Week 9 of 2026: routines

This was a week of routine. I am running a lot and playing a lot of RPGs, but this week I deliberately planned some free evenings as well. Looking back, that means I basically did that: running, playing, working, sleeping, eating. Luckily I enjoy most of those things. (I’m not a great eater.)

I’m really not good at picking up books these weeks: no reads.

Played

On Tuesday I ran a session in my ongoing Mausritter campaign. Last time they burned down the Old Barn, headquarters of the Old Barn Rats. In this campaign, I only prepare in response to what happened, I don’t prepare adventures, but luckily they checked out the Burned Barn again, for I did came up with some weird things I was desperate to share with them. Most of the rats left, but some of them remained and are now planning to start a drugs business by exporting the chemicals of the extinguishing foams used by the humans to put out the fire.

On Saturday, I attended the popular D&D Amsterdam meetup. I had signed up for this exactly two weeks in advance, and because it sells out in minutes, I mean exactly. At that time, I was right in the middle of a fast segment in my 17km long run through the Drents-Friese Wold. I ended up being assigned to Starfinder, which was way crunchier than I like my RPGs, but it was still good to try it out. The venue was very noisy but other than that I had a great experience.

On Sunday, I played in a one-shot of Monsterhearts II, ran by a player in the aforementioned Mausritter campaign. It was an interesting experience in which I was way more out of my comfort zone than I anticipated. But it was good, and as usual: I still want to play more of this.

Ran

• Monday: 10km easy, just as long as last week’s long run. I discovered after the run that I actually reached the border with the province Utrecht during this run.
• Wednesday: 10km “over and unders”. I ran the exact same route, but the middle 6 kilometers were alternating between 4:30 and 4:10 per kilometer, which is significantly faster than my easy pace.
• Friday: 19.4km to the office. Usually this is 11km, but I took a detour past Diemerpark. This also included 6km at 4:33/km, and one at 4:15/km, thus hitting my “Dam tot Damloop” 10 miles PR, while not even running a race.
• Sunday: 10km easy, which I did at the same route again, just for giggles. This time it was actually daylight and I wore shorts because it was warm enough.