Garmin needs to do better

Almost exactly a year ago I wrote about my new Garmin Forerunner 570 and how it compared to my previous 255. I partly bought it for some new features and metrics, but also because I was experiencing some rather annoying bugs on the 255. Chief of which was the fact that my alarm wouldn't go off most of the time. The problem followed me from a Forerunner 255 to the 570. Now imagine you have a family who all like sleeping in, and you have this weird hobby which makes you get out of bed at ungodly hours to go running. Imagine you set up an alarm on your Garmin watch for 5:30 AM. You set the alarm to repeat every day and you turn the sound off so it will only buzz on your wrist, as to not wake up your entire family. What do you expect will happen? You expect the alarm to go off every single day at 5:30 AM exactly, right? Expectations and reality don't often meet in Garminland however. What actually happens is that the alarm goes off once, the day after you set it. Then, if you're lucky, it…