Garmin Forerunner® 255, GPS Running Smartwatch, Advanced Insights, Long-Lasting Battery, Slate Gray

Product Description:
Run at a higher level with the Forerunner® 255 smartwatch. These running smartwatches help you train and recover smarter with training status, running power, multi-band GPS and daily suggested workouts that adapt to your performance and goals. Plus, other new features — such as race widget — help you plan your race-day strategy, and morning report with HRV status reveals your overall health alongside the day ahead. And with Garmin Pay™ contactless payments with a supported card, it’s never been easier to buy that post-workout coffee — no matter how you work out — with more than 30 activity profiles, including triathlon, cycling, swimming and more. With Forerunner 255, you can get a continuous picture of your health, from training and recovery to sleep quality and overall wellness — and with up to 14 days of battery life in smartwatch mode and up to 30 hours in GPS mode.
Built with a slim design and an always-on, full-color display that’s light on the wrist and easy to read even in direct sunlight — with available sizes of 46 mm and 41 mm
Forerunner 255 provides up to 14 days of battery life in smartwatch mode and up to 30 hours in GPS mode for a full picture of your health — from sleep to training
Morning report summarizes your sleep, HRV status and daily workout suggestion in one place as soon as you wake up (This device is intended to give an estimate of your activity and metrics)
Get ready for your next race with training tips, personalized daily suggested workouts and completion time predictions based on course details, weather and performance
View your entire week of daily suggested workouts, which adapt after every run to match your performance and recovery
HRV status tracks your heart rate variability while you sleep, giving you greater insight into your overall wellness, recovery and training performance (This device is intended to give an estimate of your activity and metrics)
Get free adaptive training plans from Garmin Coach for a 5K, 10K and half-marathon, or create your own custom workouts in the Garmin Connect smartphone app
Evaluates your current training status to indicate if you’re undertraining or overdoing it; offers additional performance monitoring features, including recovery time after your workouts
When using a Running Dynamics Pod or HRM-Pro monitor (sold separately), get a continuous measurement on your wrist of how much power you’re applying to the road as you run, so you can manage your effort
When using a Running Dynamics Pod or HRM-Pro monitor (sold separately), get advanced running dynamics, including ground contact time balance, stride length, vertical ratio and more

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Reviewer: Savage
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Garmin Forerunn 255 – Great Upgrade from Vivoactive 3
Review: Upgrading from a VERY beat up Vivoactive 3 I got second hand, it is a night and day difference. The battery life is amazing going for weeks at a time. I don’t use sleep tracking much but it is more comfortable than the Vivoactive 3 in those situations. I often found the HR monitor would bother me seeing the flicker when sleeping but that has not been an issue when I napped with this. I prefer the button controls over touchscreen, especially when working out since the screen would get sweaty and not respond well. Built like a tank, this thing will likely hold up for years and years beyond the battery losing starting to degrade. Display is great and easy to read, especially in the black and white workout mode. I have no issue with sun glare like I did with the Vivoactive watch. I got this on a great sale during Prime Day, so it was an amazing value for all the features in this watch. Now I just need to get back into running regularly!
Reviewer: Bryson goforth
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great watch!
Review: This watch does everything we need! Love the fitness tracking capabilities and it has a long battery life as well. It has a good size Watch face but is still fairly light weight. My husband somehow lost his in the yard and ran it over with the lawn mower… we immediately bought another one.. that’s how much he liked it !
Reviewer: ChasinSmoke
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Huge Fan
Review: As a fitness tracking watch this is an awesome introduction to the Garmin platform. We are a Garmin and Apple family with four Garmins and two Apple Watches. I use this Garmin for walking, running, cycling, stretching and general workouts. I’m very happy with this watch and the data it provides.As I said I can compare this watch to several others. Let’s start with battery life. Our Apples are on the charger every night. The Garmins all go at least a week, I average 9 days. We also have an Instinct, a 965, and a Golf. Biggest “complaint” is forgetting to charge them.My 255 connects to my Apple iPhone 15 without issue. It also connects seamlessly with my MacBook Pro, zero issues. I have and use separate HRM’s because for intense workouts I don’t think a wrist based HRM is the answer. My chest strap is much better than my watch for workouts. The 965 however is much more accurate during runs (compared against arm strap HRM) so Garmin maybe uses different HR sensors in different models? For walking and general use during the day my 255 works great!Value for $… I’d strongly recommend this watch without hesitation if you’re thinking about entering the fitness watch/smart watch world.I entered this fitness data world because of age. I have a friend who is alive because of data changes he noticed in his heart during exercise. A triple bypass later and this fit cyclist is still riding with me. At 60+ I thought this data was for younger more aggressive athletes. Not so. I am now a data nerd and train regularly partly because of it.Didn’t think it was important, in honesty didn’t know it was a thing but I now am aware of HRV, FTP, Training Status, Sleep tracking, and Watts. It’s addictive. But knowledge is power and knowledge can be healthy. I owe a 25 pound weight loss to this knowledge (and a lot of work). This watch alone won’t cause weight loss but for me it was a part of the puzzle.I really like my Garmin Forerunner 255. That said, my next one will probably be a 965, but at the price difference I’m not 100% sure the difference is justified, certainly not if this is your intro to the data! The reason I will likely “upgrade” is simply because my daughter has the 965 and I want to be able to share that (cool, we both have the same watch) with her 😉Final thought as I wrap up this review, as I said I’m getting older and as such my near vision isn’t great without readers but I can actually see the time on this watch so.. there’s that.
Reviewer: K. Dobo
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Gotta say, I’m a fan of Garmin again.
Review: Years ago I got sick and tired of Garmin watch batteries failing after only a few months, and getting generally poor long term performance out of their watches. I switched to a Suunto Ambit 3 which lasted for… nearly a decade? Quite a while anyway. Then when that battery started to fail so I bought a Suunto Vertical. What an overpriced POS that turned out to be! So, lacking better ideas, I went back to a mid-priced Garmin. The 255 has been great. Battery life isn’t really as long as advertised, unless I maybe have a bunch of features enabled that I don’t care about but are draining the battery faster. Even so, I don’t care, it lasts a couple days rather than X hours in one day, and that’s good enough for me. The feature set is more than I need, it’s reliable, it’s easy to read in all light, the GPS tracks and HR averages are close enough for my purposes, and the charging cable actually connects and stays connected. No major complaints whatsoever.
Reviewer: Yoyochi
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good quality and fast shipping
Review: I bought this several days ago and I am very satisfied! Firstly, the shipping was great. It only took 1 day! Thanks for Amazon. Secondly, Garmin watch is good. You can see a lots of data from the watch as well as the app on the phone. I feel I can monitor my body from the data easily from now on. The battery is good as well, I charged once in the 1st day. After 1 week, I still have more than 6 days remaining. Perfect!
Reviewer: Qian
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: used to own garmin 245 Music. switch to 255 as old one lost. bigger screen, and nice apps. turn on bluetooth, and hopefully it can last 9 days.
Reviewer: Clive Bell
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Good value, encourages exercise
Reviewer: Jean-Marc Panis
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Montre très légère, avec possibilités de plusieurs données sur l’écran et avec les données essentielles pour suivre ses performances et la possibilité de les enregistrer. De plus, elle possède toutes les fonctionnalutés des montres connectées non GPS.
Reviewer: Jose Luis Ilich
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Me parece que por lo que ofrece el reloj en cuanto a data y dinámicas de carrera está en un precio adecuado, ya que al mismo tiempo te brinda actividades multideporte que antes solo venían en relojes de gama alta.La construcción es superbuena (característico de Garmin), es fácil de utilizar y sobre todo da información de la vida cotidiana que si se les pone atención se le podría sacar mucho partido a este reloj.
Reviewer: Nelson Yeo
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: great deal good quality as in photo