Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. How we test gear.

From the outside the Metaracer looks like an old racing flat, but it’s packed with high-tech parts.

In the era of big thick racing shoes, the Asics Metaracer is more like a traditional racing flat, but it still has some super shoe features. Runner-in-Chief Jeff Dengate looks inside what makes this thin, light, low-to-the-ground shoe fast on race day.

Buy Men’s Buy Women’s

Hoka’s newest trail shoe has two carbon-fiber plates in the midsole, so we cut it open to show you how they work.

No, those aren’t horses chasing you down.

We cut open the Peregrine to show you how the Soft Terrain and Gore-Tex versions differ from the standard trail running shoe.