Showing the front — tap the medal to turn it over

Sixty-eight kilometres in thirty-nine days — quiet endurance, the lesser lucky number for wealth.

The Four Holy BeastsMedal 3 of 468 km39 DaysIntermediate

TURTLE

Sixty-eight kilometres in thirty-nine days — the quiet lucky number.

What arrives
  • The Turtle finisher medal — die-cast, double-sided, 68 km struck into the metal
  • Its own pine green 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 Turtle gift box

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

The Turtle finisher certificate, themed to the Turtle medal, marking the 68 km challenge

The certificate. Issued in the app the moment it records your finish, in Turtle's own colours, with 68 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 turtle is the only one of the four you could actually meet — and that is the point. It is the sacred creature made of ordinary, unglamorous endurance. In East Asian myth the turtle is what you trust to carry something for a very long time: it holds the world up, it outlives the dynasties built on top of it, and it has never once needed to hurry.

The reverse sets a gold ingot on the crest of the waves — wealth the sea does not take back, because the turtle is underneath it. Sixty-eight kilometres in thirty-nine days will not feel dramatic on any single day, and the thirty-nine is chosen: the lesser of the two lucky numbers for wealth, the quiet one. Six weeks later it will be the reason the number moved.

Two faces

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

TURTLE medal, front
FrontThe dragon-turtle in jade green with gilt horns.
TURTLE medal, reverse
ReverseA gold ingot riding the crest of the waves.

Its own ribbon

Every guardian is given a ribbon dyed to the enamel it carries — pine green for the turtle. This is the exact weave, at full width.

The turtle ribbon, laid flat
Colour

Pine green, matched to the turtle'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, gilt relief on the reverse.

Two faces (front / back)

Front — The dragon-turtle in jade green with gilt horns.

Reverse — A gold ingot riding the crest of the waves.

Your distance struck into the metal

Your challenge is struck into the reverse — TURTLE · 68 KM beneath the guardian.

Ribbon & packaging

Premium satin ribbon and gift box

Position in the collection

Medal 3 of 4 in The Four Holy Beasts collection.

How you earn it

  1. 1

    Cover the full 68 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 3 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.