A multi-day route print puts a trip that took several days on one sheet: every day's recording on one map, and one elevation profile that runs from the first morning to the last finish. Bikepacking, the Camino, a stage race, a hut-to-hut hike, a coast-to-coast.
How several files become one print
Drop every day's file into the editor, GPX, FIT or TCX, or pick several activities from Strava. Then:
| The map | Every day's route is drawn on the same map |
| The elevation profile | The days are joined end to end in date order (day one, day two, day three), whatever order you uploaded them in |
| The width | Each day takes width in proportion to its distance, so a 40 km rest day does not look as long as a 160 km mountain stage |
| Drift | Barometric drift is corrected per day, and each day keeps its own height, so the trip does not climb or sink from one file to the next |
| The totals | Distance and elevation are the sum of the days |
One honest limit: the elevation profile is the joined one, but the small charts for the other numbers (speed, heart rate, power) follow the one day you have selected.
Which motif
Heatmap draws each day as its own translucent line, so a road you rode twice prints darker. Coverage draws every day in one line weight and one colour, so the trip reads as one route. Both use the joined elevation profile. For a triathlon or any race in several disciplines, Multisport is the one: each leg gets its own row with its distance, time and pace in its own unit (/100 m for the swim, km/h on the bike, /km on the run), up to ten legs.
Which map
A long trip is about the land it crosses. Atlas names the towns you slept in; Topo shows the mountain days as mountains; Satellite shows the ground itself; Lines keeps it to roads and coast so the route carries the sheet. See the backgrounds compared.
Getting every day's file
From a watch, each day is its own activity: export them one by one, or download your whole Strava archive at once. A day split in two by a dead battery is two files; drop both in, and they join like any other days. The GPX editor can merge or trim files first if you want to tidy a day.
Sizes, paper, frame
A long trip wants room: 50×70 or 70×100 cm, on Museum 250 gsm (70×100 is Museum only) or Classic 170 gsm, from 319 kr, or framed in pine wood behind acrylic from 799 kr. Every specification is on one page.
All the ways to print a route are on Strava prints. Epic Efforts is not affiliated with Strava.
