Fitness App Gamifies Your Walks into a Playful Middle Earth Quest
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Used Fantasy Hike app to turn fitness tracking into a lighthearted quest to fictional Mount Fire instead of obsessively tracking performance
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App integrates with Apple Health to track walking/running progress on a journey across not-Middle Earth
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Competes with characters like Jon Snowflake and Alice Wonderfoot instead of past fitter self, reducing self-judgment
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Gamification helps shift mindset from dwelling on current fitness level to enjoying movement again
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Low-stakes, imaginary journey is helping rediscover running enjoyment and making consistent progress after injury