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Route & Days

The backbone of every trip. One row per stage, with everything else in the app hanging off it.

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Route & Days is where a trip becomes real. Each day carries its date, title, start and end point, distance and climbing β€” and once a GPX is attached, its own elevation profile. Every other module references these days, so getting this right first makes the rest fall into place.

Two views of the same data

Editing a week of stages is a spreadsheet job, so the grid behaves like one: click any cell, type, and Tab or arrow-key to the next. Changes save when you leave a cell β€” there is no save button to forget.

Reading it on a phone at a bunkhouse is a different job entirely. Card view gives each day an expandable summary with everything attached to it: sights, the stay, breakfast, the map and the GPX download. Cards are the default; the toggle is remembered per trip.

  • Keyboard navigation β€” Tab, Enter and arrow keys move between cells.
  • Autosave on blur, with a one-step undo on Ctrl/Cmd+Z.
  • Card view built for a phone, with everything for that day in one place.
Route & Days β€” grid
DateTitlekmAscent
16 AugEdinburgh β†’ Fort Augustus56.9585
17 AugFort Augustus β†’ Ratagan85.91161
18 AugRatagan β†’ Achnasheen881160

Fields that match the trip

A campervan trip does not need a climbing column, and a paddling trip does not have a road surface. The activity type you pick decides which columns exist and what they are called, so the grid never shows you a field that makes no sense for your trip.

It also decides how pace is modelled β€” cycling speeds are set per surface, hiking uses a climbing rate in the spirit of Naismith's rule, and public-transport trips switch pace estimates off entirely.

  • Cycling β€” distance, ascent, surface.
  • Hiking β€” distance, ascent, terrain.
  • Driving and campervan β€” distance only, no ascent column.
  • Kayaking β€” distance and water conditions.
  • Public transport β€” distance optional, pace off.
  • Mixed β€” segment types for trips that do several.
Day detail
Day 4 Β· Ratagan β†’ Achnasheen
88km
+1160m
18.0km/h avg
8.9hest. total
🍳 Breakfast β€” Self-catered, 7 GBP pp
🏰 Sights β€” Eilean Donan Β· Plockton Β· Torridon
🏠 Stay β€” Ledgowan Bunkhouse

Maps and tracks

Attach a GPX per day and two things appear on their own: that day's elevation profile, and the day's track on the whole-trip map, drawn in its own colour alongside every other stage. You can also paste a Komoot, RideWithGPS or Google Maps link to embed the route view directly in the day card.

Tracks are downloadable per day from the card, which is how most people get them onto a head unit or phone before setting off.

  • Upload GPX per day, stored and served over a stable URL.
  • Whole-trip map with one colour per stage and a legend.
  • Map embeds from the usual route planners.
  • Download buttons on every day card.
Whole-trip map
Day 2Day 3Day 4Day 5

The long tail, out of the way

Not everything belongs in a grid cell. Opening a day gives you a detail panel for the things you write once and read later: a description, free notes, the map and GPX links, a planned start time and a target finish time.

Those two times matter more than they look. Together they define the stage window, which is what turns a vague plan into a required pace on the Statistics and Today screens.

  • Description and notes per day.
  • Planned start and target finish, which unlock required-pace figures.
  • Rest days that drop out of effort and pace maths.
  • Field locking so an import cannot overwrite what you wrote.

Good to know

  • Splitting one multi-day GPX relies on track segments. A file recorded as a single continuous segment divides distance evenly rather than detecting real stage boundaries.
  • Distances come from the file or from what you type. Trip Tracker does not route between points for you β€” it is a planner, not a route builder.
  • Elevation totals are computed with smoothing, so they will differ by a few percent from whatever your route planner reported.

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