Ride Merge

Export guide

How to get your ride files

Ride Merge works on the files your device or app recorded. Here is where each platform keeps them.

Which format? FIT first, then TCX, then GPX. FIT keeps laps, power, pauses and your head unit's identity, so Strava and Garmin Connect treat the merged ride like any other. Export Original on Strava or Garmin Connect gives you the file exactly as recorded, usually FIT. Downloads that come as .zip or .gz can be dropped in as they are. You need one file per part of the ride, and you can mix formats: a FIT from the head unit and a GPX from the phone merge fine.
FIT (original) · GPX · TCX

Strava

On the website. The Strava phone app has no file export.

  1. Open strava.com in a browser, sign in and open the activity.
  2. Click the three-dots button (⋯) in the column on the left, below the activity's title.
  3. Choose Export Original for the file your device uploaded. If it isn't offered, choose Export GPX or Export TCX.
  4. Do the same for the other half of the ride.

After you upload the merged ride, delete the two originals, or Strava may reject the upload as a duplicate.

FIT (original, zipped) · TCX · GPX

Garmin Connect

On the website. The Connect phone app has no file export; the site works in a phone browser too.

  1. Open connect.garmin.com, sign in and open the activity.
  2. Click the gear icon in the top right of the activity page.
  3. Choose Export Original. You get a .zip with the FIT file inside; drop the .zip straight into Ride Merge.
  4. Export to TCX or Export to GPX are there as well if you need those formats.

If the gear icon is missing on a phone, ask the browser for the desktop version of the site.

FIT

Garmin device over USB

Edge, Forerunner, fēnix and other Garmin units, straight from the device.

  1. Connect the device to a computer with its USB cable and let it finish starting up.
  2. Open it like a drive. Windows shows it in Explorer. On a Mac, older units mount as a drive; newer ones need an MTP app such as OpenMTP, or use the Garmin Connect website instead.
  3. Open Garmin/Activities (on watches it may be GARMIN/Activity).
  4. Copy the .fit files of the ride. They are named by date and time, so the two halves sit next to each other.

Copy the files, don't move them, so the device keeps its own history.

FIT

Wahoo ELEMNT

In the ELEMNT companion app on your phone.

  1. Open the ELEMNT app and go to History.
  2. Open the ride and tap the share icon.
  3. Choose the .fit file and save it to Files, send it with AirDrop, or email it to yourself.

Older ELEMNT and BOLT units also show up as a drive on a computer, with the rides in the export folder. If the app auto-uploads to Strava or Dropbox, the files are there too.

FIT

Hammerhead Karoo

On the Hammerhead dashboard website.

  1. Sign in at dashboard.hammerhead.io.
  2. Open Rides and open the ride. Rides sync from the Karoo whenever it is online.
  3. Use the ride's export option to download the FIT file.

If the Karoo uploads to Strava for you, Export Original there gives the same file.

FIT

Zwift

On zwift.com, or from the Zwift folder on your computer.

  1. Sign in at zwift.com, open your activity feed and open the ride.
  2. Use the activity's download option to save the FIT file.
  3. On a computer the files are also saved locally in Documents/Zwift/Activities, named by date and time.

Indoor rides have no GPS, which is fine: Ride Merge still merges time, distance, power and heart rate, and you download FIT or TCX.

FIT · TCX · GPX

COROS

In the COROS phone app, or on the COROS Training Hub website.

  1. Open the COROS app and open the activity.
  2. Tap the ⋯ or share icon in the top right and choose Export Data.
  3. Pick FIT (TCX and GPX are offered as well) and save or share the file.
GPX only

Komoot

On komoot.com or in the app, for tours you recorded.

  1. Open the completed tour.
  2. Open the ⋯ menu and choose Download GPX (in the app: Export as GPX).

Komoot's GPX has the route, times and elevation but no heart rate or power. If the ride also reached Strava or Garmin Connect, export the original there instead.

FIT · GPX · TCX via another app

Apple Watch and iPhone

The Fitness app cannot export a workout file, so take one of two routes.

  1. If the workout synced to Strava, export it from Strava.
  2. Otherwise use an app that reads Apple Health, such as HealthFit or RunGap: open the workout and share it as a FIT file (GPX and TCX also work).
Look for FIT, then TCX, then GPX

Other apps and devices

Nearly every app has an export in the activity's ⋯ or share menu.

  1. Polar Flow: open the session at flow.polar.com and choose Export session (TCX or GPX).
  2. Suunto app: open the activity, tap ⋯, choose Export and pick FIT or GPX.
  3. Bryton Active, iGPSPORT, Magene, XOSS and similar apps: open the ride, tap share or export, and pick FIT if it is offered.
  4. Any ride that reached Strava or Garmin Connect: export the original there, whatever recorded it.

Got both files?

Drop them on the home page, in any order. The map and the before-and-after table show what the merged ride looks like before you download it.

Merge the files