I finally got some new running shoes. I went to Southern Runner because my old running coach works there on Saturdays. I received the best service, as I didn’t even look at the shoes that they had — he just brought me shoes that he thought would work well with my feet. In the end, I settled back with Nike, whom I haven’t worn since high school because their width seemed to be the best for my foot.

So now I have real Nike+ shoes. For those who don’t know, that means they are designed for Nike+iPod which keeps a history of your runs and lets you chart them out. This might be too much temptation. The problem is that for all the iPods that I own (sadly 3), none of them is the required nano. So I would have to buy a new iPod nano, a Nike+ kit, and an armband. The other thing keeping me a little bit away is the fact that I really love running with my tiny shuffle.

Who am I kidding? I’m definitely going to buy one eventually. It’s more of a question of when.

“Obviously, I would assume that we have some basis for coming up with these numbers, but I don’t have that information,” Nagin spokesman James Ross said late Thursday. “All I can tell you is that you’ll have to assume that there is some basis for the number.”

Very convincing.