Achievements & sharing

Achievements keeps every award your rides have earned, from any season, with your lifetime riding history. Awards that need no form are yours as soon as you earn them. You can also create artwork to celebrate a supported completion.

Your award history

The Awards tab opens by default. Every award your rides have earned is a row under the season it was earned in, with its medal, including awards from before you joined, your PBP finishes, SR600s and Brevet Hiberniae medals. Open a row for the rides behind it. An award that needs a form says so until you claim it, and links to Claims. Anything completed more than six months ago counts as claimed, so old awards need nothing from you. If you add or correct a ride, the list follows it.

The Awards tab keeps a record of the awards you have earned.

Lifetime stats

Open the Stats tab for a summary of your riding history, including:

Total distance, rides, metres climbed and your longest ride, with rides, kilometres and climbing season by season.
Your Eddington number, for all your rides and for each season and year.
A medal for each distance you have ridden and when you first rode it, and every month you rode a 200, with your current run marked.
The counties your recorded rides passed through, and your time on the road from your Strava tracks. A ride without a track counts only the county it started in: open the rides without a track on Where you’ve ridden to give each one its route. A DNF counts the counties its Strava recording passed through, as far as you got.

The Stats tab shows a summary of your Audax history and completed distances.

Your Eddington number

Your Eddington number is the largest number E for which you have ridden at least E km on at least E days. An Eddington number of 40 means 40 days of 40 km or more. Each step is harder than the last: 41 needs 41 days of at least 41 km, and the days under 41 km stop counting. It is named after the astronomer Arthur Eddington, a keen cyclist.

The tracker works it out for all your riding on the Stats tab and for each season and year, by distance or by climbing. For an Audax ride it counts what you rode: the distance and climbing your recordings show, the ride to the start included, and the ride’s own figures for a ride without one. A ride recorded in parts over several days counts each day it was ridden, and rides on the same day add together. The card says what your next number takes, and How it’s worked out says what is holding your number back and how many more days the next few numbers need. As every Audax is a long ride, your number goes up by one with each Audax day for a long time.

There is one for climbing too, counted in steps of 20 m: 960 m means 48 days of at least 960 m climbed. It rises with your climbing, not just your days, once you have ridden plenty of Audax days. A ride with no climbing figure counts as none. In km and miles your Audax number is usually the same.

Until you search your Strava or RideWithGPS rides, it counts only the rides in the tracker, so it is as accurate as your list of rides.

All your riding

Your Eddington number counts all your bike rides, not just Audax: your Audax rides and your rides on Strava and RideWithGPS, each ride once. The settings button on the card chooses what it counts: all your riding, with or without your virtual rides, your Audax rides alone or your virtual rides alone, by km, miles or climbing. The line above the number says which you’re seeing.

The tracker keeps nothing about a ride: only how far you rode and climbed on each day, month by month, without the dates. Disconnecting Strava or RideWithGPS removes it.

A ride on both Strava and RideWithGPS counts once: the same day, a start within 15 minutes and about the same distance. A ride that records one of your Audax rides is that Audax ride, and an Audax ride without a recording takes the place of the ride of about its distance that day. Gravel, mountain bike, velomobile and handcycle rides count. Virtual and trainer rides count once you include them in the settings, and have a number of their own; e-bike rides don’t count. The virtual choices appear once a search has counted some virtual riding.

Awards you claimed elsewhere

If you claimed a recent award without the tracker, select "I've already claimed this" on its card on Claims. The tracker asks first, then shows the award here as claimed. Changed your mind? Open the award here and undo it.

In Achievements, open the award on the Awards tab and select Share image. ISR, ACP 5000 and ACP 10000 do not currently offer share cards.

Pick a vibe to choose a starting style, or try Surprise me. Under Fine tune, customise Look, Scene, Colours, and Layout. Choose any Artwork details you want to add, up to the limit shown.
Under On the poster, choose whether to include your name, total kilometres, route map, dates, and climbing where available. If you need more room on a phone, scroll within the Share window; Create artwork stays at the bottom.

Share window with starting styles and Look, Scene, Colours, and Layout controls

Choose a starting style, then fine tune the artwork.

Add your photo is optional. After choosing a photo, select Lifelike or Painted in to control how you appear in the artwork. Flèche offers a team photo instead. If Route map reports missing routes, use Fix routes to resolve them before creating a mapped poster, or turn Route map off. Routes outside Ireland cannot currently be shown.

Select Create artwork and wait for the result. The button shows your remaining creation allowance. Review the finished image, then select Share to open your device's sharing options, or Download to save it. If file sharing is unavailable in your browser, Share downloads the image instead. Your creations remain available when you reopen Share for that award, so you can view and save an earlier version without creating it again.