Asics GT 2000 9 'Hazard Green'
Colorway: Hazard Green/Pure Silver · Style code: 1011A983-300 · Release date: September 21, 2021 · Price: $2682 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: Asics GT 2000 8 'Black White' (1011A983-001) · Asics GT 2000 9 'Triple Black' (1011A983-002) · Asics GT 2000 9 'Carrier Grey' (1011A983-020) · Asics GT 2000 9 'Carrier Grey Digital Aqua' (1011A983-022) · Asics GT 2000 9 'Metropolis Blue' (1011A983-023)
ASICS is an acronym. Kihachiro Onitsuka founded the company in Kobe in 1949, and the name it trades under today was adopted in 1977, drawn from the Latin phrase anima sana in corpore sano, a sound mind in a sound body. Almost none of that shows up in a shoe like this one. The GT-2000 is the brand's volume stability trainer, sold through general sporting goods floors rather than specialist running shops, updated on a yearly cycle and rarely redesigned in any dramatic way. That cadence is what puts a ninth-generation shoe on a shelf wearing a colour from the following season's palette: hazard green ran across the brand's 2021 running range, landing here on a platform already a year into its life. Late colourways like this usually mean a model is being run down before the next number takes its place.