Add The New York Post on Google The running boom is hitting an all-time high, with millions of new and seasoned athletes flooding track clubs. (It’s also a place where New Yorkers meet for love connections.)
When you join your run club at 6 a.m. to sweat, chat and check each other out, show fellow members your great taste in wearable fitness tech.
You don’t need to pay top dollar for the newest generation flagship watch. Garmin epix Pro (Gen 2) Sapphire Edition offers 95% of the same features for a fraction of the cost. And now Amazon is selling it for 50% off before Prime Day.
By choosing the epix Pro Gen 2, you get a pristine, scratch-resistant sapphire lens built to survive the most punishing environments alongside the flawless execution of Garmin’s most advanced athletic software.
From calculating your steep-climb efficiency with Hill Score to measuring your long-distance capacity via Endurance Score, this watch delivers elite, flagship-level coaching insights at a vastly superior value.
The Garmin epix Pro Gen 2 Sapphire Edition is a high-performance, rugged smartwatch optimized for multi-sport athletes.
It features advanced multi-band GNSS with SatIQ for superior, battery-efficient positioning. Designed for durability with a 1.3-inch AMOLED display, sapphire lens and titanium bezel, it includes comprehensive navigation, specialized tracking for team sports and new metrics like hill and endurance scores to gauge training progress.
This deal won’t last forever. Get this $1,000 watch for just under $500 in this soon-to-be-gone deal.
While the other members of your running crew may have to spend a wad of cash to look trendy with the newest flagship watch, you will be tracking your splits with the same military-grade GPS and battery longevity for half the cost.
The Garmin epix Pro is the ultimate flex — elite training data on your wrist, extra cash in your wallet and total bragging rights at the post-run coffee meetup.
Brooklyn-based financial journalist Will Kenton has over a decade of experience covering the intersection of money, economics and culture. Specializing in investing, personal finance and retirement planning, his work has appeared in Investopedia, AP News, Business Insider and TIME Stamped. While at Investopedia, Will was the creative force behind the Anxiety Index, a proprietary tool used to gauge investor sentiment. His expertise is rooted in behavioral economics — a field he explored as associate editor of the New School Economics Review — and he aims to help readers navigate the “predictable irrationality” that influences financial decisions. Will holds a BA from Ohio University, an MA in economics from The New School and a Ph.D. in English literature from NYU. Beyond his financial career, he is also an award-winning playwright featured in the Red Bull Theater’s annual festival.
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