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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…

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…

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…

The weather was fine enough at the weekend to get out on my bike for the first ride with the SRMs fitted. It was meant to be a ride for comparing the accuracy of the Polar Power system with the SRMs, but I realised just as I was about to set off that I hadn’t…

V4.0 Beta 2 is out today. Fixes included: Fixed crash adding session manually Reduced memory usage importing .csv files Reduced memory usage importing iSMARTtrain V3.0 files Fixed validation error importing .tcx files or downloading from Garmin Edge 605 or 705 Now attempts to ‘guess’ the data of a PowerTap csv file from the filename Added…

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,…