Did my foam rolling and hip exercises the last few nights along with quite a bit of core strengthening.
Went out today hopeful that my hip would respond well to everything I have been doing.
Felt fine for the first mile or so, and then a very slight ache in my hip started and never really got worse over the next 2 miles. It started to get a little bit sorer as I got closer to 4 miles. I think that my mind is making this worse because I am more focused on my hip pain than actually running. It sort of takes the enjoyment out of it. I tried to keep my mind off of it and just do little checkpoints on the hip.
Overall, I think it is getting a little better. I will just have to keep working on strengthening and stretching and slowly building the miles. Not totally sure on a timeline at this point.
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