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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 your 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.
Utilise a full suite of advanced metrics and training tools to reach your goals.
Pay for your post-workout coffee with Garmin Pay contactless payments[1]. - and listen to music on the go.
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 49g 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].
Light on the Wrist. Not on Features
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 customise 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, personalised 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.
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 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.
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.
A Depth of Wellness Insights
Wrist-Based Heart Rate
The watch constantly samples your heart rate [2] 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].
Sleep Score and Advanced Sleep Monitoring
Get a score for your sleep's quality and insights on how you can do better. Even keep track of the different sleep stages as well as heart rate, stress, Pulse Ox[3] and respiration.
Pulse Ox Sensor
This wrist-based pulse ox sensor[3] 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 rate[2], heart rate variability, Pulse Ox[3], respiration and stress. Then generate a report with those stats to share via the Garmin Connect app on your compatible smartphone.
Stay Connected at Every Step
Multi-Band GNSS Support
Access multiple global navigation satellite systems, and get access to multiple frequencies sent by navigation satellites for improved accuracy in areas where GNSS signals are reflected, weak or typically don't penetrate - giving you superior accuracy for how far and how fast you've run - even in challenging environments.
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 payments[1] 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 location[4] 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.
See your stats, and track your goals in the Garmin Connect app.
Run with the best. Follow us on the GarminRunning Instagram channel. Learn More
1. View current supported country, payment network and issuing bank information.
2. Activity tracking accuracy.
3. This is not a medical device and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or monitoring of any medical condition; see Garmin.com/ataccuracy. Pulse Ox not available in all countries.
4. When paired with your compatible smartphone. For safety and tracking feature requirements and limitations, see Garmin.com/safety.
Clock Features:
- Time/date
- GPS time sync
- Automatic daylight saving time
- Alarm clock
- Timer
- Stopwatch
- Sunrise/sunset times
Health Monitoring:
- Wrist-based heart rate (constant, every second)
- Daily resting heart rate
- Abnormal heart rate alerts: High and low
- Respiration rate (24X7)
- Pulse Ox blood oxygen saturation: Spot-check, and optional all-day acclimation and in sleep
- Fitness age
- Body battery energy monitor
- All-day stress
- Relaxation breathing timer
- Sleep: Advanced
- Sleep score and insights
- Hydration: In Garmin connect and optional connect IQ widget
- Women's health: In Garmin connect and optional Connect IQ widget
- Health snapshot
Sensors:
- GPS
- Glonass
- Galileo
- Multi-frequency positioning
- Garmin elevate wrist heart rate monitor
- Barometric altimeter
- Compass
- Gyroscope
- Accelerometer
- Thermometer
- Pulse Ox blood oxygen saturation monitor
Daily Smart Features:
- Connectivity: Bluetooth, ANT+, Wi-Fi
- Connect IQ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps)
- On-device connect IQ store
- Smart notifications
- Text response/reject phone call with text (android only)
- Calendar
- Weather
- Real time settings sync with Garmin connect mobile
- Battery saver (customizable low power watch)
- Controls smartphone music
- Plays and controls watch music
- Music storage: up to 500 songs
- Find my phone
- Find my watch
- VIRB remote
- Smartphone compatibility: iPhone and Android
- Pairs with Garmin connect mobile
- Garmin pay
Safety and Tracking Features:
- Livetrack
- Live event sharing: Android only
- Incident detection During select activities
- Assistance
Activity Tracking Features:
- Step counter
- Move bar (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it)
- Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal)
- Calories burned
- Floors climbed
- Distance traveled
- Intensity minutes
- True up
- Move IQ
- Garmin connect challenges app: optional Connect IQ app
Gym and Fitness Equipment:
- Available gym activity profiles: Strength, HIIT, cardio and elliptical training, stair stepping, floor climbing, indoor rowing, pilates, yoga
- Cardio workouts
- Strength workouts
- HIIT workouts
- Yoga workouts
- Pilates workouts
- On-screen workout animations
- On-screen workout muscle maps
- Automatic rep counting
Training, Planning and Analysis Features:
- HR zones
- HR alerts
- HR calories
- % HR max
- % HRR
- Recovery time
- Auto Max HR
- Morning report
- Race glance/widget
- HRV status
- HR broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+ to paired devices)
- Respiration rate (during exercise): With compatible accessory
- GPS speed and distance
- Customizable data pages
- Customizable activity profiles
- Auto pause
- Interval training
- Improved interval (includes open repeats, intervals data page, rest screen and auto detection)
- Advanced workouts
- Downloadable training plans
- Auto lap
- Manual lap
- Rest timer
- Configurable lap alerts
- VO2 max (run)
- VO2 max (trail run)
- Training status: Improved
- Training load
- Training load focus
- Training effect
- Training effect (anaerobic)
- Primary benefit (training effect labels)
- Improved recovery time
- Daily suggested workouts: 7 days
- Custom alerts
- Audio prompts
- Finish time
- Virtual partner
- Race an activity
- Auto multisport activities
- Manual multisport activities
- Course guidance
- Touch and/or button lock
- Auto scroll
- Activity history on watch
- Physio true up
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
- Running dynamics: With compatible accessory
- Vertical oscillation and ratio: With compatible accessory
- Ground contact time and balance: With compatible accessory
- Stride length (Real Time): With compatible accessory
- Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute
- Running power: With compatible accessory
- Performance condition
- Lactate threshold: With compatible accessory
- Pacepro pacing strategies
- Run workouts
- Race predictor
- Course- and weather-specific Rrce predictor
- Foot pod capable
Outdoor Recreation:
- Available outdoor recreation profiles: Hiking, skiing, snowboarding, XC classic skiing, stand up paddleboarding, rowing
- Point-to-point navigation
- Bread crumb trail in real time
- Back to start
- Tracback
- Ultratrac ode
- Up ahead
- Elevation profile
- Distance to destination
- Barometric trend indicator with storm alert
- Trail run auto climb
- Vertical speed
- Total ascent/descent
- Future elevation plot
- Projected waypoint
- Sun and moon information
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)
- Courses
- Bike lap and lap maximum power (with power sensor)
- Race an activity
- Ftp (functional threshold power): With compatible accessory
- Compatible with vector and rally power meters
- Power meter compatible
- Compatible with Varia vision (head-mounted display)
- Compatible with Varia Radar (rear-facing radar)
- Compatible with Varia lights
- Speed and cadence sensor support (w/sensor)
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)
- Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (swolf), calories)
- Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) (pool swim only)
- Drill logging (pool swim only)
- Basic rest timer (up from 0) (pool swim only)
- "Repeat on" rest timer (pool swim only)
- Auto rest (pool swim only)
- Time and distance alerts
- Pacing alerts (pool swim only)
- Countdown start (pool swim only)
- Pool swim workouts
- Critical swim speed
- Underwater wrist-based heart rate
- Heart rate from external HRM (real-time during rests, interval and session stats during rests, and automatic heart rate download post-swim): With HRM-swim or HRM-pro)
Kid Activity Tracking Features:
- Toe-to-toe challenges app: Optional connect IQ toe-to-toe challenges app
Battery Life:
- Smartwatch mode: up to 14 days
- GPS-only GNSS mode: Up to 30 hours
- All-systems GNSS mode with music: Up to 6.5 hours
- All-systems GNSS mode: Up to 25 hours
- All-systems GNSS mode plus multi-Band: Up to 16 hours
Product Features:
- Lens material: Corning gorilla glass 3
- Bezel material: Fiber-reinforced polymer
- Quick release bands: 22 mm, Industry standard
- Strap material: Silicone
- Physical size: 45.6 x 45.6 x 12.9 (mm), Fits wrists with a circumference of 130-205 mm
- Color display
- Display size: 1.3" (33 mm) diameter
- Display resolution: 260 x 260 pixels
- Display type: Sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP)
- Smart trainer control
Specifications
Connected Health
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Health Gadget Type
- Sports Watches
Battery & Power
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Power Source
- Battery
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Battery Life
- Up to 14 days
Display
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Touch Screen
- Yes
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Screen Resolution
- 260 x 260 px
Dimensions
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Weight
- 0.049 kg
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Width
- 46 mm
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Depth
- 46 mm
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Height
- 13 mm
General
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Bundle Deals
- N
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Product Category
- Fitness Trackers
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Product Colour
- Whitestone
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Product Type
- Smart Watch
Activity Tracker Features
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Watch Category
- Smartwatch
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Choose Your Sport
- Running
- Swimming
- Cycling
- Indoor Rowing
- Yoga
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GPS
- Yes
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Music Controls/Playback
- Controls smartphone music
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Smart Notifications
- Yes
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Functionality
- Heart Rate
- Sleep Monitoring
- Step Counting
- GPS Location Tracking
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Water Resistant
- 5 ATM
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Heart Rate Monitor
- Wrist Based HRM
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Sleep Tracker
- Yes
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Tracking Functions
- Distance Travelled
- Steps Taken
- Calories Burned
- Sleep Tracking
- Floors Climbed
- All day stress tracking
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Additional Features
- Alarm
- Stopwatch Function
- Clock
- Time
- Swing Speed
- Weather
- Heart Rate Tracker
- Calender
- Find my phone
- Find my watch
- Swim - tracking
- Customisable clock face
- Female Health Tracking
- High
- low
- or irregular heart notifications
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Sensor Type
- Accelerometer
- Gyroscope
- GPS
- Thermometer
- GLONASS
- Galileo
- Garmin Elevate wrist heart rate monitor
- Compass
- Barometric altimeter
- Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitor
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Operating System Compatibility
- Android
- iPhone
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Wireless Connectivity
- Bluetooth
- ANT+
- Wifi
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Brand
- Garmin
Sports Watch Features
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Heart Rate Monitor
- Yes
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Memory
- 4 GB
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Sports Watch Functions
- Speed
- Date
- Calories
- Distance Travelled
- Auto Pause
- Auto Lap
- Sleep Tracker
- Step Taken
- Stop Watch
- Interval Training
- Auto Goal
- VO2 Max
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Additional Features
- Stopwatch
- Timer
- One Button Control
- Internal Memory
- Notifications for Emails
- SMS
- Incoming Calls
- Smart Notifications
- Music Control
- Auto Scroll
- Cadence
- Sleep monitoring
- Compatible with Vector
- Weather Alerts
- Swim-tracking
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Case Shape
- Round
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GPS Features
- GPS Tracking
- Auto Lap
- Auto Pause
- GLONASS
- Compass
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Watch Type
- Sport Watch
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Weatherproof
- Water Resistant
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Use While
- Running
- Activities
- Cycling
- Swimming
- Hiking
- Trainning
- Yoga
- Elliptical training
- Indoor rowing
Included Accessories
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Accessories
- Charging/Data Cable
Delivery & Returns
Delivery
We offer a comprehensive nationwide (Republic of Ireland only) delivery service; we aim to deliver all orders as quickly as possible.
| Item Type | Delivered In | Delivered By |
|---|---|---|
| Small Items | 3 - 5 Working days | DPD |
| Large Electrical Items | 3 - 5 Working days | Independent transport company |
| Furniture & Bedding | 3 - 5 Working days | Independent transport company |
| Clearance Items | 5 - 7 Working days | Independent transport company |
| Harvey Norman Customer Direct | Please refer to each individual product description page for accurate lead times. | |
Please note: Delivery times for rural areas may vary depending on routes and availability. If you have ordered any products that involve a lead time, are customised, or made to measure, we will contact you to discuss delivery. For more information regarding delivery and associated costs, please click here.
Free Click & Collect In Store
Can’t wait for delivery or don’t want to pay additional delivery charges? It’s incredibly simple to collect your online order in store and get your hands on your product quickly and easily. Simply select the Click & Collect option and head to your nearest Harvey Norman store to collect your order.
During checkout, select “Click & Collect” and select your preferred store.
After your order is placed, you will receive an order acknowledgement email with your order number.
Once the store has confirmed your order and reserved the stock, you will receive an email to inform you that your order is “Ready for collection”. If you want to use "Contactless Click & Collect" select this option on this email.
Bring your order number to the store you selected for Click & Collect, along with photo ID and the credit card you used to make the order.
Speak to one of our staff and your order should be processed in minutes.
If availing of Contactless Click & Collect, please click the link in your email “ready to pick up” to let the store know you are on your way. When you have parked in the designated parking bay, open your email, and choose the “I’m here” option and a member of staff will bring your purchase out to your car.
Easy returns
Store Purchases: For all items purchased from a physical store, please return to your local Harvey Norman Store. Please see Terms & Conditions here.
Online Purchases: For all items purchased via our Online Store (website), please contact our Online Customer Service Team at [email protected] where a dedicated Customer Service Agent will guide you through the process.
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