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Dan Cave, who’s testing the early versions of iSMARTtrain V2.5 for me, has two new blogs: One personal – http://someplacewarm.blogspot.com/, and one about his training and his bikes – http://dhc-training.blogspot.com/

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…

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…

Finally got the new SRM cranks fitted to my Giant TCR at the weekend. It was a bit of a major task as I had to replace the existing Octalink bottom bracket with a HollowLink one to match the Dura-Ace based SRM crankset. Fitting the crank sensor in the correct location was a bit tricky,…

We’re off to London for TCR ’06 (http://swimcyclerun.co.uk) at Sandown Park this weekend. It’ll give us a chance to meet up with Joe (http://www.jbst.com) and some of our customers and to stock up on triathlon goodies for the season. Hopefully, I’ll also have time to make a visit to the Apple store in Regent’s Street…

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 –…