Why this exists

Strava's personal heatmap is a subscription feature drawn on a screen, and Strava documents no way to export it — not as an image, not as a file. The activities behind it are yours on any plan. Request the bulk export, drop the files from its `activities` folder here, and the heatmap is drawn from them: every route semi-transparent in one colour, so the roads you ride every week come through dark and the one-off trips stay faint. What a heatmap shows explains the reading of it.

What to drop

As many files as you like — GPX, FIT or TCX, zipped or not. A Strava archive's `.fit.gz` files open as they are. Files without GPS (indoor sessions) are skipped and named. One thing to know: all routes share one map, so a single trip abroad pulls the extent out and squeezes home into a corner. Leave the outliers out, or make two.

From the screen to the wall

Print this route opens the editor with the files loaded, where the same heatmap is drawn on paper at 30×40, 50×70 or 70×100 — the Strava heatmap poster. The first and last 500 metres of every activity are clipped before printing, which removes the one spot every line would otherwise converge on: your front door. This page does not trim; it shows your files as they are, on your own screen.