Garmin Forerunner 55, GPS Running Watch with Daily Suggested Workouts, Up to 2 Weeks of Battery Life, Black - 010-02562-00

My absolute favorite running watch (I upgraded from a different Garmin). The functions (button controls on the side of the watch) may take a little time to learn, but it's not difficult. The GPS is extremely accurate and all of the information from the watch syncs quickly to the Garmin App. I've worn it in all kinds of weather and different types of races and have never had a problem. Pretty strong battery life, too, but out of habit, I do charge it every night. Looks nice and the adjustable band ensures a perfect fit! Really great running watch, and I know I'm not even taking advantage of everything it offers yet.

Good fit. A little difficult to learn for beginners to a garmin. It’s nice though,I like the wristband too. Decent battery life and worth it.

Great watch, I use this everyday and only need to charge like twice a month. The alarm vibrations don’t get me up as easily in the mornings as my Apple Watch, but that’s the ONLY complaint. It shows all notifications, but I only like seeing calls and texts on here, and tracks my runs and workouts great. Does NOT have strength training options like the 265 or Fenix series, but that’s alright, I use HIIT for weights and can change it in the app if I want to track more specifically what I did. It had about two weeks of this weird Bluetooth connection, it was connected to my phone but showed a code like it needed to connect to something, restarted it a couple times and it’s been gone for about a month or more now.

Been using this for a year. Still use it. Great for marathons, walks or anything in between.

I've had this watch for 10 months, and I'm ready for a better watch. This watch isn't all bad though. If you're looking for a cheaper option for running watches this is a pretty good choice, as long as your milage is reasonable. Obviously of you're running more mileage you're charging your watch more often. If I don't use the watch for anything but "being a watch" and heart rate monitoring I could get a couple weeks between charges. The gps seems pretty accurate, I have routes that I usually run and the watch is pretty close in marking miles in about the same spot, I'd say within .05 of a mile, worse case. I'd say this watch is more geared towards cardio workouts, I use the "other" while I'm weight lifting and it's not quite the right option, but theres no other options for this watch. It also does not have the ability to do elevation. Any elevation in your run is gps based i think. The watch itself is very durable, I only have the tiniest chip in the top of the screen, I wear this watch all the time, except while showering. The screen has minimal scratching. I've bought the screen covers for this watch before, but no brand I've ever bought was the exact correct size and there was always a small edge pulled up that would get dirt under it and it would eventually fall off. I really like that the screen is NOT touch screen and only the buttons control it. I don't have to worry about accidentally bumping something during a work out. I'm not sure how accurate the HR is, I caveat that I wear my watch on the inside of my wrist and I have dark tattooing there that could cause some problems. But I've also worn it on the opposite side of my wrist and had similar readings. You also can't wear this watch tight against the skin, then it won't read a HR at all. I've seen this happen in work outs where there a missing HR chunks of time. The sleep monitoring is NOT reliable. Like at all. Basically all it knows it that your heart rate is lowering and it's night time. I can be sitting still reading before bed and it counts all that time as sleep. So where I might have actually slept midnight to 630, my watch started counting sleep at 10. So I says I've gotten more sleep. Therefore effecting your "body battery" rate. The charger is weird. It takes a special charger, which I've bought another one for my travel bag. And if the watch charging interface gets dirty it makes charging finicky. The phone finder is really useful and I do like the period tracker.

My daughter is in the military and loves this watch. She maps runs daily.

It's very motivating as a novice runner, even though I have not used the Daily Suggested Workout. It accurately measures running distances and times. The things that it tracks at the minimum level is amazing: running distances, times, heartbeat, calories burned, steps, body battery, deep sleep, REM sleep, stress. It's pretty simple to use, as my first running watch. Highly recommend.

I bought this watch a month ago and I am really impressed with the stats and charts. It is easy to operate, and I have to admit I find it better and less risky while exercising with the buttons. It is lightweight and the battery lasts for about two weeks. A few problems are bothering me and I am debating whether I should return the watch or keep it (I have a 2 months window for return). 1. Sleep monitor- as other reviewers stated, is highly unreliable, making the body battery unreliable as well. If I watch tv or read for a few hours it will show as if I was asleep. One morning I woke up at 5:00 am, got out of bed, made a few phone calls and texts and went back to bed where I stayed awake for another hour, and the watch showed that I was asleep the entire time! 2. I can’t choose which notifications to show and which not. I only want to see calls, texts and WhatsApp messages, but it keeps showing me news notifications and other notifications I have on my iPhone. 3. It tells me to move, but it doesn’t detect if I exercise and forget to turn it on. I wish it would have.