Couple of New Blogs…

Joe’s latest podcast (or SMARTcast, as they’ve titled it) came out this weekend, covering such topics as the London Cycle Show, new Italian Gels with MCT, using CHO+PRO drinks on long runs and Making the Most of your Biking. Download a copy from here or subscribe to it in the iTunes Music Store. 


We got a new Polar S625x a couple of weeks ago, and I must say I’m very impressed with it. It’s my fifth Polar unit. For those of you not familar with it, it’s one of Polar’s latest Heart Rate Monitors. In addition to the usual heart rate data, it records both running and cycling…

V4.0 Beta 15 is released today. We’re getting pretty close to final release now, so please let me have any bugs you find or questions that you have. Hopefully, I’ll manage to support the older Garmin Forerunner 205, 301, 305 & Edge 205 & 205 devices fully supported before final release. Download from http://www.ismarttrain.com/beta/ Known Bugs…

One of the things we’re quite often asked is how to import a group of existing .hrm files into iSMARTtrain. These are often the user’s existing sessions from the Polar PPP windows software or another application, such as PC Coach, that creates files in this format. Using ‘Import’ from the ‘File’ menu only lets you…

I updated my PowerTap hub today to the new firmware which supports ANT+ Sport, which meant I’m able to use it with my Garmin Edge 705. The update was fairly painless – the updater cost £75 from cyclepowermeters.com. It was simply a case of removing the cover of the PowerTap hub and pulling out the…

Beta 35 of iSMARTtrain is now available. Both Mac & Windows versions are available. As usual, you can download a copy from http://www.ismarttrain.com/Beta/. As before, this release requires a valid serial number – V2.0 serial numbers are valid. For the remainder of the Beta period, we’ve held the price at $39.95/€34.95/£23.95. You can buy a…