 two miles in I feel the weight difference compared to the glide ride immediately. This shoe feels much much lighter underfoot through the toe off especially right at the end of your foot strike that's what the toe off is so that's it's feeling real good. There we go we'll be in the studio in about 20 minutes. There it is oh yeah nice and white at least for a few more runs until I get it money the asics evo ride first impressions coming at you not my full review that will happen after 50 miles and I'll just confidently say right now this shoe is going to 50 miles I can guarantee it I bet it's in the next two weeks at the most all right so that's that gives you a hint as to how the shoe performed for me today out on my first run all right here we go a few specs to kick it off we're looking at a five millimeter drop from heel to toe heel to five millimeters so I usually like that six to eight millimeter range but it's close it's close and I'm getting conflicting reports on the drop for the evo ride so I've seen two different reports out there but I'm going to go with the asics website and my rough measurements with my ruler here in the studio so a 22 millimeter stack height in the heel 17 millimeter in the forefoot for the men's version for the ladies we're looking at 21 millimeter in the heel and 16 in the forefoot for again that five millimeter drop I've seen a couple other websites report some quite a bit higher stack heights but I did some rough measurements and I'm definitely going to go with 22 and 17 so there's the drop for the weight we're looking at 8.8 ounces in men's size 9 8.8 ounces and there it is on your screen in grams or 7.4 ounces in the ladies version women's size 8 very I like that weight a lot all right and again I'll give you my thoughts here in a second on how I plan to use the evo ride moving forward let's talk about the upper of the shoe you all know that's the top of the shoe and it's a mesh upper very breathable felt I felt the wind coming through in fact maybe a little if it's freezing out yeah we're talking like below 15 degrees Fahrenheit I don't know if I would wear this shoe unless I was wearing really thick socks for the heel counter like it's big brother so here's the heel counter at the back of the shoe just like it's big brother the glide ride all right a burly solid strong stout heel counter all right there you have it's just and when I say stout I mean it's just like if you squeeze it doesn't it doesn't give at all and I kind of like it actually asics is they're creating what they're creating is a nice solid pocket kind of like shooting pool you're shooting for the corner pocket there's just a nice pocket in there for your heel to sit in there at the back of the heel counter and on top of the heel counter the heel tab right here where your Achilles tendon presses up against the back of the shoe very plush very so a lot of good cushion is what I'm saying and the sock liner inside the shoe so that's the sock liner is what presses up against your sock smooth very comfortable but I will say with other if the sock liner is pressed up against kind of slick socks like today my compressed sport socks it felt a little just a little bit of slipping in there so I'm going to try the Evo ride out with some other socks that I have like some darn tough socks or smart wool just to see if there's a little more friction to help keep that heel locked into the back of the shoe a little better but very comfortable I will say as far as that sock liner on the inside it's a it's a tongue that is not gusseted all right no no gusseted tongue in there and eyelet chain did find lacing it up inside the inside the house in fact a lot of times when I take a shoe out for my first impression run I oftentimes have to stop in the middle of the run because I don't know about you but when you're trying a new shoe lacing it up correctly I rarely nail it the first time well I nailed it the first time today I didn't have to stop in my in the middle of the run and and relace it up and for that midsole we're looking at flight foam midsole that's what it's called in the ride lineup so we've got the meta ride that's kind of the top of the line shoe I believe it's still about 250 dollars then you've got the glide ride 160 dollars and then you've got the Evo ride it will get to the price in a second so it's that flight foam and guide sole technology um let's see and oh yeah so a big a big selling point of asics for this this lineup with a glide ride the meta ride and the Evo ride is that they want to help reduce the amount of work that your ankle has to do so what they're trying to kind of what they put on their their website is they're reducing the ankle flexion through your gait cycle so which is supposed to help save um you save your muscles save your legs keep your legs fresher for longer that's kind of their their pitch to you and I don't know yet if that's going to be true in the Evo ride I will say for the glide ride as one of my favorite shoes of 2019 I really enjoyed the ride in the glide ride so we'll just see if the Evo ride lives up to the lives up to its its bigger brother also on the midsole it has that curve it's that rocker curve okay look at the curve on that toe off so what's nice I must say through that kind of over exaggerated curve through the forefoot is you get a nice kind of launch off feeling and I didn't go very fast today I think my fastest I held it for maybe a a quarter mile or a half mile was about 645 a mile I glanced down at my watch and I was starting to toe off really nicely so I'm pretty excited to take this shoe out at a higher speed sooner rather than later and for the bottom of the shoe the outsole on the Evo ride you can see so the white is the exposed flight foam all right the exposed flight foam is the white and then that cream color is what ASICS calls the AHAR is their acronym which stands for ASICS high abrasion rubber and actually the forefoot has a lot of this rubber so that tells me we'll just jump into it right now that the durability of this shoe might it's gonna be pretty high I'm gonna say at least 350 and probably closer to 400 or 450 miles is my prediction for the durability of this outsole with that ASICS high abrasion rubber on the outsole and one last point on the outsole just to compare it to the glide ride you'll notice there is no decoupled groove through the outsole whereas the glide ride has that very large decoupled groove so that's kind of interesting that they did not put that into the Evo ride this time around who knows maybe in the next iteration they will for that fit and comfort very interesting I went true to size and I'm a little shocked and again maybe it's the socks I really need to try wearing some thicker socks next time I was swimming around a little bit in the toe box just a little bit and I was I was yearning for a little more lockdown through the toe box so it's a little surprising cut again check back after 50 miles and I'll give you my full thoughts after I wear some thicker socks but I was a little surprised that I was I was hoping I bet I could have pulled off a size half size down in these socks that I wore today all right for the comfort very comfortable again the sock liner was nice just a little slick we'll we'll we'll fix that with after the 50 mile mark and then because so 22 millimeter stack height in the heel and 17 in the forefoot is not very much but I did not feel I didn't feel like I was beating up my legs very much out that like sometimes when midsoles are that low I feel that my legs are getting a little tight like a little just a little beat up out there on the pavement on the concrete not so much the case yeah we'll just see how it goes after 50 but uh yeah the the the midsole felt like I was being and you know what it might be I just thought of this remember the it might be partially because of the solid insole I always like the asics insoles that they stick into their shoes just to provide a little bit of extra cushion I can tell they put a lot of effort into the manufacturing process for their insoles in the asics lineup for my positive I'm gonna go with it is lightweight it feels lightweight it feels snappy it feels poppy it feels like it's ready to rock and roll for my drawback again that's swimming around in the toe box we shall see if that gets fixed after 50 miles and then how will I use this shoe in the next you know 40 miles in the testing is that oh and I forgot to mention something I'll come back to that in a second is that uh tempo absolutely I'm seeing a couple folks out there saying that this might be an easy day shoe I don't think so I think this is a tempo day shoe 100 percent I'm excited so like the Sakini Canvara 11 the new balanced fuel cell rebel uh this this is gonna go in competition with those two shoes moving forward in my running shoe rotation okay I forgot to mention one thing is that the upper does not have as much overlay action compared to the glide ride so it's a it's a it's a more streamlined not as much overlay going on in the upper oh yeah and compared to the asics gel nimbus light so if I had to say like we're gonna go asics gel nimbus light easy day we're gonna go evo ride for tempo day and for me the glide ride falls more into that middle distance and long run shoe so there's kind of the lineup for you right there uh yeah so gel nimbus light is turning more into my easy day shoe it's got potential to go further uh but it is leaning in that in that easy day shoe direction and that price points oh my goodness what's happening asics 120 that's what I'm talking about like asics for me on my experience their prices tend to go a little bit higher than I like but at the same time the build quality of the asics lineup I think is spot on I think they're build quality they're doing it right and they don't cut corners and so I'm willing to pay a little bit more for the asics running shoe lineup but the evo ride is coming in at 120 bucks like that is I think they nailed it I think it shouldn't be any lower I think it shouldn't be any higher um now again we'll see you after 50 miles but so far so good I'm really really liking that price point asics so good work there all right that's my first impression of the evo ride I'm excited we will get this shoe and so my training schedule I'm going to start picking up the pace um about yeah about a week from now maybe 10 days let me think yeah early March essentially so this shoe is going to really start to come in handy as the tempo days start getting integrated into my training getting ready for uh the Irving half marathon Irving Texas half marathon and then the Hamburg marathon so there you go question of the day how was your race this weekend or how was your long run tell us a crazy story maybe something awesome happened if you PR'd let us know down in the comments that would be amazing all right everyone thank you for being here thanks for watching the first impressions of the asics evo ride in the studio oh another day another week let's go get it let's go get it all right everyone we're tossing it back on the right to the asics first asics glide ride first impressions that'll be on the right and then on the left we'll toss it back to the asics gel nimbus light first impression that'll be on the left all right love you all see beauty work hard and love each other see you tomorrow