I've been battling with some chronic health issues for the past 7 weeks and have only just started on my road to recovery (hopefully) but through all this I've managed to give the Asics Novablast 3 some mileage and come up with an initial review of the shoe. Now, I'm not one who loves bulky and heavy shoes. My running friends can attest to that. I have the original Asics Novablast and I thoroughly disliked that shoe. It was totally unstable, chunky and just about too cushy for me. Some may like very cushioned shoes but not me.  But when I was given the Novablast 3 for trial purposes, I was a little skeptical. But being someone who don't judge shoes and make all kinds of assumptions until I actually try them, I decided to give them a try. Lo and behold, I was actually surprised when I took them out of the box, for one thing, while the Novablast 3 still had that chunky physical look, it definitely lost quite a bit of weight from its predecessor (I'm basing my revie