Asics Gel Cumulus 23 'Celebration Of Sport Pack'
Colorway: Piedmont Grey/White · Style code: 1011B314-960 · Release date: September 8, 2021 · Price: $2682 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: Asics Gel Cumulus 23 'Black' (1011B012-002) · Asics Gel Cumulus 23 'Black White' (1011B012-001) · Asics Gel Cumulus 23 'Mako Blue' (1011B012-410) · Asics Wmns Gel Cumulus 23 'Black' (1012A888-002) · Asics Gel Cumulus 23 'Reborn Blue' (1011B012-400)
Performance running brands rarely do packs. Coordinated colour drops spanning several models at once are a habit borrowed from lifestyle sneakers, where a shared theme gives unrelated shapes a reason to appear together, and they show up on training shoes only occasionally. ASICS ran one across its 2021 range under a Celebration of Sport banner, and the Cumulus was among the models included, which put a shoe normally finished in plain single-tone uppers into something closer to a graphic treatment. The Cumulus has been in continuous production since 1999, one of the longer unbroken runs in road running, sitting a tier below the brand's premium cushioned model and updated each year without much ceremony. A pack finish is close to the most attention the line has ever been asked to attract, and it sits oddly on a shoe whose entire proposition is that it does not ask for any.