With Garmin’s new Forerunner 955 you can get up to 49 hours of battery life in GPS mode. By taking the energy of the sun, and converting it to power via the screen of the watch and the Power Glass technology, Garmin have found a way to extend the battery way beyond traditional charging-only models.

Morning Report
Start your day by receiving an overview of your sleep, recovery and training outlook as soon as you wake up, alongside HRV (heart rate variability) status, training readiness and weather. You can customise the report to show exactly what you want to see and leave out what is not relevant. 

Next, you can get an insight into how ready you are for exercise from a readiness score based on your sleep quality, recovery, training load and extra deeper metrics. From this intel, you can determine whether it’s a good day to go hard, or take it easy and adapt your running schedule accordingly. 

Run Ready
Once you’re ready to run you can make use of adaptive training plans including 5K, 10K and half-marathon programmes, featuring guidance from expert coaches that adapt to your goals. After each run you can view your entire week’s plan, which constantly adapts to match your performance in training, together with how efficiently you are recovering. 

Race Day
Now that you’ve done the training, the race widget will give you completion time predictions based on course details, weather and performance.

In Touch With Your Body

• Wrist-Based Heart Rate constantly monitors heart rate
• Pulse OX Sensor monitors blood oxygen saturation levels 
• Women’s Health Tracking for your menstrual cycle or pregnancy
• Health Snapshot a two-minute survey to get a view of overall health
• Body Battery Energy Monitor tracks your body’s energy levels so you can find the best times for activity and rest

The Garmin Forerunner 955 Solar is packed full with a powerhouse of measurement tools and computing to pull together so many aspects that can make you a better runner. 

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