Walking Vietnam's Coast - Virtual Challenge

After spending 434 days on the walking the Amazon challenge, I decided to take the short route for the Coast of Vietnam challenge.

For those of you who are newer to the blog, I enroll in virtual challenges where I can earn racing medals. There are two companies I really like, but one of them requires many of their challenges to be done in one session and sorry, I'm not doing a marathon.

The other company has long challenges that you can set your own timeline to complete. For example, the Amazon River challenge had two options--a short route and a long route. I opted to take the long route which is why it took me 434 days. It was more than 1600 kilometers long (Just short of 1000 miles.) As this challenge went on and on for more than a year, I wished I'd chosen the shorter route. :-)

That's why I chose the shorter route for the Vietnam challenge. I didn't want to spend another year walking the coastline.

This one seemed to fly by after the Amazon: 56 days to walk 160 km.

I like earning the medals. I signed up for my first virtual race in 2021 after I had surgery. I wasn't allowed to exercise, lift weights, go to the gym or anything for six weeks afterward and I was worried it would be hard to get back in the swing. I thought earning a medal might encourage me.

It did and I keep using the medals as encouragement.

(BTW, I received NO compensation of any kind for this post, and I've always paid for my own races/medals.)