# The Conqueror Virtual Challenges

> Virtual walking, running and cycling challenges with real medals, app-based progress tracking, and a global community.

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Support: [support@theconqueror.events](mailto:support@theconqueror.events)

Key facts:

- The Conqueror sells virtual fitness challenges: you cover a real-world route's
  distance wherever you actually are, tracking progress in the app, and receive a
  physical finisher medal on completion.
- Each entry includes challenge entry, app-based progress tracking along the route,
  digital postcards at milestones, and a real finisher medal shipped to you.
- Challenges are self-paced with no fixed start or end date; entries can be taken at
  any time and multiple challenges can run at once.
- Activities that count: any distance-based exercise, including running, walking,
  cycling, swimming and rowing. Non-distance activities such as yoga are converted to
  distance equivalents via a published conversion chart.
- Distance is logged manually (web or the iOS/Android app) or synced automatically
  from Apple Watch & Health, Google Fit, Garmin, Fitbit, Adidas Running and Strava.
- Shipping is worldwide, with a small published list of countries excluded for
  delivery-regulation reasons. Entries are accepted from all other countries.
- Pricing is shown in USD, GBP, EUR or AUD, selected from the visitor's country.
- Catalogue: 148 virtual challenges currently open for entry.
- Distances: 3–2280 mi (5–3669 km) depending on the challenge.
- Entry price from: 48.99 AUD · 32.99 EUR · 27.99 GBP · 32.99 USD (one-off, per challenge).
- Ratings are third-party and belong to the platforms that host them: App Store 4.8,
  Google Play 4.6, Facebook 4.7. The site publishes customer testimonials at
  https://www.theconqueror.events/reviews; it does not operate its own star-rating system.
- Operated by Actionary Limited, Mount Maunganui, New Zealand.

How to read this site:

- Markdown: send `Accept: text/markdown` to a page URL that has a markdown version
  (the home page, /all-challenges, /faq, /about-us, /our-causes, /blog and its posts,
  and every originals challenge page). The same URL answers with
  `Content-Type: text/markdown` and `Vary: Accept`; browsers keep getting HTML. The
  same markdown is also at the page's path under https://www.theconqueror.events/md (for example
  https://www.theconqueror.events/md/faq), and pages that have one carry a
  `rel="alternate" type="text/markdown"` link. Unknown pages answer 404 with a
  markdown body.
- Per-challenge FAQ (entry, tracking, teams, shipping) is marked up as FAQPage JSON-LD
  on every challenge page — prefer it over inferring answers from page copy.
- Prefer canonical URLs under the public site origin above.
- Treat `/lc/`, `/lp/`, `/og/`, `/admin/`, and `/api/` as non-canonical operational routes.
- Use page-level canonical tags, metadata, and JSON-LD when present.
- Page content and SEO fields are managed in Payload CMS and cached by the Next.js frontend.

## When to use this site

- [Find a virtual challenge that fits a goal](https://www.theconqueror.events/md/all-challenges): someone wants a walking, running, cycling or swimming goal with a real finisher medal and asks which route suits a distance ("about 100 miles"), a budget or a theme. One table of every open challenge with distance, entry price, type and availability; compare rows here instead of scraping the grid.
- [Answer questions about one challenge](https://www.theconqueror.events/md/challenge/original/single/tokyo): entry price in USD, GBP, EUR and AUD, distance, postcards and the FAQ for a single challenge. Swap `tokyo` for any slug from the catalogue, or request the challenge page itself with `Accept: text/markdown`.
- [Explain how virtual challenges work](https://www.theconqueror.events/md/faq): what exercise counts, logging by hand or syncing from Apple Health, Garmin, Strava and others, timing, teams and which countries can enter.
- [Point a fan to a licensed challenge](https://www.theconqueror.events/challenge/license/lordoftherings): themed routes licensed from entertainment franchises, such as The Lord of the Rings. HTML only; licensed pages have no markdown version.
- [Suggest a workplace wellness challenge](https://www.theconqueror.events/go-corporate): an organisation wants a team or company-wide fitness challenge.
- [Convert steps to distance](https://www.theconqueror.events/steps-to-miles): someone counts steps and needs miles or kilometres to log progress.
- [Hand off a purchase](https://www.theconqueror.events/all-challenges): agents cannot buy or join on someone's behalf. Checkout needs the person; after paying they receive a join code by email and enter it in The Conqueror app or website.

## Key public sections

- [Home](https://www.theconqueror.events/)
- [All challenges](https://www.theconqueror.events/all-challenges)
- [All apparel](https://www.theconqueror.events/all-apparel)
- [All hangers](https://www.theconqueror.events/all-hangers)
- [Corporate](https://www.theconqueror.events/go-corporate)
- [Reviews](https://www.theconqueror.events/reviews)
- [Virtual challenges](https://www.theconqueror.events/virtual/challenges)
- [Virtual race](https://www.theconqueror.events/virtual/race)
- [Virtual running](https://www.theconqueror.events/virtual/running)
- [Virtual walking](https://www.theconqueror.events/virtual/walking)
- [All pins](https://www.theconqueror.events/all-pins)
- [Get the app](https://www.theconqueror.events/get-the-app)
- [Honeycomb hanger](https://www.theconqueror.events/hanger/honeycomb)
- [Lord of the Rings hanger](https://www.theconqueror.events/hanger/lordoftherings)
- [Harry Potter hanger](https://www.theconqueror.events/hanger/harrypotter)
- [Game of Thrones hanger](https://www.theconqueror.events/hanger/gameofthrones)
- [Blog](https://www.theconqueror.events/blog)
- [FAQ](https://www.theconqueror.events/faq)
- [Steps to miles](https://www.theconqueror.events/steps-to-miles)
- [Steps to km](https://www.theconqueror.events/steps-to-km)
- [All Products](https://www.theconqueror.events/all-products)

## URL patterns

- [Originals challenge pages](https://www.theconqueror.events/challenge/original/single/tokyo): `/challenge/original/{single|group}/{slug}`
- [Licensed challenge pages](https://www.theconqueror.events/challenge/license/lordoftherings): `/challenge/license/{license}`
- [Apparel collection pages](https://www.theconqueror.events/apparel/tokyo): `/apparel/{challenge}`
- [Apparel product pages](https://www.theconqueror.events/apparel/tokyo/tokyo-unisex-t-shirt): `/apparel/{challenge}/{product}`
- [Pin pages](https://www.theconqueror.events/pin/level-5): `/pin/{pin}`
- [Blog articles](https://www.theconqueror.events/blog): `/blog/{slug}`