Asics Wmns Gel Nimbus 24 'Black Pure Silver'
Colorway: Black/Pure Silver · Style code: 1012B201-001 · Release date: March 13, 2022 · Price: $117 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: ASICS Wmns Gel Nimbus 24 'Triple Black' (1012B201-002) · ASICS Wmns Gel Nimbus 24 'Black Barely Rose' (1012B201-003) · Asics Wmns Gel Nimbus 24 'Black Orchid' (1012B201-004) · Asics Wmns Gel Nimbus 24 'Black Soothing Sea' (1012B201-005) · Asics Wmns Gel Nimbus 24 'Piedmont Grey Lime Green' (1012B201-020)
The twenty-fourth Nimbus is the end of an era, and it is worth understanding as such. It still ran discrete GEL units at heel and forefoot beneath a FlyteFoam Blast midsole, with an engineered mesh upper and a conventional heel-to-toe drop, which is roughly how the shoe had been built through years of incremental updates.
All of that changed one generation later. The twenty-fifth added around twenty percent more foam, pushed heel stack past forty millimetres, cut the offset to eight, and replaced GEL with PureGEL, a lighter formulation credited with equal impact absorption at lower weight. Runners who liked the 24 and disliked its successor, or the reverse, were reacting to a genuine break rather than a seasonal tweak.
That makes this generation the reference point for what the Nimbus used to feel like: soft but not towering, and closer to the ground than anything the line has sold since.
Black with pure silver detailing is the plainest way it was offered, which suits a shoe bought almost entirely for daily mileage. It released in the middle of March 2022.