Garmin Presidents’ Day sale — 7 great deals on sports watches I’d shop right now

The entry-level Forerunner in Garmin’s lineup is a great sports watch for beginners, or any runner who likes to keep things simple with their tech. It offers reliable GPS tracking and can help you improve as a runner through suggested workouts each day. You can pick up the Forerunner 55 for $163 at Amazon right now, just edging out Best Buy’s deal on the watch, which brings it down to $165.

While it lacks the flashy AMOLED display of the Forerunner 265, the Forerunner 255 is otherwise a good match for its successor, and the memory-in-pixel screen is still clear to read in all conditions. It’s a great triathlon watch that has dual-band GPS tracking plus useful training analysis and music storage, and it’s back at its lowest ever price courtesy of this Amazon discount.

The Lily 2 Active packages Garmin's impressive fitness and sports tracking into an attractive timepiece that looks more like a piece of jewelry than a smartwatch. The Active version of the watch is $50 more than the Lily 2 in the sales, but for that money you get built-in GPS, making it a worthy upgrade for people who do outdoor workouts like runs and bike rides.

The rugged Instinct 2X Solar is built for adventure, with features like dual-band GPS tracking and a built-in flashlight helping you enjoy the great outdoors. It also has solar panels on the front to stretch the already impressive battery life even further in sunny conditions, and comes in a range of eye-catching colors which have all been reduced to $339-$349 in the Amazon sale.

The Garmin Forerunner 955 has a good claim for being the best value sports watch in the world at this reduced price. It has all the key sports tracking and training analysis features you get on newer models like the Forerunner 965 or Fenix 8 and costs considerably less. It also has offline maps and music storage, all in a lightweight plastic build that’s comfortable to wear 24/7.

This deal on the 47mm solar model brings it down to half the price of the new Fenix 8, which is a saving worth considering if you don’t need the mic and speaker and diveproof design of the Fenix 8. Otherwise the Fenix 7 Pro matches up well to the newer watch, offering top-notch sports tracking and navigation features plus outstanding battery life boosted by the solar panels on the watch face.

This is the largest model of the Epix Pro AMOLED sports watch, which I found offered incredible battery life for a watch with an AMOLED display, regularly lasting me 10 days on a charge even with the screen always on. I wore this watch for a year and ran a 2:27 marathon with it, and it proved the perfect training partner thanks to its reliable tracking and insightful training analysis.