What's the best app?

[Nigelnaturist]

i use my Mio GPS and then export the gpx file into MAPMYRIDE. simple and does everything i want it to do and its free.

So is my spreadsheet.

 

[4F]

Ok go try running up a 1,000ft hill, and see what strava says you've climbed, I bet its nowhere near a 1,000ft.

1,000 ft hill in Suffolk To be honest I am not bothered what it says about heights and Kcal burned as I know these are inaccurate. Overall distance and time are fine and I find pretty much spot on with what my Holux GPS records.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

1,000 ft hill in Suffolk To be honest I am not bothered what it says about heights and Kcal burned as I know these are inaccurate. Overall distance and time are fine and I find pretty much spot on with what my Holux GPS records.

Ok 50 20ft ones, or move to Cumbria.
The point is a lot of people starting out think phone apps are accurate when in fact very few are, even garmin units have there problems when solely used with gps for recording, small I admit in both cases, but still there, I had my garmin 500 give false max speeds before I got the speed sensor (in fact one track had me jump the best part of a mile and then it took a few plots to get back to where it should have been), and even then I am not totally convinced about the accuracy of a wireless sender unit as there is still a lag, much prefer a wired system, having said that the wired system I had (which I ran along side the garmin till I got the sensor) always showed differences to the garmin solely working on gps, which disappeared when i got the sensor, so I then just started using the garmin, though I suspect still errors in there, though not as great as a system working solely on gps.
This was a track when I used a phone last year.

Still get this with the garmin (though not as often as it happened with the phone, to some extents the unit still needs time to get a proper fix, I usually wait till its below 20ft accuracy and steady at that before I set of, unless I am late.), but at least the speed/distance cad h.r. are as accurate as can be using the system I have.

 

[Ciar]

for me Strava & Cyclemeter.

 

[Paulg04]

I would find that really irritating, just a personal thing, as each mile you do is different from any other. If you want to try strava download a tcx from endomondo and upload that to strava.
Well done on your time.

I don't have a computer or lap top. Everything I do is on my iPhone. So obviously limited to what I can do.

I like knowing what I've done. Makes me want to push harder. I'm the same as 4F, only really interested in my time and distance.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

I don't have a computer or lap top. Everything I do is on my iPhone. So obviously limited to what I can do.

I like knowing what I've done. Makes me want to push harder. I'm the same as 4F, only really interested in my time and distance.

Then go with strava, because that is all it really is about, however it does truncate avg ap rather than round it (or at least it seems to from my experience).

 

[Paulg04]

Then go with strava, because that is all it really is about, however it does truncate avg ap rather than round it (or at least it seems to from my experience).

I'll give it a go then, see what I prefer

 

[nilling]

Endomondo for the monthly CycleChat challenge

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Endomondo for the monthly CycleChat challenge

Not found that yet.