Forerunner 955

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Forerunner 955

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Achievements for Sunday, March 22, 2026

Uiam Lake LSD 26k - Round 2 of the watch battle (3/22) Perfect Sunday for a long scenic run around Uiam Lake in Chuncheon. Started at Uiam Park where Gongji Stream meets the lake, circled south along the eastern shore for 13k, then returned. The eastern shore is my favorite - wooden decks carved int

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greenpaper0603 in r/running

March 23, 2026 12:55 PM

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Advice for new user

Well, the problem with the form tracking I have is that I follow Garmin Training Plans and I like them a lot and brought me great results when running in asphalt… but now I’m running 100% on trails (have to) and there is were I see the issue. On top of that (that’s why I was referring to hardware is

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Caracol-2 in r/Suunto

February 13, 2026 4:50 PM

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[OC] Popular sleep trackers vs lab polysomnography

I love my garmin, but honestly I don't even thing there is any corrolation between my sleep score and how I feel about might night. I had a polar watch several Apple watches and my garmin FR955 is so bad.

g4nt1 in r/dataisbeautiful

March 16, 2026 2:48 PM

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The Garmin Fenix 8's optical HR fell significantly behind the Polar chest strap.

I experience the same effect with an FR955/HRM600 broadcasting into a PM5, utilizing the C2 app to capture metrics from the PM5 and sharing the log with Garmin Connect. It seems the HR broadast feature is somehow unreliable about the HR shown on the wrist vs what is being actually measured and broad

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ferpitare in r/GarminFenix

March 23, 2026 2:43 PM

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Garmin → Coros switch worth it?

I recently switched from Garmin to Coros. My Forerunner 955 Solar's barometric sensor / altimeter was doing whatever it wanted. I was out of warranty and Garmin offered me 25% off on MSRP in their webshop. What I wanted was accurate GPS, HR, Altimeter, good battery life, offline music and offline ma

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anonymouslyjenny in r/trailrunning

March 28, 2026 11:58 AM

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Forerunner 955 Solar – Heart rate monitor stopped working after the last firmware update.

I've been having similar problems with my Forerunner 955 (not Solar) with the 23.20 upgrade. Have only just started looking for solutions and came across this thread. My watch had been prompting me to update software several times a day for a couple of weeks. I nearly always said yes, but it still n

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efferentdistributary in r/garminforerunner

July 5, 2025 5:04 AM

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