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40Race Shoe FinderEst. 2023 · London

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ASICS Metaspeed Edge Tokyovs
ASICS Metaspeed Ray

Metaspeed Edge Tokyo

£200

Typical street price · £250 RRP

39.5mm — on the limit
Metaspeed Ray

approx £164

Estimated street price · £250 RRP

39.5mm — on the limit

Choose the Metaspeed Edge Tokyo if…

  • 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 want more races out of one pair: about 250km of competitive life against 130km.
  • You are racing 10K — built for it, where the Metaspeed Ray is not.

Choose the Metaspeed Ray if…

  • You want the bigger return: 3.7–4.9% economy gain against 3.5–4.7%, and that gap widens the longer you are out there.
  • You want the lighter shoe: 129g against 181g, a 52g 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 £164 against £200, 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
Metaspeed Edge Tokyo: 186s–266sMetaspeed Ray: 199s–280s
Cost per second saved
Metaspeed Edge Tokyo: £0.22Metaspeed 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.

0102030405039.531.5
Metaspeed Edge Tokyo
0102030405039.534.5
Metaspeed Ray

What you pay

Street price
Metaspeed Edge Tokyo£200
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
Metaspeed Edge Tokyo£250
Metaspeed Ray£250

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

Cost per race
Metaspeed Edge Tokyo£51■
Metaspeed Ray£80

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

Cost per second saved
Metaspeed Edge Tokyo£0.22■
Metaspeed Ray£0.33

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

What it does

Estimated saving
Metaspeed Edge Tokyo186s–266s
Metaspeed Ray199s–280s■

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

Economy gain
Metaspeed Edge Tokyo3.5–4.7%
Metaspeed Ray3.7–4.9%■
Built for
Metaspeed Edge Tokyo10K · Half · Marathon
Metaspeed RayHalf · Marathon
Best use case
Metaspeed Edge TokyoThe cadence runner’s version of the Sky. Higher drop, more aggressive roll, same foam and plate package.
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
Metaspeed Edge Tokyo181 g
Metaspeed Ray129 g■

Manufacturer figure at men's US 9.

Stack (heel)
Metaspeed Edge Tokyo39.5 mm
Metaspeed Ray39.5 mm
Stack (forefoot)
Metaspeed Edge Tokyo31.5 mm
Metaspeed Ray34.5 mm
Drop
Metaspeed Edge Tokyo8 mm
Metaspeed Ray5 mm
Foam
Metaspeed Edge TokyoFF Leap over FF Turbo+
Metaspeed RayFF Leap
Plate
Metaspeed Edge Tokyocarbon fibre
Metaspeed Raycarbon fibre

Rules and fit

Road legal
Metaspeed Edge TokyoYes (39.5 mm)
Metaspeed RayYes (39.5 mm)

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

Fit
Metaspeed Edge Tokyostandard
Metaspeed Raynarrow
Stability
Metaspeed Edge Tokyobalanced
Metaspeed Raydemanding

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

Race life
Metaspeed Edge Tokyo~250 km■
Metaspeed Ray~130 km

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

Data confidence
Metaspeed Edge Tokyoverified
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

Your UK size

Best price today — some sizes£199.90at Startfitness — £50.10 under RRP

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

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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.