Garmin Forerunner 265 Music Smart Watch

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.

Features
• 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
• 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 Adaptive Training Plans: Get ready for your next race, including marathons, with training tips, personalized 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
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 Coach: Get a sleep score and personalized coaching for how much sleep you need and how you can improve. Keep track of different sleep stages and naps-and see key metrics such as HRV status to better understand your health²
• 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
• 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-even on a track you’ve never run before with a database with more than 10,000 tracks(400 meters)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 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 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-in this free, zero-subscription app
• Connect IQ™ Store: Add watch faces, data fields and apps to your paired watch

Specifications
General
• Lens Material: Corning® Gorilla® Glass 3
• Bezel Material: Fiber-reinforced Polymer
• Quick Release Bands: Yes(22mm, Industry standard)
• Strap Material: Silicone
• Physical Size(LxWxH): 46.1x46.1x12.9mm
• Weight: 47g
• Display Size: 1.3"/32.5mm diameter
• Display Resolution: 416x416 pixels
• Color Display: Yes
• Large Font Option: Yes
• Charging Method: Garmin proprietary plug charger
• Memory/History: 8GB
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

What's in the Box
• Forerunner 265 GPS running watch
• USB-C charging/data cable
• Documentation