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The Garmin Forerunner 255S is an advanced GPS smartwatch that goes beyond training with its multiple functions and tracking. Get the training and recovery information you need to achieve your best time. Gain an overview of your sleep, heart rate variability status, and daily training with the morning report. Push your limits with an integrated triathlon feature and over 30 activity profiles. Plan your strategy with suggested daily workouts, route details, and more in the running widget. Use a full set of advanced metrics and training tools to reach your goals. The Forerunner 255 has a battery life of up to 12 days in smartwatch mode and up to 26 hours in GPS mode. Additionally, you can pay directly from the watch thanks to its Garmin Pay feature.

Contents of the box:
- Garmin Forerunner 255S
- Charging/data cable
- Documentation

Features:
- READY FOR LONG RACES
Get an idea of your health status and your nightly sleep every day with up to 12 days of battery life in smartwatch mode and up to 26 hours in GPS mode.

- (ALMOST) AS LIGHT AS A FEATHER
With its sleek design and 49 g weight, you'll almost forget you're wearing your Forerunner 255, even while you sleep.

-DURABLE MATERIALS
With easy-to-use buttons, a silicone band, and durable Corning Gorilla Glass 3, this watch is ready for you to make the most of it.

- MORNING REPORT
Receive a summary of your dream as soon as you wake up, along with the HRV status and the time. You can even customize the report to show you what you want to see.

- VFC STATUS
Get a clearer idea of your overall health, workouts, and recovery through heart rate variability while you sleep, based on technology developed by our Firstbeat Analytics team.

- INTEGRATED SPORTS APPLICATIONS
Access more than 30 integrated activities, including triathlon and open water swimming profiles, new features of the Forerunner 255 series. In your running sessions and competitions, you can switch to the next activity with just the press of a button.

-RACE WIDGET
Get ready for your next race with training tips, personalized daily workout session suggestions, and finish time predictions based on route details, weather, and performance.

- RECOMMENDED DAILY TRAINING SESSIONS
Check all the recommended daily training sessions for the week, which adapt after each race to fit your performance and recovery, as well as the upcoming races on the calendar of the Garmin Connect smartphone app.

-GARMIN COACH
The adaptable and free training plans include 5 km, 10 km, and half marathon programs, with guidance from expert coaches that adapt to you and your goals.

- POWER IN RACE
When you use a Running Dynamics Pod or an HRM-Pro heart rate monitor, you will get continuous wrist measurement of your running power during the run, so you can measure your effort.

- RECOVERY TIME
Discover how long it will take you to recover before your next high-intensity workout based on your most recent training session, as well as general stress, sleep, and daily activities outside of training sessions.

- PACEPRO FUNCTION
To help you plan your strategy for race day, this feature provides GPS-based pace guidance for a route or distance. This way, you can adjust your efforts to what lies ahead.

- TRAINING STATUS
With new indicators such as VFC status, recent exercise history, and performance, you can easily check your overall effort and whether you are training productively, if you have reached your peak fitness, or if you are overtraining.

- SHARP LOAD
Check your training history and compare the intensity of your recent training sessions with the optimal range to improve your fitness.

- TRAINING EFFECT
Check how your training sessions influence endurance, speed, and power with aerobic and anaerobic data from Training Effect.

- PERFORMANCE CAPACITY
While you run, it will analyze your pace and heart rate to provide a real-time assessment of your current performance capability.

- RACE DYNAMICS
When using a Running Dynamics Pod or an HRM-Pro monitor, the Forerunner 255 watch calculates running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time, balance, and many more, while comparing them with those of other users in the Garmin Connect app.

- ROUTES
Create or search for existing routes using the Garmin Connect app and discover new and exciting trails. Or plan them on other platforms, such as Strava and Komoot, and automatically sync them with your Forerunner device.

- RACE FORECAST
Based on your running history and overall fitness, it provides an estimate of your pace for a 5K, 10K, or even a marathon. Additionally, the trend data highlights the impact of your training sessions over time.

- CROSS TRAINING
Combine your workouts with different types of training sessions. There are free HIIT, strength, yoga, and pilates training sessions pre-installed on the watch, but you can download more from the Garmin Connect app.

- WRIST HEART RATE SENSOR
The watch constantly measures your heart rate with our state-of-the-art heart rate sensor, which alerts you if it remains too high or too low while you are at rest. It also helps to measure the intensity of your effort during activities, even while swimming.

- BODY BATTERY ENERGY MONITOR
Control the energy levels of your body so you know the best times to engage in activities or rest.

- SLEEP SCORE AND ADVANCED SLEEP CONTROL
Get a sleep quality score and information on how you can improve it. You can even track the different sleep phases, as well as heart rate, stress, pulse oximetry, and breathing.

- PULSE OXIMETER
The wrist-based pulse oximeter allows monitoring of blood oxygen saturation levels to provide advanced control of sleep and acclimatization to altitude.

- MENSTRUAL CYCLE TRACKING
Use the Garmin Connect app to track your menstrual cycle or pregnancy. Log symptoms, access tips on exercise and nutrition, and much more. You can even check and log details on your wrist thanks to the women's health tracking app.

- MINUTES OF INTENSITY
Our intensity minutes feature informs you of the time of day when you feel motivated and during which activity.

- STRESS CONTROL
Check if the day is calm, balanced, or stressful. The relaxation reminders will even encourage you to perform a brief breathing control activity if the watch detects that you are having a stressful day.

- INSTANT HEALTH FUNCTION
Record a two-minute session to learn key statistics, such as heart rate, its variability, pulse oximetry, breathing, and stress. Then, generate a report with those statistics to share it through the Garmin Connect app on your compatible smartphone.

- MULTIBAND GNSS COMPATIBILITY
Access multiple global satellite navigation systems and multiple frequencies sent by navigation satellites to improve position accuracy in areas where GNSS signals are reflected, weak, or typically do not penetrate, providing you with superior accuracy in terms of distance and speed, even in challenging environments.

- CONTACTLESS PAYMENTS WITH GARMIN PAY
Check out effortlessly with Garmin Pay's contactless payments through participating providers.

- SMART NOTIFICATIONS
Receive emails, text messages, and alerts directly on the watch when paired with an Apple or Android smartphone. You can also reply to text messages if you have an Android phone.

- SECURITY AND TRACKING FEATURES
If you fear for your safety or see signs that an accident has occurred, the assistance and incident detection features will send your location to your emergency contacts. Incident detection is enabled by default only for selected activity profiles.

- LIVETRACK FUNCTION
Use LiveTrack to allow your friends and family to follow your location in real time and even see the entire pre-planned route. Rest assured knowing that your loved ones know exactly where you are.

- GARMIN CONNECT APP
Check your health and fitness information, connect and compete with your friends, join challenges to win medals and much more, all in a free app.

-CONNECT IQ STORE
Download custom watch faces, add data fields, and get apps and widgets from the Connect IQ app downloaded on your compatible smartphone.

Physical and performance specifications:
- Lens material: Corning Gorilla Glass 3
- Bezel and back cover material: Fiber-reinforced polymer
- Housing material: Fiber reinforced polymer
- Screen size: 1.1"/27.5 mm (218 x 218 pixels), Sunlight readable, Memory in pixels (MIP), color
- Case size: 41 x 41 x 12.4 mm
- Fits wrists with a circumference of 110-175 mm
- Strap material: Silicone
- Weight: 39 grams
- Battery type: Rechargeable internal lithium-ion
- Battery life: Smartwatch, up to 12 days; GNSS mode GPS only, up to 26 hours; GNSS mode (all systems), up to 20 hours; GNSS mode (all systems) and multiband, up to 13 hours
- Water resistance: 5 ATM
- Connectivity with wireless technologies: Bluetooth, ANT+
- Internal memory: 4 GB

GPS Functions:
- Distance, time, and pace based on GPS
- GPS speed and distance
- Point-to-point navigation
- Galileo Navigator
- GLONASS

Specifications:
- Clock functions: Date and time, stopwatch, alarm, sunrise/sunset time, time synchronization with GPS, automatic daylight saving time
- Available swimming profiles: Pool swimming, Open water swimming
- Available running profiles: Race, outdoor track running, treadmill running, indoor track running, trail running, virtual race, ultra marathon
- Available cycling profiles: cycling, indoor cycling, mountain biking, electric cycling, electric mountain biking
- Available fitness profiles: Strength training, HIIT, cardio, elliptical, stair climbing, floor climbing, indoor rowing, pilates, yoga
- Available outdoor profiles: Hiking, skiing, snowboarding, classic cross-country skiing, paddle surfing, rowing
- Blood oxygen saturation using the pulse oximeter.
- Calories burned
- Step counter
- Total ascent/descent
- Multifrequency positioning
- Touch or button lock.
- Share live events (Android devices only)
- Sleep monitoring
- Watch with customizable low-power adjustment for energy saving.
- Critical swimming speed
- Focus of the training load
- Compatible with Varia Vision (head-mounted display)
- Heart rate alerts
- Training Effect (aerobic and anaerobic)
- Alerts for abnormal heart rate (high and low)
- Vertical speed
- Lactate threshold (only with compatible accessory)
- Customizable data pages
- Configurable back alerts
- Detection of incidents during specific activities
- TrueUp for physiological data
- Customizable alerts
- Back to top
- Oscillation and vertical relationship
- Inactivity line
- UltraTrac Mode
- VO2 max (in trail running)
- Acclimatization by pulse oximetry
- Breathing timer for relaxation.
- % of maximum heart rate
- Rest timers
- Wrist heart rate sensor (constant, every second)
- Find my phone
- Advanced training sessions
- Routes
- TracBack
- Customizable activity profiles
- Connect IQ
- HRV status
- Yoga exercises
- Barometric trend indicator
- Automatic rep count
- Live track
- Calories according to heart rate
- Age according to your physical condition
- Music control
-Garmin Payment