I’m noticing quiet a lot of search results hitting this blog, looking for ideas on how to integrate the Polar CS300 and your trusty old Mac… in my case a MacBook Pro. Well, I’ve got it working but it isn’t the most elegant of solutions… First of all there is to my knowledge no OS X version of the Polar software, therefore I’ve had to employ the following… Ingredients 1x copy of Parallels Desktop for Mac (installed on your Mac) 1x copy of Windows XP (installed inside Parallels) 1x Mac Book Pro 1x Polar CS300 watch 1x Polar WebLink SW software installed...

Wow. Kirsty gave a Polar CS300 for my birthday. Its a cycle computer / heart rate monitor. It measures the speed and distance that you travel on a bicycle, as well as your heart rate, calories burnt, and a whole host of other things. Alongside the CS300, Polar provide a personal trainer website, which allows you to setup a training programme after providing it with some vital stats (age, weight, height, fitness, goals, etc.). The whole site is very easy to use and follows the design ethic of CS300, i.e. being very slick. Polar provides a WebLink SW software utility that transfers the statistics...