Hi - I'm training for my first sprint tri. I used a plan I found online and made sure my longest workouts increase by only 10% a week, but I think I have officially overreached in my training, and not in a healthy way.
I did a practice run for the race, which went well, a couple weeks ago. The next day, I tried a swim sighting technique, pulled some muscles in my neck, and ended up with a migraine. Two and a half weeks later, I'm better but still tired, occasionally dizzy, and just generally feeling bad.
I went to the MD and everything checks out fine, including blood tests for everything under the sun. My doc says I'm good to go back to training, and I took a couple weeks "off," training at about 50%.
Things are a bit better overall, but I'm not sure how slow to take a return to training and my first sprint tri was supposed to be July 12th. It seems that I can get through workouts, but if I don't get a ton of sleep, I might feel super tired the next day, and not be up for training then. I'm not getting overly sore, I'm eating well, and I added a multivitamin just in case.
I'm really frustrated. I want to feel like I'm taking care of my body, but after months of training, I'd also love to do this race. Any tips? I know it could be this or that, but assuming it's overreaching (like a lesser version of overtraining), does anyone have any advice? My MD seems kind of clueless.
I did a practice run for the race, which went well, a couple weeks ago. The next day, I tried a swim sighting technique, pulled some muscles in my neck, and ended up with a migraine. Two and a half weeks later, I'm better but still tired, occasionally dizzy, and just generally feeling bad.
I went to the MD and everything checks out fine, including blood tests for everything under the sun. My doc says I'm good to go back to training, and I took a couple weeks "off," training at about 50%.
Things are a bit better overall, but I'm not sure how slow to take a return to training and my first sprint tri was supposed to be July 12th. It seems that I can get through workouts, but if I don't get a ton of sleep, I might feel super tired the next day, and not be up for training then. I'm not getting overly sore, I'm eating well, and I added a multivitamin just in case.
I'm really frustrated. I want to feel like I'm taking care of my body, but after months of training, I'd also love to do this race. Any tips? I know it could be this or that, but assuming it's overreaching (like a lesser version of overtraining), does anyone have any advice? My MD seems kind of clueless.