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...

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...

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.

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...

A crossing drawn as it happened

The gap between the course you plotted and the track you sailed is the whole print. Nothing else in navigation shows the wind so...

Choosing the line colour

Four colours, and the choice is less about taste than about what the print has to do on the wall it is going on.

Last race, last commute, last season

Endings are under-marked. The final version of something you did for years deserves the same object as a first, and almost nobody gives one.