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.

RACE ADAPTIVE TRAINING PLANS

Get ready for your next race, including marathons, with training tips, personalised daily suggested workouts and completion time predictions. Just enter your race and we’ll build a plan that’ll help you meet your goals.

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.

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 WITH TURN-BY-TURN DIRECTIONS

Create or find existing courses in the Garmin Connect app or sync from your favourite third party platforms and get turn-by-turn directions.

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 the ideal time and duration they should be.

WOMEN’S HEALTH TRACKING

Track your menstrual cycle or pregnancy to get exercise and nutrition education.

RACE PREDICTOR

Get an estimate of what your pace could be for a 5K, 10K, half marathon and marathon.

WRIST-BASED RUNNING DYNAMICS

This smartwatch measures crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and more to help improve your running form.

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.

STRESS TRACKING

Find out if you’re having a calm, balanced or stressful day.

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.

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 965 running smartwatch is preloaded with free HIIT, strength, cardio, yoga and Pilates workouts so you can switch up how you sweat.

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.

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.

BUILT-IN SPORTS APPS

Tap in to 30+ built-in activities, including cycling, open-water swimming, strength training and more.

MUSIC

Download songs and playlists from your Spotify, Deezer or Amazon Music accounts for phone-free listening.

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 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.

About this item

• IN THE BOX: 1x Garmin Forerunner 265 GPS Running Smartwatch, Black, 1x charging/data cable, 1x Wearable4U Black Earbuds (TWS X7/X7-1), 1x microUSB cable
• TRAIN BRILLIANTLY: features brilliant AMOLED touchscreen display with traditional button controls and lightweight design in 46 mm size; up to 15 days of battery life in smartwatch mode and up to 24 hours in GPS mode
• PLAN YOUR STRATEGY: get your morning report with an overview of your sleep, recovery and training outlook alongside HRV status, training readiness and weather (data presented is intended to be a close estimation of metrics tracked) and plan race strategy with personalized daily suggested workouts based on the race and course that you input into the Garmin Connect app and then view the race widget on your watch; daily suggested workouts adapt after every run to match performance and recovery
• SAFETY AND MUSIC: If you feel unsafe or if your watch senses that an incident occurred, your watch will send a message with your live location. Download songs to your watch, including playlists from Spotify, Amazon Music or Deezer (subscription may be required), and connect with your wireless headphones for phone-free listening