A Strava print is a poster of a route you actually did — the line your watch recorded, drawn on paper with the numbers that were really in the file. Not the official course, not a stock map: your recording. You connect Strava or drop in the GPX, the print is drawn in your browser while you watch, and we print and post it.
Three ways to print a Strava route
Route print — one activity as a single line on museum paper, from 319 kr. The clean-line motif is the route by itself; the map motif puts it on a real map. 30×40, 50×70 or 70×100 cm, with distance, time, elevation, pace and the date set under the line — you choose which numbers, and the colour of the line.
Framed print — the same print behind acrylic glazing in a solid wood frame, white, black, wood or dark wood, delivered ready to hang, from 799 kr. The frame sits on the sheet, so the framed version is the size of the paper, not larger.
Stats prints — no route at all: your year, your streak, your split between sports, the hours you train. Drawn from your own Strava activities, a Year in Sport that does not disappear in January.
Heatmaps, maps and Strava art
Strava's personal heatmap has no export button; the activities behind it do. Connect the account or use the bulk export and choose the Heatmap motif: every route from a year, a season or a training block, drawn on one sheet in one colour, the roads you use most coming through darkest. What a year of routes looks like is in the heatmap guide.
For a route that only makes sense with the roads around it, the map motif draws your line on a real map — several map styles, from a pale paper map to a dark one — with the map's attribution set on the sheet as the licence requires. Clean line or a map behind it is the decision.
And if the route *is* the picture — a heart, a word, an animal run across a city — the clean-line motif is made for it: the drawing on paper, no map to compete with, your numbers underneath.
What is on the sheet, and what is not
The numbers come from the file, not from us. Distance, moving time, elevation gain, average pace or speed, the date, and a title you write. Where the file has no number — a route without timestamps, a treadmill run without GPS — the print does not invent one. What the numbers mean explains each, and why Strava and your watch sometimes disagree.
The first and last 500 metres are clipped before anything is drawn, so the line starts on a road and not at your front door. The trimming happens in your browser, and the untrimmed file never reaches us.
Getting the file out of Strava
You do not need one if you connect the account. If you would rather have the file: on strava.com, open the activity, more menu, Export GPX — free on every plan, website only. How to export a GPX from Strava covers the desktop, the phone workaround covers the app, and Export Original, GPX or TCX covers which of the three files to pick. It does not matter for the print; we read all of them.
The full set of guides — routes, segments, Garmin, the archive, the map as an image — is in Strava guides.
Make yours
Open the editor, connect Strava or drop the file, and the print is on screen before you have decided on the colour. Nothing is uploaded while you choose; only the finished route travels with the order. Epic Efforts is not affiliated with Strava.
By sport and by race
The same print, written up for what you did: a running route poster, a personalised cycling map print, a marathon route print from your own recording. How to print a Strava map is the five-minute version of this page, and the Strava print services compared says honestly where we fit among the others.