Head to head
adidas Adizero Takumi Sen 11vs
ASICS Metaspeed Edge Tokyo
Choose the Adizero Takumi Sen 11 if…
- You want the lighter shoe: 160g against 181g, a 21g difference you will feel late in a race.
- You race off a strong, repeatable stride and want the more aggressive ride rather than the safer one.
- You have a narrow foot and want to be locked in.
- Money matters: it is selling around £109 against £200, and the time difference between them is smaller than the price difference suggests.
- You are racing 5K — built for it, where the Metaspeed Edge Tokyo is not.
Choose the Metaspeed Edge Tokyo if…
- You want the bigger return: 3.5–4.7% economy gain against 2.6–3.6%, and that gap widens the longer you are out there.
- You want more shoe underneath you late on: 39.5mm against 33mm, which is protection over a long race rather than speed over a short one.
- You want something more forgiving. This is the steadier platform — useful if your form goes late, or if you are on your feet longer.
- You want a conventional fit rather than a narrow or wide last.
- You are racing Half marathon or Marathon — built for it, where the Adizero Takumi Sen 11 is not.
- You would rather buy on measured numbers: this shoe's specs are manufacturer-confirmed, the Adizero Takumi Sen 11's are estimated.
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 10k from 45:00
- Time back
- Adizero Takumi Sen 11: 29s–44sMetaspeed Edge Tokyo: 43s–61s
- Cost per second saved
- Adizero Takumi Sen 11: £0.18Metaspeed Edge Tokyo: £0.23
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.
What you pay
- Street price
- Adizero Takumi Sen 11£109■
- Metaspeed Edge Tokyo£200
- RRP
- Adizero Takumi Sen 11£180
- Metaspeed Edge Tokyo£250
- Cost per race
- Adizero Takumi Sen 11£6.54■
- Metaspeed Edge Tokyo£12
- Cost per second saved
- Adizero Takumi Sen 11£0.18■
- Metaspeed Edge Tokyo£0.23
What the shoe is actually selling for across the shops we read, not its RRP.
List price. Almost nobody pays it for a race shoe.
Street price divided by the races the foam stays fast for.
The whole-life question: what each second of race time costs you.
What it does
- Estimated saving
- Adizero Takumi Sen 1129s–44s
- Metaspeed Edge Tokyo43s–61s■
- Economy gain
- Adizero Takumi Sen 112.6–3.6%
- Metaspeed Edge Tokyo3.5–4.7%■
- Built for
- Adizero Takumi Sen 115K · 10K
- Metaspeed Edge Tokyo10K · Half · Marathon
- Best use case
- Adizero Takumi Sen 11A short-distance specialist with real carbon underneath. Firm, aggressive and brilliant for 5K and 10K where a marathon shoe feels like too much.
- Metaspeed Edge TokyoThe cadence runner’s version of the Sky. Higher drop, more aggressive roll, same foam and plate package.
Against a standard trainer, over the distance and time set above.
How it is built
- Weight
- Adizero Takumi Sen 11160 g■
- Metaspeed Edge Tokyo181 g
- Stack (heel)
- Adizero Takumi Sen 1133 mm
- Metaspeed Edge Tokyo39.5 mm
- Stack (forefoot)
- Adizero Takumi Sen 1127 mm
- Metaspeed Edge Tokyo31.5 mm
- Drop
- Adizero Takumi Sen 116 mm
- Metaspeed Edge Tokyo8 mm
- Foam
- Adizero Takumi Sen 11Lightstrike Pro
- Metaspeed Edge TokyoFF Leap over FF Turbo+
- Plate
- Adizero Takumi Sen 11carbon fibre
- Metaspeed Edge Tokyocarbon fibre
Manufacturer figure at men's US 9.
Rules and fit
- Road legal
- Adizero Takumi Sen 11Yes (33 mm)
- Metaspeed Edge TokyoYes (39.5 mm)
- Fit
- Adizero Takumi Sen 11narrow
- Metaspeed Edge Tokyostandard
- Stability
- Adizero Takumi Sen 11demanding
- Metaspeed Edge Tokyobalanced
- Race life
- Adizero Takumi Sen 11~250 km
- Metaspeed Edge Tokyo~250 km
- Data confidence
- Adizero Takumi Sen 11estimated
- Metaspeed Edge Tokyoverified■
World Athletics caps road racing shoes at 40 mm of stack.
Neither is better in the abstract — it depends on your stride.
How long the foam stays fast, not how long the shoe survives.
■ 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
Best price today — some sizes£109at Startfitness — £71 under RRP
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Where to buy
Best price today — some sizes£199.90at Startfitness — £50.10 under RRP
- Startfitness£199.90 was £239.99Go to size at Startfitness ↗
- Alexandra SportsPrice not published hereSearch at Alexandra Sports ↗
- AmazonPrice not published hereSearch at Amazon ↗
- SportsShoesPrice not published hereSearch at SportsShoes ↗
Tell me when it drops
Pick your size above, then set a price and we will watch for it.
10 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.