Velocity NITRO 5
Velocity NITRO 5 is a non-plated daily trainer with a 35/27mm stack, 8mm drop, full-length NITROFOAM, JAPAN LAST, and an engineered mesh upper.
- Intended uses:
- Daily, Jog
Specs
Among 869 listed shoes, this is a lighter Daily Trainer
- Weight
- 240g
- Of 814 known values: 184 lower, 16 equal, 614 higher. The marker uses the midpoint of equal values.
- lighterLower 24.6%, including ties / average -27g
- Drop
- 8mm
- Of 818 known values: 410 lower, 239 equal, 169 higher. The marker uses the midpoint of equal values.
- Standard64.7th percentile (tie midpoint) / average +1.2mm
- Stack height (heel/forefoot)
- 35 / 27mm
- Of 694 known values: 309 lower, 45 equal, 340 higher. The marker uses the midpoint of equal values.
- Standard47.8th percentile (tie midpoint) / average +0.3mm
- Carbon plate
- No
- 83% of 787 known models have no carbon plates
- Midsole
- NITROFOAM
- Outsole
- PUMAGRIP
- Reference price
- $140
- US price
Weight measurement and plate details
- Weight note
- PUMA Japan lists approximately 240g at 27.0cm, while PUMA's official global launch article lists 230g at UK8. The stored 240g Japanese-market reference is retained because the stated sizes differ.
- Plate note
- The manufacturer-provided exact-model PUMA Japan press release explicitly describes Velocity NITRO 5 as a non-plated cushioning model.
Related video
Shoe overview by Running Warehouse.
Changes from the previous model
A comparison with the registered values for Puma Velocity NITRO 4.
In the registered data, weight is 28g lighter at 240g, drop is 2mm lower at 8mm, heel stack is 1mm lower at 35mm, and forefoot stack is 1mm higher at 27mm.
These are differences between registered values, not a controlled comparison at the same size and measurement conditions. See the notes below the specs for weight conditions.
Compare within the database
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Comparison: All data (869 shoes)
Position map
Weight x stack height
registered average: 266g / 34.7mm (686 shoes)
The scatter plot includes only shoes with both weight and stack height registered.
Spec distributions
Weight
This shoe 240g·registered average 267g (814 shoes)
Drop
This shoe 8mm·registered average 6.8mm (818 shoes)
Stack height
This shoe 35mm·registered average 34.7mm (694 shoes)
Items with missing numeric values are excluded. Sample sizes and measurement conditions vary between models; this distribution is not a performance ranking.