Originally Posted by
August West
I don't think Garmin Connect shows gradient data. An easy way to get it is to import your ride into Ride With GPS or have GC automatically sync your with to RwGPS. It will show you gradients there.
Thanks for the suggestion. As a test, I exported one of the rides as a .tcx file and imported into Map My Ride, which is the application I had been using with my iPhone before I bought the Edge 530.
The only problem with MMR is that their gradient information is not very accurate. For example, if I start creating a route, the gradient for a particular climb changes as I add segments to the route. There is a long hill near my house that I know to be 10% and if I create a segment for only that hill, MMR does show it as 10%. If I include the same hill in longer route in MMR, it shows the gradient for the hill as 7%. The 7% is not the avg. gradient, as the elevation graphic shows the percentage for each climb.
Have you found that Ride With GPS provides greater gradient accuracy as part of their mapping/course creation tool?