Garmin Backup V1.1

iSMARTtrain featured in the ‘Staff Choice’ section in the Jan/Feb ’06 issue of Bicycling magazine. Executive Editor Bill Strickland says “a full-function riding log (including heart rate and altitude) that flawlessly allows a Polar monitor to speak to Mac”. We sent the magazine a review copy in the middle of last year, and I noticed…

In V4.1.1, a new feature allowing you to delete sections of a session was introduced. This is useful, if, like me, you sometimes forget to stop your Garmin after a ride, and it records the drive home as part of your data.To delete a section, simply select the area in the ‘Data Graph’ view (drag…

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…

Finally got the Beta 13 release of TrainingLog out. This new version has quite a few fixes and enhancements, including a fix for the metric/imperial units bug and correct handling of interval sessions. We’ve also changed the summary area on the Heart Rate graph, based on suggestions and equations from Joe Beer. There’s a couple…

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…

Congratulations to Scotland’s cycling team at the Commonwealth Games on their gold medal in the Team sprint – Scotland’s first ever gold medal for cycling at the games. The team of Chris Hoy, Craig MacLean and Ross Edgar beat Engleand by just 0.027 secs to claim the medal. Well done, guys! Full story here –…