Asics Wmns Gel Kayano 28 'Blazing Coral'
Colorway: Blazing Coral/Mist · Style code: 1012B047-700 · Release date: July 7, 2021 · Price: $2682 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: Asics Wmns Gel Kayano 28 'Black' (1012B047-001) · Asics Wmns Gel Kayano 28 'Black Pink Rave' (1012B047-002) · Asics Wmns Gel Kayano 28 'Black White' (1012B047-003) · Asics Wmns Gel Kayano 28 'Black Sage' (1012B047-004) · Asics Wmns Gel Kayano 28 'Piedmont Grey' (1012B047-020)
The Gel-Kayano is ASICS' stability flagship and has run for decades, which makes the twenty-eighth version a marker of how slowly a line like this is allowed to change.
The headline update was foam. FF Blast replaced the FlyteFoam used in the twenty-seventh: lighter and more responsive, giving the shoe a smoother, more propulsive push-off than the model had previously offered. Gel units stayed in the heel and forefoot for impact absorption, and a newly designed low-profile heel structure was added to work with the support system.
That support still came from DuoMax, the firmer wedge of foam running from the heel counter forward to the front of the arch, resisting inward roll. It is the approach ASICS had used on the Kayano for years, and one the line would eventually move away from. The Trusstic plate under the arch was replaced by the lighter Space Trusstic, which sits inside the midsole rather than on the base of the outsole.
A women's pair weighs around 9.1 ounces. The upper is engineered mesh with a plush heel collar. Blazing Coral with Mist is the earliest of this generation's dates in our records, 7 July 2021, the coral tempered by a pale grey so it does not read as one flat block.