Get a GPX file of a route

A GPX file is the route's line, saved as a file. Most running apps can give you one. Download it to your computer or phone, then upload it on Routes. See Upload a GPX route.

No file? You can draw the route on the map instead. See Plot a route on the map.

A recording of a club run works too: if someone ran the route with a watch, export that activity.

Strava

1. Open the route (or the activity) on the Strava website, on a computer.
2. Open the menu with three dots (⋯).
3. Choose Export GPX.

Strava may ask you to subscribe before it lets you export. If it does, ask whoever made the route to export it, or plot it here instead.

Komoot

1. Go to your profile and open Saved routes or Completed activities.
2. Open the route or activity.
3. Choose Download GPX file.

This works on the website and in the app. Komoot may ask you to unlock the region where the route starts.

Garmin Connect

1. On a computer, go to Garmin Connect and open the course (or the activity).
2. Open its settings or ⋯ menu.
3. Choose the option to export it as a GPX file.

OS Maps

1. Open the route in OS Maps.
2. Look for the option to export or download it as a GPX file.

Some OS Maps features need a subscription.

Any other app

Look for Export, Download or Share on the route, and choose GPX. If there's only TCX or FIT, use GPX if you can: Club Routes reads GPX files.

Lots of routes?

Put all the GPX files in one folder, then select them all at once when you upload. Each one becomes a route, named from the file.