Rest or stretch when tired and sore, don't work out

Ms Melissa Leelarthaepin, 42, is training for a half-marathon in the Gold Coast in Australia in July.

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In your 40s: Avoid injury

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She began running a year ago, when her personal trainer invited her to a regular run club.

"I had all these aches and pains when I started running," recalls Ms Leelarthaepin, an enterprise accounts manager with a payments company. "My body was like: 'What are you doing?'"