Originally Posted by
EGBigelo
Map My Ride is nice too, Ride with GPS is another. There are a handful now so just download some and test them out. Do you have a good phone mount?
When I first started riding I started with Map My Ride. As mentioned above as I got more "serious" about cycling found a lot of the shortcomings of MapMyRide and moved to Strava. It was VERY painful to move from MapMyRide to Strava as MMR will not let you export your data for use in another program. I had to MANUALLY transfer (via a third party website) about 100 rides into Strava.
Personally I'd start with Strava as you CAN export your data for use in another program. If you like Strava... good, if you don't you can easily transition to another app.