Garmin Forerunner 265S

Forerunner® 265

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 265 SMARTWATCH, YOU’LL SEE EVERY INSIGHT LIT UP ON A COLOURFUL AMOLED TOUCHSCREEN DISPLAY. GET READY TO BE BETTER FOR IT.

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.

PLAN

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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 process2.

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 uses Pulse Ox2 to help you better understand shifts in your breathing patterns as you sleep.

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

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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 asleep2.

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® 265 so you can switch up how you sweat.

PERFORM

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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 metres – 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

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MUSIC

Download songs and playlists from your Spotify, Deezer 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 location3. 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 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.

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.

BATTERY LIFE Smartwatch mode: Up to 15 days

GPS-Only GNSS mode: Up to 24 hours

SatIQ (AutoSelect) GNSS mode: Up to 18 hours

All-Systems GNSS mode + Multi-Band: Up to 15 hours

GPS-Only GNSS mode with music: Up to 7.5 hours

SatIQ (AutoSelect) GNSS mode with music: Up to 7 hours

All-Systems GNSS mode + Multi-Band with music: Up to 6 hours

1Activity tracking accuracy.

2This is not a medical device and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or monitoring of any medical condition; see Garmin.com/ataccuracy. Pulse Ox not available in all countries.

3When paired with your compatible smartphone. For safety and tracking features requirements and limitations, see Garmin.com/safety.

SPOTIFY and the Spotify logo are among the registered trademarks of Spotify AB. Apple® is a trademark of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. Android is a trademark of Google LLC. YouTube Music and the YouTube Music Icon are trademarks of Google LLC.

Engineering enhancements are ongoing and may not be reflected in the pictures, videos and specifications.

What's in the box?

Device, Charging Cable, Documentation

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