Garmin Forerunner 255S Running Watch (Powder Gray)

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$349.99

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Garmin Forerunner 255S Running Watch (Powder Gray)

  • Garmin Forerunner 255S Running Watch (Powder Gray)
  • Charge/Data Cable
  • Limited 1-Year Warranty

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Garmin Forerunner 255S Running Watch (Powder Gray)

You’re making strides. Now, let’s take the next step. Get the training and recovery insights through Garmin Forerunner 255S Running Watch you’ll need to notch your best time yet.

Ready For The Long Run

Get an uninterrupted picture of your daily health and nightly sleep with up to 12 days of battery life in smartwatch mode and up to 26 hours in GPS mode.

As Light As a Feather

With its sleek design and 1.4 oz weight, you’ll almost forget you’re wearing Forerunner 255S even when you’re asleep.

Sweat-Ready Materials

Featuring easy-to-use buttons and a silicone band, this watch is ready to wear and tear with durable Corning Gorilla Glass 3.

Morning Report

Receive an overview of your sleep, recovery, and training outlook as soon as you wake up alongside HRV status and weather. You can even customize your report to show you what you want to see.

HRV Status

Gain a deeper understanding of your overall health, recovery, and training performance through heart rate variability while you sleep, based on technology developed by our Firstbeat Analytics team.

Built-In Sports Apps

Tap into 30+ built-in activities, including the triathlon and open-water swimming profiles new to the Forerunner 255 series. For races and brick workouts, transition to the next activity with a single button press.

Race Widget

Get ready for your next race with training tips, personalized daily suggested workouts, and completion time predictions based on course details, weather, and performance.

Daily Suggested Workouts

View your entire week of daily suggested workouts, which adapt after every run to match your performance and recovery as well as the races coming up in your Garmin Connect smartphone app calendar.

Garmin Coach

Free adaptive training plans include 5K, 10K, and half-marathon programs, featuring guidance from expert coaches that adapt to you and your goals.

Triathlon and Multisport Profiles

Switch between sports with one press by using built-in profiles for triathlons, duathlons, brick workouts, and swim runs. Or, create your own custom multisport profiles.

Running Power

When using a Running Dynamics Pod or HRM-Pro monitor, 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.

Recovery Time

Know how long to recover before your next high-effort workout based on your latest training as well as overall stress, sleep, and daily activities outside of workouts.

Pacepro Feature

To help you plan your race day strategy, this feature offers GPS-based pace guidance for a selected course or distance, so you can tailor your efforts to what’s ahead.

Training Status

Using new indicators such as HRV status, your recent exercise history, and performance, get easy insight into your overall effort and whether you’re training productively, peaking, or strained.

Acute Load

See your training history, and compare the intensity of your recent workouts to the optimal range to help improve your fitness.

Training Effect

See how your workouts influence your endurance, speed, and power with aerobic and anaerobic training effect feedback.

Performance Condition

While you run, get an analysis of your pace and heart rate for a real-time assessment of your current ability to perform.

Running Dynamics

When using a Running Dynamics Pod or HRM-Pro monitor, the Forerunner 255S watch measures crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and balance, and more compared to others in the Garmin Connect app.

Courses

Create or find existing courses in the Garmin Connect app, so you’ll never run out of places to run. Or plan one on other platforms such as Strava and Komoot, then automatically sync them to your Forerunner.

Track Running

Ready for some speedwork? Input your lane on the built-in track run activity to record accurate lap distances and see your distances in meters.

Visual Race Predictor

Based on your running history and overall fitness level, get an estimate of what your pace could be for a 5K, 10K, or even a marathon. Plus, trend data highlights your training’s impact over time.

Cross-Training

Mix up your training with different types of workouts. Free HIIT, strength, cardio, yoga, and Pilates workouts come preloaded on the watch, and you can download more from the Garmin Connect app.

Wrist-Based Heart Rate

The watch constantly samples your heart rate with our latest-generation heart rate sensor and will alert you if it stays too high or too low while you’re at rest. It also helps gauge how hard you work during activities even while swimming.

Body Battery Energy Monitoring

Track your body’s energy levels so you can find the best times for activity and rest.

Improved Sleep Monitoring and Sleep Score

Understand how your body is recovering and get ready for training with our improved sleep monitoring feature. After waking up, you’ll receive a sleep score, as well as breakdown of your sleep stages, Pulse Ox3, and respiration, alongside detailed insights for improved sleep quality.

Pulse Ox Sensor

This wrist-based Pulse Ox sensor monitors blood oxygen saturation levels to support advanced sleep monitoring and altitude acclimation.

Women’s Health Tracking

Use the Garmin Connect app to track your menstrual cycle or pregnancy. Log symptoms, get exercise and nutrition education, and more. Even see and log details on your wrist with the Women’s Health Tracking app.

Intensity Minutes

The intensity minutes feature tells you when during the day you earned them and during what activity.

Garmin Forerunner 255S Running Watch


General

  • Lens material: Corning gorilla glass 3
  • Bezel material: Fiber-reinforced polymer
  • Quick release bands: Yes (18 mm, industry standard)
  • Strap material: Silicone
  • Physical size:
    • 41 x 41 x 12.4 mm
    • Fits wrists with a circumference of 110-175 mm
  • Color display: Yes
  • Display size: 1.1 inch (27.5mm) diameter
  • Display resolution: 218 x 218 pixels
  • Display type: Sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (mip)
  • Weight: 39 g
  • Water rating: 5 atm
  • Battery life:
    • Smartwatch mode: Up to 12 days
    • GPS-only GNSS mode: Up to 26 hours
    • All-systems GNSS mode: Up to 20 hours
    • All-systems GNSS mode plus multi-band: Up to 13 hours
  • Memory/history: 4 GB
  • Color: Powder gray

Clock Features

  • Time/date: Yes
  • Gps time sync: Yes
  • Automatic daylight saving time: Yes
  • Alarm clock: Yes
  • Timer: Yes
  • Stopwatch: Yes      
  • Sunrise/sunset times: Yes

Health Monitoring

  • Wrist-based heart rate (constant, every second): Yes
  • Daily resting heart rate: Yes
  • Abnormal heart rate alerts: Yes (high and low)
  • Respiration rate (24x7): Yes
  • Pulse ox blood oxygen saturation: Yes (spot-check, and optional all-day acclimation and in sleep)
  • Fitness age: Yes
  • Body battery energy monitor: Yes
  • All-day stress: Yes
  • Relaxation reminders: Yes
  • Relaxation breathing timer: Yes
  • Sleep: Yes (advanced)
  • Sleep score and insights: Yes
  • Hydration: Yes (in garmin connect and optional connect iq widget)
  • Women's health: Yes (in garmin connect and optional connect iq widget)
  • Health snapshot: Yes        

Sensors

  • GPS: Yes
  • Glonass: Yes
  • Galileo: Yes
  • Multi-frequency positioning: Yes
  • Satiq technology: Yes
  • Garmin elevate wrist heart rate monitor: Yes
  • Barometric altimeter: Yes
  • Compass: Yes
  • Gyroscope: Yes
  • Accelerometer: Yes           
  • Thermometer: Yes
  • Pulse ox blood oxygen saturation monitor: Yes

Daily Smart Features

  • Connectivity: Bluetooth, ant+, Wi-Fi
  • Connect iq (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps): Yes
  • On-device connect iq store: Yes
  • Smart notifications: Yes
  • Text response/reject phone call with text (android only): Yes
  • Calendar: Yes
  • Weather: Yes
  • Realtime settings sync with Garmin connect mobile: Yes
  • Battery saver (customizable low-power watch): Yes
  • Controls smartphone music: Yes
  • Plays and controls watch music: Yes
  • Music storage: Up to 500 songs
  • Find my phone: Yes          
  • Find my watch: Yes
  • Virb remote: Yes
  • Smartphone compatibility: iphone and android
  • Pairs with garmin connect mobile: Yes
  • Garmin pay: Yes

Safety and Tracking Features

  • Livetrack: Yes
  • Live event sharing android only: Yes
  • Incident detection during select activities: Yes
  • Incident detection alert on phone for wearables: Yes
  • Assistance: Yes

Activity Tracking Features

  • Step counter: Yes
  • Move bar (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it): Yes
  • Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal): Yes
  • Calories burned: Yes
  • Floors climbed: Yes
  • Distance traveled: Yes
  • Intensity minutes: Yes
  • Trueup: Yes
  • Move iq: Yes
  • Garmin connect challenges app: Yes (optional connect iq app)

Gym and Fitness Equipment

  • Automatic rep counting: Yes
  • Available gym activity profiles: Strength, hiit, cardio and elliptical training, stair stepping, floor climbing, indoor rowing, pilates, yoga
  • Strength workouts: Yes
  • Hiit workouts: Yes
  • Yoga workouts: Yes
  • Pilates workouts: Yes
  • On-screen workout animations: Yes
  • On-screen workout muscle maps: Yes

Training, Planning And Analysis Features

  • Hr zones: Yes
  • Hr alerts: Yes
  • Hr calories: Yes
  • % hr max: Yes
  • % hrr: Yes
  • Recovery time: Yes
  • Auto max hr: Yes
  • Morning report: Yes
  • Race glance/widget: Yes  
  • Hrv status: Yes
  • Hr broadcast (broadcasts hr data over ant+ to paired devices)  
  • Respiration rate (during exercise): Yes (with compatible accessory)
  • GPS speed and distance: Yes
  • Customizable data pages: Yes
  • Customizable activity profiles: Yes       
  • Auto pause: Yes
  • Interval training: Yes        
  • Improved interval (includes open repeats, intervals data page, rest screen and auto detection): Yes
  • Advanced workouts: Yes
  • Downloadable training plans: Yes
  • Hrm running pace and distance: Yes
  • Auto lap: Yes
  • Manual lap: Yes
  • Rest timer: Yes
  • Configurable lap alerts: Yes
  • Vo2 max (run): Yes
  • Vo2 max (trail run): Yes
  • Training status: Yes (improved)
  • Training load: Yes  
  • Training load focus: Yes
  • Training effect: Yes
  • Training effect (anaerobic): Yes
  • Primary benefit (training effect labels): Yes
  • Improved recovery time: Yes
  • Daily suggested workouts: Yes (7 days)
  • Custom alerts: Yes
  • Audio prompts: Yes
  • Finish time: Yes
  • Virtual partner: Yes          
  • Race an activity: Yes         
  • Auto multisport activities: Yes
  • Manual multisport activities: Yes
  • Course guidance: Yes
  • Touch and/or button lock: Yes
  • Auto scroll: Yes
  • Activity history on watch: Yes
  • Physio trueup: Yes

Running Features

  • Available run profiles: Running, outdoor track running, treadmill running, indoor track running, trail running, virtual running, ultra running
  • GPS-based distance, time and pace: Yes
  • Running dynamics: Yes (with compatible accessory)
  • Vertical oscillation and ratio: Yes (with compatible accessory)
  • Ground contact time and balance: Yes (with compatible accessory)
  • Stride length (real-time): Yes (with compatible accessory)
  • Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute): Yes
  • Running power: Yes (with compatible accessory)
  • Grade-adjusted pace: Yes
  • Performance condition: Yes
  • Lactate threshold: Yes (with compatible accessory)
  • Pacepro pacing strategies: Yes
  • Run workouts: Yes
  • Trail run auto climb: Yes
  • Race predictor: Yes
  • Course- and weather-specific race predictor: Yes
  • Foot pod capable: Yes
  • Run/walk/stand detection: Yes

Outdoor Recreation

  • Available outdoor recreation profiles: Hiking, skiing, snowboarding, xc classic skiing, stand up paddleboarding, rowing
  • Point-to-point navigation: Yes
  • Bread crumb trail in real-time: Yes       
  • Back to start: Yes
  • Tracback: Yes
  • Ultratrac mode: Yes
  • Up ahead: Yes
  • Elevation profile: Yes
  • Distance to destination: Yes
  • Barometric trend indicator with storm alert: Yes
  • Vertical speed: Yes
  • Total ascent/descent: Yes
  • Future elevation plot: Yes
  • Projected waypoint: Yes
  • Sun and moon information: Yes

Cycling Features

  • Available cycling profiles: Biking, indoor biking, mountain biking, eBiking, eMountain biking
  • Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories): Yes
  • Courses: Yes
  • Bike lap and lap maximum power (with power sensor): Yes
  • Race an activity: Yes
  • Ftp (functional threshold power): Yes (with compatible accessory)
  • Compatible with vector and rally (power meters): Yes
  • Power meter compatible: Yes
  • Compatible with varia vision (head-mounted display): Yes
  • Compatible with varia radar (rear-facing radar): Yes
  • Compatible with varia lights: Yes
  • Speed and cadence sensor support (w/sensor): Yes

Swimming Features

  • Available swim profiles: Pool swimming, open water swimming
  • Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, stroke distance, swim efficiency (swolf), calories): Yes
  • Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (swolf), calories): Yes
  • Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) (pool swim only): Yes
  • Drill logging (pool swim only): Yes
  • Basic rest timer (up from 0) (pool swim only): Yes
  • Repeat on rest timer (pool swim only): Yes
  • Auto rest (pool swim only): Yes
  • Time and distance alerts: Yes
  • Pacing alerts (pool swim only): Yes
  • Countdown start (pool swim only): Yes          
  • Pool swim workouts: Yes
  • Critical swim speed: Yes
  • Underwater wrist-based heart rate: Yes
  • Heart rate from external hrm (real-time during rests, interval and session stats during rests, and automatic heart rate download post-swim): Yes (with hrm-swim, hrm-pro or hrm-pro plus)

Kid Activity Tracking Features

  • Toe-to-toe challenges app: Yes (optional connect iq toe-to-toe challenges app)

Connectivity

  • Smart trainer control: Yes

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