Tonight after work, I headed down to Olympia sports and picked myself up a new pair of running shoes.  I am now the proud owner of some Asics Gel-Nimbus VIIII.  I laced em up, put them on and went out on the run.  Seemed like the normal run, nothing to special except for the fact that the batteries in my GPS were dead and I was on the sole recordings of my Nike+Ipod jobber.  I must say it was a tad off.  I think I have to recalibrate it.  Tonight’s run is exactly the same run I do every 3 mile workout and it was about .8 of a mile off over 3 miles from the last time I ran the same exact route.  Good thing I have run it a couple of times and know the distance.  The distance was, or at least should have been, 3.6 miles in 30:38 minutes with a pace of, according to some pace finders, 8:30 minute/mile.  That is more than 2 minutes off the last time I ran the same route.  I feel that with more running, my stride has become a bit longer and it is now off track a little.  I can really feel the stride becoming longer on some of the downhills that I run.  Sure, runners should have a constant stride, but on a downhill, I like to stretch things out.  So far seems as if the shoes are working well for me.  Currently being shipped is my new pair of custom moldable footbeds.  I can’t wait to get them, mold them up, and give them a shot.  I can feel that the current soles in those shoes are the weak point of them.