Adidas MiCoach for the iPhone/Blackberry
First of all before even using the tool I have to say well done Adidas – you got there first before Nike and Garmin and from the screenshots and initial load it looks good. Let’s hope it works well, if not you’ve still got a bit more time but I’m sure the competition will soon be on your heels!
Finally a well known brand releasing a GPS running application, offering voice coaching (which must relate to pace and unfortunately not Heart Rate like the pacer). The device is completely free and the user interface looks simple and neat.
At lunch I’m out for a run so will try the app out. I am also going to do some digging to see whether the two devices can be used together because at the moment it looks like I can either get pace based training with the iPhone or heart rate monitoring with the pacer and I want both!
Testing review to follow shortly, to get the iphone app click here or for the blackberry app here. If you have used the app already and have feedback please comment below!
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Were you able to have both work together? I’m thinking of getting micoach and assumed that the pacer and iphone app were integrated.
It seems to me the ideal system would integrate the 5 components (HRM,shoe thing,GPS,iphone interface,cloud application), thus supporting three types of cardio:
*outdoor running (using gps,shoe,heart)
*indoor/treadmill running (shoe,heart)
*other cardio (heart)
And allowing you to use the iphone display.
Does micoach do this? If not, any advice?
Hey Nicholas
That’s an interesting point. The micoach iphone app can’t communicate with the micoach footpod. Well the last time I played the two couldn’t talk with each other. The footpod runs on ant+ and whilst you can buy a dongle for the iPhone to communicate with ant+ heart rate I don’t think you can footpod.
Ill have a poke about at some point to delve further but don’t think anything does ALL of what you want…yet!
N