Going out running

Running gear doesn't need much explaining, but the wrist is where most of the decisions get made lately: what to track, what to ignore, and how much you want strapped to you before you've even left the house. A handful of options below, from the straightforward to the fully instrumented.

The Siltcon Smartwatch Heren Pro covers the usual ground: steps, heart rate, blood pressure, sleep, oxygen saturation, calls routed from your phone. It comes with four bands and a stainless case, which is a lot of options for something you'll probably wear with whichever strap you grabbed first.

Garmin's Vivoactive 5 keeps things simpler on paper, an AMOLED screen in a cream gold case that doesn't look like it's trying to be a running watch specifically, which some people will count as a feature.

The Vivoactive 6 is the newer version of that same idea, 42mm, lunar gold, with the health and fitness tracking Garmin builds into most of its range now. Whether the upgrade from the 5 matters depends entirely on what you were missing.

For the other half of the Siltcon pair, the Siltcon Smartwatch Dames Pro runs the same feature list as its counterpart above, gold finish, four included bands, stainless steel. Marketed by gender, worn by whoever's wrist it fits.

And then there's the Garmin Forerunner 255, a watch that drops the phone-call ambitions and the four spare straps in favour of GPS and not much else. Slate grey, 46mm, built for people who already know what they're tracking and don't need the watch to also handle their messages.