Forerunner 265 Smart Watch - Unisex

Train brilliantly with an amoled display

What if your next race was the performance of a lifetime? And personalized daily suggested workouts helped you do something you’ve never done? With the forerunner 265 smartwatch, you’ll see every insight lit up on a colorful amoled touchscreen display. Get ready to be better for it.

• 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 customize your report to show you what you want to see.
• Race Widget: Get ready for your next race — whether it’s a 10K or marathon — with training tips, personalized daily suggested workouts and completion time predictions based on course details, weather and performance.
• Daily Suggested Workouts: Get workouts made for you. They adapt after every run to match your performance and recovery and take into account the races coming up in your Garmin Connect™ calendar.
• 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.
• Train brilliantly with the Forerunner 265 GPS running smartwatch
• Its colorful AMOLED touchscreen display stands out while the morning report with HRV status gives health insights (data presented is intended to be a close estimation of metrics tracked)
• The training readiness feature — which tells you when you’re primed for a productive session — helps you crush your goals

Plan:
• Garmin Coach: Free adaptive 5K, 10K and half marathon training plans from expert coaches.
• 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 favorite third party platforms.
• Sleep Monitoring And Sleep Score: Understand how your body’s recovering with sleep score, breakdown of your sleep stages and detailed insights for improved sleep quality.
• Body Battery™ Energy Monitoring: Track your body’s energy levels to find the best times for activity and rest1.
• 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 smartwatch measures crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and more.
• Wrist-Based Heart Rate: The 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 asleep2.
• Audio Prompts: Get alerts to know how you’re performing and even be guided through workouts.
• Cross Training: Forerunner 265 is preloaded with free HIIT, strength, cardio, yoga and Pilates workouts 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 optimized 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.
• Triathlon And Multisport Profiles: Switch between sports with one press by using built-in profiles, or you can create your own.

Connect:
• Music: Download songs and playlists from your Spotify, Deezer or Amazon Music accounts for phone-free listening.
• Safety And Tracking: If you feel unsafe or if your watch senses that an incident occurred, your watch will send a message with your live location3.
• Garmin Pay™ Contactless Payments: Breeze through checkout lines or transit systems with participating providers.
• Smart Notifications: Receive emails, texts and alerts on your watch when paired with your iPhone® or Android™ smartphone.
• Livetrack: Friends and family can follow your real-time location3 and view preplanned courses.
• Garmin connect app: See your health and fitness information, connect with friends and more — in this free, zero-subscription app.
• Connect IQ™store: Add watch faces, data fields and apps to your paired watch.

In the box:
• Forerunner 265 GPS running watch
• USB-C charging/data cable
• Documentation

Specification:
• 1.3” colorful amoled display
• Up to 20 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
• GPS: Yes
• Heart Rate Monitor: Yes
• Primary Color: White
• Connectivity: ANT+, BT SMART
• Customizable Screen: Yes
• External Sensor Compatibility: Speed/Cadence/HR
• Touchscreen: Yes
• Battery Type: Lithium Ion
• Watch Color: Whitestone
• Wristband: Whitestone/Tidal Blue - Silicone
• Solar Charging:No

General Specification:
• Lens material: Corning® gorilla® glass 3
• Bezel material: Fiber-reinforced polymer
• Quick release bands: Yes (22 mm, industry standard)
• Strap material: Silicone
• Physical size: 46.1 x 46.1 x 12.9 (mm) | fits wrists with a circumference of 135-205 mm
• Touchscreen: Yes
• Color display: Yes
• Display size: 1.3" (32.5 mm) diameter
• Display resolution: 416 x 416 pixels
• Display type: Amoled optional always-on mode
• Weight: 47 g
• Water rating: 5 atm
• Charging method: Garmin proprietary plug charger
• Memory/history: 8 gb

Battery Life:
• Smartwatch mode: up to 13 days
• Gps-only gnss mode: up to 20 hours
• Satiq (autoselect) gnss mode: up to 16 hours
• All-systems gnss mode + multi-band: up to 14 hours
• Gps-only gnss mode with music: up to 7 hours
• Satiq (autoselect) gnss mode with music: up to 6.5 hours
• All-systems gnss mode + multi-band with music: up to 6 hours

Availability:   Worldwide Some exclusions apply