Max Speed, Distance, Altitude: Reading Your Session

Q: What stats does the grid show?

Four cards: Current Speed (live GPS), Max Speed (the session's peak), Distance (accumulated point-to-point travel), and Altitude (current elevation in feet or meters). Heading in degrees lives on the map view.

Q: What does the Reset button clear?

The session accumulators — max speed and distance go back to zero for a fresh start. Stats are per-session by design: the app doesn't keep a trip history or saved logs, so Reset is how you define where a 'trip' begins.

Q: Why does my altitude reading jump around?

Vertical GPS accuracy is inherently 2-3x worse than horizontal — geometry works against satellites for elevation. Expect altitude to be roughly right and occasionally jumpy; it's a property of GPS itself, not the app.

Swipe once from the big number and you get the accountant's view: four cards keeping score of the drive, the ride, or the run — live, honest, and zeroed whenever you say so.

The four cards

Current Speed: the live GPS reading, same number as the gauge, in your chosen units (decimals optional).
Max Speed: the session's high-water mark. It only ratchets up, which is what makes it the ski-run scorecard and the “how fast does this boat actually go” settler.
Distance: accumulated travel, summed point-to-point from GPS fixes as you move. Your ride odometer in miles or kilometers.
Altitude: current elevation, feet or meters. Fun on mountain passes; see the honesty note below.

Heading (your direction in degrees) rides on the map view alongside the compass, completing the instrument set.

Reset: where a “trip” begins

The Reset button zeroes max speed and distance. That's not housekeeping — it's the feature that gives the numbers meaning: reset at the trailhead and Distance is this ride; reset before the descent and Max Speed is this run. One tap defines the experiment.

The honest fine print

Stats are per-session, not a diary. There's no saved trip history or logs. When you reset (or the session ends), the numbers are gone. Want to keep a great max speed? Screenshot it; that's the record.
Altitude wobbles by nature. GPS vertical accuracy is inherently 2–3× looser than horizontal: satellite geometry favors the map view of the world. Roughly right, occasionally jumpy: normal.
Distance is as good as the sky view. Clean signal yields clean accumulation; a signal dropout (tunnel, garage) pauses the story. The signal badge is the disclaimer in real time.
Max speed believes the GPS. A rare signal glitch can print an implausible spike — if your minivan claims 140, congratulations to the satellite that moved, not the van.

The screenshot ritual: since sessions aren't saved, end memorable ones (the century ride, the ski day, the road-trip state line) with a screenshot of the stats grid. Cheap, permanent, and it settles arguments later.

Keep score of the ride

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FAQ

What stats does the grid show?

Current speed, max speed, distance and altitude. Heading lives on the map view.

What does the Reset button clear?

Max speed and distance: it's how you define where a trip begins. No history is kept.

Why does my altitude reading jump around?

GPS vertical accuracy is inherently looser than horizontal, and that's the satellites, not the app.