Garmin Forerunner® 255 Music, Black - Running

TUNE YOUR TRAINING Add a beat to your step. Get the training and recovery insights you need to run at a higher level — plus music to motivate you along the way. Get an overview of your sleep, HRV status and daily workout with morning report. Charge less, train more with up to 14 days of battery life in smartwatch mode and up to 30 hours in GPS mode. Push your limits with a built-in triathlon feature and 30+ activity profiles. Plan your strategy with daily suggested workouts, course details and more on the race widget. Utilize a full suite of advanced metrics and training tools to reach your goals. Pay for your post-workout coffee with Garmin Pay™ contactless payments1 — and listen to music on the go. In the box Forerunner 255 Music Charge/data cable Documentation   READY FOR THE LONG RUN Get an uninterrupted picture of your daily health and nightly sleep with up to 14 days of battery life in smartwatch mode and up to 30 hours in GPS mode. (ALMOST) AS LIGHT AS A FEATHER With its sleek design and 1.7 oz weight, you’ll almost forget you’re wearing Forerunner 255 Music — 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 swimruns. Or, create your own custom multisport profiles. WRIST-BASED RUNNING POWER See how much power you’re applying to the trail or the road so you can manage your effort and fine-tune your training. No accessory required. 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. GRADE-ADJUSTED PACE Don’t run out of steam before the activity is over. Understand how to adjust your pace over varying terrain to perform according to your plan. TRAINING STATUS Using new indicators such as HRV status, your recent exercise history and performance, get an 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 255 Music watch measures crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and balance, and more — while comparing 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 rate2 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 2. 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 sensor3 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 Our intensity minutes feature tells you when during the day you earned them and during what activity. STRESS TRACKING Find out if you’re having a calm, balanced or stressful day. Relax reminders will even prompt you to do a short breathing activity when the watch detects that you’re feeling stressed. HEALTH SNAPSHOT™ FEATURE Log a 2-minute session to record key stats, including heart rate2, heart rate variability, Pulse Ox3, respiration and stress. Then generate a report with those stats to share via the Garmin Connect app on your compatible smartphone.   SATIQ™ TECHNOLOGY Multi-band GNSS with SatIQ technology ensures the best positioning accuracy in any environment while also optimizing the device’s battery life. MUSIC ON YOUR WRIST Download up to 500 songs plus playlists from your Spotify, Deezer or Amazon Music accounts (subscription required). GARMIN PAY CONTACTLESS PAYMENTS Breeze through checkout lines with Garmin Pay contactless payments1 through participating providers. SMART NOTIFICATIONS Receive emails, texts and alerts right on your watch when paired with your Apple® or Android™ smartphone. You can even respond to texts if you have an Android phone. SAFETY AND TRACKING FEATURES If you feel unsafe or if your watch senses that an incident occurred, the Assistance and incident detection features4 send your location to emergency contacts. Incident detection is enabled by default for select activity profiles only. LIVETRACK FEATURE Use LiveTrack to let friends and family follow your real-time location4 and even view your entire preplanned course. Rest assured that your loved ones know exactly where you’re running. GARMIN CONNECT APP See your health and fitness information, connect and compete with friends, sign up for challenges to earn badges and more — all in one free, zero-subscription app. CONNECT IQ™ STORE Download custom watch faces, add data fields, and get apps and widgets from the Connect IQ Store app downloaded on your compatible smartphone. Features STR3AMUP! PC tool for streaming biometrics No Multi-frequency Positioning Yes 3-axis compass with HSI (horizontal situation indicator) No Touch and/or button lock Yes Preloaded ski resort maps No Wind speed and direction (requires connection to Garmin Golf app) No Live Event Sharing Android™ Only Sleep yes (advanced) Battery saver (customizable low power watch) Yes Swing Tempo No Plays and controls watch music Yes APNEA mode No Ground contact time and balance yes (with compatible accessory) Density altitude calculator No Critical swim speed Yes Training load focus Yes Compatible with Varia Vision™ (head-mounted display) Yes HR alerts Yes Training effect (anaerobic) Yes Abnormal heart rate alerts yes (high and low) Easy break planning No Vertical speed Yes Lactate threshold yes (with compatible accessory) Workout tutorials No Number of transmitters supported No MTB Grit &amp; Flow No Customizable data pages Yes Configurable lap alerts Yes Incident Detection during select activities Yes Physio TrueUp Yes Custom alerts Yes NEXRAD on moving map No Back to start Yes Vertical oscillation and ratio yes (with compatible accessory) Altimeter with adjustable baro setting No Physical size 45.6 x 45.6 x 12.9 (mm) Fits wrists with a circumference of 130-205 mm Move bar (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it) Yes Live Delta Time No Automatic altitude adjustment No Bezel Material fiber-reinforced polymer Hazards and course targets No Truck driver workouts No TruSwing™ compatible No UltraTrac mode Yes VO2 Max (Trail Run) Yes Up Ahead Yes Preloaded race tracks No Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitor Yes Relaxation breathing timer Yes % HR max Yes In Case of Emergency (I.C.E.) No Gas time remaining No Water rating 5 ATM Subwave™ Support No Audible alerts No Color display Yes Multiple bike profiles No Rest timer Yes Wrist-based heart rate (constant, every second) Yes Find My Phone Yes PrePass weigh station notifications and bypass decisions No Stride length (real time) yes (with compatible accessory) Bike lap and lap maximum power (with power sensor) Yes Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, stroke distance, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories) Yes Training effect Yes Spectator messaging No Advanced workouts Yes Charging method Garmin proprietary plug charger Trendline™ Popularity Routing No Strava Live Segments No Boundary enter/exit No Training readiness No Timer Yes Courses Yes Respiration rate (during exercise) yes (with compatible accessory) Wirelessly receive flight plans from Garmin Pilot™ No Intensity minutes Yes Interval training Yes MOS &amp; Meteogram No Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories) Yes Pairs with Garmin Connect™ Mobile Yes Touchscreen No Virtual starting line No Preloaded topographical maps No Sun and moon information Yes Automatically saves dive entry and exit locations No HRV stress test (measures your heart rate variability while standing still, for 3 minutes, to provide you with an estimated stress level; the scale of this is 1 to 100; low scores indicate lower stress levels) No Sight 'N Go No Location tracking No Pulse Ox blood oxygen saturation yes (spot-check, and optional all-day acclimation and in sleep) Projected waypoint Yes Bread crumb trail in real time Yes Customizable activity profiles Yes Auto start/end dive No Reference point No SatIQ™ Technology Yes Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps) Yes Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute) Yes Controls smartphone music Yes Power meter compatible Yes LED flashlight No Improved recovery time Yes APNEA hunt mode No 60-minute activity goal No Manual multisport activities Yes Chores No Moving Map with aviation airports, navaids, roads, bodies of water and more No Point-to-point navigation Yes Anchor Alarm No Gauge mode No PacePro™ Pacing Strategies Yes Course- and weather-specific race predictor Yes Yardage to layups/doglegs No TAF (Terminal Aerodrome Forecast) No Auto Pause® Yes Running dynamics yes (with compatible accessory) Esports Activity No Full vector map No Body Battery™ energy monitor Yes BLUETOOTH phone calling and voice assistant support No Accelerometer Yes Recovery time Yes Custom dive data screens No Drill logging (pool swim only) Yes Preloaded with 42,000 courses worldwide No Track timer No Strap material silicone Jet lag advisor No Race App No Round timer/odometer No Smart trainer control Yes Heat and altitude acclimation No Connected GPS No Performance condition Yes Galileo Yes Distance traveled Yes Manual lap Yes GPS-based distance, time and pace Yes Text messaging No Realtime stamina No Running power Yes Nitrox support No Assistance Yes Race predictor Yes Stealth Mode No Pairs with Garmin Golf app No Auto lap splits No "Repeat on" rest timer (pool swim only) Yes Pilates workouts Yes GPS coordinates No Lap Time Repeatability Score (LTR) No Air integration No Audio prompts Yes Auto CourseView updates No Downloadable training plans Yes Stocks yes (optional Connect IQ app) Measures shot distance (calculates exact yardage for shots from anywhere on course) No Run/Walk/Stand detection Yes Closed Circuit Rebreather (CCR) No <