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Your Ride History

Opening a ride

Click any ride from your week view, calendar, or ride list to open the full detail. You can also ask: "show me my last ride" or "show me Saturday's ride."

Route map

If your ride has GPS data, a route map shows your path. Zoom and pan to explore. The map uses Mapbox for satellite and terrain views.

What you see

  • Distance
  • Moving time
  • Elevation gain
  • Average speed
  • Power — average and normalized (needs a power meter)
  • Heart rate — average and max (needs a heart rate monitor)
  • Cadence
  • Calories
  • Effort score — how hard the ride was, on a 0–500 scale
  • Intensity — a verb band (Easy / Steady / Tempo / Hard / Redline) plus a percentage, showing how close the ride sat to your threshold power

Intensity vs. effort

Effort and intensity answer different questions. Effort is total work — duration times how hard. A four-hour easy ride and a one-hour thrash can have the same effort. Intensity is just the hardness, ignoring how long: a number between 0% and 100%+ of your threshold power.

The bands:

  • Easy — under 65%
  • Steady — 65–75%
  • Tempo — 75–85%
  • Hard — 85–95%
  • Redline — 95% and above

Intensity needs a power meter and a known FTP. Without power on the ride, it shows "No power" — RideTool won't guess intensity from heart rate.

About power data

Power is measured in watts and comes from a power meter — a sensor in your pedals, crank, or hub. It measures how hard you're pushing regardless of wind or hills.

Power meters are a separate piece of hardware. If you don't have one, that's fine — RideTool still tracks your rides and your Me card still renders. You just won't see watts.

How effort is scored

RideTool gives every ride an effort score using the best data available, in this order:

  1. Power — most accurate. Needs a power meter.
  2. Heart rate — estimated from how hard your heart was working and for how long.
  3. Duration and elevation — always available as a fallback.

Every ride gets a score, no matter what sensors you have. The math is in Training Metrics.

Accuracy tip: Heart-rate-based effort depends on your resting and max HR. Set them in Account Settings → Athlete Profile. Otherwise defaults are used (resting 60, max 190).

Elevation profile

Below the map, an interactive elevation profile shows the terrain. Scrub across it to see elevation, grade, and other metrics at any point.

Where the ride came from

Each ride shows a small badge for its source — Wahoo, Strava, Garmin, or a manual upload. A .fit badge means we have the original device file (highest quality).

Need help? Our Discord server is the support channel — click the Discord icon in the nav bar after logging in.

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