ASICS GT2000 shoes10 to 80km Experience

I personally bought the ASICS GT2000 Tokyo Olympic Edition before, and I also wrote a review in my column. Then I rationalized and bought the nimbus 24 in July last year. I said I would write a detailed review, but who knows, the heels of both feet got Achilles tendinitis at the same time. The nimbus 24 had not reached 80 kilometers in service, so I sent it back to my hometown before returning to Shenzhen. Now it is sleeping soundly in the shoe box.

Then there was the long rehabilitation of lumbar strain and pelvic anterior tilt. In the second half of last year, the little princess was divide into different classes for school, and there were epidemic risk control and other issues. The rehabilitation training was indeed carry out systematically, but the physical fitness and ball-free training were not systematic. In addition, the terrain around my home in Shenzhen is quite strange.

Within three kilometers, there are more than one uphill roads. If you want a good running environment, there is a park 2.4 kilometers away (really far). In fact, there are many primary and secondary schools around my home, and I gave up after visiting many school tracks. It doesn’t matter if it’s not a standard 400-meter track, but there are usually many children and it’s very crowd, which can easily disrupt the training rhythm. If I accidentally knock someone over, I can’t take the blame.

10th generation

Some people have been asking me about my opinion of the 10th generation, but I haven’t worn them myself, so I can’t mislead others. It was a coincidence that I bought the ASICS GT2000-10 a week before Double Eleven at a “really good price that I can’t refuse”, the item number is 1011B185-406. ASICS basically updates every two generations. I skipped two generations after GT2000-5, recognized the 8th generation, and directly targeted the 10th generation. I don’t have an excessive aesthetic appreciation for the color matching of sports shoes – except for heterochromia, but the 10th generation product does not have fluorescent green or electric yellow color matching that I can accept, so I chose blue.

Before sheep, I wore 1011B185-406 and jogged 47 kilometers in total. I did not jog in the knockout stage of the Qatar World Cup, but only adjusted my speed and fast walking, accumulating 23 kilometers. The last 10 kilometers were the first and second normal training after “Yang Kang”, and I fast walked 5 kilometers each time. During these two fast walks before the New Year, my heart rate was always maintain at 120-130 beats/minute. In fact, the limit that the body can withstand is 126 beats/minute. If it exceeds a little bit, there will be an “extreme alarm”. However, the 80-kilometer training volume also allowed me to complete the preliminary test of 1011B185-406.

During the Spring Festival, I discovered that the men’s and women’s versions of the ASICS GT2000-10 were available at good prices, so I rushed to write this review.

The first is the rare men’s model 1011B185-405 in the new color scheme. The current price is 499 yuan.

Green AHAR

The 1011B185-406 on my feet are both from last fall. The green AHAR+ wear-resistant rubber sole and GEL rubber, as well as the turquoise blue decorative strips on both sides of the midsole – called “eye shadow” by female users, are indeed extremely seductive.

The price of the women’s 1011B045-404 is now 499 Chinese yuan. Several people have tried it before, and they call it “Ice Purple” – the purple stripes are thin and light, giving it a cool and gorgeous feeling.

The overall colors of these two models are indeed more suitable for users age 25 to 35. For people like me who care about the price first and the color matching second, I will definitely wait until the price is right before making a move.

From the back picture, I can see that my left foot has a high instep and my right foot has a low instep, which is clearly reflect in the height and coverage of the tongue of this pair of shoes. Since I don’t train frequently and wear them often, the 80km run is not enough to stretch the whole pair of shoes. At present, this pair of 1011B185-406 has not yet passed the running-in period.

Also, from October last year to January this year, in order to cope with the bone hyperplasia of the heels, under the guidance of a professional rehabilitation therapist, I tried to increase the wearing time of hard-soled running shoes to a certain extent during physical training, such as New Balance’s 2019 Mimura co-branded Hanzo R running shoes to cope with the Cooper test or equal distance running, to achieve better lower limb weight loss. Due to the long recovery period after sheep and “Yang Kang”, the target value was not achieve, and the weight loss was only 2 kg.

Ortholite foam on the midsole surface and Ortholite foam on the insole (TA-1ot)

The initial impression of the 80km training is that the FlyteFoam Propel material introduced into the midsole has achieved a cushioning effect together with the midsole surface and insole of the Ortholite foam. In my opinion, the greatest contribution of this material is to achieve better cushioning while achieving the lightweight of the entire shoe. In addition, the insoles currently used are thinner than the insoles of the previous four and five generations. Ortholite currently has an official store on a certain JD.com. I will buy a pair of insoles of the same type after the holiday for comparison testing. In my opinion, Asics’ confidence in using thin insoles on the tenth-generation product mostly comes from the FlyteFoam Propel material midsole.

When I was wearing hard-soled running shoes to deal with the Cooper test, the Gel cushioning gel embedded in the tenth generation finally formed a strong contrast. Because I have old injuries to the meniscus of both knees and my current weight is too high, I have been adjusting between landing on the forefoot and landing on the back during training. I personally feel that landing on the back is less burdensome, but when training with hard-soled running shoes, landing on the back will directly impact the bone hyperplasia area, which is really uncomfortable, so I adjusted to landing on the forefoot again.

When I changed to 1011B185-406 and continued to run more than 3,200 meters, I could immediately feel how reliable the Gel cushioning was for the heel. The reason was very simple. The discomfort of the bone hyperplasia area was significantly reduce. I don’t know whether Achilles tendonitis can be effectively reliev after a period of system recovery. If not, I have to consider surgery.

Lite Truss

The tenth generation has the words “Lite Truss” printed on the outer surface of the midfoot (please click on the above image to see a larger image), indicating the material and technology type of the inner side of the midfoot (i.e. the arch). I personally have a normal arch, and I can see that my right foot has a certain inward tilt when I walk daily. After separate stability training, I will not be affect by the collapse of excessive inward tilt at the moment of landing during running training. The Lite Truss’s “limiting excessive eversion” does not have much effect on me.

In comparison, the previous ASICS GT2000 series used “Dynamic Duomax dynamic dual-density anti-tilt technology” plus “Trusstic System mid-bridge torsion plate”. Now the tenth generation uses hard rubber integrated with AHAR+ wear-resistant rubber sole at the torsion plate. According to comprehensive information from various sources, the Lite Truss material is still in the original torsion plate, using an internal method instead of the previous torsion plate exposed.

1011B185-406 has a full black rubber outsole, and it is really difficult to draw a map. I found the orange outsole 1011B185-403 to draw a map, and used a blue line to mark the rubber shape of the anti-torsion plate. As shown below. Please note that the rubber block marked on the inside may be too long, which is for the sake of caution. When I used my fingers and a small claw hammer to “press” the blue line marked part, the long part of the inner rubber block gave me the same feeling. Of course, I don’t have the habit of completely disassembling the shoes to observe the inside, so I just drew a line and marked it together.

Material

It is difficult to say whether such a material change is good or bad, because the physical energy distribution of individual training is different every time, and when wearing ASICS GT2000-4/5, the effect of the anti-torsion plate is not constant and obvious. Take me as an example, when I was running 5 kilometers, I started to feel a slight loss of stability when the midfoot landed at 3.4 kilometers; and when I ran 10 kilometers, the distance doubled, and the speed was obviously lower than 5 kilometers, and I didn’t feel the same until 8.7 kilometers. In addition, I ran 5 kilometers twice a week and only ran 10 kilometers once every three weeks. It is impossible for me to change my training plan because of shoes. It can only be say that it depends on personal opinion.

The Jacquard mesh use on the front of the 10th generation has been describe in enough reviews by other self-media. It is true that the Jacquard mesh has good stability, but if it is use for outdoor running in harsh environments – please note that the four words “bad environment” are bolded; when the landing environment is particularly bad, the foot’s landing area is particularly unstable, and the Jacquard mesh will also suffer from severe deformation and pulling, which will drastically shorten its service life (users with wide and fat feet will suffer particularly severe wear and tear). At present, I still do not recommend using the three series of ASICS running shoes frequently for outdoor running in harsh environments.

ASICS GT2000

The key detail I want to emphasize is that in order to prevent the tongue from sliding sideways, the ASICS GT2000-10 uses a three-stage shoelace anti-slip buckle, which is a commendable detail design. I have been a user who has suffered from serious tongue sliding sideways for a long time. When the shoelaces are tie very tightly, it can indeed prevent sliding sideways, but it is very uncomfortable to tighten the instep. Now the three-stage buckle completely solves this problem. This is also a concentrated reflection of the good growth of the tenth generation product.

The three-section fixing buckle can help the tongue of the shoe to fit closely to the instep, enhancing the overall sense of coverage of the running shoe. When pushing off the ground while running, the enhanced sense of coverage can significantly improve the lifting effect of the shoe when the forefoot exerts force. Users with severe tongue slippage can directly feel the sharp increase in the lifting effect after this phenomenon is significantly improve.

Front and rear drop

The front and rear drop of the tenth generation has been reduce from 10mm to 8mm, and this change is not noticeable to me in the short term. Here I emphasize again that I am not a professional/amateur runner with completely healthy lower limbs, but an amateur player, coach and physical trainer with scars on the waist, hips and knees. The main purpose of buying and wearing Asics running shoes for a long time is to reduce the negative impact of injuries on key parts of the lower limbs, better achieve rehabilitation and training effects, and maintain my love and competition ability for football for a longer time.

I do not deny that I have a brand preference for Asics, but these are all based on my long-term and in-depth understanding of my physiological age, injuries, physical fitness, and training intensity, and the result of a selection of sports/rehabilitation products. For example, if someone needs sports knee pads, I now only recommend “protection and prevention”, and at the same time recommend that those who accept the recommendation buy them when the discount is the most fierce. These products are indeed not cheap, but the preferential prices that can be obtain reflect the sincerity of the products and brands.

Orange-bottom model

If anyone is interested in the orange-bottom model 1011B185-403 of ASICS GT2000-10, I can also provide a purchase link here. But the price is indeed a bit lower than the above two models. Please choose carefully.

Finally, readers should pay attention to the final period of the Spring Festival discount. Also, when Asics launches new products in spring and autumn (usually in early April and mid-October), there will be certain discounts on old models. Interested users are kindly request to pay more attention.