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How do I get my runs out of Garmin, Strava or my watch and onto a map?

Pick where your runs live. Each takes three steps, and your files are read in this browser, never uploaded.

GarminEvery activity you have recorded, from the bulk export.
  1. On a computer, open Garmin's Data Management page, sign in, select Export Your Data, then Request Data Export.
  2. Garmin emails you a download link, usually within 48 hours; meanwhile, start with the recent runs on your watch (Watch over USB).
  3. Download the ZIP and drop it on the map as it is, without unzipping it.
Details

The link can take up to 30 days. The ZIP holds every activity you have recorded, as FIT files inside its DI_CONNECT folder; Ground Covered finds them at any depth and skips the health and profile data.

The reminder is a calendar file for two days from now. It opens in Apple Calendar and Outlook; Google Calendar imports it on a computer (Settings, then Import & export).

For one activity: on connect.garmin.com, open it, select the gear icon at the top right, then Export File.

Steps from Garmin's How Do I Export Data Out of Garmin Connect?, checked 2026-10-18.

StravaActivities from any device you synced to Strava.
  1. On the Strava website (the app cannot do this), hover over your name, then select Settings and My Account.
  2. Under Download your account, select Get Started, then Request download.
  3. Strava emails a link, usually within a few hours: download the ZIP and drop it on the map as it is.
Details

The archive's activities folder holds FIT, GPX and TCX files, some of them gzipped (.gz); Ground Covered reads them all.

Steps from Strava's How do I export my Strava data?, checked 2026-10-18.

Apple HealthApple Watch workouts and anything synced into Health.
  1. On your iPhone, open the Health app, tap Summary, then your picture or initials.
  2. Tap Export All Health Data, then choose how to share it, for example AirDrop to your Mac.
  3. On the computer, drop the export ZIP on the map as it is.
Details

Steps from Apple's Share your health data (iOS 27), checked 2026-10-18.

Fitbit / GoogleGPS workouts from a Google Takeout export.Coming soon

Coming soon.

Coros, Polar, Suunto, WahooActivities from each maker's FIT, GPX or TCX export.
  1. Export your activities as FIT, GPX or TCX files from your device's app or website (Details says where).
  2. Put the files, or ZIPs of them, in one folder.
  3. Drop the folder on the map, or pick it with Add activities, then Choose a folder.
Details
  • COROS: on a computer, open COROS Training Hub, select Activity List, then Export Data, and choose .FIT; COROS emails the files (COROS).
  • Polar: in Polar Flow, open Diary, then a session, then the Export menu, and choose a FIT or GPX file (Polar).
  • Suunto: in the Suunto app, open a workout, tap the three dots and choose FIT (Suunto).
  • Wahoo: in the Wahoo app, open History, then the activity's three dots, Share activity and Download .fit activity (Wahoo).

Checked 2026-10-18.

Watch over USBRecent runs, straight from the watch's Activity folder.
  1. Plug the watch into a computer with its USB cable.
  2. Open the watch's Garmin folder, then Activity: on Windows from This PC in File Explorer, on a Mac from Finder.
  3. Drag the Activity folder onto the map, or pick it with Add activities, then Choose a folder.
Details

A watch keeps only recent runs; the Garmin export brings your whole history.

Many recent watches, and every watch with music, connect over MTP and do not show up as a drive:

  • Windows: the watch appears under This PC; open it, copy its Garmin, Activity folder to your desktop, then drop that copy.
  • Mac: Garmin says these watches need a Windows computer; otherwise let the watch sync to Garmin Connect and use the Garmin export.
  • Linux: GNOME Files (with gvfs-mtp) and KDE Dolphin (with kio-extras) show the watch; copy the Activity folder out, then drop it.

From Garmin's How to Manually Upload Activities to Garmin Connect and Garmin Devices with Media Transfer Protocol, and the Arch Wiki's Media Transfer Protocol, checked 2026-10-18.

From your phoneAny of these exports, opened on your phone.
  1. Download your Garmin or Strava export ZIP on the phone, from the email's link.
  2. Open Ground Covered in the phone's browser, select Add activities, then Choose files, and pick the ZIP itself.
  3. Keep the page open with the screen on until the import summary appears.
Details

On an iPhone the ZIP is in the Files app: Browse, iCloud Drive, Downloads. Do not tap it there first: that expands it into a folder. On Android it is in the Files app.

A large export takes a few minutes on a phone.

From Apple's Find downloads on iPhone and Use zip files on iPhone, and Google's Find and delete files on Android, checked 2026-10-18.

Samsung HealthWorkouts, sleep and heart rate.Coming soon

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WhoopRecovery, strain, HRV and sleep, day by day.Coming soon

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OuraReadiness, sleep and HRV, day by day.Coming soon

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