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ASICS Metaspeed Edge and Sky Paris Initial Run Impressions Review and Details: Lighter!! Faster?
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May 23, 2024
In the video, Michael Ellenberger shares details and initial run impressions for the ASICS Metaspeed Sky and Edge Paris marathon super shoes. Lighter, softer, with more returnable foam volume and energy return they are top contenders. Available March 4, 2024. $250 Our full written reviews Metaspeed Edge Paris: https://www.roadtrailrun.com/2024/02/asics-metaspeed-edge-paris-initial.html #asics #asicsrunning #asicsmetaspeed #metaspeed Samples were provided at no charge for testing purposes. The opinions herein are entirely the author's 100's of Run Shoes and Gear Multi Tester written reviews at www.roadtrailrun.com SHOP Running Warehouse at the links below for the widest selection of run shoes and gear anywhere and help support our channel! USA https://tinyurl.com/RWRTRUS EUROPE https://tinyurl.com/RWRTREU EU Only: Use RTR code RTR5ALL for 5% off all products, even sale products AUSTRALIA: https://www.runningwarehouse.com.au/?from=rtr EUROPE SHOP Top4Running https://tinyurl.com/bh9t3hpm Use Code RTRTOP4 for 5% off All Products, Even Sales
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In the video, Road Trail Run contributor, Michael Ellenberger, a 221 marathoner, shares his initial thoughts on the very exciting new A6 MetaSpeed Paris, edge and sky
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Hey, guys, Michael Lemberger here for Road Trail Run. I'm going to really, really quickly give you an overview of the new Paris Line, MetaSpeed Paris Line from A6. These are the successors to the MetaSpeed Plus line. And when I say line, I mean the edge and the sky. These are the two sort of variants of the A6 Supershoes
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that exist. So visually, I think it goes about saying that these shoes look really similar
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You can see a couple subtle differences here. You can see the outline of the plate in the sky versus
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the edge. The plate is more middle-centered in the sky, and it's kind of bottom-south, a little bit
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in the edge. The biggest difference is the out sole on one is red, one is black, the edge is black
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the sky is red. But, you know, if a runner goes past you and race, you're not going to tell which
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shoe they have on. I don't think, at least I couldn't. I'm going to try and overlay some footage of me
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testing these out on the treadmill. We've only had them for a couple days, and it's going to take
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you know, a few more runs, certainly to kind of get a good feel for what's what, make recommendations
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and comparisons, which is, we need more miles in them, but I wanted to get this video out to kind of
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give you the differences and sort of talk about these. This is some of the most exciting shoes
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I think, on the market right now. So the Paris, the Sky, Paris, excuse me, and the Edge, Paris
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are both 5mm drops that's a change the old edge was an 8mm drop shoe they've reduced that
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down to 5 millimeters they both have this new motion wrap upper early days it's a really nice upper
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it feels kind of synthetic it doesn feel soft neither these the the alpha 5 3 i will say has a softer softer feeling upper but certainly a really really breathable upper here in the Meta Speed line And it just like a really impressive you know it feels like it close to your shoe They did have an issue with the tongue In the first couple runs I try and insert a picture of that I to show you there some folding of the tongue not the end of the world just something I noticed The midsole here is a major change So this is FF Turbo Plus This is their newest lightest midsole material It really really not
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It's a Piba-based material, super fast, super springy. It is, I would say, again, early days, about as soft as something that you get on the Adios Pro
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Adios Pro 3, but it's not as unstable. It feels a little bit more firm underfoot
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A6 is a really good job of kind of finding that right density, and they've had that since the Meta-Racer, which was, you know, a different type of super shoe, a lower slung super shoe, but that one was a shoe that really had the density of the midsoul really right
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Outsole is great. The weight, the sky is a couple, but I think it's a half an ounce later
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I can put the weights up on the screen. Some photos of them on the scale
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But the sky is certainly lighter than the edge. And then the big difference between these two, just to have it out in the open is we're talking about the overview
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The sky is for stride style runners. That's A6 term. That's not my term
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It's someone with a kind of a longer stride, maybe a bouncier stride. I think it, you know, it tends to be someone running shorter and faster
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in my experience, I think that's kind of what a stride type runner might be
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You know, maybe most runners running the 5K, some runners running the half marathon
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And then the edge is for cadence style runners. So that's for a quicker, faster stride
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So this is the edge. Again, I'm sorry if I confuse them. But the edge you can see here is this lower cut out for the plate
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The sky cuts a little higher. And that lower cut I think kind of is designed to help you toe off a little faster keep that cadence up And again these differences are not massive
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Just to talk about the difference between the plate here in the MetaSpeed Edge Paris and MetaSpeed Sky, Paris
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So just giving a little bit more detail. You can hopefully see this pretty well on the camera
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The edge has this lower mounted plate. The sky has a more middle, speaking of the midsoule foam, mounted
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plate. The idea here is that a runner who needs this, the edge shoe, this is again for
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cadence style, quicker cadence runners. We'll put enough force on the shoe to fully compress
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the foam, and so they put the plate lower so it's easily activated. Versus on the sky here
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a runner will compress stride type runner, again their term, will compress the entire foam
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which allows for this more central mounted plate. You get to use kind of more momentum
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So it's kind of one uses, is my understanding is one uses a little bit more of the technology, the foam
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and one uses a little bit more of the kind of the positioning of the plate. So this is for a faster toe off
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The sky then is for kind of a longer stride, or more loping stride with a little bit more downward momentum going into it
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And you can see that represented again. Here is kind of the outline of the plate tracing my finger and just a little bit lower here
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But both shoes again, five millimeter drop. And it's going to take more miles
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I've run one run, just really quick run the treadmill ride, one on each foot
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It's not immediately apparent to me which one is which. You can suss out that there is a difference, but I don't know that I would be able to say
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this one has a higher plate than this one, at least in this early days of testing
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So I think those differences will need to be, this is not new. The previous line had the same splits between edge and sky But whether that something you should really concern yourself with I think we going to need to just keep testing it and kind of determine what works best It possible that the sky or the edge is just going to be a better shoe for everyone
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But that's why we run them. Yeah, that's about all I have right now
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I'm really impressed. I mean, I think that A6 has kind of been on a two-year release schedule, if I recall correctly
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It's been a while since we've had a new A6 super shoe. And from where I'm sitting, it's really exciting
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I think these tend to be some of the fastest, best, you know, top-of-class shoes on the market
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We saw Clayton Young runner up in the Olympic Trials Marathon wearing one of these shoes
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I don't know if it was the production version or a prototype, but, I mean, you really can't go wrong with these A-6 shoes
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Just in 10 miles on one and about 15 miles on the other, I can tell you that they're awesome
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But again, just to kind of get the nitty-gritty and determine which is, which is, which is
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superior or which works for which runners, I think we're just going to need a little more time
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I will try and show you, if you look at the edge, you can kind of see there's some
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hips to it, some widening there in the forefoot. I don't know how well that's coming up on
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camera. Maybe it's not at all. In the sky, that's really apparent. I don't know how, I hope this
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comes across, but the width of the sky is really significant. It's a really, really wide platform
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shoe. And, you know, if the outsole itself is wide, but that foam comes out, it's almost like
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like a Porsche sports car with the hips it's got. So it's kind of a cool design choice
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It certainly is one thing that differentiates Sky from Edge. I don't know
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Again, I don't think you're going to pick that up when someone whizzes past you or you've whizz past them, but just another difference
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The uppers are the same and both great. To be a road show run, we'll have, of course, a multi-test review with a whole bunch of
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comparisons, but these are awesome shoes. I'm excited to keep running them
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