Iron Lake Challenge

The world's lakes are some of the most beautiful places on our planet and time spent on their shores is precious. Have you ever toyed with the idea of walking around the world's most beautiful lakes and starting in your home country? Then you found with Iron Lake Challenge just the right challenge!

With the Iron Lake Challenge, we want to encourage you to spend a good time in the fresh air, get some exercise and get to know the most beautiful lakes in the world.

Combine your openness to new things, love of sport and travel and become a worldwide Iron Lake Runner/Hiker. You will collect valuable life moments and spend quality time in nature.

We use the majority of the proceeds from the entry fees to finance new tree seedlings for the worldwide reforestation of forests! Our ”Why“ is to protect or replant one million trees worldwide.

How does the Iron Lake Challenge work?

You will find below an overview of all currently possible Iron Lake Challenges . With the IronLake WORLD Challenge you can circumnavigate all lakes worldwide to earn the coveted collector's medal. On the respective ”Local Lake Challenge" pages you will find the lakes that you have to walk around to complete the challenge. You have as much time as you want from the time you register, because you should enjoy yourself and not rush. Basically, the Iron Lake Challenge is structured in such a way that you have to circumnavigate the ten largest lakes in an area. However, from time to time it may be "just" one large lake. Let yourself be surprised!

1. Pick the Iron Lake Challenge that's right for you and sign up for it.
2. Go around each lake and track your performance.
3. Upload a copy of your tracking into our tool or send it to us by email and we will send you the respective Iron Lake Challenge medal, the matching marble of the Timeless Challenge as well as the written out life score points. The beautifully designed medals are real collector's items and an ornament for every medal board.

Iron Lake WORLD Challenge

In the Iron Lake WORLD Challenge, you can circle lakes all over the world to achieve one of the coveted collector's medals “ILC WORLD50”, “ILC WORLD100” or the queen among the medals, the “ILC WORLD1000”. However, the lake must have a shoreline length of at least two kilometers.

Iron Lake Micro Challenges

There are lakes that are large and beautiful and yet cannot be included in one of the Iron Lake Challenges because, for example, they touch several national borders. A good example is Lake Constance. It has 270 kilometers of shoreline, but borders Germany, Austria and Switzerland and therefore cannot be assigned to an Iron Lake country challenge.

This is exactly why we have developed the "Iron Lake Micro Challenges". These are special lake jewels that don't fit into any other Iron Lake Challenge, but are still well worth a ride around.

The collector's medals will be slightly smaller (5 cm in diameter), but are also beautifully designed and will adorn any well-stocked medal board. Iron Lake Mirco Challenges are tough and will challenge you!

The Rules

What means Circumnavigation?
A lake must be circumnavigated once on foot. You should therefore end at the exact point where you started. You are not allowed to use any aids such as a bicycle. Shortcuts by boat are of course also not permitted and you are not allowed to enter protected areas. However, this should be clear. If you are circling a lake for which you may take several days, please start after the break exactly at the point where you left off the day before.

What does the time say?
You have as much time as you need to complete your chosen Iron Lake Challenge. The date of your registration counts as the start. It doesn't matter how long you need for the circumnavigation of the respective lake, but you should do it "in one piece", i.e. contiguously (on one day per lake). An exception are of course the big lakes which can only be circumnavigated in multi-day tours. We will be happy to include you in the scoring table, but this is optional. It's more about the compass, rather than the clock 😉

So you have unlimited time to complete the Iron Lake Challenge. You should enjoy and not rush!

Registration
You can register on our site and then participate in the selected Iron Lake Challenge. Only after prior registration the lakes you run around count as completed and only if you are registered you will receive your well-deserved medal in case of success. Timeless Marble and the life score points.

The medals

We put a lot of emphasis on offering collector medals with high recognition value. The goal is that you can run Iron Lake Challenges all over the world and get the respective collector's medal with the little feature in the medal graphic everywhere. These will look the same except for the local feature, so you will have a high recognition value on your medal board.

Our medals have a diameter of 7cm, so they are quite impressive.

Your Iron Lake Challenges

Di seguito troverete varie sfide di Iron Lake. Pubblicheremo almeno una nuova sfida ogni mese, quindi rimanete sintonizzati. Abbiamo pubblicato la prima Iron Lake Challenge nel dicembre 2022 nella splendida Baviera!

WORLD - Circumnavigate wonderful lakes worldwide with the Iron Lake WORLD Challenge

Germany - Iron Lake Challenges in Germany

Iron Lake Challenge Germany (ca. 500km)	Iron Lake Challenge – Bavaria (ca. 290km)	Iron Lake Challenge MICRO – Bodensee (ca. 270km)	Iron Lake Challenge North Rhine-Westphalia (ca. 130km)
Iron Lake Challenge Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (ca. 400km)	Iron Lake Challenge Baden-Württemberg (ca. 120km)	Iron Lake Challenge Saxony (ca. 170km)	Iron Lake Challenge Schleswig-Holstein (ca. 200km)
Iron Lake Challenge Brandenburg (ca. 270km)	Iron Lake Challenge Sachsen-Anhalt (ca. 170km)	Iron Lake Challenge Niedersachsen (ca. 145km)	Iron Lake Challenge Hessen (ca. 120 km)
Iron Lake Challenge Thüringen (ca. 200km)	Iron Lake Challenge Rheinland-Pfalz (ca. 90km)	Iron Lake Challenge Berlin (ca. 120km)

Italy - Iron Lake Challenge Italy

Iron Lake Challenge Italien (760km)	Iron Lake Challenge Latium (240km)	Iron Lake Challenge Sicily	Iron Lake Challenge Trentino/Südtirol
Iron Lake Challenge Lombardei (ca. 380 Kilometer)	Iron Lake Challenge Kalabrien (ca. 190 Kilometer)	Iron Lake Challenge Apulia	Iron Lake Challenge Veneto

Austria - Iron Lake Challenge Austria

Iron Lake Austria (ca. 325km)	Iron Lake Challenge MICRO – Bodensee (ca. 270km)	Iron Lake Challenge Oberösterreich	Iron Lake Challenge Salzburg
Iron Lake Challenge Kärnten	Iron Lake Challenge Steiermark

Polen – Iron Lake Challenge Polen

Iron Lake Challenge Poland (ca. 500 Kilometer)

Switzerland - Iron Lake Challenge Switzerland

Iron Lake Challenge Switzerland (ca. 560km)

Iron Lake Challenge MICRO – Bodensee (ca. 270km)

Spanien – Iron Lake Challenge Spanien

Iron Lake Challenge Spain (ca. 900km)

Tschechische Republik – Iron Lake Challenge Tschechische Republik

Iron Lake Challenge Czech Republic (ca. 400km)

The Iron Lake Challenge “Life Lake Museum"

If you have already successfully completed several Iron Lake Challenges, you can see how many lakes you have already circumnavigated worldwide and how many Life Score points you have already collected.

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