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Finally go around to fitting the power sensor at the middle of last month – also fitted new cassette, chainrings and chain at the same time. Fitting went fairly well – quite a bit of messing about to get the height of the sensor on the chainstay correct, and ended up with 3 layers of…

As well as V4 of iSMARTtrain for the Mac, you may be aware that we’re also working on an iPad version. The iPad version will have all the features of the Mac version, with the exception of downloading from most training devices. Unfortunately, iOS doesn’t allow us access to USB subsystem to read from most of…

Interesting… Garmin acquires Dynastream Dynastream supplies the footpod technologies to both Polar and Nike for its Speed & Distance HRMs. Since these are a competitior to Garmin’s GPS based systems, it’ll be interesting to see how these products develop. Garmin has recently introduced a footpod for it’s Forerunner models, mainly for use on treadmills, where…

We’re making our annual pilgrimage to London to go to the TCR ’05 exhibition (http://swimcyclerun.co.uk) at Sandown Park this weekend. It gives me a chance to stock up on triathlon goodies for the coming season and to meet up with Joe (http://www.jbst.com) and some of our customers. Hopefully, I’ll also get time to visit the…

Beta 33 of iSMARTtrain is now 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 serial number here – Mac or PC….

I’ve recently got my hands on Polar’s new RS300x model, with an aim to integrating Polar’s new FlowLink interface into iSMARTtrain, starting the with RS300x. The RS300x is functionally pretty much the same as the RS200 – it provides average heart rate & speed for each session and each lap, as well as time in…