Looking for a little motivational help or a solution. I am slowing down. Sometimes it's difficult to even get through a warmup. I only swim 3x a week, 4-5k. I can repeat 1:15's all day, 5 months ago I was repeating 1:05 on sets of hard 500's w/o issue. I don't understand. I have also developed quite the neck and upper back pain. Can't seen to solve that either but, it's keeping up at night now. I do speed work, i do distance. What do y'all think. :badday:
I will back off a bit. With regards to the running i'm putting about 26-30 miles a week in. I got a 50k in january. My fear is getting derrailed for a long spring OWS.
If you back way off the swimming for a month or two and focus on training for and running your 50k, you will still have plenty of time to ramp up the swimming again for spring and summer OW season. Use the time you might have been swimming to do whatever you need to do to get that neck and upper back pain under control, so that when you are ready to swim more again you can do it.
I will back off a bit. With regards to the running i'm putting about 26-30 miles a week in. I got a 50k in january. My fear is getting derrailed for a long spring OWS.
If you back way off the swimming for a month or two and focus on training for and running your 50k, you will still have plenty of time to ramp up the swimming again for spring and summer OW season. Use the time you might have been swimming to do whatever you need to do to get that neck and upper back pain under control, so that when you are ready to swim more again you can do it.
