A New Blog

In Beta 10, we’ve moved from using a flat file format to a bundle. There’s various reasons for this, including compatibility with the forthcoming iOS version. You’ll need to convert any existing documents you have to the new file format as follows: Open the existing file in iSMARTtrain Select ‘Export to JSON’ from the file…

V4.0 Beta 16 is released tonight. We’re getting pretty close to final release now, so please let me have any bugs you find or questions that you have.  Download from http://www.ismarttrain.com/beta/ Known Bugs in this release Garmin Forerunner 205, 301, 305 & Edge 205 & 205 downloads don’t work CycleOps Joule downloads may fail downloading multiple…

Joe Beer has the first edition of his podcast, SMARTcast, on his site (http://www.jbst.com). This edition covers tips about getting your training in zones at the right proportions, Insider News, Nutrition Tip on Glycaemic Index. The main feature is a ten-minute segment on Seven Tips to Get Faster. There’s also JBST news and a Technology…

Some of our users use one of the many on-line training resources, such as Training Peaks (http://www.trainingpeaks.com), or send data to their coaches for analysing of their training. These generally work by sending Polar format .hrm files of their session data. However, one problem faced by many is that the files won’t be imported correctly,…

iSMARTtrain appeared in Cycling Weekly’s recent feature on using power monitors in training. Unfortunately, it was only a screen-shot with no mention of the software or the company’s name, despite contacting them several times since I gave CW a copy at TCR’05! Ah, well, there’s no such thing a bad publicity…

wow… Just realised I haven’t blogged for nearly two months! Just a quick update on what’s going on with iSMARTtrain. We’re currently working on V2.0.1, which fixes a couple of bugs that made it into the final release of V2.0.0, including problems with S725 and S810 HRMs. We’ve added a couple of other enhancements as…