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40Race Shoe FinderEst. 2023 · London

Head to head

adidas Adizero Adios Pro Evo 2vs
ASICS Metaspeed Ray

Adizero Adios Pro Evo 2

approx £296

Estimated street price · £450 RRP

39mm — road legal
Metaspeed Ray

approx £164

Estimated street price · £250 RRP

39.5mm — on the limit

Choose the Adizero Adios Pro Evo 2 if…

Nothing here separates it from the Metaspeed Ray in your favour. On this data the other shoe answers every case at least as well, so buy this one only if you already know it fits you better.

Choose the Metaspeed Ray if…

  • Money matters: it is selling around £164 against £296, and the time difference between them is smaller than the price difference suggests.

What does this
mean for you?

Every figure below is recalculated from your race and your current time. The gap between two shoes is not fixed — it grows with how long you are on your feet.

Over marathon from 3:45:00

Time back
Adizero Adios Pro Evo 2: 206s–286sMetaspeed Ray: 199s–280s
Cost per second saved
Adizero Adios Pro Evo 2: £0.63Metaspeed Ray: £0.33

Ranges, not promises. Both figures are against a standard trainer, and the honest answer for most runners is that the difference between two shoes of this class is smaller than the difference a month of decent training makes.

Every number.

010203040503936
Adizero Adios Pro Evo 2
0102030405039.534.5
Metaspeed Ray

What you pay

Street price
Adizero Adios Pro Evo 2~£296
Metaspeed Ray~£164■

A tilde marks an estimate: no shop we read is currently listing that shoe, so the figure is RRP less the discount comparable shoes are actually selling at.

RRP
Adizero Adios Pro Evo 2£450
Metaspeed Ray£250

List price. Almost nobody pays it for a race shoe.

Cost per race
Adizero Adios Pro Evo 2£156
Metaspeed Ray£80■

Street price divided by the races the foam stays fast for.

Cost per second saved
Adizero Adios Pro Evo 2£0.63
Metaspeed Ray£0.33■

The whole-life question: what each second of race time costs you.

What it does

Estimated saving
Adizero Adios Pro Evo 2206s–286s■
Metaspeed Ray199s–280s

Against a standard trainer, over the distance and time set above.

Economy gain
Adizero Adios Pro Evo 23.8–5%■
Metaspeed Ray3.7–4.9%
Built for
Adizero Adios Pro Evo 2Half · Marathon
Metaspeed RayHalf · Marathon
Best use case
Adizero Adios Pro Evo 2The lightest marathon shoe ever sold and, on the evidence, the fastest. At 138g it is closer to a track spike than a road shoe.
Metaspeed RayASICS answering the Adios Pro Evo directly. At 129g it is the lightest shoe here, and it feels like almost nothing on the foot.

How it is built

Weight
Adizero Adios Pro Evo 2138 g
Metaspeed Ray129 g■

Manufacturer figure at men's US 9.

Stack (heel)
Adizero Adios Pro Evo 239 mm
Metaspeed Ray39.5 mm
Stack (forefoot)
Adizero Adios Pro Evo 236 mm
Metaspeed Ray34.5 mm
Drop
Adizero Adios Pro Evo 23 mm
Metaspeed Ray5 mm
Foam
Adizero Adios Pro Evo 2Lightstrike Pro
Metaspeed RayFF Leap
Plate
Adizero Adios Pro Evo 2carbon fibre
Metaspeed Raycarbon fibre

Rules and fit

Road legal
Adizero Adios Pro Evo 2Yes (39 mm)
Metaspeed RayYes (39.5 mm)

World Athletics caps road racing shoes at 40 mm of stack.

Fit
Adizero Adios Pro Evo 2narrow
Metaspeed Raynarrow
Stability
Adizero Adios Pro Evo 2demanding
Metaspeed Raydemanding

Neither is better in the abstract — it depends on your stride.

Race life
Adizero Adios Pro Evo 2~120 km
Metaspeed Ray~130 km■

How long the foam stays fast, not how long the shoe survives.

Data confidence
Adizero Adios Pro Evo 2verified
Metaspeed Rayverified

■ marks the better figure where one is genuinely better. Fit, foam, drop and stability carry no mark — they depend on your foot and your stride, not on which shoe is superior.

In your size.

Where to buy

No retailer we can read publishes a live price for this shoe, so we cannot check your size. The links below go to each retailer’s own search, where they show the current price and what they hold.

9 retailer checks failed on the last run, so their prices are missing rather than wrong.

Prices are captured when the site is built and stamped with the time of that check. We never rank a retailer by what it pays us; where a link earns a commission it is marked sponsored and the price you pay is unchanged.

Where to buy

No retailer we can read publishes a live price for this shoe, so we cannot check your size. The links below go to each retailer’s own search, where they show the current price and what they hold.

9 retailer checks failed on the last run, so their prices are missing rather than wrong.

Prices are captured when the site is built and stamped with the time of that check. We never rank a retailer by what it pays us; where a link earns a commission it is marked sponsored and the price you pay is unchanged.