What is Athlete Prints?
Athlete Prints turns a route into a poster or a t-shirt. The route can be your own Strava activity, a GPX file from whatever watch or app you use, or one of the race courses in its catalogue, and you design the print in the browser before paying. There's also a heatmap poster that loads your Strava history and draws your GPS routes on one map. It describes itself as an independent print studio for runners, riders and hikers. Prices are in Australian dollars, and its terms are under Australian law.
Most of the shop is built around one big effort: in the About page's words, a marathon, a summit, a ride that nearly broke you. Those prints are one activity each, with its stats on it. The exceptions are the triathlon poster, which puts the swim, bike and run GPX files side by side on one print, and the heatmap.
Key Features
What you can print
Your own activity, or a ready-made course. The shop has about a dozen templates for your own routes, a heatmap poster, and about 35 race pages sorted into marathons (Berlin, Boston, Chicago, London, New York, Tokyo and others), ultras (Western States, Hardrock, several UTMB races, Tarawera, Ultra-Trail Australia, Ultra-Trail Kosciuszko), plus gravel and triathlon sections. Race pages load the official route and stats, and you can swap in your own activity instead. It's the official print partner of the Coastal Pathway Ultra in Tasmania and of Graveleur.
Heatmap posters
Connect Strava and the heatmap page loads your activity history into the editor; activities with a GPS route are drawn on one map. Drag or search the map to frame your city, a trail network or a whole country, and routes you repeat stack up and glow brighter. You can narrow it to runs, rides, hikes and walks or other activities, and to activities since a chosen year. The stats are totals for what's inside the frame (activities, distance, elevation, time), and you can edit any of them by hand. There are 18 map styles, five layouts, a glow setting and colour controls, and it prints as a poster or a tee at the same prices as everything else. It needs a Strava account; there's no GPX upload for the heatmap. The page says nothing is kept until you order (the history is cached in your browser for about a day), and an order keeps only the routes inside your frame.
Sizes and formats
Posters come in 12x18 inches (30x45cm) and 24x36 inches (60x90cm), unframed or in a black frame. T-shirts are organic cotton in a unisex, relaxed fit, with the print on the front or the back. A quantity picker orders several copies of the same design.
How Strava data gets in
Connect with Strava, browse your activities and pick one, or let the heatmap page load your history. The help page says it reads your name and profile picture, and then what the product needs: for a single print, the chosen activity's title, date, sport, distance, time, elevation, GPS route and other stats such as pace or heart rate; for the heatmap, each activity's sport, date, distance, time, elevation gain and summary route. The heatmap history is cached in your browser for about a day and isn't kept on its servers unless you order, and an order's design is kept for 12 months so it can be reprinted, then deleted. Your email comes from checkout through Stripe, not from Strava, the privacy policy says. The Strava authorisation it requests covers all your activities, including ones set to Only You and privacy zone data (the activity:read_all scope), plus public profile data; it asks for no write access. If you'd rather not connect, upload a GPX file on the shop page; no Strava account is needed.
Customisation
Change the title, choose which stats appear (distance, time, elevation gain, pace, average speed, heart rate and more, per the help page), switch between light and dark backgrounds and set the route colour. The design panel on each product page also has map style, layout, line weight and stats card controls. On race pages you can replace the map with your own photo, printed in black and white with the route drawn over it, and add your name next to the date. A live preview shows the result before checkout.
Delivery
Prints are made on demand by partner facilities in Australia, the US and the EU (the terms name Gelato), and the site says orders are printed in your region. The homepage and the help page's pricing section say shipping is free on every order, though the help page's international section says shipping is calculated at checkout. Every order is tracked. Payment is by card through Stripe.
Who It's For
- Runners and riders after one race on the wall, with the course and their own time on it
- People buying a gift, through a gift link that lets the runner design it later, or a race page, which already has the course loaded and takes the time you type in
- Anyone not on Strava, through GPX upload from Garmin, Coros, Suunto, Apple Watch, Komoot and others
- Hikers and trail runners marking a long day out
- People who run or ride the same streets and trails for years, for the heatmap of their home area
What it doesn't do
Apart from the triathlon poster (three GPX legs on one print) and the heatmap, each print is one activity, and you can't hand-pick a set of activities for one poster. The heatmap works only through Strava; the triathlon poster takes GPX files only. The shop sells physical posters and shirts only; the shop lists no digital file. Change-of-mind returns aren't accepted because each item is made to order; a damaged, defective or wrong item has to be reported within 14 days (with photos, for damage or a defect). The help page puts delivery at 5 to 10 business days for posters in Australia and 7 to 14 internationally, and a few days more for t-shirts, with customs able to add 1 to 3 days. Taxes are added at checkout where required by law, and any import duties are the recipient's to pay.
What happens to my photo and my design after I order?
The terms say an uploaded background photo is stored privately and deleted within 7 days if you don't buy, or within 90 days of purchase if you do (kept that long in case a reprint is needed), and you can ask for earlier deletion by email. The generated artwork from a purchased design, not your photo, may be shown on the site and its social channels, attributed by first name and city at most. You can opt out, or ask for a design to be taken down, by emailing the shop.
Which t-shirt sizes are there?
The help page's pricing section, the homepage FAQ and the size picker on the product page all offer XS to XXL; only the sizes section of the help page lists S to XL. All are unisex and the price is the same in every size.
Is Athlete Prints connected to Strava?
It uses Strava's API to import activities, and its FAQ says it isn't endorsed or certified by Strava. The help page says activity data is used only to make your product, isn't sold or used to train machine learning models, and is archived once the order is fulfilled. You can revoke access at any time from your Strava settings.
