text: Not sure what you're asking here - 2% incline means that the height you go up is 2% of the horizontal distance (not the slope distance) travelled.\n\nSo 2% will mean for every 100m horizontal you travel - you will go up 2m.\n\nSo are you saying you have travelled 1 mile horizontally - in which case you will move up 0.02 miles (or using pythagoras' theorem you could get the actual slope distance travelled d² = 1² + 0.02², which gives 1.0002 miles)\n\nOr are you saying you have travelled 1 mile vertically - in which case you will have moved 50 miles horizontally (since there are 50 2%'s in 100%) (or do you want the actual slope distance travelled, d² = 1² + 50², which gives 50.01 miles)\n\nOr are you saying you have travelled 1 mile up a 2% slope.  In which case we need to use pythagoras' theorem backwards to get the horizontal and vertical parts.  The horizontal we can call x and the vertical is 2% of this, ie 0.02x.\n\nSo we get:  1² = x² + (0.02x)²\n\n1 = x² + 0.0004x²\n1 = 1.0004x²\nx² = 1/1.0004 - 0.99960\nx = 0.9998\n\nSo we will have travelled 0.998 miles horizontally and 2% of this (which is 0.019996 miles) vertically.