The Garmin Forerunner 955 is an elite GPS running watch designed to help you train. It's loaded with performance metrics including Running Dynamics, which shows you cadence, stride, contact time, balance, and more, to offer insight on your form, allowing you to adjust and improve. But there's a whole lot more this best running watch has to offer!

What lands the COROS APEX Pro premium running watch in our PlayBetter best running watch category? The fact that it has the endurance and durability to go wherever you do. With 40 hours of FULL GPS battery life, you can run that 100 miler through the mountains—no sweat! (At least for your battery!)

Train like a pro, recover like a pro. The Polar Vantage V2 is the premium running watch that lets you keep tabs on how hard you've pushed, how your body is adapting, and how well you recover. Knowledge is the road to progress, and the Polar Vantage V2 is the GPS running smartwatch that can take you there.

The Forerunner 955 premium running watch is designed to help you chase down your most insane goals! Get a touchscreen, multi-band GPS, solar model option, PLUS new training tools—like training readiness, a race widget, a morning report, and heart rate variability (HRV) status for a picture of your overall health.

The Garmin Enduro 2 is the ULTRA ultra running watch! Train longer and run longer wherever and whenever you want with insane battery life, full-color maps, multi-frequency positioning, a superbright flashlight with safety mode for night running, and much more!

The Garmin Forerunner 255/255 Music running watch gives you high-end features for a midrange price—plus two sizes now! Get to know yourself as a runner and go next level with this affordable fitness watch. And go even further with your most motivating tunes if you choose the Forerunner 255 Music.

This watch is built for longer runs—and can help create long-runners—which is why we recommend the COROS APEX PRO as the best COROS running watch. It's got 14% more battery life in full GPS than the original Apex multisport watch. Not only is it built with durable materials, it's loaded with training and health-monitoring features for extreme conditions—like blood oxygen monitoring with Altitude Mode. So go ahead and run where you want!

The VERTIX 2 adventure watch is the latest in the COROS lineup of GPS watches created for the most extreme athletes in the most extreme settings. At $100 more than its predecessor, the VERTIX 2 offers brow-raising advancements on existing features, ensuring that you get what you pay for and more. Known for their long-lasting batteries, we didn't think COROS could top the battery life of the VERTIX—but the VERTIX 2 has ... impressively. And that's not all: improved GPS tracking, added health tracking, and onboard music conspire to make this the ultimate adventure partner when you set out to conquer your outdoor mission—anywhere on the planet!

Recovery from overall stress plays a major role in performance development, optimal daytime functioning, well-being, and health. The Polar Vantage V2 premium GPS running watch is the ultimate tool for tapping into personalized smart training. When is it optimal to push? When is it best to rest? This GPS multisport smartwatch will guide you toward intelligent training and your next personal best.

Performance guidance and essential smartwatch features for athletes! The effort you put in today makes all the difference tomorrow. The Polar Vantage M2 premium multisport watch helps you focus your athletic attitude with personal data and adaptive training, helping you track your progress and those important day-to-day details outside workout time.

The Garmin Forerunner 955/955 Solar manages to pack the most running features into a sleek, lightweight smartwatch. The only minus may be a lack of color options. It is, however, QuickFit band compatible, so you can change the band to a color you prefer.

Train smarter, not harder, with the Polar Vantage M2. With this GPS running watch as your training partner, you can track your performance in real time and get valuable sleep and recovery stats. Plus, you'll also get the advanced wrist-based heart rate that Polar is known for!

Keep it super light and ultra fast with the easy-to-use COROS PACE 2 premium GPS running watch for women. There's no fat on this featherlight wearable that weighs just 29g with the COROS nylon band.

Garmin hit the mark with the Forerunner 255/255S running watch with music. For ladies who want both beats and performance metrics on watch without dropping $500 or more—the Forerunner 255 is on point. Plus, it comes in 2 sizes now with several options!

If you want performance metrics, the Forerunner 955/955 Solar premium GPS running watch is loaded with them. Along with Garmin Coach and built-in sports apps, running dynamics on your cadence, stride, contact time, balance, and more offers insight on your form so you can adjust and improve.

Train like a pro and recover like a pro with Polar Vantage V2, a premium multisport watch designed for triathlon or marathon training and whenever you need to be ready to perform. This advanced multisport watch is loaded with fitness and health tracking features like all-day wrist-based heart rate monitoring, Training Load Pro, Nightly Recharge, Running Performance Test, Cycling Performance Test, Leg Recovery Test and more!

You're an extreme athlete at home in extreme conditions. You go bold before you go home. Well, let's face it, you're at home in bold. The COROS VERTIX 2 is loaded with sensors, including optical pulse oximeter, optical heart rate monitor, barometric altimeter, accelerometer, compass, gyroscope, thermometer—and the new electrocardiogram (ECG) to get Heart Rate Variability (HRV) straight from your wrist.

For you running watch maps and navigation, there's nothing better than the Garmin fēnix 7 series, the epix (Gen 2), and the Forerunner 955.

All the Garmin fēnix 7 and epix (Gen 2) multisport GPS watches come preloaded with golf, ski, road & trail maps. The fēnix 7/7S/7X Sapphire Solar and epix 2 Sapphire models are preloaded with topographic maps, while you can download TopoActive maps onto the standard and Solar models.

The FR 945/945 LTE have preloaded golf, road & trail, and topo maps.

All of these Garmin watches have built-in sensors for the 3-axis compass, gyroscope, and barometric altimeter and support multi-GNSS satellite systems (GPS, GLONASS and Galileo).

Additionally, the fēnix 7/7S/7X Sapphire Solar and epix (Gen 2)Sapphire models offer navigation with a higher level of positioning accuracy, thanks to new multi-band frequency and GNSS network support (GPS, GLONASS and Galileo).