Week 4 of 2026

I have been sick this week. Last Sunday I ran the Egmond Halve Marathon, as an easy training run, but it turned out I ran it with a PR time (1:45:31). It was a total surprise to me, I hadn’t even paid attention to turning my watch off at the finish, but luckily there’s timing chips at these events. It was also very cold though, and the next two days I ran too, for a marathon in three days, and then somehow I was sick on Tuesday evening.

This gave me time to read and watch stuff. Mostly things from the 1950s or before, because their pace is just more easily digestible for the feverish mind. Contemporary movies shout so much.

Watched

• Postmark for Danger / Portrait of Alison (1955)
• An Inspector Calls (1954)
• Sabotage (Hitchcock, 1936)
• The Man Who Knew Too Much (Hitchcock, 1934)
• Cowboy Bebop (1998) - seven episodes

Read

• continued Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien
• started Dungeon Crawler Carl - Matt Dinnaman

Played

I still ran a game of Mausritter on Tuesday, somehow. It was a cool session with two players, in which we played to find out in my new campaign world. Turns out they came from a mushroom farm in the north, looking for a cure for their sick mother. And then their dad got kidnapped too. Luckily they took young Elmer and five other siblings with them.

Ran

• Monday: Easy - 11.2km in 59:11 (5:15/km)
• Tuesday: Intervals - 12.2km in 1:00:45 (4:59/km)

(I skipped the rest)