Managing rides

The tracker gives you several ways to manage your ride history, from adding individual rides manually to bulk-importing an entire season via CSV or Strava. You can also create planned rides directly from calendar events and filter your ride list to focus on what matters. This guide covers all the ways to get your rides into the system and keep them organised.

Choose how to add a ride

Select "Add Ride" on the Rides page. On desktop, the choices appear in a modal; on a phone, a drawer opens from the bottom of the screen. Choose "Import from Strava" for a ride you recorded there, "Find an event" to plan a ride from the calendar, or "Add by hand" to enter its details yourself. If the ride is on Strava, start with the import so you only add it once.

Add Ride opens a modal on desktop and a bottom drawer on phones. Choose how you want to add the ride.

Adding a ride manually

Choose "Add by hand", then fill in these key fields:

• Ride name is the name of the ride, for example the event or permanent name.
• Date is the date you rode (or plan to ride). The date determines which Audax season the ride falls in and affects award eligibility windows.
• Distance is the ride distance in kilometres. For BRM rides, standard distance categories apply (200 km, 300 km, 400 km, 600 km, 1,000 km).
• Ride type sets the kind of ride: BRM, Permanent, LRM, Flèche, PBP, or BP. The ride type determines which awards the ride can count towards.

Complete these fields to enable Next. You can also attach a route using a Ride with GPS URL or a GPX file. The next step collects location and other details that apply to the ride.

Once saved, the ride appears in your ride list and the tracker assigns a status automatically based on the date. If you set a future date, the ride is created as a planned ride.

This is useful for events in other countries not listed in the calendar, permanents, or any ride you want to plan ahead for. See the Getting Started guide for an explanation of how ride statuses work.

Enter the main ride details and select a ride type. Next becomes available when the required fields are complete.

Strava import

If you record rides on Strava, you can search a year, or a range of years, and review the results before anything is added. The tracker suggests Audax events, permanents, and rides already in your tracker. You can correct a suggestion, combine multiple recordings into one ride, edit the details, or leave an activity out. See the Strava Import guide for the full review and import process.

CSV import & export

The CSV import lets you bulk-add rides instead of entering them one by one, which is handy when you first set up the tracker and want to load your historical data. Open the Data section on the Settings page, find "Import rides", select "Import", and upload a file with columns for ride type, distance, date, and location. The tracker validates each row before saving. Not sure about the format? Export your rides first. The exported file doubles as a ready-made template.

You can export your ride data at any time for a personal backup, to take your data with you if you delete your account, or to analyse your history in a spreadsheet.

The Data section contains CSV export, ride import, and a complete account download.

Creating a planned ride from the calendar

The Calendar page has three tabs: Events for Audax Ireland events, Permanents for Irish permanent routes, and World for BRMs abroad and LRM events. Irish riding remains at the heart of the tracker, with a growing World calendar for trips abroad and riders joining us from other countries. Select the + button on an event to create a planned ride with its date, ride type, distance, and location filled from the calendar. Permanents use the same + button, but ask you to choose the date you intend to ride first. For a Flèche, you must choose your team’s start county before selecting Add Ride; this determines its province for 4 Provinces.

Select the + button on an event to add it to your planned rides.

Planned rides appear under the Planned tab of My Rides, soonest first. When the ride date passes, or an eligible planned ride is linked to a Strava activity, the top of My Rides asks how it went: Finished, DNF, or Didn't ride, which removes the ride. A finished BRM, LRM, PBP or Flèche shows an orange "no number" badge until its homologation number is added. It already counts as completed for award progress. Permanents and events under 200 km never get a number, so they never show the badge.

Choose where your team starts, rather than the shared finish location, when adding a Flèche.

Event time limits

Open an event’s page, or expand its card when signed in, to see its route details. Time limit shows the permitted riding time in hours and minutes when available. For example, 13h 30m means thirteen and a half hours; a multi-day limit such as 40h also shows 1d 16h. This is the event's completion limit, not an estimate of your own finish time. The event page also brings together its distance, ascent, difficulty, organiser and available route files.

When an event or permanent has no published difficulty rating, the tracker uses its climbing per 100 km where available. Missing ascent can be filled from a linked RideWithGPS route. These figures help you compare routes; check the organiser’s details when planning your ride.

Expand an event to check its time limit. Longer limits also show the equivalent days and hours.

Permanents

The Permanents tab on the Calendar page lists permanent routes you can ride at any time. Like events, each permanent card has a + button to add it as a ride. Select a route, then choose the date and start location in the Add-as-ride window. You can also edit the start location later from the ride.

Contact the organiser to arrange your start date before heading out. Permanents count towards awards like RRTY, so they are a flexible way to fill gaps in your progress.

For an established Flèche de France route ridden in the Gold or Silver division, choose Flèche de France (Gold/Silver) when adding or editing the ride. Exclude Dieppe and use Permanent for other permanent rides. Qualifying Flèches de France add distance to ACP 5000 and 10000 but cannot replace a required BRM or team Flèche. Add the homologation number when it is available.

Browse permanent routes and add them as rides from the Permanents tab.

Choose your planned date before adding the permanent to your rides.

Filtering

The Events and Permanents tabs let you search by name and narrow the list by location and distance. Events can also be filtered by month and can include previous seasons. Permanents add start or pass-through location matching and a difficulty filter. On desktop the controls appear in a sidebar. On mobile, select "Filters" to reveal them.

Finding rides in the World calendar

Open the World tab to browse BRMs of 200 to 1,000 km from other countries alongside LRM events of 1,200 km or more. Use Type to choose BRM or LRM, then narrow the list by continent, country, distance and month, or search by name. Choose a continent to narrow the countries on offer.

World brings BRMs abroad and LRM events together. These example listings show how countries, distances and climbing appear.

Type also offers "SR600 · 600 km with 8,000 m+": BRM 600s with a recorded climb of at least 8,000 m, the format the tracker calls SR600 Modern. This filter does not list SR600 Original mountain permanents. An event with no climb figure will not appear in this filter.

Choose a type and region to narrow the World calendar. On a phone, open Filters, then select Show results.

World remembers the country or continent you choose. When signed in, that choice follows you across devices; signed out, it stays in this browser. On your first visit it opens on the continent you ride most in, if known, or Europe. Clear the filters to browse everywhere. A shared link with a type, country or continent already chosen opens that view instead.

Turn on "Include previous seasons" to look for an older event, then use Season to narrow the search. Coverage varies by country and year. Busy lists group events into months: open a month and use "Show more" to see the next batch of up to 50 events.

Upcoming BRMs are refreshed weekly from ACP’s world calendar, alongside the country calendars already included. Open an event for its organiser’s page and, where available, a link to the country’s national Audax body. Confirm dates and entry details there before making travel plans. Adding an event to your ride plan does not enter you for it.

Event pages also note rides you already have planned on or near that date. A past event may link to a newer edition, making it easier to find the next running.

Award contributions

Expand a calendar event to see the awards it could help with. These appear as Potential awards before you add the event and Projected awards after you add it as a planned ride. The ride list also shows award impact on completed and planned rides.

Finding your rides

My Rides has two tabs. Planned lists the rides still to come, soonest first. Ridden lists the rides you've finished or not finished, newest first. The page opens on Planned when you have planned rides, and remembers the tab you last chose.

Search and filters sit in the Search & Filter panel: beside the list on a wide screen, and behind the filter button next to the tabs otherwise. Search by name, change the sort order, or filter by ride type, distance, or season. A search looks through planned and ridden rides together. The panel can also show only the rides without a homologation number yet.

On a wide screen the list shows 15 rides per page; use Rides per page beside the pagination to choose 15, 25, or 50, and your choice is remembered. On a phone, the list shows 20 rides, and Show more adds the next 20.

Planned lists upcoming rides. Switch to Ridden for your completed and other past ride records.

Use the desktop filter sidebar or the Search and filter button to open the phone drawer. Select Show rides to return to the list.

DNF visibility

If you have rides marked as DNF (Did Not Finish), you can choose whether your ride list shows them. Use "Show DNF rides" in the Search & Filter panel, or "Hide DNF rides" in Settings; they are the same setting.

The homologation number

When you confirm a BRM, LRM, PBP or Flèche, the tracker marks it Completed and counts it towards your awards immediately. If the official ACP homologation number has not yet been published, the ride row shows an orange "no number" badge. The ride detail page says "Completed · no number yet". The homologation number is a unique reference issued by Audax Club Parisien (ACP) that confirms your ride was officially validated. It typically looks like a six or seven digit number (e.g. 1000234) and is sent to you by the event organiser once results have been processed.

To add the homologation number on a wide screen, select the pencil on the ride row. On a phone, tap the ride to expand it and select Add number.

For a past ride that gets a number, the Additional Info step includes the ride location, organiser, and homologation number. Enter the number and save. The "no number" badge goes.

To update several BRMs together, use the ACP homologation importer in Settings → ACP homologations, also linked from the Search & Filter panel when rides are missing a number. Copy the results from Results → BRM in your ACP account, review the suggested ride matches, and import only the ones you select. It's the quickest way to fill in a whole ride history after you first sign up.

Your award progress is the same while a ride is waiting for its homologation number. Most permanents do not need ACP homologation. An SR600 Original is the exception and requires an official homologation number before it can be fully confirmed.

Past rides that get a number include the Homologation Number field on the Additional Info step.

Ride details, notes, and award contributions

Use the eye icon or View ride in an expanded row to open the detail page. On desktop, the ride name is also a link; on a phone, tapping the row expands its summary. The detail page brings together the route map, organiser, homologation details, linked Strava recordings, notes, history and award contributions. Expand a ride row for a shorter summary.

The ride summary appears first. Award contributions sit beside the main content on desktop and above Strava statistics on a phone; scroll for the route and notes.

Each ride also shows which awards it contributes to. Completed rides (including those still missing a homologation number) display the actual awards they count towards, while planned rides show a projection of which awards they would contribute to once completed.

On the detail page, select Add notes or Edit notes to record conditions, route details, or anything else worth remembering. Notes are included in CSV exports. Existing notes also appear in the expanded row for completed, number-pending and DNF rides.

The expanded row shows location, homologation, elevation and any DNF distance reached. Link chips open the event and attached Strava recordings. Open the detail page for the organiser and the full ride record.

Expand a row for a quick summary, then select View ride for the full record.

Strava recordings and the brevet section

Linked Strava recordings add recorded distance, timing, climbing, and any available effort data to the ride detail page. If a recording includes riding to or from the event, the tracker can identify the brevet section using the saved route. Review a suggested section when asked, or adjust its start and finish if needed. Full recording shows the entire activity; Back to brevet section returns to the event portion. These recorded measurements are separate from the ride distance used for awards.

Further down the ride detail page, review the route map and its linked recording.

Your rides can also appear in award artwork. Open Achievements, choose the Awards tab, and select Share on a supported award. The award sharing walkthrough explains how to customise the poster, include route maps, and share or download it.

Ride weather

For a planned ride with a route, open its detail page and select Open ride weather. The weather view follows your expected arrival along the route. It is available only when the route has weather data; rides too far ahead show when to check back.

Open ride weather from a planned ride with a saved route.

Set Start and Pace, including stops, to match your plan. Review temperature, rain, wind direction and daylight, then scroll through the map, charts and sample table. Forecasts change as the ride approaches. The screenshot uses illustrative sample weather.

Start and Pace determine when you reach each part of the route; the summary highlights the expected conditions.

Deleting a ride

Open the ride detail page and select the delete icon. Check the ride name in the confirmation, then select Delete to remove it permanently, or Cancel to keep it. A ride used by a claim may be protected from deletion; the disabled action explains why.

Deletion is on the ride detail page and requires confirmation. Cancel keeps the ride.