Asics Wmns Gel Kayano 25 'Black Blue'
Colorway: Black/Asics Blue · Style code: 1012A026-001 · Price: $158 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: Asics Wmns Gel Kayano 25 'Carbon' (1012A026-020) · Asics Wmns Gel Kayano 25 'White' (1012A026-100) · Asics Wmns Gel Kayano 25 'Diva Pink' (1012A026-700) · Asics Wmns Gel Kayano 25 'Mojave' (1012A026-800) · Asics Wmns Gel Kayano 25 'Lemon Shark' (1012A026101)
The GEL-Kayano Trainer was designed by an ASICS employee named Toshikazu Kayano, whose surname the series then took. It has been the brand's stability shoe ever since (the model for runners who overpronate and want the motion managed rather than left alone), and it has carried the top price in the running line for most of that run.
By the twenty-fifth version the formula was settled: GEL units at the heel and forefoot for impact, a FlyteFoam midsole to hold weight down, and the dual-density DuoMax medial support that ASICS carried all the way through to the twenty-ninth generation. The structural rethink came later. At version thirty the post disappeared, replaced by a wider platform, raised sidewalls and a 4D Guidance System that steers the stride by shape rather than by resistance, with the GEL moved inside and reformulated as PureGEL.
Black with ASICS Blue is the line's house pairing, and on a shoe this layered it lets the midsole construction read clearly from the side.