Where the time goes in a hike & fly race
hikeflystats reads the GPS tracks of hike & fly races and works out, minute by minute, when every athlete was on foot and when in the air.
It started with one race
I raced Trail & Fly 2026 and wanted to know where the time went: how long I hiked, how long I flew, and where the others gained on me. The tracks hold the answer. This is how the site reads every one, here the winner of Day 1:
1 The fixes
A position and an altitude every few seconds, nothing more.
2 Read
Every stretch read as hiking, flying or a stop, from the speed, the climb and the height above the ground.
3 The numbers
- On foot
- 1 h 57, 11.2 km
- In the air
- 1 h 32, 31.8 km
- Climbed on foot
- 1,292 m
- In goal
- 13:02:06
Ch Ma's day, minute by minute, and every athlete's beside it.
The events
Read so far: 7 events, 253 athletes, 2,006 athlete-days, 27,294 hours of track.
74 % on foot
52 % on foot, 3 % on lifts