Asics Gel Kayano 30 Wide 'Carrier Grey'
Colorway: Carrier Grey/Piedmont Grey · Style code: 1011B685-020 · Release date: May 31, 2023 · Price: $2682 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: ASICS Gel Kayano 30 Wide 'Triple Black' (1011B685-001) · Asics Gel Kayano 30 Wide 'Black Sheet Rock' (1011B685-002) · Asics Gel Kayano 30 Wide 'Black Glow Yellow' (1011B685-003) · Asics Gel Kayano 30 Wide 'Carrier Grey Illuminate Mint' (1011B685-022) · Asics Gel Kayano 30 Wide 'Oatmeal' (1011B685-250)
Thirty versions in, ASICS rebuilt the Kayano's two defining parts at once. The visible GEL unit in the heel was replaced by PureGEL, an internal insert sitting under the centre of the heel that the brand rates as sixty-five per cent softer than the compound it succeeded, and the support system moved again: LiteTruss out, the 4D Guidance System in. ASICS describes the latter as working with the foot's movement across width, length, height and time rather than bracing against it, which is a long way from the firm medial post the line was built on in 1993. Reviewers generally read the 30 as the most comfortable stability shoe the brand had made, closer to a cushioned trainer than a corrective one. This is the wide-fitting build, which matters on a shoe whose stack grew again. Carrier Grey with a paler grey is deliberately anonymous; this model's buyers have never been the ones asking for loud.