What a great place this is! I love technology like this. It makes it so much easier to keep track of my training than a spreadsheet or any of those other fitness programs out there. Thank you MapMyRide for putting this all together. The whole points incentive thing is great as well. Being in California helps this time of year as we get to ride all of the time during winter. I think I'm going to like it here!
While I can't take credit for a great resource, I can offer you a welcome. There are some great resources here (I still prefer the mapping here over many other options).
I just joined as well and I agree, it is great! I love being able to see exactly how far I have ran and being able to participate in different challenges.
~pompom012
It is wonderful to have you all here! Thanks for your kind comments as we always love to hear from our users. Best of luck to everyone with your riding, running and challenges!
This appears to be a great site. I am new to bicycling and would like to start training for an upcoming Rosarito Beach to Ensenada ride that includes a grade of 7%. I would appreciate it if someone could tell me how to determine % grade for a ride I recently took that was 3.01 miles long and for which the mapmyride website gave me the following information: max 3757ft., min 1138ft., ascent 3105ft., and descent 1936ft. You can reply to gblack48@hotmail.com Thanks
GBlack - there is more below if you are interested - but the short of it is:
a 7% incline means 1 foot rise (or drop) for every 14.3 feet of forward travel.
In addition a 7% incline requires a forward force equal to 7% of the weight of the object (that would be you and your equipment) and this is above and beyond the force it takes to overcome surface resistance on flat ground at the same speed.
Q) When indicating the slope of an incline, what is more commonly used, percent or degrees?
A) The incline of a road is generally measured in % grade, which in mathematical terms is the tangent (A)
of the angle measured from the horizontal (b). This is the ratio of elevation change per horizontal
distance traveled, often called "rise over run or pitch". Typically a road that rises 1-in-10, is otherwise
called a 10% grade (if b=100 and a=6 then tangent A=.06 or 6% grade).
Q) What if I can't measure the horizontal (b), but I can measure the distance of the road surface (c).
What effect will this have on my calculations?
A) Measuring the distance along the surface of the road (c) instead of horizontally (b) gives practically
the same result for most road gradients up to 10%. For instance, a 20% grade (11.3 degrees), measuring
along the road surface gives a 19.6% grade (you must have a tangent handbook or calculator to properly
calculate these figures).
It would great if the elevation change in any particular section of a mapped run could be expressed as %. This would help us compare the steepness of a route to that of another very easily. thanks
Rivals / Leaderboards
rward325
gisela@mmf
MapMyRun.com,
MapMyRide.com,
MapMyWalk.com,
MapMyHike.com,
MapMyFitness.com,
&
MapMyTri.com