Test Post for ShowFitFile

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. 


Our software is gets a little mention in this month’s Silent Sports magazine. Lee Borowski, the writer, contacted us about some problems he was having with his older Polar HRM (Pre S-Series), and I managed to get him quickly up-and-running. You can view the write-up here.

Finally got the next beta of TrainingLog (http://www.otag.co.uk/TrainingLog/Beta/) out. Still got a few bugs, particularly with the handling of interval sessions, but we’re getting there.

The latest version of Garmin Backup is out tonight. This release fixes a few bugs in the last release and adds support for SRM PC8 devices. Download from https://garminbackup.com.

My G4 iBook’s hard drive died on me yesterday. I got a strange lock-up then, when I ran Disk Utility, I saw that the SMART status of the drive was ‘Failing’. Fortunately, I had my old G3 iBook (which I kept as it boots into Classic) sitting in a cupboard, which I could transfer the…

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…