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Quite often, you’ll find there’s a spike in your downloaded data where your HR jumps to up 220 or down to zero. Usually, this is caused by interference from power lines or from passing cars. The data can be edited in iSMARTtrain by first clicking on the graph so that a vertical line is shown…

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…

In Beta 10, we’ve moved from using a flat file format to a bundle. There’s various reasons for this, including compatibility with the forthcoming iOS version. You’ll need to convert any existing documents you have to the new file format as follows: Open the existing file in iSMARTtrain Select ‘Export to JSON’ from the file…

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…

iSMARTtrain appeared in Cycling Weekly’s recent feature on using power monitors in training. Unfortunately, it was only a screen-shot with no mention of the software or the company’s name, despite contacting them several times since I gave CW a copy at TCR’05! Ah, well, there’s no such thing a bad publicity…

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…