For Shoe Geeks Only (Clip): A Look at the NIKE DragonFly XC 3, #JourneytoCompete

This is the clip on the NIKE DragonFly XC 3, featuring Patrick Richie and Melanie Kile, PLMs on Track & Field and Track & Field and Road Racing, respectively. Recorded Friday, September 5, 2025.

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A look at the NIKE Dragonfly XC 3

Nike’s offering for 2025 Cross Country season

#JourneytoCompete

An excerpt from our full interview with Patrick Richie and Natalie Kile, both are Product Line Managers at NIKE. Patrick is the PLM for Track & Field and Natalie is PLM for Track & Field and Road Racing.

A job like this, at NIKE, is not the weak at heart. Both Patrick and Natalie kept me updated on each and every track and field offering for Tokyo (separate podcast) and the Story of Mutombo (separate podcast).

Jane HEDENGREN, won the 2024 NIKE NXN girls cross country championships by 40 seconds! photo courtesy of RUNNERSPACE.

This is the NIKE offering for cross country in 2025. It is part of a new collaboration, #JourneytoCompete between NIKE and RunBlogRun. We hope that you like it.

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Special thanks to Mike Deering, original member of The Shoe Addicts, who edits, clips, manages and produces the podcast for Fortius Media Group, LLC and RunBlogRun.com.

Special thanks to Patrick Richie and Natalie Kile for their patience over 90 minutes of my queries. It made for a super episode of #ForShoegeeksOnly

Author

Larry Eder

Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys.

Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."

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