#BEDM Day 4: What's In My Bag

Day Four of the BEDM challenge is here! Let me start by saying, May the Force be with you and happy Star Wars Day!

Now that’s out of the way, time for the challenge post. This ones simple kids, my bag and its contents.

I never really used to take a bag out and about with me, as a guy my pockets would hold the important things such as keys, phone and wallet. Recently though, it has dawned on me that taking a comfortable rucksack would be beneficial to me. So, there it is in the picture. There’s also an apple and banana, because I like to snack and snack often. As someone who is trying to develop a healthier lifestyle it’s so much easier to keep to this when I have some fruit with me rather than be tempted to waste money and buy a chocolate bar or packet of crisps.

There is also my (rather empty) wallet, something I go into a bit too often when I’m out and about, especially for a coffee or two!

My keyring infuriates Diane as I have several Lego keyring characters, including Gandalf, Yoda, Vader, Gimli and others from the Star Wars and Lord of the Rings films. There are also two bottle openers (always useful!) and several chain rings with absolutely nothing on. The part that annoys her is that there are only three keys in amongst that. In fact until we bought our house there was only one!

I tend to try and read whenever I can and so there’s always a book in there, this time it’s Sabrial by Garth Nix. I’ve owned the Abhorsen Trilogy for ages and am finally reading it. Enjoyable so far. Naturally there is my phone and headphones, for music or the Zombie Run app mentioned in the last post. Can’t go out without my metal blaring into my poor ears!

Finally you will be able to see a medication bottle that contains my pills. Nothing too exciting, I had major bowel surgery when I was a child and those beautiful little guys keep everything running as smoothly as can be expected.

So there it is, my rucksack and its contents.

So, What’s in YOUR bag?

#BEDM DAY 3: Walk to Work

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So today’s topic for the BEDM challenge is ‘Walking to work’. Well, I don’t actually walk to work that often and it’s a pretty boring walk when I do so I decided to do something in keeping with the topic but a little outside of the box. Originally I was going to write about the park and reservoir I discovered near our house, which is a lovely walk on a sunny day. But it turns out that sneaky fiancée of mine has beaten me to it, so read all about that at Nomad Seeks Home.

Instead, I’m going to talk about something that has helped me get into walking and made me more active. It’s an app called ‘Zombies Run’. I had heard about it and decided to download it when it was on offer. It tracks your runs/walks and shows you your distance, speed and route like other apps. What makes it different and appealing to me is that it is designed to be a zombie-survival story at the same time. The way it works is that it throws you into a zombie apocalypse and encourages you to run/walk to evade zombies, complete goals and collect resources for rebuilding.

The story is split into different mission in which you, as a ‘Runner’ are sent to complete objectives to help a settlement whilst listening to instructions as you run. These objectives gain you items that you can then use to build a visual-on-screen base once you’ve completed your goals. The story is delivered through good voice acting in your headphones and an interesting feature is that between the vocal messages, the app plays music from your iTunes/music collection and so you can listen to your favourite tracks whilst literally fleeing the zombie hordes (the power metal I have is very useful for this)!

It has helped me get more active, I’m not a runner but I do use it whenever I go for long walks as it encourages me to go more often and also actually finish them!