Why are Asics running shoes so called? After purchasing a pair on Saturday I was pleased to discover that Asics is an acronym for anima sana in corpore sano. The standard tag is mens sana in corpore sano (A sound mind in a sound body), but Msics doesn't quite make it acronym-wise. I am not enough of a Latinist so say whether anima sana in corpore sano occurs in any classical author.
If water is the philosopher's drink (Thoreau), and running the philosopher's sport, then Asics may be the philosopher's running shoe. But the mileage on my Asics Gel-Nimbuses is still too low (8 miles) to say for sure. So far, they seem very good in terms of stability and cushioning.
A good running maxim: "Trash your shoes before they trash you." Frugality has its limits.
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