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Running route poster: print any run

A running route poster is the run itself on paper: the line your watch recorded, drawn clean on museum paper with the numbers that were in the file. Not the official course map, not a stock print of a city. The one you did, on the day you did it, with your time under it.

One run, or all of them

One run is the route print: the shape of it as a single line, or the same line on a real map, with distance, time, pace in minutes per kilometre, elevation and the date set under it. The marathon, the first 10K, the run you did on holiday and still think about.

Many runs is the same product with a different motif. Drop in a year of files, or connect Strava and pick them all, and the sheet becomes a heatmap of where you run: every route drawn over the others, the roads you use most darkest. Or a coverage print, every run in one weight, the map of a habit.

What size a running route poster should be

A run is a small shape. A 10K around the park fills a 30×40 cm sheet comfortably and gets lost on a 70×100. A marathon through a city works at 50×70, where the loops and the out-and-backs have room. The heatmap of a year wants the big sheet. What size should a route print be goes through it with examples; the short version is that a single run rarely needs more than 50×70.

The numbers are the file's

Distance, moving time, pace, elevation gain and the date come from the recording, not from what the race said. That is why a marathon on the print reads 42.6 km and not 42.195: you ran the tangents wide, and the watch measured it. Why your marathon reads 42.6 km explains it, and you can choose which numbers appear.

A gift for a runner

A print of a run somebody else did needs their file, and there are two ways to get it. They export it themselves — Export GPX on strava.com is free on every plan — and send it to you. Or, if their activity is public on Strava, its page has a download button that gives you the route without their heart rate or pace. Gifts for runners and a gift for someone's first marathon are about choosing the run.

Your route, not your address

Every run from home starts at the front door. The first and last 500 metres are clipped before the line is drawn, in your browser, and the trim can go out to two kilometres. It never goes to zero. Hide your home on a route print.

Sizes, paper, frame

30×40, 50×70 or 70×100 cm on Museum 250 gsm or Classic 170 gsm, both uncoated matte, from 319 kr. Framed in white, black, wood or dark wood, ready to hang, from 799 kr. Printed to order in two to four working days and shipped in Denmark and the EU.

Every way to print a route is on Strava prints, and a marathon in particular has its own page.

From the run to the wall

  1. 1

    Bring the run

    Connect Strava and pick the activity, or drop in the GPX, FIT or TCX from any watch or app. The file is read in your browser and never uploaded.

  2. 2

    Watch it draw

    The route appears on the sheet as you choose the size, the line colour, a map behind it or none, and which numbers go under it. What you see is what we print.

  3. 3

    We print and post it

    Museum 250 gsm or Classic 170 gsm, loose or in a solid wood frame. Two to four working days to make, then shipping in Denmark and the EU.

The run you actually did

Your line, your pace, your date. One run or a year of them.

Questions people actually ask

How do I make a poster of my run?

Connect Strava or drop the GPX, FIT or TCX into the editor. The route draws itself in your browser; you choose size, colour, map or no map, and the numbers under it, then order. About five minutes.

Can I combine several runs on one poster?

Yes. Bring more than one activity and the sheet becomes a heatmap or a coverage print — every run drawn together, the roads you use most darkest. A whole year fits.

Is it a good gift for a runner?

It is the one print of a run that is theirs: their line, their time, their date. You need their file — they export it from Strava in a minute, or a public activity has a download button.

What size should I print my running route poster?

A 10K fills a 30×40. A marathon has room at 50×70. A year of runs as a heatmap wants the 70×100. A single run rarely needs the biggest sheet.

Are the numbers the race's or mine?

Yours, from the recording. A marathon usually reads a little over 42.2 km because you ran the corners wide; that is what the watch measured, and it is what we print unless you choose to leave the distance off.

Where do you ship?

Denmark and the EU. Printed to order in two to four working days, then shipping on top.