{"id":31235,"date":"2020-05-21T09:28:13","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T13:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triathlonmagazine.ca\/?p=31235"},"modified":"2020-06-19T16:16:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T20:16:18","slug":"carbon-plate-speedster-the-asics-metaracer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triathlonmagazine.ca\/gear\/carbon-plate-speedster-the-asics-metaracer\/","title":{"rendered":"Carbon-plate speedster: the Asics Metaracer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Asics launched the carbon-plate Metaracer at the end of March. A look at the company’s new flagship racing flat.<\/p>\n

In the good ol\u2019 days before there was a Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic (remember those?) we were all looking forward to the Olympic Games this summer. Those games, which will now be held a year later in Tokyo, are a big deal for Asics \u2013 the company is one of the partners in the Games.<\/p>\n

Which is why it was really important for the company that it had a shoe that could compete with Nike\u2019s Vaporfly \u2013 it wasn\u2019t going to sit well if athletes wearing Nike shoes were going to dominate the podium in Tokyo. Asics was gearing up to pull out all the stops for the launch of its new shoe \u2013 the plan was to fly journalists from around the world for an \u201cAsics Innovation Summit\u201d in Tokyo in March to show off the company\u2019s Institute of Sports Science and launch the new shoes.<\/p>\n

As the world shut down, Asics had to shelve that plan, but came up with an alternate option to launch its new flagship racing flat. The company delivered Virtual Reality headsets to journalists around the world, providing a demo of the new shoes. As my wife and dog tried to figure out what on earth I was doing in our living room with the VR kit on my head, I was introduced to the new Metaracer in a truly unique way.<\/p>\n

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