{"id":2200,"date":"2024-02-23T12:28:13","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T12:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikecompanion.app\/faq\/what-is-a-segment\/"},"modified":"2024-10-05T13:13:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T13:13:49","password":"","slug":"what-is-a-segment","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/bikecompanion.app\/en\/faq\/what-is-a-segment\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a segment?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A segment is a portion of your route (usually a few kilometers) that is timed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are 2 types of segments:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Private segments<\/strong> that you can create as you like from the application. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Official segments<\/strong>, supplied by BikeCompanion (there are now a few hundred of these, mostly corresponding to climbs linked to a peak).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the recording of an ride, each time you come close to one of your segments or to an ascent with an official segment, a page is displayed on your smartphone with <strong>segment<\/strong> info <strong>in real time<\/strong> (distance, time compared to the best time, display of the &#8220;ghost&#8221; on the map, etc.).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A segment is a portion of your route (usually a few kilometers) that is timed. There are 2 types of segments: Private segments that you can create as you like from the application. Official segments, supplied by BikeCompanion (there are now a few hundred of these, mostly corresponding to climbs linked to a peak). During [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[116],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-2200","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-segments-en"],"year_month":"2026-08","word_count":105,"total_views":0,"reactions":{"happy":0,"normal":0,"sad":0},"author_info":{"name":"Cl\u00e9ment LEFEBVRE","author_nicename":"admin4379","author_url":"https:\/\/bikecompanion.app\/en\/author\/admin4379\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Segments","term_url":"https:\/\/bikecompanion.app\/en\/docs-category\/segments-en\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikecompanion.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikecompanion.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikecompanion.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikecompanion.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikecompanion.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2200"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bikecompanion.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2235,"href":"https:\/\/bikecompanion.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2200\/revisions\/2235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikecompanion.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikecompanion.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=2200"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikecompanion.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=2200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}