Jonny Wilkinson is miCoach

So I must be one of the few people that has recently converted over from a Blackberry to an Iphone 4 and actually miss my old Bold. Don’t get me wrong, the Iphone is great and all with its “there’s an app for anything” approach but as an actual phone touch screens inherently annoy me and Apple’s latest invention is no different. However, one recently discovered application which I cannot praise highly enough is Adidas miCoach. Yes, I will admit that I was drawn by the rather spectacular advertising campaign featuring the likes of David Villa, Jonny Wilkinson, Jessica Ennis and Andy Murray but having been initially sucked in this is a definite keeper.

So who do you want to be like?

For the first few weeks I have been doing just some simple free running back home from work as a means of just getting some badly needed fitness and the fact that miCoach is able to track and record your run home is a nice feature which I’ve never encountered before. However, having looked around the website in more detail Adidas have also created plans to help you get fit for a variety of sports and exercises. As a part time amateur rugby player this appeals, although the one big negative so far is that Rugby is not one of their defined sports. Thus I have plumped for American Football over Football [proper] as my training regime. Quite how it goes is another thing! To help me along Adidas allow you to download various sportsmen and women trainers who bark instructions down your ear as you run to your heart’s content. Mr Wilkinson is my current choice as trainer but if all else fails that I’m sure Jessica Ennis will have the desired effect.

I’m sure that there are other applications/gadgets which offer a similar service but for the time being I have no inclination to try them out. I will eventually upload my charts so that you can track my progress but for the time being I am going to go for a run!