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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…

We’re off the Club la Santa tomorrow for some warm weather training at Joe Beer’s (http://www.jbst.com) training camp. Hopefully, I’ll get a chance to get some decent biking & running in, while Gill relaxes by the pool. I’ll also get a chance to discuss iSMARTtrain’s development with Joe and Will, and some of our customers….

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.

Got a shiny new iBook yesterday as my old one (800 Mhz G4) is getting a bit slow – it’s not so much the processor speed, as the memory – it’s maxed out at 640 Mb, which isn’t quite enough with the latest releases of RealBasic & XCode – the new one’s 1.5 Gig of…

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…

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…