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Looking forward to finding some local walks in my city, cool idea.
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Relay Baton
A team step relay: your pack, your friends or your walking buddy share one target, and only the baton holder's steps count. Walk your leg, then pass it on.
5.0 on Google Play
How you play Relay Baton
A co-op race, not a competition. One target, one deadline and one baton.
Pick your team
Open Relay from the games menu and choose who runs with you: one of your Walk Packs, your walking buddy, or up to nine friends. Not in a pack yet? You can still run it with friends or your buddy.
Set the target and the deadline
Choose a team step target from 10,000 up to a million steps, with 50,000 as the default, and a deadline of 1 to 14 days. Send the invite and your teammates get a notification. The clock starts as soon as the first one taps Join.
Rules and fair play
Relay Baton is built so the whole team has to show up, and nobody can stall it.
- Only the baton holder's steps count, starting from the moment they took it.
- A leg has to be at least 500 steps before the baton can be passed.
- If the holder walks no steps for 24 hours, the team gets a nudge and any teammate can grab the baton.
- If nobody joins within 48 hours, the relay is called off and the person who started it gets their game start back.
- XP is paid only when the team hits the target in time, and only to people who walked a leg.
- One live relay per pack. On the free plan, starting a relay uses one of your six weekly game starts; joining one never does.
What Walkers Are Saying
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5.0 on Google Play
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I really like the idea. Seems like I'm the first walker in my city, but the concept is exactly what I wanted.
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Bucharest
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This app helped me leave the house and touch some grass, for real for real.
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Android user
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Key Takeaways
- Relay Baton is a cooperative walking game: a team shares one step target and passes a baton, and only the holder's steps count.
- Your team can be a Walk Pack, your walking buddy or up to nine friends.
- Targets run from 10,000 to a million steps, with deadlines of 1 to 14 days.
- Each runner earns 50 XP when the team succeeds, and the best leg earns 25 more.
- Relay Baton is live in Walk With Me for iPhone and Android.
What is a Relay Baton?
A cooperative step relay: a team shares one step target before a deadline, and only the walker holding the baton has their steps counted until they pass it on.
Most step challenges are leaderboards, and leaderboards have a problem: the same person wins every week and everyone else quietly stops looking. A relay flips that. There's one team total, and it only moves when the person holding the baton walks. Your leg matters, and so does passing it on in time.
It suits groups where people walk at different times and paces. The early riser takes the morning leg, the dog walker takes the evening, and the friend who does a long Sunday walk carries the big one. In a pack, the pack chat shows who has the baton and how far the team still has to go.