Running out of January...1/24-1/30 runs

[OakLeaf]

Understand that if you're a woman runner, and even more so if you wear shoes, it's pretty much mandatory that you do hip-strengthening exercises. Running relies so much on the large muscle groups of the thighs that the smaller stabilizing muscles (and even the large glute max) become disproportionately weak, and that can cause problems through the whole kinetic chain. Women's larger Q-angle exacerbates the problems.

I'd known for years that my hips were uneven and weak, but not how important it was to do something about it. Recently I had been having some pain in the left obturator, but my primary issues were in the knees and heels. According to the PT (as well as much of what I read), that all comes from weak hips.