Ski the 3.63 twice and the 5.42 once from the same stadium, and Skibuddy times three laps at the gate you started from. You never touch a button.
30 m
Gate radius, set where you press Start
60°
Direction window that keeps out-and-backs from lapping
1 km
Shortest session that becomes a route
Why kilometer splits fail on a ski loop
Almost every training app splits your time at every kilometer. That works on a straight road. On a groomed loop your watch splits somewhere different every lap: halfway up the climb once, at the corner before the wax hut the next. You get precise numbers you can't compare.
Skiers have asked Strava and Garmin for loop-aware laps for years, and Suunto's Loop feature follows a single start point. Skibuddy's Sources page links every one of those threads.
How Skibuddy closes a lap
Skibuddy places the gate at your first accurate position after you press Start. Once you have skied at least 50 meters away and 400 meters in total, Skibuddy closes the lap the moment you pass the gate again heading within 60 degrees of your starting direction. An out-and-back brings you through the gate facing the other way, so Skibuddy never laps it.
Skibuddy laps loops of different lengths separately as long as they share the gate, numbers the laps in order, and compares each lap only with laps of the same loop. Telling the 3.63 and the 5.42 apart by name comes later.
A running tracker
km 4.0 split
Your watch splits partway up the climb today and forty meters later tomorrow. The two never compare.
Skibuddy
Lap 3 at the stadium
Skibuddy splits at the gate, the same place every lap, and sets the time against your last lap, your best and your average.
Skibuddy keeps a history for every route
Finish a session of a kilometer or more and Skibuddy turns it into a route. Skibuddy adds every later session on the same course to that route's history, with the date, time, pace, heart rate and snow, a medal on your best and your gap to it on every other row.
For stadium sprints under 400 meters, switch on Short Loop Mode. To lap from somewhere new mid-session, set a new gate where you stand.