Garmin - Forerunner 935
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"Used the 935 for both pool and open water and it‘s been good for that, as well set-up for brick workouts and full tri, my longest was olympic distance."
"No one else comes close for multisport watches"
"When I got into running, then triathlons, I got a Forerunner 935"
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"I’ve had my renewed 935 for 4 years now, fantastic battery life."
"it's always on ... has better battery life ... personally, I think is better for an all purpose "sports watch" than AMOLED. ... I use mine for running and backpacking mostly ... the long battery life is important to me ... I prefer the always on feature"
"I missed the week+ long battery life"
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"I’ve had my renewed 935 for 4 years now, fantastic battery life."
"Me and my 935 are getting long in the tooth"
"It still works perfectly."
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"I think the main advantage the Instinct has over the Forerunner is that it comes with Garmin Explore integration (for offline realtime mapping with the companion app on the phone). ... Only the Forerunner 9xx series support this."
"If you want maps, it's the 900-series."
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"Since you mentioned you are running. I would suggest a watch that has "Training status". Basically it keeps track of your workouts, and suggest more workouts to you. As a runner I love it."
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"If you dive in as soon as you get the tick, it's crap."
"For the strokes to register I need to have good form and for the laps to be detected I need a clean turn/push off the wall."
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"if you have to take your phone anyway, there's a much better device on you for making calls. ... apple watches can have sim cards and place calls *without* having your cellphone on you. that's a real use case -- go for a run, leave the bulky phone at home."
"I'm just about to receive sleep score and high blood pressure detection on my AWU2."
"fancy metrics I didn't understand back then as well, and that have since showed up on cheaper models"
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"fancy metrics I didn't understand back then as well, and that have since showed up on cheaper models"
"if you have to take your phone anyway, there's a much better device on you for making calls. ... apple watches can have sim cards and place calls *without* having your cellphone on you. that's a real use case -- go for a run, leave the bulky phone at home."
"I'm just about to receive sleep score and high blood pressure detection on my AWU2."
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"Dont get anything with breadcrumb navigation, thats what I have on my 935 and I miss turns on my bike and running all the time."
AdeptusKapekus2025 1.0Garmin Forerunner 935 was going strong and was about to hit the 5 year point... until I did the stupid thing of freediving with it.
akaSovereign 1.0Fenix 8 47mm Sapphire. I've had a range of Garmins (Forerunner range: 35, 235, 935, 945, 955) but the 970 didn't appeal to me (accent colour on side and domed glass) so I got my first Fenix and first AMOLED watch (solar was thicker than my 955 which was already a bit thick under clothing). Love the look of the Fenix a lot more, plus better battery life
BenchOrdinary9291 1.0Ahhh I miss my forerunner 935 with its 2 week battery life, those were the days, this ultra 2 is not hateful though. Garmin does make a decent outdoor activity watch though.
dorack_uk 1.0I’ve got the Race S, really like it! It needs charging more than my old Garmin 935 did, but I much prefer the simpler UI on the Suunto. The app is much better too but the Garmin did have some features I miss sometimes; card payments and music for example, but I’m happy with the much cheaper and smaller Suunto.
FineThought5017 1.0You might manage all bases in the short term with a second hand forerunner 955 watch. It does have full mapping. Dont get anything with breadcrumb navigation, thats what I have on my 935 and I miss turns on my bike and running all the time. However that being said navigation on a bike using a watch screen is not ideal. The bigger screen of a dedicated bike computer is way better. Second hand 540 + second hand basic forerunner might cover all bases better. Another angle is Second hand 840 + heart rate strap is another make do. The touch screen of the 840 is handy and makes it more user friendly. You can use a running belt to carry it. I'm having a similar dilemma at the next level up which is I already have a forerunner 935 which does not have full mapping however I want to explore more on my bikes and trail running. In the end I have decided to go for the bigger screen of the bike computer. For unknown trail runs I'll just chuck it in my belt. I get a lot more time to make a decision running and can correct a bad turn easier. I have had some absolute stinkers taking wrong turns downhill whilst mountain biking.
Fit-Cable1547 1.0I don't know if there's a "correct" way, but I count the rest time in the same way I count the rest during a run, bike or strength workout--it's all part of the total time for the session. The older Garmins, like the 910x, used to just lap as a split where the newer ones from at least the 935 on switched to a rest with the lap button press which I always found annoying since you couldn't split a longer interval nicely that way without fumbling with a double tap. Ended up just using my 910xt for swimming to also help save the barometer in my 935 lol. As another commenter said, once I got the FORM goggles I didn't have to worry about that anymore. 😀
fluidsdude 1.0Wow! I think I’m on year six of my Garmin forerunner 935.
frac6969 1.0Thanks. Me and my 935 are getting long in the tooth so I thought I might get something simpler.
fusionvic 1.0I have the Ultra 2 and run it in low power mode as well. You don't lose much if anything. I also have a Forerunner 935. At the end of a day with the Forerunner 935 I'm at 87% and that's with daily GPS for my runs and cool down. I prefer Garmin for anything fitness related. It can help track my mileage on shoes and other gear. Precision Start was a real awesome feature of the Ultra but it should have been in the regular watches as well. I had a Series 7 that I never used for my outdoor GPS activities because it took 20-30 seconds for GPS and heart rate data to show up but I have to start the activity first.
Yep, I agree. I've been using Garmin devices since 2006 from the Forerunner 101 (where I had to manually input my data into an Excel spreadsheet) to the Forerunner 935 that I currently have and the Garmin fitness ecosystem is really good. I can tack mileage on my shoes and gear, use ANT+ devices on my bike, etc... The Apple Watch Ultra 2 I have gets closer to the Garmin (especially with Precision Start) but its still way behind. The only Garmin I've had that died was the Vivoactive HR. I think it was one too many OCR's that did it in.
Geo0893 1.0Wow… you seem to know your Garmin. lol Where do you rank forerunner 935? I picked it up in 2022 on amazon for $200
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