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:

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Here's some metrics out on a run:

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HRV accuracy

I compared to the gold-standard Polar H10 overnight

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Recorded it with HRV tracker, here is the raw data of RR intervals

IMG_0519.JPG And HRV Logger will process that for us into what we call HRV:

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This trends really nicely with the watch actually! The average is spot on.

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