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Badges

A record that you did a specific hard thing

Badges arrive on their own as you log rucks — there is nothing to claim and nothing to buy. They are not currency and they unlock nothing. Every rule is below, in full.

Showing up

3 badges

Counted in rucks, because the first one and the fiftieth are both worth marking.

  • First ruckLogged your first ruck.Log one ruck.
  • Ten rucksTen rucks logged. Past the point where it is a phase.Log 10 rucks.
  • Fifty rucksFifty rucks logged.Log 50 rucks.

A single week

2 badges

The most you have hauled inside one Monday-to-Sunday week — your best, not your latest.

  • Century weekA hundred kg·km inside one week.Haul 100 kg·km inside a single week.
  • Big weekFive hundred kg·km inside one week.Haul 500 kg·km inside a single week.

Everything so far

2 badges

Total haul across every ruck you have logged. It only goes up.

  • First thousandA thousand kg·km hauled in total.Haul 1,000 kg·km in total.
  • Ten thousandTen thousand kg·km hauled in total.Haul 10,000 kg·km in total.

Under a given load

3 badges

Distance walked inside a weight band. Carrying heavy for a hundred kilometres is a different achievement from covering a hundred kilometres.

  • Hundred under 10 kgA hundred kilometres carried under 10 kg.Walk 100 km carrying under 10 kg.
  • Hundred at 10–20 kgA hundred kilometres carried between 10 and 20 kg.Walk 100 km carrying between 10 and 20 kg.
  • Hundred at 20 kg and upA hundred kilometres carried under 20 kg or more.Walk 100 km carrying 20 kg or more.

Finishing something

3 badges

One for each challenge completed. Walking it again does not take it back.

  • Camino finisherWalked the full 779 km of the Camino Francés under load.Finish the challenge.The challenge →
  • Everest HaulClimbed 8,849 m of cumulative ascent under load.Finish the challenge.The challenge →
  • 52 in 52Fifty-two consecutive weeks with a ruck in every one.Finish the challenge.The challenge →

How they are awarded

Every rule is evaluated the moment a ruck is written, whichever way it arrived — typed in, imported from a file, or synced from a watch. There is no nightly job to wait for and nothing to refresh.

Badges are award-only. A badge records that you once did a hard thing; deleting the ruck afterwards does not un-do having done it.

Rucks imported from Strava never count toward a badge. Badges show on public profiles, and Strava’s API terms allow their data to be shown only to the person it belongs to — the same rule that keeps those rucks off the leaderboards.

Your own case lives on your dashboard, which also shows the next few within reach.