Garmin Forerunner 955
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Solid watch!
Much lighter than the Fenix 5, which was very welcome.
Bands
Like many folks, the silicon bands don't work well for my wrists. I got some stretchy ones via Etsy which worked great.
Just for something new, got a cool orange one from Amazon.
Recovery metrics
Not as good as the Whoop. Heavily factors in workouts and past few days, so the scores are just a different beast. More training focused than just health.
It hides the recovery metrics on race day, pretty nifty:
Here's some metrics out on a run:
HRV accuracy
I compared to the gold-standard Polar H10 overnight
Recorded it with HRV tracker, here is the raw data of RR intervals
And HRV Logger will process that for us into what we call HRV:
This trends really nicely with the watch actually! The average is spot on.