Micoach won't tell you what exact pace you are running at with alerts. You can however, press center button and it will tell what your exact pace is. It is useful for keeping you in a certain zone. The zones, (blue, green, yellow, red) are not exact themselves. For instance, your blue pace might be 7:00-8:00 min/km. If you were to run outside of this zone, micoach would alert you to slow up or speed down accordingly. For me it is most useful for keeping me from going out too fast. If I go over my zone, then micoach tells me to slow down and then I would. After I have slowed back to the correct zone, it would tell me to maintain zone. Also, I will be using in a half-marathon race as I have a certain point where I would like to go faster, for instance change from green zone to yellow as the race progresses.
It wouldn't be able to help you make up time if you wanted to run a certain pace. It isn't a perfect system, but I am enjoying using it and I do feel it helps me with my running. I guess I will find out how much in a couple of days when I run my race.
Hope this helps,
Kim
