Analyzing Ride Metrics | Ride With GPS Help

After you’ve completed a ride, there is a lot of data to make sense of — speed, distance, elevation, and more. Learn about splits, quick laps, where to find your data, and ways to display the data.

What’s a ride? A ride (or run, hike, etc.) is an activity that you did on a particular day/time. Whenever you upload data recorded from a GPS unit or the mobile app, you’re creating a ride on our site.

There are several ways to create a ride on Ride with GPS:

Jump to:
The Metrics Tab
The Elevation Profile
Expanded Graph View
Details Tab
Segments
Annotations
Ride Playback
Hill Finder
Best Efforts
Calculated Splits
Quick Laps

The Metrics Tab

Every ride will have a metrics tab in the right side panel. Click on it to view more details about your ride.

This is where you will find all the details about your ride including duration, distance, elevation gain, max grade, and much more.

The Elevation Profile

The Elevation Profile shows much more than just elevation. This is where you will see all available sensor data including heart rate, power, cadence, and temperature.

After making a selection in the elevation profile, the metrics will be highlighted in gray to reflect the selection.

Expanded Graph View

Clicking the Hamburger button on top of the elevation profile will take you to a page displaying all the available graphs for the ride.

The Details Tab

Segments

Segments are saved sections of the ride where your time is compared to other riders.

Click on the results of the segment to show it highlighted on the track on and elevation graph.

Learn more about Segments.

Annotations

Annotations allow you to mark up a ride with notes about sections of the track. Great for pointing out surface types, views, or favorite sections.

Ride Playback

Watch your ride played back on the map by clicking Play in the bottom right side panel.

Move the Playback Speed slider to change the rate of playback, default at 32x, slides all the way to 200x.

Premium Features

The following features are for Premium subscribers. Any ride saved on a Premium account will have these features shown on the rides when viewed by any account level.

Hill Finder

The Climbs section highlights all significant elevation gain longer than a half-mile (800 meters) and greater than 3% gain.

Climbs are also available on routes.

Click the climb distance to highlight the climb on the map and elevation profile. This will also show the grade and other metrics in the elevation profile and the right-side metrics tab.

Click Show Additional Metrics to expand the Climbs and show more information.

The Descents section highlights all significant elevation loss longer than a half-mile (800 meters) and greater than -3% decline.

Descents are also available on routes.

Click on the descent distance to have it highlighted on the map and elevation profile. This will also show the grade, distance, and speed in the elevation profile and metrics tab on the right.