Where were the climbs on my ride?

Public beta

Available in the public beta version.

How steep was that wall, how long was the climb, and how fast did I go up? Open a recorded track: the Climb and Climb by climb panels find the climbs in it and measure each one.

To show them, open the track, tap View options at the top of the screen, and under Middle panel choose Climb or Climb by climb.

The Climb panel

The track screen of a Grizzly Peak loop ride with the Climb panel: GRADIENT +17 % at the cursor on Marin Ave, TO CURSOR ↑ 505 ↓ 0 ft, VISIBLE SECTION +18 % with the steepest 100 m and the climbing rate, over the speed and altitude chart

GRADIENT: the grade at the chart’s cursor. Drag along the chart to read it anywhere on the ride.
TO CURSOR: the height climbed and descended from the start of the visible section to the cursor.
VISIBLE SECTION: the steepest 100 m of what the chart shows, and the climbing rate (VAM: height gained an hour). Tap it to jump there.

Climb by climb

Climb by climb: CLIMB 1 OF 1, 4.59 mi · ↑ 1452 ft · avg 6.0 %, 00:29:34 · steepest 100 m +18 % · VAM 2947 ft/h, then ↓ 1544 ft · 4.85 mi · max 33.6 mph, and Compare with my rides; the climb drawn amber on the map and the chart

Every climb the app finds in the ride, one at a time: “CLIMB 1 OF 1”, its length, height gained and average grade, the time it took, the steepest 100 m and the climbing rate, then the descent after its top. ‹ and › step between the climbs: the chart zooms to the climb, and the map draws it in amber.

A climb stops at a break in the recording (a pause, the app closed, or a GPS loss that covered some ground), and the next one can start after it: see Breaks in a track .

Compare with my rides ▸ sets this climb against every other ride up it: see Am I getting faster up this hill? .

The gradient on the chart

The chart with Climb gradient and altitude: the gradient in percent along the ride, +4.3 % at the cursor, the altitude under it

In View options › Chart, pick Climb gradient: the chart draws the road’s grade along the ride, next to the altitude or the speed. Under Horizontal axis you can lay the chart out by distance instead of time, so a climb’s length reads straight off it.

The track coloured by its gradient

On the track’s map, tap the colour box (it shows the track’s lowest, average and highest value) and choose Climb gradient: the track turns amber where it climbs and blue where it descends, deeper the steeper, so every climb of the ride shows at a glance. Apple maps colour tracks; Google maps cannot. See also Tracks colored by speed or altitude .

The Oct 18 ride on the map coloured by its gradient: amber up Marin Ave and Grizzly Peak Blvd, blue on the way down, with the gradient’s legend

Video

▶ How hard was that climb? Your ride remembers : the climb of a recorded ride, on the chart and on the map.