Garmin Backup V1.1

At Last! We’ve got V2.0.2 released this week. This release now supports Polar’s S410, S510 & S520 SonicLink monitors, as well as including TRIMPs calculations for the entered sessions. Much of the input for this was provided by Joe Beer (http://www.jbst.com). It also includes a number of bug fixes and other enhancements. As always, download…

Towards the end of last year, I heard about Ultimate Sports Psychology’s range of CD through the FredCast podcast. This is a series of CDs designed to improve motivation and performance for cyclists, triathletes & athletes using hypnosis techniques developed by Dr Rick Collingwood. Since one of my big problems with my training is motivation,…

With the release of Mac OS X 10.11, Apple has removed some of the restrictions on using Apple Maps in applications. In previous releases of Mac OS X, only apps sold via the Mac App store could use Apple Maps, similar to the restrictions placed on iCloud. If you’re using 4.0.7 on El Capitan, you’ll…

Wow… nearly a month since our last post. Anyway, when I got my Polar S625x in August last year, it came with Polar’s new WearLink transmitter, which has a far smaller plastic electronics module that their previous designs. The skin sensors are integrated into the strap. This makes it far more comfortable that their previous…

Back from Lanzarote, and finally got around to writing about our time at Club La Santa. Weather was excellent apart from one day with really heavy rain and gale force winds. One thing I wasn’t expecting were the hills! It was a 20 – 30 minute climb on the bike from Club La Santa until…

Beta 5 of V3.0.6 is out – download from http://www.ismarttrain.com/Beta/ This release introduces downloading from Polar RS400, RS800 RS800cx, CS400, CS600 & CS600x. Fixes in this release include: Improvements in Garmin downloading Support for new format SRM Files Totals now works correctly for multiple users support for importing iBike files Various other bug fixes As…