Asics Tarther RP 3 2E Wide 'Safety Yellow Black'
Colorway: Safety Yellow/Black · Style code: 1011B466-750 · Release date: August 2022 · Price: $2682 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: ASICS Tarther RP 3 2E Wide 'Deep Ocean Glow Yellow' (1011B466-402) · ASICS Tarther RP 3 2E Wide 'Sunrise Red' (1011B466-601) · ASICS Tarther RP 3 2E Wide 'Safety Yellow' (1011B466-751) · ASICS Tarther RP 3 'Illusion Blue' (1011B465-404) · ASICS Wmns Tarther RP 3 'Papaya' (1012B292-700)
Safety yellow on a racing-derived trainer is a practical decision dressed up as a loud one. Bright uppers do most of the work of being seen without adding reflective hardware, which matters on a shoe built to stay light. This is the wide-fitting 2E version of the RP 3, which counts for more than it sounds: firm, race-leaning shoes tend to come on one narrow last, and offering a broader one puts the same platform under feet that usually get excluded from it. The Tarther name goes back to the marathon shoes ASICS made for Japanese runners in the 1980s, and the RP 3 carries that lineage into a trainer rather than a racer: an FF Blast midsole for lightness and rebound, a firm ride, and the kind of direct ground feel most of the current market has engineered away. It is a specialist shoe sold at a mainstream price, which is how it outlasts flashier releases on shop shelves.