Journal

Which numbers belong on the print

Six are available and three is usually right. Which ones carry a day, and the one that quietly ruins a print.

What size should a route print be?

The honest answer depends on the route, not the wall. A city marathon and a 300 km bikepacking loop want different sheets, and here...

What a heatmap of your year actually shows

Not a statistic. Three hundred routes drawn on top of each other, where the roads you use become dark and the once-in-a-lifetime trip stays...

The route you do every single day

The least dramatic file on your watch is frequently the best print. Two thousand repetitions of the same twenty minutes is a portrait of...

Nothing to draw: indoor training and prints

A winter of turbo sessions produces excellent data and no shape. What that means, and the one honest thing to print instead.

What to call it

The headline is the only part of the print you write yourself. Three patterns that work, one that always fails, and why the race...

What Strava's privacy zones do not cover

They hide the map. They do not hide the file, the distance, or the pattern — and one of those is enough to find...

Why Strava and Garmin disagree about elevation

Same ride, two totals, sometimes a difference of hundreds of metres. Neither is lying. They are answering slightly different questions.

Strava bulk export: every activity at once

The archive request that gives you years of files in one download. Slow, enormous, and the only way to make a heatmap of everything.

Why a printed route has fewer points than your file

A recording holds tens of thousands of coordinates. A sheet of paper can resolve a few hundred. What gets removed, and what must never...