Getting started

Audax.ie is an app for tracking your Audax rides, monitoring progress towards awards, and generating claim forms when you complete them. This guide walks you through the core workflow, explains how ride statuses work, and covers the key settings you should configure when you first sign in.

Your rides make it accurate

The tracker works out your award progress from the rides you record, and nothing else. It is only as accurate as those rides, so:

• If you have never ridden an Audax, there is nothing to import from Strava. Don't run the importer. Find your first event in the calendar and add it as a planned ride instead.
• Only add Audax rides you actually completed. Training rides, sportives and club spins don't count towards awards, and a ride you didn't finish is a DNF.
• Check every ride the importer suggests before you add it, and fix anything it got wrong: the ride type, the date, the distance, or the event it matched.
• Add each ride's homologation number. Once your past rides are in, copy your results from your ACP account and paste them into Settings → ACP homologations to fill them all at once. Checking your results shows where to find them.

Do that, and your progress is a true picture of where you stand, this season and in past ones. The importer and the rest of the tracker can only work with what you give them.

Signing in with Strava

Audax.ie uses Strava for authentication, so there is no separate account to create. Select the "Connect with Strava" button on the login page, authorise the app in Strava, and you are in. Your Strava profile provides your identity, so you can start adding rides immediately.

Your first visit

With no rides yet, My Rides welcomes you with two starting points: Find your first event opens the calendar, and Import from Strava brings in previous rides. You can also add rides by hand or open the Brevet Hiberniae map.

The welcome screen helps you plan a first ride or bring in your existing history.

Finding your way around

On desktop, use the sidebar to move between My Rides, Calendar, Progress, Achievements and Claims. On a phone, select the menu button in the header to open the navigation drawer. Settings and Help are available there too.

The desktop sidebar and phone navigation drawer provide the same main destinations.

Notifications

Select the bell in the header to see rides awaiting confirmation, event updates and claims needing attention. Completed Super Randonneur and 4 Provinces awards can also appear here. Select an item to open the relevant page.

The bell brings together reminders and award celebrations; its contents depend on your account.

Finding help

Help opens the tracker guides. Use Search help on any help page to find matching glossary terms, questions and pages. Glossary definitions and answers appear below the search box; page results link to the full guide.

Search help finds explanations across the guides, including homologation and award terminology.

The core workflow

Using the tracker follows a simple three-step cycle: add rides, watch your award progress update, and claim awards when you complete them.

1. Add your rides by logging each Audax ride with its type, distance, date, and status. You can add rides manually, import them from a CSV file, import them from Strava, or create planned rides from calendar events. See the Managing Rides guide for details on all the ways to add rides.
2. Track your progress on the Progress page, which calculates your real-time progress towards all awards based on your completed rides. A single ride can count towards multiple awards simultaneously. Visit the Tracking Awards guide to learn how the Progress and Achievements pages work.
3. Claim completed awards when you have completed all the qualifying rides. The tracker detects this automatically and records no-form awards in Achievements automatically. Awards requiring submission appear on Claims, where you can generate a document or open the external ISR form.

Ride status lifecycle

Expand a ride for a summary. Open its full record with the eye icon or View ride; on desktop you can also select its name.

Every ride in the tracker has a status that reflects where it is in its lifecycle. The status determines whether the ride counts towards your award progress.

• Planned is for rides you have not done yet. Set automatically for future dates or calendar events. Does not count towards awards, but shows in projections.
• To confirm means the ride is ready for you to say how it went. This usually happens when its date passes or when an eligible planned ride is linked to a Strava activity. The top of My Rides asks about it: choose Finished, DNF, or Didn't ride, which removes the ride.
• No number yet is shown for rides that get a homologation number (BRM, LRM, Flèche, SR600 and PBP) when the number has not yet been added. The ride is treated as completed and counts towards awards. Add the number when the organiser publishes it. Permanents and events under 200 km never get one.
• Completed means the ride is fully confirmed with all required details in place. Regular permanents go straight here on confirmation. Completed rides count towards awards.
• DNF means you started but did not finish. Does not count towards awards. You can hide DNF rides in Settings.

Configuring your home province

One of the first things to do after signing in is set your home province in Settings. This matters because the 4 Provinces award requires completing qualifying rides in each of Ireland's four provinces. One permanent may count towards the award, but not when it was ridden in your home province, and none counts until your home province is set.

The country and county saved on each ride determine where it took place. Your home province determines which permanent is excluded by the rule above and sets the initial area shown on the Brevet Hiberniae map. Choose your home province under Preferences in Settings. Changes are saved immediately, and the tracker recalculates your 4 Provinces progress.

Set your home province under Preferences for accurate 4 Provinces tracking.