Quick start

One account gets you into both products. Here is the shortest path into each.

Create your account once

Step 1. Sign up on either Routster site

Sign up with email or Google on prep.routster.se or analyse.routster.se. It does not matter which, because there is one account behind both products. The sign-in page has two tabs, Sign In and Register, and a button for Google.

Step 2. Set your name and picture

In your profile, in either product. Both read the same profile, so the name and picture appear in both. In Analyse your full name is also what matches you to a row in an event's split times, so write it as it appears in the results list.

Step 3. Join your club

On the Clubs page, search for your club and request to join; a club admin approves you. Membership unlocks club-only events in Analyse and club leaderboards in Prepare. See Clubs in Prepare and Clubs in Analyse.

The Routster sign-in page with Sign In and Register tabs, email and password fields and a Google button — Sign in or register, with email or Google.

The Clubs page in Prepare with the club leaderboard — The Clubs page.

Signing in carries across subdomains

The session is stored in a cookie scoped to .routster.se, so signing in on one subdomain signs you in on the other. The handoff happens on page load, so reload once if a product shows you as signed out.

Your first hour in Prepare

Open the Route game, pick All Maps or a single map, and start answering. You are shown a map crop with two to four drawn routes between the same pair of controls, and you pick the shortest one. The first three are a warm-up and are not recorded; after that every answer counts.

Fast mode shows the route lengths and whether you were right, then moves on by itself.
Analysis mode holds the map so you can zoom in and see why the route you rejected was shorter.
Attempts count toward the global leaderboard only with All Maps selected and the filters untouched. Until then the game says Unranked above the challenge.

Select Map: All Maps and three maps — Select Map.

A challenge with a red route to the left and a blue route to the right and the Warmup counter — A challenge in warm-up.

The leaderboard with accuracy and speed — The leaderboard.

The route choice game covers the screen in detail, and How scoring works covers what the rank is built from.

Your first analysis in Analyse

Analyse has no standalone upload: every analysis belongs to an event. So either an organiser publishes the event you ran and you add your track to it, or you create the event yourself. A training run counts too: it is just an event with the level set to training.

Open the event and tap Add my run.
Pick your class.
Add the track: upload a GPX file, or import from Intervals.icu or a connected watch service.
Pick the privacy for the run. This decides whether other runners can open your analysis. See Run privacy.
Open the analysis. The map, the course and the field comparison are already there.

An event page with the Add my run button — The event page: Add my run.

Add your run: class, the three source tabs and a GPX drop zone — Class, and a source for the track.

The finished analysis: the map with the track — The analysis.

Organisers should read Uploading an event first, for the two timing rules: when the map unlocks, and when the results file goes up.