Short answers about how the challenge works. Can’t find yours? Email us at the bottom of the page.
A free 30-day virtual challenge. You walk or run wherever you are, and every run and walk you log moves you along a real 280 km (174 miles) route through Tajikistan's Pamir mountains, from Rushon up the Bartang Valley, over the Savnob and Kok Jar passes, and onto the high plateau to finish beside Karakul Lake.
No. It's free to join and there's nothing to buy.
November 1–30, 2026. The window is based on your local date, so it opens at midnight wherever you are. Only activities dated inside the window count.
No. Finishing works out to roughly 9 km (6 miles) a day on average, but you can do it in whatever pattern suits you: a few long days or lots of short ones.
Runs and walks (including trail runs, treadmill runs and walks, and hikes). Rides, swims and other workouts don't count.
No. Strava is optional. You can also upload a GPX file or log an activity by hand.
Three ways, all from the Log sheet: import from Strava, upload a GPX file, or enter distance, type and date by hand. They all add to the same route distance.
Connect Strava once, then press "Check for new activities". New runs and walks come back pre-selected so you can import them all in one tap. Checking is a button press rather than automatic because Strava limits how many requests the app can make, and that limit is shared by everyone.
Strava limits how many athletes an app like this can connect, and those slots are full. Slots are counted per Strava athlete, not per account. You can still upload GPX files or log by hand, and a slot may open up if someone disconnects.
Pick your file and we show a preview. Then choose whether it was a run or a walk, confirm the date, and save. If the file has no timestamps, we'll ask you to check the date.
Open the Log sheet and choose "Disconnect Strava" under Import from Strava. That revokes the app's access and deletes the stored tokens. Activities you've already imported stay on your trek, and you can reconnect later.
Yes. You can delete any activity from your Progress page.
The distance you actually logged, nothing else. Your finish, your rank and your estimated finish date all use that raw distance.
How far your logged effort would carry you on the real Pamir terrain: climbs cost more, descents less (we use the Minetti cost-of-transport model). It's shown for fun and never changes your progress or finish. Activities without elevation data, and hand-logged ones, are treated as flat, so their Trail-equivalent equals the distance you logged.
By total distance logged inside the challenge window. By default other participants see your first name, your progress and your marker color. You can hide yourself with the visibility toggle on the Leaderboard page; you'll always still see your own row.
From your pace over the last 7 days. It needs at least 3 days of history and 2 activities before it shows an estimate, and it tells you whether you're on pace or what daily distance you'd need to finish in time.
A last-resort safety net. If you fall behind the daily pace, a jeep can carry you 4–8 miles (6–13 km) down the route to catch you up. Each participant has a bank of 24 miles (39 km) of jeep rides, with a 7-day wait between rides (including before the first). The last 5 miles (8 km) of the route must be covered on foot. Jeep miles are tracked separately from the distance you log, and the jeep only appears when you're behind.
Achievements you unlock as you go: for example your first activity, a mix of runs and walks, multi-day streaks, and a few hidden surprises. You'll see a notification when you earn one, and they're collected on your Achievements page.
Virtual postcards unlock as you reach checkpoints along the route. They arrive in your Mailbox, and we can email them to you too.
Your Clerk user ID and your preferences (distance unit, leaderboard visibility, route choices), plus the type, distance and date of each activity. If you connect Strava we also keep the access tokens and your Strava athlete ID. We don't store GPS routes, maps or location traces. See the Privacy Policy for the full details.
Email info@adventurizer.co and we'll take care of it. You can disconnect Strava yourself at any time from the Log sheet.
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