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2 generation old Garmin. I got "gifted" a Fenix 5 (released in 2017) and it's more than sufficient in both functionality and battery life. I was so smitten, and since my wife was jealous, we found a Fenix 6 on FB Marketplace for $200. I'm sure the newer ones are way fancier but I'm not ready to spend $800 just yet.

I went the other way from a fenix 5 sapphire to a ultra2. The fenix was great, battery life particularly, but it was missing the features like body battery and some of the metrics the newer fenix’s got. It might be an assumption on my part, but I can’t imagine the newer watches got extra sensors or anything that would have made it difficult to update the older watches with some of those features. I appreciate that they want to sell the new models, but the updates never seemed to offer anything in my experience. The Garmin app at best was clunky, so most of the time I’d only open it to force an activity to sync then look at strava. I do however miss the recovery hours. I like that with the ultra it just works all the time, it charges really quickly so while I have to charge it more than the Garmin it’s not an issue. The updates seem to have tangible improvements, there’s plenty of 3rd party apps to get the training data and present it in a useful way for you. Plus all the metrics it gathers can be viewed, whereas a lot of the Garmin data was nicely presented in the charts but the data wasn’t as visible. It may have improved since I last used it. Certainly it wasn’t as available to sync to other apps, although probably most of the apps you are likely to want to use. Also not sure how they got to the run predictor figures, I mountain bike, and it gave me relatively fast predictions for running. All in I was happy with both watches, the ultra is a better daily watch, the Garmin excelled in battery life, and perhaps for serious training. But with all the data and apps for the ultra, I don’t think you’d be missing much on the Apple Watch platform. And I think fenixs are now more expensive than the ultras.

https://preview.redd.it/86f4k7obgcpf1.jpeg?width=1848&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3019545be885c59b5361eb05cccb3831166660bb Fenix 5 from 2016. Still over 1 week batterylife. Running like a champ.

Was GARMIN for many years, starting with Forerunner 910XT and progressing to Fenix 5Pro Saphire. Did last Tri event in 2019 and ended up switching to AWU when it first was released. I have no regrets, if I ever go back to Tri will probably use another GARMIN for racing/training but keep AWU as daily driver.

Still on my Fenix 5 from 2018. It's still running strong. With wearing it full day & recording activities, battery lasts about 5-6 days

Garmin garmin. I got a Fenix 5pro second hand for £100 best thing ive ever bought for running

I had the fenix 5 pro gave it to a buddy when I got the epix. Im definitely gonna get the 8 pro I I don't get a new one every yr . That's a waste. Now going from the epix to the 8 pro is going to be awesome might in get the micro led version not sure. I've been using samsung ultra and they don't even compare not even close but I wanted lte