Journal

How to export a GPX file from Strava

Two clicks on a desktop, a workaround on the phone, and one case where the file comes out empty. Everything you need to get...

Wahoo to print: where the file lives

The ELEMNT app keeps a copy of every ride. Here is how to get it out, and why the Strava round trip is usually...

Suunto and Coros exports, step by step

Both write FIT, both hide the export in a slightly different place, and both are better sources than a synced copy. Where to look.

Getting a route out of Garmin Connect

Garmin gives you the file your watch actually wrote, which makes it the better source on a hilly day. Here is where the export...

Everesting, drawn honestly

8 848 metres of climbing on one hill, which produces the strangest-looking route file in cycling: a single line, ridden dozens of times.

What elevation gain actually counts

A single hidden number decides whether your ride climbed 462 metres or 1 505. Here is what a threshold is and why every service...

Why your marathon reads 42.6 km

The course was measured to 42.195. Your watch says more. Both are right, and the reason is worth knowing before you print either number.

Copenhagen Marathon on paper

A flat course through a compact city, which makes for a dense drawing and one of the better arguments for putting a map underneath.

Every way you have gone to work

Two fixed points and several hundred different routes between them. Layered, that is a map of a decision rather than of a journey.

A print that takes 90 seconds and lands

The endurance athlete on your list is the hardest one, because they buy their own equipment better than you can. The route is the...