Walking challenges that are not about step counts
Step targets get boring because every step is the same. Challenges built around places are different: each one sends you somewhere new, and finishing one leaves you knowing more about where you live.
Challenges at home
- Every street in your neighbourhood. Draw a boundary and finish it. See how to walk every street.
- A new street every day. For thirty days, walk at least one street you have never walked.
- Every park. Visit and walk the paths of every park in your town.
- The edges. Walk to each edge of your city: north, south, east and west.
- Source to mouth. Follow a local river or canal for as far as it goes.
- Every bridge. Cross every footbridge in town.
Challenges further away
- A new region. Set foot in a region you have never been to.
- Every borough. In a big city, walk at least one street in every district.
- Walk from one town to the next. On foot, between two places you usually drive between.
- A city in a weekend. On a trip, clear as much of the old town as you can. The city guides have routes.
Challenges with a shape
Plan a route that draws something: a heart, a star, your initials. It is called GPS art, and it is a surprisingly good way to end up on streets you would never choose. See GPS art on foot.
Keeping score
FOG turns all of these into one visible record. The world is under fog and clears where you walk, ranks climb with area, the collection fills with countries, regions and cities, and the logbook writes a page for every month. Your explorer, Wander, earns gear for ground covered on each of five paths. It runs in the background, so nothing needs starting.
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Questions people actually ask
What is a good walking challenge?
One built around places: every street in a neighbourhood, a new street a day, every park, or following a river end to end.
How do I track a walking challenge?
Use a map that shows covered ground. FOG clears fog wherever you walk, so progress on a place-based challenge is visible at a glance.
Start with a dark map.
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