Map my fitness

[robz400]

Maybe a stupid question:-

When you show the elevation after planning a route does the ascent figure give you the total ascent including all the ups and downs?

Thanks

 

[robz400]

so say you climb 100ft then drop 50ft then back up to 100ft, would it count that as 100ft climb or 150ft????????

 

[vernon]

Maybe a stupid question:-

When you show the elevation after planning a route does the ascent figure give you the total ascent including all the ups and downs?

Thanks

Total ascent is the total of the ups.

The downs are called descents

 

[robz400]

Total ascent is the total of the ups.

The downs are called descents

Yeah ok maybe i didn't word that quite right

When people talk about doing 60 miles with 6000ft of climbing that sounds pretty hard, I did 29 miles today, with what i think was 850ft of climbing and it nearly killed me. I was hoping that someone would say i'm calculating wrong and im doing more climbing than i think! Or am i just feeble

 

[RedBike]

Sorry but it sounds like you are calculating it correctly.

However, you might be pleased to know that most of the online mapping sites i've tried seem to significantly under-estimate the total assent (assuming my Garmins right!). Espeshially if there are lots of short steep climbs.

 

[RedBike]

I've just realised 850ft is approximately 250 meters. Thats nothing over 30miles. I went for a short jog (5km) this morning and covered 200m of assent!

Maybe something is wrong??

 

[robz400]

I was hoping that! the ride is a circuit and has several very steep hills! here's a link to the route

http://www.mapmyfitness.com/edit_route?r=163683634223

 

[trio25]

map my ride under-estimates. It only counts if there is a difference in 60m of something, so any short hills, round me there are loads are not counted!

Although 200m over a 5km run must be a ver hilly run!

 

[Stig-OT-Dump]

Map My Run needs (I think) 80' of height change for it to register - this is so that it doesn't include anomalous spikes on its geo-spatial data. You can download the csv data, put it into a spreadsheet and get a more detailed estimate of total height gain.