Greetings Gentlemen.

Recently I bought my wife a treadmill. Great idea I thought for improving my view! Anyhow, I have started to use it myself. Being the kind of guy who only runs if the cops are chasing him, this has been a bit of an accomplishment for me. Everything was going okay for about two weeks, then last week, after increasing my length to about a 4km jog, a consistent pain set in in my knees. This gradually increased to an agonizing pitch by Wednesday and I would hobble when I walked. I thought I may have overdone it so I backed off and stuck to the bicycle. This improved it somewhat to the point where yesterday I thought i could try a run again. Wrong move. The painful ache is back with a vengeance. I would like to know if any of you guys have any experience with running? Is this normal? Will it get better? Considering I have not run any sort of length in 20 years or more I was thinking a little bit of discomfort initially would be inevitable, but surely not to the point where I limp and need pain killers! Any advice would be much appreciated.