My allergies are still acting up, despite the medicine I am taking. I had a bit of chest cold, but it seems to have gone away on its own. It is time to restart my plan from the start of the year: getting my BMI down. But the plan has changed. Instead of walking for one hour per day — roughly equivalent to what I would have done in Finland — I decided to be both more and less ambitious.

I am going to follow the training programme from “The Lore of Running”. I have made a separate page for it, where I will also keep a log of my activity. (It should also appear on the right-hand side of this page.) The programme is very light to begin with, but it builds up, and towards the end of the year I should be able to run a marathon. Able to.

Pro’s: (1) Unlike the “walk-an-hour-a-day” plan, it provides a little variation. (2) It is less time consuming initially and it is only once I have committed myself for a month or two that it becomes more demanding. (3) It gives me something to look forward to. (4) There is some science behind it.

Con’s: (1) Walking for 20 minutes for next month or so seems a little trivial. (2) It is quite a long-term commitment.

I’ll try to stick to it religiously (i.e., mindlessly). I am hoping that, like this blog, once the ball is rolling, I’ll a compulsion to keep it rolling.  We’ll have to see how it goes.