Asics Gel Venture 8 'Metropolis Red'
Colorway: Metropolis/Black · Style code: 1011B396-020 · Release date: March 27, 2023 · Price: $2682 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: ASICS Gel Venture 8 'Black White' (1011A824-006) · ASICS Gel Venture 8 'Triple Black' (1011A824-001) · Asics Gel Venture 8 'Mantle Green' (1011A824-303) · Asics Gel Venture 8 'Monaco Blue' (1011A824-402) · Asics Gel Venture 8 MT 'Black' (1011A993-001)
The Venture sits at the bottom of the ASICS trail range and does not pretend otherwise. There is no proprietary foam story, no rock plate and no carbon anything: just a lugged rubber outsole, an engineered mesh upper and a rearfoot GEL unit, sold at a price that keeps it in big-box stores and on discount racks year-round. That has made the eighth version one of the brand's most widely worn shoes, more often on gravel paths, dog walks and commutes than on singletrack. Reviewers who took it onto real trails found the outsole lugs genuinely durable, with little visible wear after a hundred miles, and the forefoot noticeably short on cushioning by comparison. Its natural buyer is someone entering trail running rather than someone optimising for it. Metropolis is the brand's shorthand for a mid grey and it recurs across trail and road lines alike; here it carries a red accent, a combination that reads as workwear-plain next to the brighter treatments this line usually gets.