Week 5 of 2026

This was a week of recovering after sickness. I did not run much, because after the few runs I did, there was a lot of coughing again. I did however play my first ever NeVoBo competition match with my volleyball team. We lost horribly, but we also lost horribly against this opponent before, so I don’t feel too bad about it. Sure, I made a lot of mistakes, but I also scored some points by blocking and that was really satisfying.

I also visited FantasyXpo over the weekend, and played some boardgames with friends. And apart from the sudoku video’s of Cracking the Cryptic, I didn’t really watch anything at all.

Read

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

Played

I ran a second game of Mausritter on Tuesday, in the same campaign world, but with an all-new cast of five players. It was amazing: they went south to visit Frog Prince Perry, who was holding a joust and they wanted to enter it, so I pulled some frog joust rules out of thin air and we played it out. Turns out frog jousting involves a frog sitting on top of another frog, running into each other with sticks. To join, I had one player carry the other on his back. Unfortunately, the dice were not in their favor, so they lost to the favorite. One other player found some mouse-frog romance on the party after though...

On Wednesday, I ran a one-shot of Escape from Dino Island in Utrecht, which was really cool too. It was the first time of me running or playing any Powered by the Apocalypse game (which I have been reading a lot about), and I was pleased with how it worked. The only thing I regret is not putting even more dino’s into it, three encounters was way too little.

Also for boardgames: I played Sanctuary (Arc Nova lite) and Nuns on the Run (very exciting game).

Ran

  • Monday: Easy - 4km, just to test it out
  • Wednesday: trying to run 11km with a bag to the office, but broke it off after 1.8km, took the metro, ran the last 1.4km to the office with the bag, but it was all a bit much. Then ran 4.4km without the bag, just to have some kilometers for the week, but all in all very frustrating
  • Sunday: a solid 8km in 40 minutes, so 5:00/km