GarminForerunner 55 GPS 42mm Running Smartwatch, Easy to use, Lightweight, Training Guidance, Safety & Tracking Features, Black

For the price and as a beginner this is perfect for tracking your fitness. The battery life is fantastic don’t have to worry about charging it every night. Connects to the app super fast very easy to use I recommend

The media could not be loaded. Great entry level for runners. The connection with the garmin connect it’s very easy on iPhone. I had another model prior and found it more complete. This is a great entry level watch for runners. There are not many exercise categories as the 255. Battery life is great clores to other brands.

Although a week’s delay watch received is as expected. If you’re too bothered with receipt of item within a certain time frame I would recommend buying the particular watch at the advertised lower price .

Really good watch, great for running and also use at work. Easy to use would recommend

Fantastic watch.really love it

I am really pleased with this purchase. Very reasonably priced for the type of device. I really like Garmin and the Garmin app from previously owning a vivoactive 3 which gave up after a good few years of use. The forerunner 55 suits my needs better than the vivoactive in that it is button operated rather than touch screen. I often lost activities with the vivoactive dueSee to a coat or running jacket operating the screen. The forerunner 55 is a much more definite function operation which I really like. I've used the watch for hiking and running so far and it's been brilliant regarding information, GPS tracking, linking to Strava, etc. The battery life between charges seems very good so far. I also really like the fact you need to push a button to illuminated the watch rather than it light up on movement as the vivoactive did. The watch still lights up when lifting to view during an activity which is perfect for me. I have also started using Garmin coach for a running aim and this is a brilliant motivator as well as stopping me overtraining which I have done in the past.Thoroughly recommend Garmin and this device for ease of use, practicality, toughness, training options and how it looks.

After buying my first Garmin forerunner 55 I was disappointed to find it was not recording things correctly. The back light was too low and on full couldn’t pick up. However, after returning it for another I was really well happy. This one worked perfectly, does a lot more than I need but is a great watch.

Having had a couple of good Garmin watches in the past I decided to stick with the brand when my Forerunner 30 died. The 55 had good reviews so ordered one but was immediately annoyed to see a completely unique power lead, this means throwing out two old Garmin charging cables, more plastic waste in the environment, thanks for that Garmin. Next annoyance is the display. Call me old fashioned but I just like a 24 hour clock with four digits the same size. It is impossible to get this. The choice is between unpleasant looking digital displays or utterly hideous attempts to make it look like an old fashioned watch. Ok, so does it at least work for running? Yeah, I guess, but again why mess with the display? Just give me time, distance and pace please, but oh no, instead I have an arbitrary meaningless time counting down filling most of the screen. Didn't work this out until the second run when I realised it was suggesting I run 9.2 miles in 38 minutes. I'm an intermediate runner but even in my prime I couldn't run that distance in an hour! Maybe once I have downloaded the full manual I will be able to iron out some of these features but it's a pain that I have to. Just cannot work out why Garmin would mess about with all these standard features in such an irritating way. Might just do away with their watches in the future and just use my phone.Have just amended this review to one star after having used the watch for a few months now. It really is a piece of crap. The heart rate measurements stop updating to the app every so often for no reason and you have to turn the watch off and on again to get it to work. If you are walking up a hill the watch is unable to measure your progress and you will look at and realise that for the last hour your pace has been 0.0. Even when walking on a level surface it has problems, often I've walked 100 yards or more and no steps have been counted but then it starts counting when I stroke a cat! And weirdest of all, there's no outdoor swim option! I tried swimming and measuring it as a walk, planning to change it to a swim activity on the app at least, but guess what, pace = 0.0.And I still really hate the display.