Marathoner

How to unlock Marathoner in Cheevos, keep one browsing session going for two straight hours. A supporter-tier achievement. Worth 30 XP.

The story

Partner. Two hours. You did not stop.

Cache measures sessions the way he measures everything: by what survives intact. Most browsing happens in bursts. A tab here, a tab there, a break to make coffee, a return twenty minutes later that resets the clock. Cache sees thousands of these small, interrupted sessions every day. He files them without much comment.

Then there is the other kind. The kind where you opened your browser and simply did not stop for two consecutive hours. No thirty-minute gap. No wandering off long enough to reset the count. Just steady, continuous, uninterrupted attention.

Cache does not know exactly what you were doing. Work, probably. Or research. Or a rabbit hole that started as one tab and became an expedition nobody warned you about. He is not going to ask. He is going to log it, because two hours of unbroken focus is rare enough to be worth logging on its own.

Whatever it was, you were serious about it. Cache respects seriousness. He put this one straight into the records.

The catalog entry

TWO-HOUR SESSION Acquired: Maintained active browsing for two consecutive hours. Condition: Deeply immersed. Rarity: Uncommon. Cache's Notes: Two hours is a full session. Something significant happened here. Work. Research. A rabbit hole that turned into an expedition. Cache logged all of it. Whatever you were looking for, you were serious about it. Into the records.

Spoiler: how to unlock it

Marathoner is a Cheevos supporter-tier achievement, and it rewards sustained focus rather than any single click.

  1. Open your browser and start doing whatever you were going to do anyway.
  2. Keep browsing without a gap of 30 minutes or more between actions.
  3. Reach the two-hour mark since your session began, still active.

Cheevos tracks a sessionStartedAt timestamp for your current browsing session and resets it automatically if you go more than 30 minutes without any tracked activity. As long as that timer keeps running without a reset, the achievement checks whether two full hours have elapsed since it started. There is no need to stay on one tab or one site: switching between tabs, windows, and pages is fine, as long as the gaps between actions stay under half an hour.

Where it fits in the Stash

Marathoner sits with the other endurance pieces, the ones that prove a browsing habit rather than a single lucky moment. Cache keeps those close, because they took the longest to earn. For the full story behind the collection, read the story.