Garmin Forerunner 55 (Renewed), GPS Running Watch with Daily Suggested Workouts, Up to 2 weeks of Battery Life, Black

I love Garmin and this 55 forerunner is awesome. It's great for any sport. You can add or remove activity options. There's a nice size bank to choose from. It holds a lot of health info. I can monitor my period on it, stress, sleep, activity, etc. one of the things I like is, it can detect when you go for a walk or a run or a ride and logs it, even if you forget to log the activity. It also lasts long. I've had it for more than a year. You can set what notifications get sent to the watch (which apps can do that). It has even training coaches that you can utilize for different sports. You can join different challenges from different sports. It also holds a charge for over a week mostly. Typically 10 days and if you're not that active, even closer to two+ weeks. Definitely, worth the expense.

I've always heard Garmin was the best for running, so I finally decided to give it a try. I love it! And even though I bought a refurbished one, it works like its new. So they did a good job.I currently am training for a half marathon. And it synced up to my race date and is giving me suggestions!

Great watch for my daughter. GPS works awesome.

Great, simple, running watch that lacks only one thing for me to give five stars: Longer Automatic Laps.On my old Polar you could set auto lap at 5km or even longer, which is really useful when running say a half marathon. I run 15ks as three 5km 'laps' and my half marathons as four ( plus an extra km ) . Since this watch only does auto laps up to 1km, I have to manually hit the lap button every 5km, which is easy to mess up when you're hypoxic 15km into a half marathon.Garmin: give us longer auto laps!

I needed a heart rate monitor but saw how many more features this watch had over a fitbit, so for the same or less than the larger fitbit, I bought the renewed version of the 55. I loved it - for 1 day. Then I immediately realized I needed something newer and more to really get the most out of the potential for all of the apps The 55 is: too dim, needs the backlight on or activated all the time, battery lasted like, 4 days running with display, running breathing apps, etc. it has small fonts and icons that make it hard to see, (like the watch hands overlap the heart rate if you have that screen enabled - the overall diameter of the screen is just too small), and limited extra apps that the newer Garmin fleet has and diminished functionality of parallel apps.I returned with the 90 day refund policy and upgraded to the 165. Now I really, really love what I've got.My opinion if it helps: if you are strapped and can only get the 55, get it. But, trust me, you will return it and get at least a 165 if you have the extra $120 (ish). I debated over getting the 255, but, after reading the reviews (Tom's) and looking at the screen shots, really, if you are used to a smart phone at all, you will want the 165 with the AMOLED over the MIP of the 55 and 255. The touch screen on the 165 also makes navigating through the deeper menus much easier as does turning on the display if the accelerometer doesn't activate it as needed. Of course any model higher is going to rock and roll. I don't mind the mix of hard buttons and screen swipes. I think it's a good combo.Too early to comment on battery life, but, so far, I like the watch enough, I honestly don't care if I can get 3 days out of it. Def way less "fanboy" than an apple watch. All reviews say it's much more geared to fitness as well. Between the Garmin app and the phone, some fitness things sync to iPhone (which i do have, so, not an anti-apple thing, just, like the sport/athlete centric vibe of the Garmins more)

As a beginner runner I love the watch. It gives me everything I need and the battery is really good!

Works perfectly! The gps tracking is very good

Works like it is said and good battery life.