Hi All

The challenge is to travel on foot from Markarth to Windhelm without any weapons, armor, potions or magic. Here's the rules:

Marathon starts at Markarth Blacksmiths and ends at Windhelm Front Gates.

When setting off:

• Simple fabric clothes, no clothes with an armour/armor rating.
  
• No weapons or staves
  
• No horse
  
• No companion
  
• No enchanted clothes
  
• No potions
  
• No Scrolls
  
• No Magic
  
• Difficulty setting should be Adept (this isn't absolutely set in stone as it really doesn't effect much in the game)
  
• Feel free to stock up on food before starting

During the marathon:

Cans

• You can defend yourself with violence
  
• You can loot bodies and use whatever you loot from them
  
• You can hunt
  
• You can cook
  
• You can only sleep at campsites or cleared caves/bandit havens.
  
• You can take any on foot route - wild/roads/through-cavern

Can'ts

• You can't enter any city
  
• You can't buy or sell anything
  
• You can't recruit a companion
  
• You can't steal a horse or take any fast travel, or carriage to anywhere on the map.

Bonus Optionals

• do not use transformations = -5 minutes
  
• do not use ethereal shout = -5 minutes
  
• do not prepare yourself with console commands = -10 minutes

On Completion

Post your time in this thread and tell all about your experiences during the marathon, also let me know what you're playing on and whether you used transformations.

Take it as seriously as you want to

Please feel free to post screenshots and videos. I suspect with the forsworn and the bear presence around markarth this could get pretty eventful. Extra kudos for taking big risks!