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40Race Shoe FinderEst. 2023 · London

Head to head

ASICS Metaspeed Sky Tokyovs
Saucony Endorphin Elite 2

Metaspeed Sky Tokyo

£200

Typical street price · £250 RRP

39.5mm — on the limit
Endorphin Elite 2

£149

Typical street price · £250 RRP

39.5mm — on the limit

Choose the Metaspeed Sky Tokyo if…

  • You want the bigger return: 3.5–4.7% economy gain against 3–4.2%, and that gap widens the longer you are out there.
  • You want the lighter shoe: 183g against 199g, a 16g difference you will feel late in a race.
  • You are racing 10K — built for it, where the Endorphin Elite 2 is not.

Choose the Endorphin Elite 2 if…

  • Money matters: it is selling around £149 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 Sky Tokyo: 186s–266sEndorphin Elite 2: 152s–233s
Cost per second saved
Metaspeed Sky Tokyo: £0.22Endorphin Elite 2: £0.20

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.

0102030405039.534.5
Metaspeed Sky Tokyo
0102030405039.531.5
Endorphin Elite 2

What you pay

Street price
Metaspeed Sky Tokyo£200
Endorphin Elite 2£149■

What the shoe is actually selling for across the shops we read, not its RRP.

RRP
Metaspeed Sky Tokyo£250
Endorphin Elite 2£250

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

Cost per race
Metaspeed Sky Tokyo£51
Endorphin Elite 2£39■

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

Cost per second saved
Metaspeed Sky Tokyo£0.22
Endorphin Elite 2£0.20■

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

What it does

Estimated saving
Metaspeed Sky Tokyo186s–266s■
Endorphin Elite 2152s–233s

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

Economy gain
Metaspeed Sky Tokyo3.5–4.7%■
Endorphin Elite 23–4.2%
Built for
Metaspeed Sky Tokyo10K · Half · Marathon
Endorphin Elite 2Half · Marathon
Best use case
Metaspeed Sky TokyoFor stride-length runners — the Sky is built to let your stride open up rather than turn over faster. Arguably the best all-round marathon shoe currently made.
Endorphin Elite 2Superseded by the Elite 3, which means it is now one of the best-value top-end racers you can find if you catch it discounted.

How it is built

Weight
Metaspeed Sky Tokyo183 g■
Endorphin Elite 2199 g

Manufacturer figure at men's US 9.

Stack (heel)
Metaspeed Sky Tokyo39.5 mm
Endorphin Elite 239.5 mm
Stack (forefoot)
Metaspeed Sky Tokyo34.5 mm
Endorphin Elite 231.5 mm
Drop
Metaspeed Sky Tokyo5 mm
Endorphin Elite 28 mm
Foam
Metaspeed Sky TokyoFF Leap over FF Turbo+
Endorphin Elite 2IncrediRUN
Plate
Metaspeed Sky Tokyocarbon fibre
Endorphin Elite 2carbon fibre

Rules and fit

Road legal
Metaspeed Sky TokyoYes (39.5 mm)
Endorphin Elite 2Yes (39.5 mm)

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

Fit
Metaspeed Sky Tokyostandard
Endorphin Elite 2standard
Stability
Metaspeed Sky Tokyobalanced
Endorphin Elite 2balanced

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

Race life
Metaspeed Sky Tokyo~250 km■
Endorphin Elite 2~240 km

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

Data confidence
Metaspeed Sky Tokyoverified
Endorphin Elite 2verified

■ 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.

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

Best price today — some sizes£149at Startfitness — £101 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.