SUNDAY 25 OCTOBER 2026 · FRANKFURT
A Frankfurt Marathon poster, drawn from your own file.
Flat, fast, and the only major marathon that finishes indoors — through the doors of the Festhalle onto a red carpet, with the lights on you. Forty-two kilometres outside, the last hundred metres inside.
- Date
- Sun 25 Oct 2026
- Start
- 10:00
- Distance
- 42.195 km
- Finish
- Festhalle, indoors
What we print
Your line, not the official course map. The route your watch recorded, with the numbers that were really in the file.
Loose or framed behind acrylic in a wooden frame, on either of two uncoated matte papers: Museum 250 gsm, an offwhite archival sheet, or Classic 170 gsm. 30×40, 50×70 or 70×100 cm — loose at 70×100 is 250 gsm only, because the lighter sheet bends at that size.
The finish your GPS will not show
Worth knowing before you look at the file: the last stretch is indoors, and a watch under a roof loses the sky. The line often frays or cuts short in the final hundred metres, and the distance can come up a little under.
We draw what the watch recorded, holes and all. We do not straighten it, and we do not extend it to a round 42.195 — a line we invented is not your run. If that frayed end bothers you, the privacy radius trims both ends anyway.
From finish line to wall, in about four minutes
- Export the run from Strava, Garmin Connect, Coros or whatever your watch syncs to. GPX, TCX and FIT all work.
- Drop the file into the editor. It is read in your browser and never reaches us.
- Choose the motif, the size and which four numbers go on the sheet.
- We print it and post it. Two to four working days to make, then shipping on top.
Questions people actually ask
Why does my file say 42.0 km and not 42.195?
Because a GPS watch measures what it can see: it runs short under a roof and long around corners. The poster prints your file’s own number rather than the official distance — that is the whole principle.
Do you ship to Germany?
Yes, printed inside Germany for German orders, so there is no customs paperwork.
What file do I need?
GPX, TCX or FIT — zipped or not. Strava, Garmin Connect, Coros, Suunto and Polar all export one. If your file has heart rate or cadence in it you can put those on the poster; if it does not, those fields stay empty rather than being guessed.
Can I get a poster of the official course?
No. We print the route your own watch recorded, not a copy of the organisers’ course map. Every print is therefore different, and we never redraw someone else’s data.
Will my hotel or home address be on it?
No. Before anything is drawn we clip a radius from both ends of the track. The default removes 500 metres at each end, and you can push it further. It never goes to zero.
Epic Efforts is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the organisers of this event. Event names are used only to describe which run a print is made from. Dates come from the organisers’ own published information as of September 2026 — check theirs before you book a flight.