Skip to main content
Glood

For iPhone and iPad

Routes and climbs.
Cycling training.
Your next ride.

Bring a route. Record the ride. Find a training plan for what comes next.

Découvrir Glood en français

Sign in to your ride history

Coming to the App Store

Glood’s web dashboard showing a recorded ride’s route, distance, moving time and elevation gain.
A recorded ride near Ouazzane on Glood’s map, with distance, moving time, elevation gain and average speed.
One recorded ride
36.1 kmDistance
2h 00mMoving
533 mGain
A recorded ride in Glood.

What Glood is for

What do you want from your riding?

The ride loop

One ride, start to finish.

From the route you load to the training load you see afterwards.

  1. Load the route

    Choose a planned track or a free ride, then start.

    The upper part of Glood’s ride setup screen, with Planned Track and Free Ride choices.

  2. Ride it

    Record the ride and see its live ride data.

    Glood’s ride screen with live time, speed, distance and elevation gain.

  3. Review it

    Look back at your recorded route and the activity’s best efforts.

    A recorded ride, Ouazzane Cycling: 49.0 km, 2 h 14 min moving, 656 m elevation gain and 21.9 km/h average, with its training load and elevation profile.

  4. See the training load

    See the ride’s load in the context of fitness, fatigue and form.

    Training Load 11, Recovery and estimated intensity 0.30 for the recorded ride.

Get stronger

Give each week a direction.

  1. Find your starting point.

    Choose Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced or Elite, then a plan for your level.

    Glood’s Training Plans with the level filter open: Any Level, Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced and Elite.

  2. Choose what you are training for.

    Filter plans by goal: base fitness, climbing, race prep, gran fondo, endurance and more. Then read a plan’s workouts, total time and weekly volume before you start.

    The goal filter open on Training Plans: Base Fitness, Climbing, Race Prep, Lose Weight, Gran Fondo, Maintain and Endurance.

  3. Every week, laid out.

    Day by day, from base building to peak training, taper and race week.

    Weeks 7 to 12 of the plan, each day marked endurance, threshold, VO2max, sweet spot, long ride, recovery or rest.

  4. Look at the week ahead.

    Suggested Week shows target load and day types after at least 14 days of training data.

    Suggested Week: target load and daily ride types.

  5. See the bigger picture.

    Read your load alongside fitness, fatigue and form.

    Performance: fitness, fatigue and form.
See it in Features

Cycling workouts and training plans, from Beginner to Elite

Start at your level. Then aim higher: you can do better than your last ride.

  1. Start where you are.

    Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced or Elite: the library shows sessions for the level you choose.

    Glood’s Workout Library filtered to Elite: Flush Ride, Deep Recovery Base and other elite recovery sessions.

  2. Try a new kind of session.

    Endurance, tempo, sweet spot, threshold, VO2max, neuromuscular, long rides and intervals.

    The workout type filter open: Endurance, Tempo, Sweet Spot, Threshold, VO2max, Neuromuscular, Recovery, Long Ride and Intervals.

  3. Then go all the way to Elite.

    Pro-level efforts, already built: Elite 30/15s, VO2max ladders and more, each with its duration and intensity.

    Elite VO2max workouts: Elite 30/15s, VO2max Max Effort and VO2max Ladder 3-4-5-3, each with duration, average intensity and its interval bar.

  4. Know every block.

    Each workout’s structure: duration, average intensity and every interval.

    Sweet Spot 3×15: 1 hour 20 minutes, 78% average intensity, seven blocks shown as a structure chart and a list of warm-up, intervals and recoveries.

  5. Not quite right? Build your own workout.

    Name it, choose its type and level, then set each block’s length and target.

    Glood’s New Workout editor: name, type, level and description, then warm-up, steady and cool-down blocks, each with a duration and an FTP target.

  6. Or a whole plan.

    Set its length, level and goal, then build it week by week.

    New Plan, step 1 of 3: plan name and description, an 8-week duration, athlete level from Beginner to Elite, and a goal, before Next: Build Weeks.
See it in Features

Ride somewhere new

Bring a route. Look ahead to its climbs.

  1. Bring your route.

    Import a GPX file, or paste a link to one.

    Glood’s GPX Files list, with Import GPX File and Import from URL above route cards showing distance, elevation gain and points.

  2. See what is ahead.

    Open a GPX route with elevation data to see its climbs.

    A 53.2 km GPX route on the map with twelve climbs marked, above its distance, elevation gain and loss, and highest and lowest points.

  3. Every climb, listed.

    Each climb with its category, length, ascent and grades.

    The route’s climbs list: each climb with its category, length, ascent, and average and maximum grade.

  4. Open any climb.

    Its profile, difficulty, and average and maximum grade.

    Climb 9 of 12 highlighted on the map and the route’s elevation profile, with its own profile, Cat 3 difficulty, 6.0% average grade, 1.2 km and 20.6% maximum grade.

  5. Prepare before you leave.

    Download a map region, or the maps along your route, then record without a network connection.

    Download Map Area: a region named Ouazzane, with an orange box on the map marking the download boundary.

  6. Find your way home.

    On a free ride, open directions to your start.

    Free ride: distance to Home and Guide Home.
See it in Features

Beat your best

Make your past rides the reference.

  1. Know your best efforts.

    Find them in your recorded activities.

    The recorded activity’s best efforts for 1, 5, 10 and 20 kilometres.

  2. Compare with your history.

    See your personal records.

    Personal record badges alongside the recorded activity’s best effort times.

  3. Mark the milestones.

    Look back at the badges you have earned.

    Glood’s Badges screen: 23 badges earned in bronze, silver, gold and platinum, with milestones such as 500 Rides Legend, Six Everests and 5,000 km Adventurer.
See it in Features

Ride with confidence

Keep an emergency contact within reach.

  1. Set your contact.

    Add an emergency contact in the app.

    Empty emergency contact name and phone fields.

  2. Choose whether to send.

    A no-movement alert can offer to open a message; you choose to send it.

  3. Watch your battery.

    Look for battery warnings during the ride.

See it in Features

Collect climbs

Collect climbs.
Leave a trail of roads ridden.

Keep a climb passport and see the roads you have ridden on a map.

Your climb passport

Look back at your recorded climbs and their details in the passport.

Roads you have ridden

Build up a map of your recorded roads, ride by ride.

A climb around the bend

On a free ride, climb detection shows candidates ahead when road and elevation data is available.

See free-ride climb candidates
Explore your ride history
Glood’s Roads Ridden map: every recorded road around Ouazzane drawn in orange, 523 rides mapped and 1,648 km of unique roads.

Why Glood exists

It started with a ride that went wrong.

Lost kilometres off a GPX route, a four-hour ride became eight hours in mud and darkness. Glood is what came after.

Read the story

FAQ

Before your next ride.

Does Glood work offline?

Download map coverage for your planned route before you leave, then use it and record your ride without a network connection.

Which devices is Glood made for?

Glood is made for iPhone and iPad.

Can I import my old rides?

You can import activity history from your phone’s health data when you grant permission.

Can I bring my own GPX route?

Open a GPX route with elevation data to see its climbs, or reverse it to ride in the other direction.

How does Glood choose my training level?

You choose Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced or Elite during onboarding; if your level is unset, Glood can suggest one after at least 20 rides longer than 500 metres.

Can I export my ride data?

You can export a ZIP containing activity GPX files, activity-summary JSON and saved GPX routes.

Does Glood send an emergency message automatically?

A no-movement alert can offer to open a message to your emergency contact, which you choose to send.