Asics Wmns GT 1000 11 Wide 'Triple Black'
Colorway: Black/Black · Style code: 1012B196-002 · Release date: May 11, 2022 · Price: $2682 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: Asics Wmns GT 1000 11 Wide 'Black White' (1012B196-001) · Asics Wmns GT 1000 11 Wide 'Mako Blue Barely Rose' (1012B196-400) · Asics Wmns GT-1000 11 Wide 'Indigo Blue Sky' (1012B196-422) · Asics Wmns GT-1000 11 Wide 'Dusk Violet' (1012B196-500) · Asics Wmns GT 1000 'Coral' (T6A8N-0601)
ASICS runs two parallel stability lines, and the GT-1000 is the one built to a price. It shares the shape and the intent of the GT-2000 but sits roughly forty dollars below it, with milder support hardware and less premium materials: the shoe a runner buys when they have been told they overpronate and do not yet want to spend a hundred and fifty dollars finding out what that means.
The support itself comes from LITETRUSS, a firmer structure moulded into the arch side of the midsole that resists the foot collapsing inward through midstance. The GT-2000 eventually moved away from that approach in favour of a wider, bevelled geometry it calls the 3D Guidance System; the GT-1000 kept LITETRUSS, which is the clearest technical line between the two lines.
This is the wide build of the eleventh edition, cut broader through the forefoot, and it is finished entirely in black (upper, midsole, outsole and branding), which is as close as a support trainer gets to anonymous.