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If you’re like me who cannot commit to a 3 or 4-day per week schedule of running to follow miCoach’s training plan, then the next best thing is the Custom Workout.

With miCoach, you can create workout goals based on time, distance, pace, interval or calories to burn. As of this writing, pace and calorie-based workouts are not yet functional.

These workouts are perfect if you want to set a goal per run that you do. Use distance if you want to gauge if you’re improving on a certain distance. Time if you just want to just de-stress. Interval if you want to train for endurance, cardio strength or leg strength.

My favorite custom workout is distance-based because I only run 5km and want to see if I can improve on my time.

You can set up a distance from 1km up to a full marathon (42k) and the intensity you want to run on. I always choose the Yellow Zone because I want to improve my endurance running on my tempo pace (comfortably hard). miCoach will instruct you if you need to slow down or maintain your speed throughout the run.

One thing I find missing on this distance-based workout is the option to set a time goal. Say for example I want to finish 5km in 25 minutes, I’m hoping miCoach will instruct me how to pace my run properly.

Once you created some custom workouts, you need to add them to your favorites so it will be saved on your miCoach.

During my run, the only time miCoach talked to me is at the start, if I’m not within the planned heart rate zone, or if my goal has already been reached. And of course if I click on it for my current progress.

It would be nice if miCoach will inform me when I reach milestones like every kilometer ran if it’s a distance-based workout or every 10 minutes if it’s time-based.

Here’s a sample of a distance-based custom workout result.

miCoach told me how I stayed on my yellow zone for 56% of the time. If I stayed a hundred percent of the time then I would have gotten a better time.

So there’s customized workout for you. Casual runners who owns miCoach will probably use this type of workout more instead of the training plans that miCoach is known for.

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