TCX2HRM a Garmin Forerunner to Polar File Converter

For those who owned a Polar HRM long ago and recently just couldn't resist

the temptation and have migrated to Garmin, but still want to keep all

training information with the Polar Pro Trainer,

and

for those who have Garmin Forerunner, but would like to take advantage

of the rich analytical capabilities offered by the Polar Pro Trainer,


below is the tool that could just be the right solution.


Actually someone have already coded a tool and hosted it on the web

http://converter.gps4sport.com/.

But somehow, I am not too keen to go online converting a file and moreover,

I need some extra features, like keeping the lap time after conversion.

So, I ended up coding my own converter.


Click
download tcx2hrm to download the tool.

PLEASE DOWNLOAD THE LATEST RELEASE AS THERE ARE SOME FIXES, PLEASE REFER TO NEWER POST


To use the tool, first unzip the file, edit the tcx2hrm.ini file accordingly.

Basically, you want to edit the parameters like weight, resting HR, MaxHR, and

also the various HR zone so that Polar Pro Trainer can display it according to

your setting.


Copy the tcx2hrm.ini to WINDOWS directory and copy the tcx2hrm.exe to your DESKTOP.

From Garmin Training Center, export the exercise that you want to convert to a

TCX file.

Then, click the tcx2hrm.exe to run it, enter the pathname to your tcx file and the

tool will output the converted data to a file named YYMMDD01.hrm,

where YY is the year, MM is the month and DD is the day.

Copy the hrm file to your Polar Pro Trainer data directory, for example,

C:\Program Files\Polar\Polar ProTrainer\Yourusername\2009, then start Polar Pro

Trainer, click on the appropriate day and add a new exercise, click on the "Attach

an exercise file" to attach your newly converted file and that's it.


Below are screenshots for a workout displayed both in

Polar Pro Trainer and Garmin Training Center .




Polar Pro Trainer



Garmin Training Center




If you encounter any problem or would like to report any bug,

feel free to email to me, but I will be able to work on this

only when I have free time.

Hope this help.

Crank on.