon. ‘We’re going to let runners decide for themselves. It’s a shoe designed around runner-led innovation, it’s not about introducing features for the sake of it.’ The idea is that if the shoe proves popular, Nike will roll out some of the key technologies to other shoes in their running range.
The standout feature is obviously the high-top style ankle collar. Inspired by Nike’s Mercurial football boot, worn by the likes of Cristiano Ronadlo and Zlatan Ibrahimovic. The idea is that it will cut down on chafing, irritation and lateral movement. ‘When we spoke to our footballers they were really vocal about the benefits of the collar,’ says McCartney. ‘The feedback was that it - along with our skin-like heel counter at the rear - locked their feet down to the shoe so well that it improved their proprioception [ground feel] as their feet weren’t moving even the slightest bit inside the shoe. So we knew it was good to bring over to the running sector.’
The other big idea is the lack of a traditional outsole. Instead Nike have simply extended the midsole material, using a new hybrid foam which is made of two different compounds designed to provide a mix of bounce, responsiveness and durability.‘Most running shoes which use more than one foam will bond them together using glue or some sort of adhesive,’ says McCartney. ‘We haven’t done that. To save on weight and improve the performance we bonded them together using just heat.’ The pods on the underfoot are placed strategically to provide shock attenuation where you need it, and the slashes in the pods provide traction across a variety of surfaces.
So, how does that translate into how they perform as running shoes? Runner's World's Commissioning Editor Kerry McCarthy and Digital Editor Ben Hobson got their hands on the first two pairs of the LunarEpic to arrive in the UK and put them through their paces. Here’s what they thought:
We have to start with the collar. Shoe design has been so standardised for so many years that removing the traditional heel collar might seem like a change for the sake of change, but it's often a point of irritation on a shoe and with woven and knit technology now refined and common place, the logic to remove this potential friction point makes sense and thankfully so does the application.
Designed to be worn with a sock of any length, the collar is not compressive, but it is snug. As with all previous versions of Flyknit varying grades of knit are used to add structure, and the collar seamlessly fits with the rest of the shoe; it doesn’t feel like a bolt on to the upper, but an extension of it. This has a two-fold effect; firstly the shoe feels more secure on the foot, but it also gives you a sense of wearing something more connected. Covering the ankle joint strangely adds an element of reassurance, which is 90% psychological, but sometimes that’s just as important as to how you much you enjoy running in a shoe. Extending the closing point of the shoe up from the ankle also removes the necessity for a tongue, which again removes a possible point of irritation and adds to the notion that the shoe is more of an extension of the legs rather than an attachment.
Of course the fit isn’t just down to the collar. The application of Flywire, Nike’s lacing tension system, is probably the best yet with the wires extending all the way back to the ‘skin-like’ heel cups and allowing for a very secure fit in conjunction with the Flyknit upper as a whole. Lateral movement within the shoe is reduced by this snug fit; whether that can be attributed solely to the addition of the collar is questionable, but it’s hard to ignore the fact that it clearly does make a difference. As for irritation from the collar, neither of us experienced any in both long and short socks.
In regards to ride and comfort, we’ve used the shoe for 400m repeats in speedwork, casual 10Ks and a 20-mile long run, and it’s handled all with ease. It comes with interchangeable foot beds, one slightly thicker than the other, so you can to a degree customise the cushioning on offer but, more importantly, the new heat-bonded Lunarlon sole [side slits and all], hasn’t changed in terms of delivering that familiar, comfortable ride.
And so to the outer sole, or in this case a continuation of the midsole. We haven’t had the shoes long enough to wear test them sufficiently over hundreds of miles so as to how the sole wears without any rubber on it we cannot comment yet, but any initial concerns with wear and grip have been proved null and void. The fingerprint-esque laser cut pods offer as much grip in the wet and dry as its rubber-covered contemporaries. The anatomical layout of the pods compliments the natural contact points of the foot and the structure of each pod [they have a very slight dome effect] aids in the dispersion of the usual running forces and offers just the right amount of feedback. We’ve taken them to the track and they handle the bends with ease, they can even handle a bit of grit, though proper mud is to be avoided.
We’ll keep on testing them and raking up the miles, but it’s safe to say that Nike are right: it’s not a ‘game-changer’ but that doesn’t really matter. Not every pair of shoes needs to be that important in the grand scale of all things running, but they do need to be of a standard and quality to justify the noise made about them and the LunarEpic does that.