Showing the front — tap the medal to turn it over

The bird that comes back — 139 km across 68 days closes The Four Holy Beasts collection.

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PHOENIX

The bird that comes back — 139 km across 68 days closes the collection.

What arrives
  • The Phoenix finisher medal — die-cast, double-sided, 139 km struck into the metal
  • Its own burnt orange 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 XChallenge app on any activity it records
The Phoenix gift box

The box. Hot-foiled on the front and down the spine. Each of the four guardians gets its own colour.

The Phoenix finisher certificate, themed to the Phoenix medal, marking the 139 km challenge

The certificate. Issued in the app the moment it records your finish, in Phoenix's own colours, with 139 km on it. Shown blank here — your details are written onto it when you finish.

This challenge
$45
All four medals
$129 save $51

Ships 5–10 business days after the app records your completion, via USPS or UPS, tracked from our Denver, CO warehouse.

Certificate is digital and lives in the app. Nothing is posted.

Secure checkout is handled by Shopify — PCI-DSS certified. Card, Apple Pay and Google Pay accepted.

Refunds within 30 days of purchase, provided you have not activated the challenge in the app.

X Challenge: Virtual RunsWhere your distance is recorded, your certificate lives, and a challenge is activated.Free · iOS 17.0 or later
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Finishers post their medals in the Medal Hunters group — real photos, not product shots.

The story struck into it

The phoenix is the one that comes back. In East Asian myth it is not a bird of disaster but a bird of peace — it appears when the world is worth appearing in, and it carries grace, virtue and renewal on its wings. The front opens those wings in flame-orange enamel with blue caught in the tail.

The reverse keeps only two things: one plume from the bird that was, and the egg of the one that follows. That is the entire cycle in two objects. One hundred and thirty-nine kilometres across sixty-eight days closes the virtual running challenge collection — sixty-eight is a lucky number too, the one that reads as blessing turning into fortune. By the time you finish it you are not the runner who started it, which is more or less the point.

Two faces

Finished on both sides. Neither face is a stamp of the other.

PHOENIX medal, front
FrontThe phoenix in flame-orange with blue-tipped tail feathers, wings open.
PHOENIX medal, reverse
ReverseA single tail plume laid beside the phoenix egg.

Its own ribbon

Every guardian is given a ribbon dyed to the enamel it carries — burnt orange for the phoenix. This is the exact weave, at full width.

The phoenix ribbon, laid flat
Colour

Burnt orange, matched to the phoenix's enamel.

Border

A gold key-fret runs the full length of both edges. The same border is on all four ribbons; only the ground changes.

Ground

A tone-on-tone weave, visible when the light catches it and quiet when it does not.

Both sides

Printed the same front and back, so it reads the same whichever way the medal hangs.

The medal, specified

Material

Die-cast alloy in a temple-stele form under a tiled pagoda roof

Craft & finish

Double-sided relief — cloisonné enamel on the face, burnished metal relief on the reverse.

Two faces (front / back)

Front — The phoenix in flame-orange with blue-tipped tail feathers, wings open.

Reverse — A single tail plume laid beside the phoenix egg.

Your distance struck into the metal

Your challenge is struck into the reverse — PHOENIX · 139 KM beneath the guardian.

Ribbon & packaging

Premium satin ribbon and gift box

Position in the collection

Medal 4 of 4 in The Four Holy Beasts collection.

How you earn it

  1. 1

    Cover the full 139 km before the challenge window closes.

  2. 2

    Every activity type the app records counts toward your distance — mix them however you like.

  3. 3

    Record each activity with GPS or a synced device so it uploads to your challenge total automatically.

  4. 4

    Distance accumulates across every activity — no minimum per session, and no limit on how many times you go out.

  5. 5

    Finish the distance to unlock your medal.

All five happen in the app.

X Challenge: Virtual RunsTrack any activity. Distance uploads to every challenge you have open.Free · iOS 17.0 or later
Download on the App StoreAndroidComing soon
The Four Holy Beasts — all four medals
Medal 4 of 4

The Four Holy Beasts

4 medals, 474 km, 274 days. Bought together they cost $129 instead of $180.

See the collection

Questions

Do I have to run it all at once?

No. Distance accumulates across every activity you record — 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 from our Denver, CO warehouse.

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.