Endurance Ride Manager Information Page

Ride Managers:

1- Setting up a ride

Step one-  Install the app on your phone and purchase a license.  You have to purchase at least Basic, I recommend Premium simply because the advanced route planning and Cue review tools are very valuable if you will be managing routes.

License types:   Starter:  free for all users.   Basic:  $60 per year.   Premium: $80 a year 

2- Record a ride

It is like using a garmin GPS when you are recording a route.   To record a ride you go the main page of the tool, and click on the button that says “record” in the middle at the bottom.  It will take a moment to make sure it has acquired the satellites.   Now you start moving and it will record your trail.  You will see a red line being left behind you on the screen as you move.   It will keep recording until you tell it not to.  To pause the recording , you long hold  the pause button, the two vertical lines in a circle at the bottom.   Long hold means press and hold for a second or so.  it will pause the recording.  You will see two options- resume ride, or finish ride.    To resume the ride press resume and it starts recording again.  to end recording you press finish ride.  It will then give you two options- either delete it, or save it.  Delete just removes the ride from the session, save will keep the ride stored on the phone and on your account on the web site.

Pro tip!  When you are recording, try and not deviate from the trail, or stop, or take a break.   Keep moving and record a clean ride.   If you were to be recording, hop off the horse or quad or bicycle and walk to the restroom, your ride will have a nice loop in the trail to the restroom and back.  It’s that accurate.   When you need to do anything other than move forward on the trail, press pause, then press resume when you are starting again.   Don’t forget to resume after a stop or you will miss a section of the trail.

To see the rides you have recorded on your phone, click the library button.  You will see a list of all your rides.   To send someone a ride you can click the three dots to the right and select share.

Pro Tip!  If you are an event organizer you have two logins- your standard login, and your organization login.  You will have to log out of your organization in order to see your personal rides, routes, and such.  You log back into the organization from your personal page.

See and edit your rides on the web site.

Log into the RWGPS web site and click on the “jump to” button at the top left.  Select rides and you will see your rides listed as in the picture below:

Here you can rename them into the correct names and more.   to rename it, click the ride you just created on the date on the far left.  it opens the ride.  Click the edit button and you can rename it and add comments.

You can also share the ride with someone by clicking the “share” button

Step 2- turn your ride into a route.  From the Web site login:

1- Open the ride and see it on the page on the right side of the screen.

2- click on the “more” button and select “Open in route planner”     Here is where you add in your custom voice cues, , modify the trail, add points of interest, etc. 

Pro Tip!   The start of the route is the green arrow, the end of the route is just a white dot called a control point.

3- Edit the route  (it takes some training and a lot of practice)  and click the save button at the lower left.  I like to keep the route name the same as the ride name.  Click save or the route will vanish and you will have lost work.

Pro Tip!   At an endurance ride each loop is generally a separate route.  This makes it much more clear and flexible for the rider.   A ride with three loops will have three routes- one per loop.   The Event (info below) will contain the three appropriate routes.

Now you can share the route with someone, send the route to your phone for navigation, or view the route.   To close the dialog box just click the X.

Now if you select the “jump to” button and click the “routes”  tab you will see the new route listed.

Pro Tip!  Be sure to back up your routes and events.   Its kind of easy to make a mistake while editing and it is depressing to add in an hours’ worth of voicer cues and accidentally delete the route.