In recent years, distance runners wearing Nike's Vaporfly and Alphafly shoes have pulled off some unbelievable performances, but now Asics is fighting back with its own $250 thick-soled runners.

Building a super shoe is more complicated than just sticking a piece of carbon in a tall stack of foam and calling it a day. The interplay of foams’ and plates’ specific densities and geometries needs ...

Asics has changed the game for runners. This week, the footwear brand announced the launch of two high-performance running shoes: the Metaspeed Sky and the Metaspeed Edge. Asics stated that the looks ...

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I first got my hands on and feet into the Asics Metaspeed Ray at its launch event in Tokyo earlier this year, and it’s a staggeringly light shoe. At just 4.8oz in my US men’s size 10, it’s almost 2oz ...

It’s a well-known equation in running that speed = stride x cadence. That is to say, the length of each stride multiplied by the number of strides you take per minute. Asics has spent some time making ...

Look at any major road racing podium today and, chances are, you’ll spot a pair of Asics. Case in point: the 2025 Boston Marathon, where Kenya's John Korir broke the tape wearing a brand new Metaspeed ...