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TRAIN BRILLIANTLY
WITH AN AMOLED DISPLAY
WHAT IF YOUR NEXT RACE WAS THE PERFORMANCE OF A LIFETIME? AND GARMIN COACH TRAINING PLANS HELPED YOU DO SOMETHING YOU'VE NEVER DONE? WITH THE Forerunner 265S SMARTWATCH, YOU’LL SEE EVERY INSIGHT LIT UP ON A COLOURFUL AMOLED TOUCHSCREEN DISPLAY. GET READY TO BE BETTER FOR IT.
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KNOW WHERE YOU STAND
WITH MORNING REPORT
RUN. RECOVER. REPEAT.
WITH UP TO 15 DAYS OF BATTERY LIFE IN SMARTWATCH MODE
COMES IN TWO SIZES
TO FIT EVERY WRIST
PLAN YOUR STRATEGY
WITH GARMIN COACH, PERSONALISED DAILY SUGGESTED WORKOUTS, TRAINING READINESS SCORE AND MORE
1.1″ BRIGHT AND COLOURFUL AMOLED DISPLAY
UP TO 24 HOURS OF BATTERY LIFE IN GPS MODE
ADVANCED TRAINING METRICS AND RECOVERY INSIGHTS
SATIQ™ AND MULTI-BAND GPS
TOUCHSCREEN AND BUTTONS
MUSIC ON YOUR WRIST
WHAT YOU'LL LOVE
MORNING REPORT
Receive an overview of your sleep1 and training outlook as soon as you wake up — alongside HRV status and weather. You can even customise your report to show you what you want to see.
GARMIN COACH
Prepare for your next race, train for a milestone, or simply improve your fitness with Garmin Coach adaptive or prebuilt running, cycling or strength training plans. For more personalised workouts, select plans even adapt based on your performance and health metrics.
DAILY SUGGESTED WORKOUTS
Get workouts made specifically for you and based on your data. These run recommendations vary in intensity and adapt after every run to take into account performance and recovery.
TRAINING READINESS
From the moment you wake up, get a readiness score based on your sleep quality, recovery, training load and more, so you can determine whether it’s a good day to go hard — or take it easy.
TRAINING STATUS
Using indicators such as HRV status, your recent exercise history and performance, get an easy insight into your overall effort — and whether you’re training productively, peaking or strained.
HRV STATUS
Gain a deeper understanding of your overall health, training and recovery through heart rate variability, while you sleep, based on technology developed by our Firstbeat Analytics™ team.
LIGHT, BRIGHT AND MADE FOR ANY DISTANCE
PLAN
RECOVERY TIME
Know how long you need to recover before your next high-effort workout based on your latest training.
COURSES
Create or find existing courses in the Garmin Connect app, or sync from your favourite third party platforms.
SLEEP COACH
Get personalised coaching for how much sleep you need and tips on how you can improve. Use this guidance to find the right balance between challenging activities and your body’s natural recovery process1.
BODY BATTERY™ ENERGY MONITORING
See your energy levels throughout the day so you’ll know when your body is charged up and ready for activity or drained and needing to recharge with restful sleep. And get even more details and personal insights on how sleep, naps, daily activities and high stress specifically impact your energy1.
NAP DETECTION
Automatically track or log your naps to see how they benefit your body and to check the recommended time and duration they should be.
BREATHING VARIATIONS
For a closer glimpse of your health, the breathing variations feature helps you understand shifts in your breathing patterns as you sleep2. These shifts could be related to environment, alcohol, or potential sleep disorders such as sleep apnea.
RACE PREDICTOR
Get an estimate of what your pace could be for a 5K, 10K, half marathon and marathon.
WOMEN’S HEALTH TRACKING
Track and log your menstrual cycle or pregnancy to get exercise and nutrition education.
PREPARE
WRIST-BASED RUNNING DYNAMICS
This running smartwatch measures crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and more.
WRIST-BASED HEART RATE
This running watch constantly samples your heart rate to help you gauge how hard you work during activities1.
ACUTE LOAD
Compare your recent training load to the optimal range to help improve your fitness.
TRAINING EFFECT
See how your workouts influence your endurance, speed and power.
PERFORMANCE CONDITION
While you run, get an analysis of your pace and heart rate for a real-time assessment of your current ability to perform.
VO2 MAX
See your current fitness level and track changes over time to set goals, evaluate progress and more.
INTENSITY MINUTES
Track your moderate and vigorous activity minutes.
HEALTH SNAPSHOT
Log a 2-minute session to record key health stats, then generate a report to share with your healthcare provider.
STRESS TRACKING
Find out if you’re having a calm, balanced or stressful day.
PULSE OX SENSOR
Track your blood oxygen saturation while you’re awake or asleep3.
AUDIO PROMPTS
Get alerts to know how you’re performing and even be guided through workouts.
CROSS TRAINING
Download free HIIT, strength, cardio, yoga and Pilates workouts to your Forerunner® 265S so you can switch up how you sweat.
PERFORM
WRIST-BASED RUNNING POWER
See how much power you’re applying to the trail or road so you can manage effort and fine-tune training.
SATIQ™ TECHNOLOGY AND MULTI-BAND GPS
Get superior positioning accuracy and optimised battery life.
PACEPRO™ FEATURE
Plan race-day strategy with GPS-based pace guidance for a selected course or distance.
BUILT-IN SPORTS APPS
Tap in to 30+ built-in activities, including cycling, open-water swimming, strength training and more.
TRACK RUNNING
Record accurate lap distances and see your distances in meters – even on a track you’ve never run before with a database with more than 10,000 tracks (400 metres) from all over the world.
TRIATHLON AND MULTISPORT PROFILES
Switch between sports automatically by using built-in profiles for triathlons, duathlons, brick workouts and swimruns – so you can focus on the race and let your watch take care of recording splits. You can also create your own custom multisport profiles.
CONNECT
MUSIC
Download songs and playlists from your Spotify, Deezer, Amazon Music or YouTube® Music accounts for phone-free listening (subscription may be required).
SAFETY AND TRACKING
If your watch senses that an incident occurred, it will send a message with your live location4. Or if you feel unsafe, you can do it manually.
GARMIN PAY™ CONTACTLESS PAYMENTS
Breeze through checkout lines or transit systems with participating providers.
SMART NOTIFICATIONS
Receive emails, texts and alerts on your running watch when paired with your iPhone® or Android™ smartphone.
LIVETRACK
Friends and family can follow your real-time location4 and view preplanned courses.
GARMIN TRAILS
Access thousands of trails, and send them directly to your compatible device for offline use with a subscription to Garmin Connect+ in the Garmin Connect™ app or to Outdoor Maps+ in the Garmin Explore™ app. Available in select areas. Learn more.
GARMIN CONNECT APP
See your health and fitness information, connect with friends and more.
CONNECT IQ™ STORE
Add watch faces, data fields and apps to your paired watch.
GOOGLE MAPS APP
Know where to go when walking, running or cycling. Enter your destination in Google Maps on your Android™ smartphone, then follow turn-by-turn directions on your wrist.
