How-to
Learn how Virtualtrails works
Start with the overview for what Virtualtrails is and how a journey fits together, then use the topic guides below for detail — starting a trail, logging progress, achievements, teams, and challenges.
What is Virtualtrails?
The big picture: what the app is, how it helps with motivation, and the start-to-finish flow from picking a trail to finishing it — plus where to read next.
Read the guideHow to start a journey
Learn how a browsed trail becomes your journey, what it means to have an active trail, how saving one for later works, and what happens when you finish.
Read the guideHow to log progress
See how connecting your fitness apps and adding distance by hand both work, which kinds of workouts count, how to choose miles or kilometres, and how your distance and achievements show up on a trail.
Read the guideHow to understand achievements
Learn how milestones and surprise finds work along a trail, how certain achievements differ from random ones, and what happens if you change your distance later.
Read the guideHow team journeys work
See the difference between walking a trail together on one shared journey and racing the same route side by side, plus how invites and achievements fit in.
Read the guideHow challenges work
Learn how optional goals layer on top of your journeys, how distance and route challenges differ, and how synced workouts, trail logging, and challenge-only entries all fit together.
Read the guideNeed help instead?
These guides explain how Virtualtrails works. If you need to contact us, reset your password, or get account help, use the help page instead.