Drop a pin
Your driveway, the trailhead, a hotel on holiday, anywhere in the world. The loop starts and ends right there, on foot or on a bike.
Loops for every sport
Drop a pin, pick your sport and a distance. Traceway plans a loop from there and back, ready for your watch or bike computer.
Free account, no card. Works wherever you live.
Scroll to watch it workTraceway reads the roads and paths around your pin.
It tries the ways back. Three come out best.
The one closest to your distance wins. The rest fade.
Arrows show which way round you go.
Want to pass through Bergom? Add it as a via point. The loop bends to pass it.
Done. Your watch or bike computer shows the way.
How it works
No fiddling with the map. Say where, how far, and which sport. Traceway finds the route.
Your driveway, the trailhead, a hotel on holiday, anywhere in the world. The loop starts and ends right there, on foot or on a bike.
40 km on the road. 12 km on foot. A ride and a run read the map differently, so the same pin gives a different loop.
Put it on your Garmin, COROS, Suunto, Wahoo, or Hammerhead. It shows you the way by itself. The phone can stay at home.
Sports
Run, trail run, walk, hike, road, gravel, and mountain bike. On a bike you can ask for quiet roads, paved or dirt. On foot, the loop does not steer round busy roads. Any sport can keep the climbing down. Or put several in one plan.
Quiet lanes and cycleways first, with fewer busy roads.
Pick Dirt, and the loop uses fewer busy roads and can take rough ground too.
Pick Dirt for tracks and paths, and Hilly to let the climbs in.
Streets and paths you can run on. Pick Flat to save your legs.
Pick Hilly, and the loop stops steering round the climbs.
From a 5 km walk to a long day out. Pick Flat to keep the climbing down.
Multisport
Plan a brick or a full triathlon in one go. Each leg gets its own sport and distance, and they meet at your transition. Train at real race distances, or meet friends along the way.
Ride, then run straight off the bike. Race-distance bricks, from a sprint to a full Ironman.
From a super sprint to a full Ironman. You draw the swim on the water. The ride and the run follow the roads.
Run, ride, and run again, at sprint, standard, or Powerman distance.
The swim and the ride, with no run. Standard, middle, or long.
Every leg can start and finish at your transition. Or chain them, so each leg ends where the next begins, handy when friends meet you with your gear.
Each leg tries not to use a road you have already done.
Pick a race and the distances fill in. Triathlon, swim, ride, and run:
Duathlon, run, ride, and run again:
Aquabike, swim and ride:
On the device
Your route goes onto your watch or bike computer, and it shows you the way by itself. No phone, no signal.
On a Garmin, it warns you before turns and tells you where to find water, a toilet, or a café. It shows the climbs ahead, too.
Planning a triathlon? The ride and the run each arrive as their own route.
Ask your AI
Use Claude or ChatGPT? Connect Traceway once. Then ask for a route in your own words, and it shows up on a map in the chat, saved and ready for your watch.
Traceway is a solo planner. Your pin, your loop and your Sunday morning stay yours. Nobody sees where you start unless you share a link, nobody ranks your day, and your routes are never listed for anyone else.
There is nothing to scroll and nobody to keep up with. You get a line that is worth the day, and the quiet to take it. The map is OpenStreetMap. Choosing the loop that fits your day is our job.
Questions
Drop the pin on your house, pick a sport and a distance, and Traceway plans a loop that comes home another way where the roads allow. Or type your address into the search. You can ask for 5 to 200 km.
Yes. Pick run, trail run, walk, or hike, give a distance, and Traceway plans a loop from your pin.
Usually close. Traceway tries a few loops near your distance and picks the best, so asking for 40 km usually gives you about 40 km. Where roads are few, it can come out longer or shorter, and the planner shows the real length.
Yes. Under Hills, pick Flat, and the loop avoids climbing where the roads allow. Pick Hilly instead to let it take the hills rather than go round them. The planner shows how many metres you go up and down, and can colour the steep parts on the map.
Yes, on a bike. Under Surface, pick Paved to favour tarmac, or Dirt to use fewer roads and allow unpaved tracks. The planner then shows how many kilometres are paved, gravel, or dirt.
On a bike, yes, as far as the roads allow. Leave Roads on Quiet first, as it starts, and the loop leans on cycleways, paths, and small roads. On foot, the loop does not steer away from busy roads.
Add a via point. The loop bends through it and still brings you home, and tries not to use the same road twice.
Yes. The planner marks water, toilets, and cafés just off your route, and lists how far along the route each one is. On a Garmin, your watch or bike computer warns you before you reach them.
Yes. Load the route once, and your watch or bike computer shows you the way by itself. You need no phone and no mobile signal on the way.
Garmin, COROS, Suunto, Wahoo, Hammerhead, and most others that can load a route. On a Garmin you also get a warning before turns, and before water, a toilet, or a café.
On most Edge bike computers, the Fenix 7, and the Forerunner 255, 265, 955, 965, and 970, add the Traceway app from Garmin's Connect IQ store and pair it once with a code. Your latest saved routes then load over your phone. Pick one and press Ride it, Run it, Walk it, or Hike it, and the device shows you the way. On other Garmins that can follow a course, press Send to device in the planner and add the route in Garmin Connect.
Press Send to device and pick your brand. The planner gives you the right file and the steps for Wahoo, Hammerhead, COROS, Suunto, Bryton, Polar, and others. You can also connect a Wahoo or Ride with GPS account once under Settings, then Devices, and send each route there in one tap.
Yes. Open the GPX file in the planner, for a route up to 300 km, and keep it as it is, turn it round, or start it from your own door. Save it to find it in the Traceway app on your Garmin, or press Send to device for any other watch or bike computer.
Yes. Open the route in Saved routes, press Copy link, and send it. Your friend can see it on a map and download it for their own watch or bike computer, without an account.
Yes. Press play on the map and a pin rides the whole route for you.
Yes. Pick a brick, a triathlon, a duathlon, or an aquabike, then one of its race distances, and the legs fill in. Or set each leg yourself.
No, there are no roads on the water. You draw the swim on the map yourself, and the planner shows how far you have drawn.
Yes. Put each handover on the map and give each leg its distance. Drag a handover to move it.
Yes, once you connect Traceway (ChatGPT needs a paid plan for that). Add traceway.online/mcp as a connector, sign in once, then ask for "a 40 km gravel loop from Westerlo". Traceway, not the AI, plans it on real roads and paths and saves it to your library, with a Garmin file and a GPX file for your watch.
Yes. The pin goes anywhere with roads and paths on OpenStreetMap, from your own door to a hotel in a town you do not know. The loops on this page start in Westerlo, Belgium, where Traceway is built.
Yes, a free one. It keeps your routes in one place, so they reach your watch and stay yours.
Yes, and it always will be. There are no ads, no subscription, and nothing to unlock, so every feature is open to everyone, even sending routes to your watch or bike computer. Traceway is made by one person who loves the sport. If you enjoy it, you can chip in for the hosting.