Why Mile Zero

About

The road to a race is never just the race.

There's the training nobody watches. The mornings you show up anyway. The race itself — every kilometer of it. And then the after: a medal, a finish photo, and a story that's already bigger than both.

That story deserves more than an old shoebox, or the back of a drawer.

A collection of race medals and ribbons laid out together

I've run for years — short local loops, marathons abroad, races I've mostly forgotten by now. A few of them I haven't. Those are the ones this exists for.

Race bib numbers from many races laid out on a floor

Made from what you actually did

Every frame starts with your GPX file — your real climbs, your real distance, the real shape of the road you ran. I turn that into a raised, hand-finished route, framed and ready to hang. You see a proof before anything is printed. Nothing goes out until it's right. Each frame is made by hand, one at a time.

Why it exists

Most of what we push through lives inside an app — a line on a map, a number that disappears into a feed by the next morning.

Mile Zero exists to take that off the screen and put it on the wall.

Not a trophy.
Not a souvenir.
The road no one saw, made visible.

Where to start

Send me the route. I'll show you the frame before anything is made final.