Garmin

Forerunner 630 Bundle

The Garmin Forerunner 630 looks a lot like what your grandfather called a watch, and it does fasten around your wrist and tell the time, but the similarities to wristwatches of old end there. Like you, Garmin’s rarely content to sit still, so the Forerunner 630 honestly doesn’t have a ton in common with the “virtual coaches” that came before it, either.

For starters, the Forerunner 630 Bundles comes with an HRM-Run heart rate strap, so you can track all the basics—heart rate, pace, distance, calories, and time—right out of the box. The HRM-Run also gives you the ability to track complex things like stride length, cadence, ground contact time, vertical oscillation, and a lot more, all of which help serious runners become more efficient. It can also track performance condition, which extrapolates how you’ll do in a given scenario—if race day is a lot hotter, say—based on your past training outputs. Bike-friendly functions, sleep tracking, and phone notifications extend the Forerunner beyond just running.

The Forerunner can also provide a “stress score” to warn you against overtraining and tell you when to take it easy. Whether you’re training or recovering, all your info can be stored and analyzed in the cloud using Garmin Connect, so you always know right where you stand.