My favorite running watch is now $50 off with this Amazon Black Friday deal

My favorite running watch is now $fifty off with this Amazon Blackness Fri deal

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Do y'all like running with music, but hate carrying your telephone with you? Then you need to check out this Black Friday deal on the Garmin Precursor 245 Music, which cuts $50 off ane of the best running watches around.

Right now Amazon has the Garmin Precursor 245 Music for just $299, which is $fifty off. That means it's an excellent time to selection upwards this GPS lookout man. The spotter can not only rail a ton of metrics, but can store up to 500 songs, so you can pair it with a set up of Bluetooth headphones. This is one Blackness Friday bargain you shouldn't run past.

Over the years, I've done a lot of running — iv marathons and at to the lowest degree one-half a dozen half marathons — and plant the Forerunner 245 Music to exist one of the best running watches.

Information technology's extremely lite — just 1.4 ounces — so you barely notice it on your wrist. Its 1.2-inch display is a footling small when compared with some of the best smartwatches, but Garmin does a good job at making the numbers and letters very legible, so you can get all the information you lot need at a quick glance. Plus, it'southward a transflective display, then information technology gets fifty-fifty brighter in the dominicus.

The Forerunner 245 can show a ton of metrics apart from pace and distance; for example, it tin tell you how constructive your training is. In our Garmin Forerunner 245 Music review, I really liked its light weight, as well as the ability to customize the display to show what I wanted to see during my runs. And, its first-class battery life — up to 6 hours when using both GPS and streaming music — meant I didn't have to worry most charging it after every run.

And then there'due south the onboard music storage. If you have a Spotify or Deezer premium business relationship, you can download playlists from those services directly to the watch; otherwise, you can sideload music from your calculator. You lot tin can then apply the controls on the watch itself to play, intermission, and skip alee and back.

At $299 — $50 off its regular price — the Garmin 245 Music is at a very low toll, making information technology a practiced time to choice i up. Y'all should also check out our Garmin Black Friday deals for discounts on the visitor's other watches.

Michael A. Prospero is the deputy editor at Tom's Guide overseeing the home, smart home, drones, and fitness/wearables categories, equally well every bit all ownership guides and other evergreen content. When he's not testing out the latest running watch, skiing or grooming for a marathon, he's probably using the latest sous vide car or some other cooking gadget.