Hi there.
I'm 35 in March. I did not do any running since high school. Ran for 17 weeks in 2009 and stopped for 7 months. Then started running again in June 2010 and have been running since and also completed the Chicago marathon.
I cycle as well and have lost 58 pounds over the past 2 years an am not classified as obese or overweight anymore.
In 2009 I ran in Adidas Supernova Glides and started running in Asics Gel Nimbus 11 and 12 last year and had really hurting achilles, knees and hips.
I listened to Born To Run and switched to Saucony Kinvaras. Been running in them for three months adapting to a front/midfoot strike. The achilles and calfs are now only used to it and the knee and hip issues had disappeared. I won't be running in "normal" shoes ever again.
Happy runs!