Rest

Took a rare rest day today.  Yesterday's run took a pretty good chunk out of me, which isn't really surprising.  I haven't run that far since I was training for Marine Corps, and I ran that in 2006.  That was the end of my buildup for this next half; I'll take it easier next Sunday, then the half is the following weekend.  After that it'll be about prepping for the 12 hour, and that just means the weekend long runs will get longer.  I do recall usually really wanting/needing the day off after Long Run Day, and it's not something I plan to begrudge myself going forward.  So I'll have to think about how I want to balance things for the last phase of NROL/Abs, which will start for me the week after the half.  Might shorten it (just do six, as opposed to 8 workouts), might just do two workouts a week, might wait to install the Really Long Run until after the phase is done...  although that would leave just two months of build up time, which is probably not the best idea.  Not something I'm deciding today, however.

Attempted to go clothes shopping today.  Now that I'm out of school for the forseeable future, I need to find full time employment.  However, I haven't had the kind of job where I had to wear Real Clothes (meaning, not jeans) on a daily basis in over 10 years.  Added to that, when I DID have that kind of job, I also carried 10 - 15# more weight than I do now, so the few remnants I have from that era are not only out of date, but don't fit.  I don't know what kind of work I will wind up doing - frankly I don't really care what it is so long as it's not clerical work - so I'm just thinking, presentable initial interview outfit for now, and will fill in the details later.  But I completely struck out today.  Couldn't find a single pair of pants in my size, whatever that is, and it's not like I didn't look.  I spoke with the store clerks and apparently they get in very few clothes in smaller sizes, and they are snatched up right away.  I even looked in the juniors department, and had the same issue, namely the insanely long inseam.  For whatever reason, I could find TONS of pants in petite length in sizes 8 - 16; do they not think smaller people come in short sizes, too?  Because I had on some size 2 pants that HAD to have a 34" inseam.  WTF? 

I finally hit the burnout point and came home. Tomorrow is another day.