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40Race Shoe FinderEst. 2023 · London

Head to head

ASICS Magic Speed 5vs
Brooks Hyperion Elite 5

Magic Speed 5

£130

Typical street price · £150 RRP

38mm — road legal
Hyperion Elite 5

approx £151

Estimated street price · £230 RRP

39mm — road legal

Choose the Magic Speed 5 if…

  • You want more races out of one pair: about 500km of competitive life against 280km.

Choose the Hyperion Elite 5 if…

  • You want the bigger return: 2.8–3.9% economy gain against 2–3.1%, and that gap widens the longer you are out there.
  • You want the lighter shoe: 196g against 218g, a 22g difference you will feel late in a race.

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
Magic Speed 5: 83s–158sHyperion Elite 5: 138s–213s
Cost per second saved
Magic Speed 5: £0.14Hyperion Elite 5: £0.19

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.

010203040503831
Magic Speed 5
010203040503931
Hyperion Elite 5

What you pay

Street price
Magic Speed 5£130■
Hyperion Elite 5~£151

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
Magic Speed 5£150
Hyperion Elite 5£230

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

Cost per race
Magic Speed 5£16■
Hyperion Elite 5£34

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

Cost per second saved
Magic Speed 5£0.14■
Hyperion Elite 5£0.19

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

What it does

Estimated saving
Magic Speed 583s–158s
Hyperion Elite 5138s–213s■

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

Economy gain
Magic Speed 52–3.1%
Hyperion Elite 52.8–3.9%■
Built for
Magic Speed 510K · Half · Marathon
Hyperion Elite 510K · Half · Marathon
Best use case
Magic Speed 5The best entry point to carbon. Real plate, real super foam, durable enough to train in, and about half the price of the flagships.
Hyperion Elite 5Unfashionable and quietly good. Firmer and more controlled than most of the field, which suits heel strikers and heavier runners.

How it is built

Weight
Magic Speed 5218 g
Hyperion Elite 5196 g■

Manufacturer figure at men's US 9.

Stack (heel)
Magic Speed 538 mm
Hyperion Elite 539 mm
Stack (forefoot)
Magic Speed 531 mm
Hyperion Elite 531 mm
Drop
Magic Speed 57 mm
Hyperion Elite 58 mm
Foam
Magic Speed 5FF Blast Turbo
Hyperion Elite 5DNA Flash v2
Plate
Magic Speed 5carbon fibre
Hyperion Elite 5carbon fibre

Rules and fit

Road legal
Magic Speed 5Yes (38 mm)
Hyperion Elite 5Yes (39 mm)

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

Fit
Magic Speed 5standard
Hyperion Elite 5standard
Stability
Magic Speed 5stable
Hyperion Elite 5stable

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

Race life
Magic Speed 5~500 km■
Hyperion Elite 5~280 km

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

Data confidence
Magic Speed 5estimated
Hyperion Elite 5estimated

■ 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

Your UK size

Best price today — some sizes£119at Startfitness — £31 under RRP

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

Your UK size

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.