08 / Goals & progress

Goals, records & your usual.

Bunch compares each ride with your own history. Sample rides and rides with no distance never count.

Personal records

Longest ride, most climbing, fastest average (rides of a mile or more), fastest 1, 5 and 10 mi (or km), and best 5 and 20-minute power (solo rides only).

Goals

Set goals for miles, hours, climbing, rides or days ridden, per week, month or year. Each has a pace line and a dot for every earlier period, and Bunch suggests a target from your recent riding. The Home screen shows one goal as a ring.

Ride badges

PR, 2nd, 3rd: A ride is only compared with rides on or before its date, so a badge never changes later. A PR needs at least 1 earlier ride; 2nd and 3rd need at least 4. A tie doesn’t beat the earlier ride.
Firsts: Your first 25, 50 or 100 mi ride (50, 100 or 200 km). Only the biggest one crossed is awarded.
Lifetime totals: Passing 100, 500, 1k, 2.5k, 5k, 10k, 25k or 50k miles or km.
Weekly goal: This ride took the week over your goal, with how many weeks in a row you’ve hit it.

Matched rides

Two rides are the same route when both are at least 1 km, within 10% of each other’s distance, start and finish within 250 m, and pass within 300 m at the 25%, 50% and 75% marks. That last check means a loop ridden clockwise doesn’t match the same loop anticlockwise. With 3 or more rides, Bunch shows whether you’re getting faster, per 30 days.

Loops and stretches

Bunch finds these from your own rides, with no setup. A loop is a circuit you’ve ridden on two or more rides, timed as full laps. A stretch is 2+ miles of road you’ve ridden the same way on two or more rides, timed start to finish. Names come from Apple Maps, and you can rename them.

Your typical time

Periods: The last 30 days against the 30 days before that.
Per ride: The median of that ride’s laps, so five laps on one day weigh the same as one lap on another.
Typical: The median of the rides in a period. Needs 3 rides in each period.
Left out: Laps averaging over 25 m/s (a GPS glitch) or under 2 m/s (a long stop or walking).
About the same: A change under 3% or 5 seconds, whichever is bigger.

With Apple Watch, a segment also compares your heart rate at your usual pace: solo laps within 3% of your usual time, at least 10 minutes into the ride, 3 rides in each period. Under 3 bpm reads “about the same.” It’s an observation, not a fitness score: heat, sleep and caffeine all move heart rate too.