Runners love Garmin, and serious runners love the high-end Forerunner models. The 955 Solar is ready for extreme distances, and has every feature you'll need.
Garmin Forerunner 955 Solar MSRP $599.00 Score Details DT Editors' Choice “This is a serious watch for serious runners. If that's you, you'll be ecstatic with everything the 955 Solar has to offer.” Pros Cons Standing in the starting corrals of any running race, you’ll see a wide variety of gear. Dozens of brands of shoes, shorts, sunglasses, and hats. Over thousands of miles running, each person finds the unique setup that works best for them.
I’m on track to run over 1,000 miles in 2022. I have already run three half marathons this year, and this watch arrived at a perfect time to get me moving on my fall marathon training cycle. . I’m used to wearing my previous Forerunner, and picky about what a running watch offers.
That focus on activity tracking doesn’t leave much room for anything else. There are other apps you can install and run on the Forerunner series, but they’re very utilitarian in nature. It’s likely that everything you’d like to do with a Garmin is pre-loaded on the watch, and integrated very well at that.
Touchscreen and buttons This generation also added touch capability to the screen — something available on other Garmins, but not the Forerunner 945. Critically that doesn’t come at the expense of physical buttons. You can still navigate the entire interface with the traditional Garmin 5-button layout, and the touch screen is disabled by default when tracking activities. If you aren’t a runner, this may not make sense to you — but trust me, you do not want a touchscreen when running.
For its size, the Forerunner 955 Solar is light and comfortable on my wrist — for daily wear, long runs, and even sleeping. But on my girlfriend’s smaller wrist, it looks a bit comical. You’ll really want to try this one on before buying if you’re petite, and maybe consider a 700-series model instead.
That solar-boosted battery life, according to Garmin, is based on the watch spending a considerable amount of time out in considerable amounts of sunlight. The “20 days” measurement requires 3 hours per day outdoors in 50,000 lux sunlight, and the additional 7 hours of use in GPS mode requires continuous exposure to that same 50,000 lux. If you don’t know lux measurements by memory , 50,000 lux is equivalent to a moderately sunny day at high noon or a clear day in the morning or afternoon.
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