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Father's Day Gifts for Runners and Cyclists — A Print of His Miles

He has run the same loop for eleven years and talks about the marathon like it was last week. A print of either is the gift he did not know existed. The heatmap for the loop, the Marathon Print for the race, the Course Print if you cannot reach his Strava, and the medal frame if the medal is in a drawer.

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The loop

The heatmap draws every run he has recorded on one sheet, so the loop from the door is the brightest line on it. It is the print that makes people say "that is exactly where I go". It needs his Strava, which means a voucher.

The race

The Marathon Print for the one he still talks about. If you know the race and it is one whose course is mapped, the Course Print needs nothing from his account: the course, the landmarks, his name and time. The race pages say which.

The run together

Any single activity makes a print. The parkrun you did with him, the walk on the last holiday, the ride he dragged you on: The finish line draws it clean with a start and a finish and a line beneath for what you want to say.

In the UK, Father's Day is the third Sunday of June

Order a framed print by the date the product page shows; it works out the working days. A voucher is instant and lets him choose the run, which for some fathers is the whole point.

He does not use Strava. Any use?

Yes. A GPX file from a Garmin or a phone app works in the Studio; the Course Print and the Photo Print need no data at all.

Framed or not?

Framed, if it is going on his wall. The sheet alone, if he is the kind who frames things himself, which he may well be.

What size?

A3, 12 × 16 in, framed, is the one most people give; it fits a hallway.

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How it works

From the Studio to your wall in three steps.

The Heatmap print: a year of London runs layered into one map of familiar roads
Step 01

Choose your subject

Connect Strava in one tap for a race, a ride or a whole year. Or search for a place, type a postcode for your street on the old Ordnance Survey, or add a photograph — none of those needs an account.

The Contours print: a year of runs drawn as density contours, the ground darkest where the miles repeat
Step 02

Choose your style

Start from a finished design and make it yours: the words, the colours, the size. Twenty-three styles for your own miles, four treatments for a place, six layouts for a photograph, and the old survey as drawn or in your colours.

The Distance rings print: one ring for every activity of the year, the longer arcs the longer days
Step 03

We print and frame it

Pick a frame, check out, and it is printed to order on fine-art paper, framed by hand and posted to you, tracked.

  • Made to orderPrinted for you, never from stock
  • Fine-art paperArchival inks, framed by hand
  • Tracked deliveryUK delivery £7.85, tracked · worldwide, priced at checkout
  • Arrives damaged?We replace it, no quibble