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Wales Coastal Path Virtual Fitness Challenge
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Welsh 300 Challenge
Join the thousands of people who are crushing their fitness goals right now on My Virtual Missions – an amazing health, fitness and well-being challenge, virtually completing the breath-taking 300 mile distance from Cardiff to St David’s. There’s something for everyone. Whether you like to run, walk, swim, cycle, or do any other distance-based exercise, celebrate St David’s day while promoting fitness and well-being in support of our soldiers, former soldiers and their families.
Sync with your favourite fitness apps
You can download the My Virtual Mission app for Apple or Android (Optional). Use the connections knowledge base if you need help connecting a fitness tracker.
Once you've registered, you can enter an activity either manually via the app, or automatically from other fitness trackers. Just head to the mission “Connections” page from the main menu to get set up. Currently, you can connect with Runkeeper, Apple Health/Apple Watch, Garmin, Fitbit, Strava, Under Armour and Google Fit. See the full list of fitness apps that are supported.
If you complete a non-distance-based activity, you can use this activity conversion chart to manually enter an equivalent distance.
Milestones
You will receive custom milestones along your mission pathway. When a person or team reaches each milestone, you will receive an email with text and an image. You will also see the milestone appear on screen and see your exact position on Google Street View.
Enjoy the benefits of a health & wellness challenge
A good wellness programme helps you achieve your aspirations and goals. It makes you feel valued and this makes you achieve milestones at work and in life. Health behaviours improve, reducing stress, which leads to high productivity and high morale, motivating you to keep active by taking on a fitness challenge anywhere in the world.
Get competitive!
Team up with friends or go solo. Either way, have fun while keeping fit and motivated.
Finishers medal
Those taking part will receive a commemorative finishers medals to mark your achievement – whatever your UK or worldwide BFPO location.