The Conqueror - The Shire
I've heard about The Conqueror from an influencer and when I checked it out they started a LOTR series! As a LOTR fan it greatly interested me. The Conqueror is an app that provides distance based challenges and uses locations to determine the distance amount. It gives you a map and the route and shows how much you progress along the route. Once you finish they provide you a medal that is mailed to you. The medals are huge and come with a neck strap so it looks rather similar to a Olympic medal. For the LOTR they give you the map of Middle Earth. These challenges are about $50 per challenge which isn't too bad but not cheap. You can walk, run, or anything else you'd like. You can link fitness apps like The Health app from Apple to automatically input your daily steps, or you can input distance manually. So its possible to "cheat" if you're only interested in the medal than the fitness challenge as you can't buy the medal outright.
I'm not a big fan of how the medals look personally, but I do like The Shire's medal a lot enough to buy it. You can't buy it through the app but rather through their website. Be sure to right your email correctly and it will give you the code to put into the app to start the challenge.
The app experience is relatively simple. As you progress it gives you a simple recap of the movie. The recap is just a screencap with a simple panning or zooming animation with a line from the movie from that scene. There's no music or any other sound. You also get digital postcards that also gets emailed to you. You get a choice of planting trees or removing bottles as another kind of milestone. The map doesn't just show you where you are but other people as well. So overall its pretty simple and not the most exciting thing. I wish it was a bit better!
Since the Shire challenge is 145 miles its going to take me awhile. I will have to update this when I finish it and get the medal!
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