Journal

Three sports, one sheet

A triathlon is three recordings, not one, and how you combine them decides whether the print is a day or a filing cabinet.

Your front door is in that file

Every route you have recorded starts and ends in the same place. What that means when a print goes on a wall, or a...

Bikepacking routes over several days

Four days of riding is four files and one journey. How to draw it as the second thing, and why the overnight gaps are...

GPX, FIT or TCX — which file should you send?

Three formats, one job. What each of them actually stores, which one your watch produces, and why it does not matter as much as...

GPS drift, and why your line wobbles

The spike through the building, the wander in the tunnel, the strange loop at the summit. Where drift comes from and what we do...

Gifts for runners that are not socks

Running gear is cheap, specific and already owned. The alternative is the one thing that cannot be bought before it exists.

For someone who walked a long way

Walkers get worse gifts than runners and cyclists, for no good reason. The routes are longer, slower and considerably better to look at.

A gift for someone's first marathon

The second one is a time. The first one is a fact, and it never happens again. What to give, and the timing that...

Gifts for a cyclist who owns everything

They have the bottles, the socks and three sets of tyre levers. What is left is the one category that cannot be bought in...

What to give after the race, not before

The week after a big event is when the gift lands hardest and when almost nobody sends one. What works, and why the timing...