Showing the front. Tap the medal to turn it over.
The bird that comes back — 139 km across 79 days closes The Four Holy Beasts collection.PHOENIX 139 km virtual challenge
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The bird that comes back — 139 km across 79 days closes the collection.
In short: PHOENIX is a 139 km (86-mile) virtual running challenge from X Challenge. Cover 139 km within 79 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 PHOENIX 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) · KYLIN (88 km) · TURTLE (68 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.
Secure checkout is handled by Shopify, which is 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.
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 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 Phoenix's own colours, with 139 km on it. Shown blank here. Your details are written onto it when you finish.
AndroidComing soonThe 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 seventy-nine days closes the virtual running challenge collection — seventy-nine is the greater of the two lucky numbers for wealth, and the phoenix earns it the only way the bird knows how: by giving up everything it was first. 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.
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.
Burnt orange, matched to the phoenix'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, burnished metal relief on the reverse.
Front: The phoenix in flame-orange with blue-tipped tail feathers, wings open.
Reverse: A single tail plume laid beside the phoenix egg.
Your challenge is struck into the reverse — PHOENIX · 139 KM beneath the guardian.
Premium satin ribbon and gift box
Medal 4 of 4 in The Four Holy Beasts collection.
How you earn it
- 1
Cover the full 139 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
Phoenix is medal 4 of 4. 4 medals, 474 km, 274 days. Bought together they cost $129 instead of $180.
See the collectionQuestions
How far is 139 km in miles?
About 86 miles. Across 79 days that is about 1.8 km (1.1 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.