Pace Count Calculator

Terrain type is a lookup with five discrete factors ranging from 1.0 on paved road to 1.40 on sand or snow (line 19), and switching between them swings adjusted paces by up to about 40 percent. Stride length instead scales paces inversely and continuously (line 15), so a small stride adjustment moves paces by a comparably smaller amount -- terrain choice is the input most worth getting right before you start counting.

No. Paces per 100 meters comes only from stride length, terrain type, and slope (line 26); total distance is applied afterward, multiplying that per-100m figure by distance divided by 100 to get total paces for the route (line 29). Entering a longer route changes total paces and ranger beads needed, not the per-100m pace count itself.

Slope adds one percent to the pace multiplier for every degree away from flat, using the absolute value of the slope so a downhill grade adds paces the same way an uphill grade does (line 23). At the default five-degree slope, that is a five percent increase over flat ground; at forty-five degrees it is a forty-five percent increase, on top of whatever terrain factor already applies.

Ranger beads needed is the total distance in meters divided by 100, rounded up (line 37), tracking one bead per 100 meters regardless of stride length, terrain, or slope. A 1,000-meter route needs 10 beads; the count exists purely to mark completed 100m increments as you pace off the distance, not to reflect route difficulty.