Asics gave its runner-specific carbon-plated racing shoes an upgrade. They’re softer, bouncier, and lighter.
There was an unprecedented number of Asics shoes among the fastest runners at this year’s Olympic Marathon Trials in Orlando, Florida. If you combine the first 10 runners from the men’s and women’s fields, a quarter of those 20 finishers wore an Asics super shoe . Those shoes—the Metaspeed Sky Paris and Metaspeed Edge Paris—will be on sale March 4, so the rest of us can at least pretend we’re Clayton Young-fast. Key Specs*Available: March 4, 2024Type: Road racingWeight: 5.2 oz , 6.
How They RideIn our pool of wear-testers, we divvied up a mix of footstrikers to run in each shoe. Tester Aaron Bealer, a heel striker who previously tested the Metaspeed Edge+, declared the newest Edge as one of his favorite running shoes of all time.“The Asics Metaspeed Edge Paris is so much fun to run in, especially for intervals and speedwork,” said Bealer, who runs with a neutral gait pattern.