Map My Ride With GPS Tracker 4+

Today I rode my bike 10.4 mile. So far in this month of February, I’ve ridden just over 55 miles. I enjoy the Map My Ride app tremendously. Last summer I rode over eleven hundred miles and burned over 61,000 calories. As a result I lost 53 pounds, lowered my blood pressure and reduced my glucose number from over 7 to 5.5. The app is a great motivator. Each time I ride I log my statistics, the animals I see, the weather conditions, and my mental state of being. I started riding just five miles a day and now I routinely ride 15 miles easily in just over an hour and a half and as many as thirty miles. Not bad for a 72 year old. With biking I don’t feel 72 at all my doctors are all amazed. I think it was the Map My Ride app that made the difference. By cataloging my efforts, I am more motivated. I frequently ride the Atlantic County Bikeway which begins in Mays Landing, NJ and ends in Cardiff, NJ. It 7 1/2 miles one way. The round trip is 15 miles. That 15 miles has become my routine. I have a hybrid Trex bike. I get a kick out of seeing much younger bikers struggling as I pass them. I greatly impressed with this app. I know that I would not have achieved what I have without it
Question: Is there a way that I can use the app when I’m on my stationary bike? New Jersey has some tough weather at times and I can’t ride outdoors.

Respectfully submitted,
K. S. Nelson

I’ve used the free version of this app well over a year now. If you are going to use for shorter rides where there is good coverage, it’s fine. But hit the wrong button by accident and it aborts the whole exercise segment. It’s recent upgrade adding new buttons hasn’t helped but added confusion. I lost both of my last 23 mile rides, because the first time I didn’t like the picture it took and the language deleting didn’t say it would delete the ride. Today I had the app closed but operating and when I hit a button to continue, or so I thought, it started a whole new route without asking if I wanted to save the old one. I ride on rail-to-trails and have also had occasional times the app would not sync. I am glad of the manual option, speed function, and gps catch-up that figures out if you rode a bit but forgot to unpause and figures in the mileage in when you do. But I think also more than one pic should be allowed and the major flaw is no BACK UPS!!!!! If you don’t make it to the end and sync, your ride is lost-you can add a ride manually but without the cool maps. Remember GPS also uses lots of phone battery power.

I don’t really write review but I’m not as thrilled with this as I was in the start. The map building was super easy and sold me on trying it. It seemed to work well but has failed to log my last three work outs. I go to stop it and it logs a few steps that I’ve just taken. Total workout run: .01miles. The first time I thought it was me so before my next ride, I doubled checked quickly. When I finished nothing. The third time, I thought I wasn’t careful enough so I double checked and went for my run. When I stopped it, the same. I don’t know if I’m hitting something, but I can’t keep checking this thing to make sure everything is going. It’s bad enough trying to carry my iPhone 8 Plus around let alone it not really doing anything. Someone mentioned if was unreliable, that if you hit a wrong button it aborts your work out. Big problem is you start it and try to put it away and might hit something, especially on a big smart phone. If the could fix that it would be a great app. I’m not sure if I’ll switch back to the other apps, but it worked fine for a few workouts not require too much maintenance for me to keep using it. Also, the menu layout is a bit confusing. I have a hard time trying to navigate to pages in the app I’m trying to get to. I’d get used to it but I wish it were more intuitive.