GarminForerunner® 255, GPS Running Smartwatch, Advanced Insights, Long-Lasting Battery, Tidal Blue

Serious into running? This watch has all the analytics you need to run your best race! GPS is super accurate, while other sensors make you aware of the intensity and effort you are putting out. Suggested workouts and top notch sleep tracking. This watch is a must have

Great watch! Super easy to use, perfect functions for what I wanted, and thus far very durable!

5/5

Great watch ,

I am a marathon runner and cyclist. After using this watch for almost 3 weeks continuously, this watch works pretty well from my observation. Health tracking, sleep tracking, and GPS tracking all work almost flawlessly. I am also impressed that Garmin provides me with a very useful workout based on my fitness and training load after I set up my race calendar.The only negative experience is the software sometimes sucks. For example, I tried to set up the heart rate zone (based on HRR) on my watch for the different types of activities several times, no matter whether I configured it from the watch directly or via Connect app, sometimes this watch just ignored the value I configured and use the default value right away. After several attempts, it finally settles. Besides, when I download the data field from Connect IQ store and install it on the watch, I cannot see this data field app from the Connect app so I cannot use it in the data screen. I have to clean up both apps and re-login again so that I can see this data field app in the Connect app and use it. Even worse, after I configure the data field app in the data screen, the next time when I start an activity, the data field I set up before is just gone and becomes a timer. For the workaround, I try not to use any 3rd party app in the data screens. As a software engineer, I cannot understand why these obvious bugs are not resolved yet when this watch was released several months ago.If I didn't encounter these annoying software bugs, I'd love to give it 5 stars rating.

I love all the features this watch has to offer but my favorite is the long battery life. I will go days without charging it. I am a runner and my long distance runs, I am not nervous that it will die.

Great watch , should have gotten a touch screen

I bought this watch because I was starting to swim and train for a triathalon. It has worked beautifully these last few months. It is very accuarte with open water and pool swim. I bought the speed and cadence extras for my bike while I ride my trainer and I feel they coordinate great together. I am a runner at heart and this has worked well for all of my runs. I have put my training plan into the app so my watch lets me know what to do everyday. I love the sleep fetures. I didn't realize how poor my sleep was just after have a couple drinks. I highly reccomend this wonder watch.