How Conquests work

Conquest or Casual: the two rally kinds

When you create or join a rally you pick a kind, and that choice decides whether finishing the route leaves a mark on your profile.

Conquest

The one that counts. Finish the route and it stamps your passport, with a pace medal for how fast you got there. Conquests have a few rules.

Casual

How you ride with other people. Take on any route with friends and family on one leaderboard, even while a Conquest is running, and with no one-per-discipline limit. The free plan runs one active Casual rally of your own at a time, plus any you are invited to; a paid plan lets you run several. A Casual rally never stamps your passport, so it never spends a Conquest.

Both kinds run on the same routes, with the same leaderboard, adaptive targets and ghost pacer. The only differences are the passport stamp and how many you can run at once. Conquer a route for the record, or go Casual to ride it with other people, even alongside a Conquest you already have going.

One active Conquest per discipline

A Conquest belongs to one of three disciplines: Walk, Run and Cycle, and you hold one active Conquest in each. The free plan includes one Conquest for life, so you take one route on as a Conquest and keep that record. Holding one in each discipline at once is a paid plan feature.

• Walk covers your walking and hiking.
• Run covers running and trail running.
• Cycle covers riding, gravel and mountain biking.

A Conquest is for one discipline only, so its leaderboard compares like with like. A ride only ever moves your Cycle Conquest, so a single activity can never conquer several routes at once.

On a paid plan the slot frees the moment you finish, abandon or fall out of a Conquest, so you can line up the next one in that discipline straight away. On the free plan it works differently: every Conquest you start uses your one Conquest for life, whether you finish it or not, so even an abandoned Conquest spends it and you cannot start another. If a slot is taken, or your free Conquest is used, you can join the new route as Casual instead.

A Conquest cannot be backdated. It starts today or later, never in the past, and only the distance you cover after it starts counts towards finishing. Casual rallies can be backdated; Conquests cannot.

Finishing earns a pace medal

Conquer a route and you earn a pace medal, graded from how long the finish took you. You do not choose it up front. It is earned by the effort.

• Relaxed: steady pace, take your time.
• Steady: a solid, committed pace.
• Ambitious: the fastest finish, the top medal.

Medals are a climb, not a set to collect

The three medals are a progression: Relaxed, then Steady, then Ambitious at the top. Your route keeps your best medal, and on a paid plan you raise it by conquering the same route again, faster. There is no reason to chase a slower medal once you hold a quicker one, so you never need to "collect all three" on a route.

The thing to collect is discipline, not pace. The real "collect them all" is taking a route on across Walk, Run and Cycle. Pace is how good your finish was; discipline is how many ways you have conquered the same ground.

Your passport

Finishing a Conquest stamps your passport: a country stamp for each country the route carries you into, and a route stamp for finishing it end to end, marked with your pace medal. A Casual rally never adds a stamp, however far you ride. Open any country you have reached to see it up close, with every route that runs through it.

Your passport is visible on your profile to anyone signed in, and never windowed, reset, or taken away on any plan. For the passport in full, see How the passport works.

Route boards

A single rally has its own leaderboard. A route board goes wider: it folds people taking the route on across its rallies into one standing, ranked by who finished fastest. Each route has two boards.

Conquest board

The route's record, one board per discipline. Only Conquest efforts appear here, finishers ranked by time above those still going, so it is the standing that counts. A Casual run can never land on it.

Casual board

A standing for Casual efforts on the route, kept separate from the Conquest board. It covers Casual rallies on a published route in a single discipline; custom routes and mixed-discipline rallies do not feed it.

Both boards rank the same way: finishers first by how fast they completed, then everyone still going by distance covered. The split is simply which kind of effort sits on which board.

Common questions

Can I run a Casual rally and a Conquest at the same time?

Yes. Casual rallies are separate from your Conquest slots, so you can run as many as your plan allows at the same time as a Conquest, on the same route or a different one. It is how you bring friends and family along without spending or risking your Conquest.

What happens if I do not finish a Conquest?

On a paid plan the slot frees as soon as you finish, abandon or fall out of a Conquest, so you can start the next one in that discipline straight away. On the free plan your one Conquest is spent whether you finish it or not, so you cannot start another, though you can still join the route as a Casual rally.

Do I choose the pace medal, or earn it?

You earn it. The medal is graded from how long the finish took you against the route's pace bands, so a faster finish earns a higher medal. You never pick it up front.