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Or will I? Stay tuned to find out.... I have been playing a LOT of the Elder Scrolls recently. I started out with Skyrim and then when I started running out of new character ideas, I decided to go back in the franchise to Morrowind, the 3rd installment. In that game [SPOILER ALERT] you play the famed hero of prophecy, the Nerevarine. I am going to base my challenge around that, as I expect much of my time this challenge will involve this game Endurance: In the game I have found that my biggest limiting factor is endurance. I can only run for a minute or two before I am completely drained, and when you are drained you can't do anything and are easily killed. My real live endurance is not much better, so in order to build up my endurance, I am going to be doing some running. I expect most of this will be on my treadmill, but with the temperatures starting to get nice outside, I may also do some running at the park. My minimum for success is 50Km over the course of the challenge. That comes out to two 5k runs per week, which is totally doable. Agility: Agility is the attribute that keeps the enemies from being able to hit you. For this challenge this is going to translate into stretching and mobility work, which will keep me from taking damage (getting injured) as I go about my questing. Last challenge I tried to make this an evening thing but that did not work at all. This time around I am going to try doing it in the mornings and see if that works any better. Goal is to to at east 3 stretching sessions per week, meaning 15 sessions over the course of the challenge. My 4 primary stretches focus on pike (posterior chain), straddle (hips), tuck (ankles), and pancake (hips and posterior chain). Personality: Personality is another key attribute in the game, because often in order to complete any quest you have to interact with the NPCs, who won't do anything for you unless you have rapport with them. A high personality score means less time running around doing tasks to build up rapport with NPCs so you can complete quests. For this challenge, that means keeping up with other people here on NF. Last time I tried to follow too many people and ended up getting WAY behind on all of them to the point where I was barely participating in any of them. This time I am going to somehow limit the number of challenges I follow so I can stay up to date and active. The hard part is deciding who to follow and who I have to skip this time around. I need to be active in 10 other people's threads and keep my follows under 20 people (somehow). Not sure yet how to track this one. Willpower: This attribute affect spell casting success rate and for me (since I am not playing a spellcaster) resistance to magicka. This is important because getting hit with a paralyze spell in the middle of combat can be fatal. For this challenge this is going to be about snacking. I usually do pretty well on eating healthy during the day. However, I tend to get the munchies in the evening and I inevitably go hunting for whatever is around the house. Given that the Chinese New Year holiday starts this week, there is going to be tons of snacks around. I am going to give myself a pass during the holiday, but once the holiday is over I am going to steal an idea from Deffy and have a snack pack. Anything in the snack pack is OK, but that is the limit. Once that is gone I can't have any more snacks. I will try to have my snack pack ready each morning, but if I fail to do that, it just means I can't have snacks. Goal for this challenge is to have no more than 5 snack pack violations over the course of the challenge. Strength: I almost left this off because it is something I would be doing anyway, but decided to include it anyway. Strength is the attribute that determines how much damage output you do, but increased strength also correlates with increased weapon degradation. Improving strength is good, as long as it is tempered and I don't try to overdo things. I have lost a bit of strength over the winter from being indoors so much, so I need to be patient and not try to do too much too quickly. Goals for this challenge is 3 workouts per week (15 total workout sessions for the challenge), but they don't have to be focused on anything beyond just getting outside and being active. Challenge Tracker: Endurance: ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ Agility: ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ Personality: Willpower: ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ Strength: ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜