Showing the front. Tap the medal to turn it over.
Eighty-eight kilometres at a little over a kilometre a day — 68 days, the number that reads as blessing turning into fortune.KYLIN 88 km virtual challenge
The Four Holy BeastsMedal 2 of 488 km68 daysAdvanced
A little over a kilometre a day for sixty-eight days.
In short: KYLIN is an 88 km (55-mile) virtual running challenge from X Challenge. Cover 88 km within 68 days of tapping Start in the X Challenge app — running, walking, treadmill or any activity the app records distance for, in one session or many. Finish, and the die-cast, double-sided KYLIN medal ships with its ribbon and gift box within 5–10 business days. $45, or $129 for The Four Holy Beasts collection, all four medals.
Also in The Four Holy Beasts: DRAGON (179 km) · TURTLE (68 km) · PHOENIX (139 km)
Training for it? Read how the long challenges break down per day.
Ships 5–10 business days after the app records your completion, via USPS or UPS, tracked.
Certificate is digital and lives in the app. Nothing is posted.
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Refunds within 30 days of purchase, provided you have not activated the challenge in the app.
What arrives
- The Kylin finisher medal: die-cast, double-sided, 88 km struck into the metal
- Its own midnight blue ribbon and a gift box
- A digital finisher certificate, in the app. It appears when the app records your finish and you can download it from there. Digital only. No certificate is posted.
- Your challenge tracked in the X Challenge app on any activity it records
The box. Hot-foiled on the front and down the spine. Each of the four guardians gets its own colour.
The certificate. Issued in the app the moment it records your finish, in Kylin's own colours, with 88 km on it. Shown blank here. Your details are written onto it when you finish.
AndroidComing soonThe story struck into it
The kylin has the head of a dragon, the body of a deer and the hooves of a horse, and for all that fierceness it is the gentlest of the four. The old texts say it treads without bending a blade of grass and shows itself only where there is virtue: at the birth of a sage, at the arrival of a just ruler. It is not a warning. It is the sign that things are going right.
Its blessings sit on the reverse — the gourd that carries medicine and good fortune, and the blossom coin that stands for prosperity arriving in its own season. Eighty-eight kilometres across sixty-eight days is the most even pace in the collection, a little over a kilometre a day. Sixty-eight is the number that reads as blessing turning into fortune — and that is exactly how the kylin works: it does not go out and take, it shows up where the ground is already good, and the fortune follows. That is the whole argument of this virtual running challenge: you do not have to force it.
Two faces
Finished on both sides. Neither face is a stamp of the other.
Its own ribbon
Every guardian is given a ribbon dyed to the enamel it carries: midnight blue for the kylin. This is the exact weave, at full width.
Midnight blue, matched to the kylin's enamel.
A gold key-fret runs the full length of both edges. The same border is on all four ribbons; only the ground changes.
A tone-on-tone weave, visible when the light catches it and quiet when it does not.
Printed the same front and back, so it reads the same whichever way the medal hangs.
The medal, specified
Die-cast alloy in a temple-stele form under a tiled pagoda roof
Double-sided relief — cloisonné enamel on the face, gilt emblem work on the reverse.
Front: The kylin in blue and gold against a meander border.
Reverse: The gourd on its red cord above a blossom-stamped gold coin.
Your challenge is struck into the reverse — KYLIN · 88 KM beneath the guardian.
Premium satin ribbon and gift box
Medal 2 of 4 in The Four Holy Beasts collection.
How you earn it
- 1
Cover the full 88 km before the challenge window closes.
- 2
Every activity type the app records counts toward your distance. Mix them however you like.
- 3
Record each activity with GPS or a synced device so it uploads to your challenge total automatically.
- 4
Distance accumulates across every activity, with no minimum per session and no limit on how many times you go out.
- 5
Finish the distance to unlock your medal.
All five happen in the app.
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The Four Holy Beasts
Kylin is medal 2 of 4. 4 medals, 474 km, 274 days. Bought together they cost $129 instead of $180.
See the collectionQuestions
How far is 88 km in miles?
About 55 miles. Across 68 days that is about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) a day.
Do I have to run it all at once?
No. Distance accumulates across every activity you record, with no minimum per session and no cap on how many times you go out.
What counts toward my distance?
Every activity type the app records. Walk it, run it, hike it, or mix all three.
When does my medal ship?
Once the app records your completion we ship within 5–10 business days via USPS or UPS, tracked.
Is the certificate posted to me?
No. The finisher certificate is digital. It appears in the app when you finish and you download it from there.
Can I get a refund?
Within 30 days of purchase, provided you have not activated the challenge in the app. Once you start tracking, the entry is in use.
Do I need to run these in order?
No. Each challenge stands alone. The numbering marks its place in the collection, not a prerequisite.