Continuing my series on the best running apps (see also: Runna, and app-less), I spent some time this week with my old love, Nike Run Club. I’ve always been a sucker for the Nike aesthetic (go ahead, roast me) and this is an app I find myself coming back to again and again. It has guided runs, training plans, and an incredibly good companion app for the Apple Watch.

Nike Run Club is an app for both iOS and Android. It lets you track runs from an Apple Watch or directly from your phone (put it in your pocket or running belt and let it use your phone's GPS). There's a library of guided runs and a few training programs, but you can also use it to track runs you do yourself (as long as you track them through the app).

The iOS version also comes with a full-featured Apple Watch app. In addition to the basic functions of tracking your run and playing music, the Apple Watch app lets you view your workout history, choose a guided run, do the next run in your training plan, or start a new run with a time or distance goal. There’s a “speed” feature that gives you a lap button if you want to do a homebrew interval workout, and a “match it” feature for when you want to do the same run as last time.

The Apple Watch even has special Nike watch faces and some nice extras, like a feature that lets you see how many runs you've done this week according to your training plan.