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The dad who trains hard, rests badly and wonders why he is always sore
The Forerunner 265 in 46mm with an AMOLED display, training readiness and recovery metrics, and multi-band GPS.
This is the watch runners want and talk themselves out of, which makes it close to the ideal gift. The recovery and readiness side is the part that changes behaviour: it tells a man in his forties to take the easy day, which he will listen to from a watch and from nobody else.
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The dad who runs a few times a week and whose running gear has been exiled to its own basket on the back step
The dad training for a half marathon who still runs in cotton socks he got free in a race pack
The dad whose weekday runs quietly stopped in April when it started getting dark before he got home
The dad stepping up from 10km to half marathon distance who currently runs holding his phone in one hand
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