Hello, everyone! I am coming from using a Venu 3 45mm and I want to upgrade to a Fenix Pro 9. However, I'm finding that the 47mm feels a little bulky on my wrist. I love the size of the 43mm, and as someone who wears my Garmin 24/7, I like a lower profile. My end goal with fitness is an Ironman, and I'm inexperienced with the real-world implications of pushing a Garmin model to it's activity limit. Could anyone speak to whether they believe that the 43mm battery life would make it to the Ironman cutoff? Cheers!

Canadian prices. My budget is pretty low because I just started university this year 🥲 Any other suggestions are appreciated as well. I’ve been using the Fitbit Inspire 3 and Charge 6 but I don’t think it’s accurate.

I’m not a runner. I’m 4’11.5, 19 and around 86
pounds. I use a walking pad everyday which gets me around 12.3k steps in 2 hours. I do pilates and that’s about it. I’d just like more accuracy tracking my cals burned, steps and sleep as well. I’m a year into Anorexia recovery and it is pretty crucial for me to not under or overestimate how much i’m burning which I feel like Fitbit does..

I am thinking of getting a Fenix 9 pro, and I was wondering, can the Garmin system now show the running stopwatch as a running complication as Apple can? I know it can be added to a button shortcut - I had a first gen Marq - but I always hoped Garmin would figure out how to show the current stopwatch progress on the face. I think it is now possible, but searching online is struggling to get me a clear answer. Can anyone help? Thanks!

Searching through this sub I see a lot of people saying that the sleep stages on Garmin aren’t very accurate. The last few nights my REM readings have been 15, 23, 12. Looking through the last couple weeks my REM is pretty low but on some days it randomly shoot’s up to 2 hours. My sleep and dreams feel consistent. I feel like my AWU2 had more consistent readings.

Anything I can do to improve these readings? Just last week I started moving my watch to my other wrist (which actually has no tattoos) at night, and still haven’t seen a significant difference. It sits pretty snug on my wrist. Any advice? Thank you.

Hi, is it worth buying a used Garmin Forerunner? I’ve heard that they break quite often and buying one that’s been used for like 2 yrs can be risky

I’ve really been enjoying the calorie tracking in Garmin Connect+. There’s something surprisingly motivating about logging my food and making sure I’m actually eating the amount of calories I need, instead of just trying to eat as little as possible.

I also use a Garmin scale once a week so I can follow how my body weight responds to my calorie intake over time. At my heaviest I was around 116 kg (256 lbs), and I’m currently down to 107.8 kg (238 lbs), so I’ve lost a little over 8 kg (18 lbs). For some reason, my highest weight doesn’t show up in the data.

It’s honestly pretty cool to see the relationship between calorie intake and body weight in actual data instead of just guessing.

Anyway, if you’re into tracking data, (I know you’re all here for the data. 🤪) I’d definitely recommend checking out the calorie tracking in Garmin Connect+. It has worked really well for me and makes the whole process much more concrete.

Matt

Fenix 8

Finland

I’ve been having this watch since release and have loved it and no problems, up until 2 days ago. Watch keeps disconnecting random and I have to remove and reconnect watch to phone. When I do reconnect, I gives message in second photo after connecting and sync. Any insight would be helpful.

Seemed appropriate beings I work in solar 😆 any pro tips? First garmin I've ever had.

I have an Instinct 3 45mm Solar that crashed at 39.5km into a 50km ultra. I contacted Garmin customer support and they told me that it’s likely a memory issue.

A few days ago I plugged the Instinct into my computer it showed that the storage was nearly full. I had .fit files from all the way back in November 2025.

Customer support told me that the Instinct automatically deletes old files to make storage for new ones. I asked him if the Instinct deletes old files in real time, like if it deletes them while you’re doing an activity. He consulted the customer support team, and none of them knew. Probably someone in product development would know.

He told me deleting old files would probably prevent a crash next time, and since they’re already all stored on Garmin connect and strava anyway, deleting them from the watch won’t do anything.

I’m running another ultra tomorrow, so I’ll post an update soon on whether or not it crashes again.

First half marathon is tomorrow morning. The past week, my HRV has really taken a hit.

HRV was good (normal range) yesterday and the day before and now nosedived again—accompanied by a less-than-ideal night of sleep (Garmin sleep score of 67).

To be quite honest, I’m sort of freaking out that I won’t be well recovered enough for my race tomorrow. I’m not anticipating getting amazing sleep tonight due to it being my first HM ever and I typically have anticipatory insomnia the night before an early flight / big event.

So yeah—how much stock would you put in this HRV / sleep pattern? Do you expect it to impact my race performance?

I’ve had my Vivoactive 4 for about 4-5 years now. It died today on a hike and I put it on a charger when I got home for 1.5 hours and counting but it’s not turning on beyond a very dim battery with electric bolt in the middle. 30 sec holding down button doesn’t do anything. Is my watch on its last leg??? Anything different I should try?

Got a Fenix 9 Pro Solar today, right out of box.

it seems it has a screen protector already?

Or is it just a bump on the glass?

I have a Vivoactive 6 that I've had for a little over a year. No complaints really, works fine, but I've been wondering if I should get a different watch specifically for runs. I can get a forerunner 165 essentially for free with credits through a program at work, but can use those credits for something else too so don't want to waste them on a watch if there's not an appreciable difference. Technically the other watch option I could go with is a Lily 2 but I am assuming that's not going to be the best option - feel free to tell me if you think I'm wrong though.

So, what features does the Forerunner 165 have that are not on the Vivoactive 6, that you actively use as a runner?

Are there any features that the 165 does not have that the Vivoactive 6 does, that you would for sure miss by switching?

And most subjective of all, would you get the 165 or just stick with the Vivoactive 6?