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And decent footwear is a must or you can say goodbye to your kness

Never a truer word said. The main problem with my achilles was caused by initially using bad footwear and never truly recovering from it.

If you would like me to recommend some trainers, that's no problem. The Runners World website has a particularly good section where you can specify all your details and it will recommend for you.

You'll also hear lots of conflicting stories as to whether to treadmill or road run.

Personally (and this is in no way deriding anyone elses plans) I prefer to start and get cardio in the gym, but very quickly switch to road running. Some have trouble with their knees on hard roads, I don't, so this is just me. However, if you exclusively treadmill run (as I have done before) it's quite the adjustment switching to the road. Simply put, a treadmill makes your legs feel like you are pushing in one direction and road running, the other, due to the wheels obviously.

Others will have different ideas, that's just mine!!