Track your run
With the simple press of a button, users can start their run or walk and track their time, distance, speed, pace and heart rate1 data right from their wrist.
Built-in GPS
Easy-to-use running watch uses GPS to track how far, how fast and where you’ve run.
Fitness tracking
All-day activity tracking counts steps, calories, sleep and more1.
Built-in sports apps
Track all the ways you move with built-in activity profiles for running, cycling, track run, virtual run, pool swim, yoga, breathwork and more.
Wellness tracking
Tune in to your body with advanced wellness features, such as intensity minutes, fitness age, stress tracking, hydration tracking and more.
Womens 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.
Intensity minutes
See when during the day you earned intensity minutes from moderate and vigorous physical activity.
Fitness age
This feature uses chronological age, resting heart rate and other factors to estimate if your body is younger or older than you are. Age is just a number, after all.
Body Battery™
Body Battery energy monitoring uses collected data to gauge your energy reserves at any moment, so you can plan your day to optimise times for activity and rest.
Safety and tracking features
If you feel unsafe or if your watch senses that an incident occurred, assistance and incident detection features send a message with your location to emergency contacts2 (Requires Garmin Connect™ app and Connect IQ™ app loaded on compatible smartphone paired to Forerunner 55; see Garmin.com/ble).
Garmin Connect app
Garmin Connect is an online community where people can connect and compete by joining challenges, encourage each other’s successes and share triumphs via social media. Garmin Connect is free and available on your smartphone with the Garmin Connect app.
Battery life
Up to 2 weeks in smartwatch mode or 20 hours in GPS mode.
Garmin Coach
These free adaptive running training plans feature guidance from expert coaches and adapt to you and your goals. Workouts sync right to your watch.
Daily suggested workouts
Take the guesswork out of running with suggested workouts of varying intensities based on your training history, fitness level and recovery time.
PacePro™
Plan your race day strategy with the PacePro feature3, which offers GPS-based pace guidance for a selected course or distance in the Garmin Connect app.
Finish time
Want some guidance to help you meet your goal? Select a distance for your run, and you’ll be able to see a data screen that shows your estimated finish time.
Recovery time
Giving your body time to recover between training sessions is crucial. After each workout, the built-in recovery time will let you know how long to rest before another big effort.
Race predictor
Run your best with helpful training tools, including race time predictions and finish time estimates.
Legal disclaimers
1Read the Garmin accuracy page
2Requires Garmin Connect™ app and Connect IQ™ app loaded on compatible smartphone paired to Forerunner 55; read the Garmin Connect App page for compatibility requirements.
3Forerunner 55 is not compatible with on-device courses. Pace guidance is GPS-based only.
- Unit dimensions (WxHxD): 4.2 x 4.2 x 1.2cm
- Display size: 26.3mm diameter
- Display resolution (WxH): 208 x 208 pixel
- Display type: sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel
- Weight: 37g
- Memory/History: 200 hours of activity data
- Lens material: Chemically strengthened glass
- Water rating: Swim, 5 ATM
- Bands: Silicone
- Battery life: up to 2 weeks (smartwatch mode) up to 20 hours (GPS mode)
- Band size: Fits wrists with a circumference of 126-203mm
- Forerunner 55
- Charging/data cable
- Documentation