To start again?

[Thelyde]

I completed couch to 5k last summer. I loved the programme and the wonderful feeling running gives me. I have sadly had many problems with my hip. I dropped down to running once a week but still the pesky hip gave me pain. I have not run at all now for 1 month and my hip pain has gone.

My plan is to start the couch to 5k again in order to build up the running and hopefully my hip will cope?

Would love your thoughts on this 😁 🏃🏽‍♀️

[Speedy60 Graduate]

My first thought is, if you can get out there, do.👍

Do you have any idea what caused the hip pain in the first place? I'd do some googling (and thoroughly read the c25k guide on here). Particularly read up on running posture, gait and core body exercises. Yoga exercises are great for loosening up your muscles. Yoga with Adrienne on YouTube is good. I can't recommend swimming at the moment. I have a weighted hola hoop I was thinking of dusting off. You can buy them online.

I don't know what shoes you wear, but they can cause knock on problems right up the legs. Unfortunately, I don't think it's going to be easy to get gait analysis and try decent running shoes on in the next few months. 😔

Good luck 👍

[Sadie-runs Graduate]

Hip pain (and other running injuries) are more often than not caused by a muscular weakness elsewhere in the body. In an ideal scenario you would get yourself assessed by a physio to work out where your weakness could be...but right now we are not living in an ideal scenario, sadly. 😕

Starting C25K to build up again is a great idea, but I would say building in a couple of strength sessions a week at home would really help you. You could order a resistance band from Amazon or somewhere - there are lots of fantastic at home strength exercises you could do to help with your hip. Google strength exercises for runners, or look for those you can do for glutes, core and hips. Weak glutes can be the cause of many hip woes - banded clams and banded wall squats are great for glutes.

There is also a Strength and Flex forum on here that can give you lots of ideas for at home exercises to help with your running. 👍

Getting strong to support your running helps so much. Good luck and keep us posted, we are here for you!

[Thelyde Graduate in reply to Sadie-runs]

This is great, it’s times like now that these forums really cone in to there own.

[GoogleMe Graduate]

Are you in a position to avoid running on hard surfaces? In addition to all the very good suggestions from others, that might be something to consider if you can.

[IannodaTruffe Mentor]

If I were you I would try to get to the bottom of what is causing the hip pain before subjecting my body to further stresses.