Adidas MiCoach Pacer Bundle

by adidas

Product Features

• Heart rate beat-per-minute monitoring
• The adidas miCoach Pacer is compatible with all MP3 players
• Real-time audible coaching to help run and train better and harder
• Speed, distance, pace and stride rate are recorded for later analysis
• Goal-based interactive training and post-data analysis

Product Description

Stay in the right zone next time you run, with this adidas miCoach Pacer Bundle. Featuring a heart rate monitor, digital coach, interactive training and post-workout analysis. Heart rate beat-per-minute monitoring The adidas miCoach Pacer is compatible with all MP3 players Real-time audible coaching to help run and train better and harder Speed, distance, pace and stride rate are recorded for later analysis Goal-based interactive training and post-data analysis Plan. Proper training - and getting results - means keeping your workouts fresh and your body challenged. miCoach makes this easy and builds you a plan comprised of diverse workouts designed to help you reach your goal. miCoach workouts are mixed from four easy-to-follow colored zones. The zones are personalized to you, your body, and your preferred coaching method - by heart rate or by pace. Train. miCoach Pacer checks your effort and keeps you on track with real-time audible feedback and guidance. Prefer visual feedback? Then miCoach Zone* is for you. Combine the two for the ultimate training experience. Have a mobile phone? Try the feature-rich miCoach Mobile application. *miCoach Zone does not work for pace-based training. Analyse. Online: miCoach Pacer syncs with the web so you can check out your stats, track your progress and get coaching feedback for every workout. On the Go: miCoach Mobile puts instant feedback and workout analysis in the palm of your hand.

Product Details

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• ASIN: B00386GEIK
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #67,956 in Sports & Outdoors (See Top 100 in Sports & Outdoors)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Expensive but worth the price, May 18, 2010

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Kelly Farrell "kellbot" (Falls Church, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adidas MiCoach Pacer Bundle (Misc.)

I've had my miCoach for 2 days (and two runs), and here's my impression so far:

Accuracy

I have not yet calibrated my miCoach, so these are the "out of the box" values. I ran on a treadmill and the miCoach was true to the treamill's distance calculation within two hundredths of a mile. I'm not sure which I'm inclined to believe, but in truth two hundredths of a mile is fine for my running. I plan on calibrating it at a track sometime soon.

For some reason gym equipment never registers my heart rate, so I don't have a good way of comparing the miCoach heart rate monitor to anything else. But checking my pulse the old school way (two fingers on my neck) after my run came out to about what the miCoach said.

Sync / Online Interface

The syncing process is pretty smooth, you plug the pacer into your computer and the miCoach application sends your data to their servers. The graphs are nice looking. I like showing my pace alongside the heart rate data, it's interesting to see how small changes in the speed of my running affect my heart rate. Running at 5.5 mph is fine, but pushing it up to 6 mph over a few minutes sends my heart into the red.

There's not much in the way of social interaction, but since no one else I know has one of these that's not a big drawback for me.

Coaching / Music

If you like, the pacer will coach you through various predefined workouts or your own custom plans based on either running speed or heart rate. I still prefer my workout-specific running mixes to the random British dude talking over a generic playlist, but it's a well implemented feature.

The miCoach daisy chains itself between your MP3 player and headphones. It uses a standard 3.5mm jack so it will work with pretty much any audio source. My gym has TVs and headphone jacks on each treadmill (yes, I go to a fancy gym) and it has been pretty exciting to listen to the audio from the TV instead of just reading the closed captions, while still getting audio cues from the pacer for when to slow down and speed up.

Value

The miCoach is not cheap. I got mine from RoadRunner Sports for $125 shipped. As a running tracker, it's probably only worth it if you're serious about running. Otherwise the $30 Nike+ is much more affordable (assuming you have a compatible iPod; I didn't).

However, comparing the miCoach to the Nike+ is a bit unfair. Nike+ is a pedometer, whereas miCoach is a heart rate monitor with online tracking and a pedometer. This is significant because the miCoach is useful for pretty much any type of exercise, not just running. Since it measures your heart rate and not just your footfalls it's still useful for rowing, cycling, etc. You won't get the same type of distance/pace data, obviously.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lots of features, very easy to use, April 9, 2010

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West Gunther (Milwaukee, WI) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Adidas MiCoach Pacer Bundle (Misc.)

Bought this product on the advice of a glowing third-party review. The coaching is very helpful, the syncing is easy to do. Micoach website has been recently updated and sharing is available right now with more updates supposedly on the way. It's fast and easy to set up for a run, it records day/time of runs, distance, heart rate, pace, strides, and has lots of different workout options available to upload. You can make your own if you don't like any of them too. Great product, battery life is never an issue because I always find myself wanting to look at my workout data. Excellent product. Despite the higher price, I would buy it again.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Defective Button - common issue, May 21, 2010

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A. Konefal - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adidas MiCoach Pacer Bundle (Misc.)

After only 3 uses, the Workout Selection button on this device broke. When I hit the button it no longer responds. Interestingly, a number of other people in the [...] forum report the same problem, so apparently there is a manufacturing problem here. Without the ability to select workouts, this device is rendered essentially useless.

I am ordering a new one in hopes that this won't be a recurring problem, or that perhaps there was just a bad 'batch' and I won't have the same quality issues the second time around. I am skeptical though, given that others have had the same experience.

If it weren't for this, I would absolutely love the product. The 3 coaching workouts I did fit in before the product broke were great and the online management/tracking capabilities are phenomenal and very motivating. It is a shame that shoddy craftsmanship of a tiny button might be a downfall. I suppose this is the risk of early adoption. Hopefully Adidas will address this issue and improve the quality of the device itself because this is a very innovative, helpful device for runners if the kinks can be resolved.

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