Strava draws a personal heatmap for subscribers and does not let anyone download it. That is the whole reason this page exists. The activities behind the heatmap are yours, on any plan, and a heatmap is nothing more than all of them drawn on top of each other — which is exactly what the Heatmap motif does, on paper, at the size you choose.
How the heatmap motif draws
Every activity in the period you pick becomes its own line, drawn semi-transparent in the same colour. Where routes overlap — the road out of town you take every Tuesday, the loop you run when you have no plan — the lines stack and the colour deepens by itself. Roads you used once stay faint; roads you use every week come through dark. Nothing is estimated: the darkness is the count.
A second motif, Coverage, draws every route at the same weight in one solid colour — every road you have ever been on, without the emphasis. It is the choice for a map of ground covered rather than of habit. What a heatmap shows goes through the difference with examples, and the editor lets you switch between them and adjust the opacity while you look.
Two ways to bring in a year
Connect Strava in the editor and pick the activities — a year, a season, a training block. The activities are read on your behalf and forgotten within fifteen minutes; only the drawn routes travel with the order. This is the easy way, and it works on a free Strava account.
Or bring the files. Request your bulk export from Strava — the archive with every activity you ever uploaded — and drop the files into the editor, as many as you like. This is the way if you would rather not connect anything, or if the activities live in Garmin, Apple Watch or another app that exports files.
What ends up on the sheet
The routes, in one colour on plain paper or on a map. Under them, the totals for what you brought — distance, time, elevation — from the files, not from us. A title you write, and the dates. The first and last 500 metres of every activity are clipped before drawing, which on a heatmap removes the one spot every line would otherwise converge on: your front door.
Sizes, paper, frame
Route print: 30×40, 50×70 or 70×100 cm, from 319 kr; a year of routes wants the larger sheets, because the detail is in the faint lines. Framed behind acrylic in solid wood, from 799 kr. Museum 250 gsm or Classic 170 gsm, both uncoated matte.
Why Strava cannot give you this
Strava's personal heatmap is a subscription feature drawn live on a screen, and Strava documents no export for it — not as an image, not as a file. When the subscription ends, the heatmap goes with it; the activities do not. The free-versus-subscription guide has the full list. A printed heatmap is made from the part that is yours to keep.
All the ways to print a Strava route are on Strava prints. Epic Efforts is not affiliated with Strava.