Nike Run Club: Running Coach

It kind of feels like they backed off a bit. I don’t have the budget to pick up strava, but this app and coach Bennett have been my anchor. One year into at least one run per week. Running for a healthy heart, and to be there for my kid.

More than I could’ve asked for! And it’s free! Best coaching, great plans, incredibly motivating, and great diversity of runs. However, distance is a little off. It depends on how you hole your phone. So if that is the main reason you’re downloading be aware. Otherwise it’s perfect for me (who doesn’t care about pace being perfectly accurate).

My use case: I run just with my apple watch (no phone). I download the guided run (Marathon training) for the week on Monday morning on my watch in advance. But inevitably, when I go outside and start Nike Run Club on my watch, the guided run section never loads. I see three dots (sections) right away, but the other two either take five minutes to load or just never load. What I've tried: the usual assortment of restarting the app, force quitting the app, restarting the watch, restarting the phone, uninstalling and reinstalling the app on both my phone and the watch. The problem is too persistent for me and it's too frustrating to use. Great idea, but bad execution.

App is great. I recommend it to everyone who is nervous to start running, this app can help everyone start running. One thing Id like to see is better tracking of treadmill runs. I wish the Apple Watch app could track my runs somehow because currently i need to hold my phone in my hand in order to NRC to log anything Im doing.

I do not understand why it doesn’t work with the Apple Watch, I even upgraded watches thinking that would help but it only worked for 2 runs, I love the guided runs but I hate that it doesn’t work how it is supposed to.

Started running again last year and don’t think I’d still be in the habit without this app, the guided runs being the main reason. The coaching is pretty good and it’s nice to have someone there helping you focus on why you’re running the run, and inspiring you to do your best. Even when being able to do your best means backing off a bit. The app could have better real time pace, and more analytics post run, but the five stores is for the guided runs.

Love the app but recent changes have made it a little frustrating to use. I believe the data obtained from using the Apple Watch combined with data obtained from the phone jacks up your results. When running on a track it showed you running across the center field of the track. Another issue is the music. When you had a music app open it would continue to play music. Now it cuts off until you start a run and then you have to go to the music app and press play. This at least works when using Pandora with the app Spotify is hit or miss. Other than those two things it is a great app.

Although there are very good features to this app, such as the training plans which I’m currently using to train for a marathon and it’s great, there is something that I just cannot get over. Every time I try to connect my music (Spotify) I have to re-authorize it, which is incredibly frustrating. And then, if my music does actually manage to connect, the volume will drastically decrease and I can’t listen to my music full volume even when doing non-guided runs. Please fix this feature. It’s incredibly frustrating to not be able to track your run and listen to music at the same time at a reasonable volume. This has gotten so annoying and frustrating that I’m considering not using this app anymore which makes me sad because the training plans are awesome.

I’ve used this app for a while and it keeps me to my resolutions. Along with that, there’s a ton of fun little rewards you can get. Love this 🔥🔥🔥

Sometimes it doesn’t finish recording a run as completed, especially if it’s a workout in a plan. I preparing for a half marathon using the 14 week plan and 1-2 workouts don’t appear as completed. Not a huge problem but a little annoying for sure.