Celebrate My Race vs Skoma

Celebrate My Race does the thing Skoma does. You connect Strava, it pulls in your activities, photos and stats, and it lays them out as a book. If you want a season off the screen and onto paper, it is a real alternative.

The difference is what you walk away with. Celebrate My Race produces a high-resolution PDF ready for professional printing. The file is the product; getting it onto paper is your job. Skoma prints and ships the finished hardcover itself, at a price you can see before you start.

How they compare

The steps, from Strava to a book on the shelf

With Celebrate My Race there are three steps on their side. You sync Strava. You pick the races, climbs and efforts you want in. Then you generate the PDF. Their sample pages show a cover, a monthly spread with kilometres, runs and climbing, a race-day page with time and pace, and an activity log.

After that the work moves to you. You choose a print shop, upload the file, and pick paper, binding and size. You pay the printer and the postage separately, and you check the proof yourself.

With Skoma the steps are: connect Strava, or upload GPX or FIT files. Pick the training period and the race. Edit the draft as much or as little as you like. Order the hardcover. It arrives in about 7–14 business days, and shipping is already in the price.

A worked example: one marathon block

Say you trained 18 weeks for a spring marathon and want one book of it. You end up with 60 pages after adding a few photo spreads.

On Skoma that book costs $59.89 in the US: $49.99 for the first 50 pages, plus $0.99 for each page after that. Shipping is included.

On Celebrate My Race you need two prices: theirs for the PDF, and the print shop’s for a 60-page hardcover plus delivery. Their price is not published on their site, so ask for both before you decide. A local printer can beat a delivered price, or cost more for a one-off hardcover. It depends on the shop.

When the PDF is the better choice

You want a format Skoma doesn’t print. Skoma books are hardcovers in three shapes: A4 landscape, A4 portrait and square. A softcover, a larger coffee-table size or a special paper needs a printer of your own.

You want several copies, for family or a coach, printed locally. You want to keep the file on your own drive for years. Or you already have a printer you trust. In each of these cases owning the PDF is worth the extra steps.

A PDF also travels well. You can email it to a relative abroad and let them print it near home, instead of paying to ship a book across the world.

Limits on the Skoma side

Skoma is built around endurance seasons and races, not every activity type. Pages past 50 cost extra. You get a printed book, not a file to print elsewhere. If any of those is a deal-breaker, the PDF route is the honest answer.

Three questions to decide

Do you already have a printer you like? If yes, the PDF fits the way you work.

Is all your training on Strava? If some of it only lives on your watch, Skoma takes GPX and FIT files as well.

Do you want to know the full cost before you start? Skoma’s price depends only on the page count, so you can work it out first. With a PDF, the print quote comes at the end.

Two answers pointing the same way usually settle it.

Which should you choose?

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