Sun 3/8 - double, 90 minutes total incl. 15k road race

AM - 70 minutes incl. 15k road race. A shining example of how not to do it, in manifold ways. Started with the past week's relentlessly poor sleep pattern, with anxiety induced pre-waking nearly every day and too wound up with trip preparations to even be able to take any kind of nap in the afternoons. On top of that yesterday's travel plan which had me arriving in Tucson at 9:30 and not able to think about getting to sleep until after 11. With a 4 AM wakeup call to drive across the desert to the race site. As usual sleeping on the plane a complete impossibility of course. As usual barely got any rest whatsoever and as such approached the race hoping to get through 9+ miles of hard effort on caffeine. On top of all this garbage there's the matter of my fitness not being anywhere near what it needs to be for an event of this length. So of course I went out much much too fast. While the nature of the course with the downhill first 5k results in positive splits for everyone, that doesn't adequately describe the turd I produced. To wit:

5:26.5 - gradual incline for 600m then bombs away
5:15.5
5:18.0
(16:30)
5:27.1
5:54.8
6:06.3
(34:55)
7:04.4
6:37.8
6:42.9
finish 55:52

Felt my quads turn to jelly soon after the 5k mark. The down-sloping ramp persisted until just after mile 4, then some roll until the infamous hill in the 7th mile. In fact it was a gradual grind and something I would have ate up in better circumstances. By the time I reached it was well past done of course and in full get it over with mode. While the right calf felt like it held up reasonably well to the pounding, a pleasant surprise, the right hamstring was plainly hurting by mile 5 and I could feel both sets of quads starting to turn to lead soon after it was over.

PM - 20 minutes very easy to Santa Rita park. Super slow shakeout to the park for stretching. Right hamstring and TFL feeling like absolute garbage, with the drive back across the desert to Tucson doing it no favors.