Forerunner 265S

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Know how long you need to recover before your next high-effort workout based on your latest training.

Create or find existing courses in the Garmin Connect app, or sync from your favourite third-party platforms.

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 process.

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.

Automatically track or log your naps to see how they benefit your body and to check the recommended time and duration they should be.

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

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

This running smartwatch measures crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and more.

This running watch constantly samples your heart rate to help you gauge how hard you work during activities.

Compare your recent training load to the optimal range to help improve your fitness.

See how your workouts influence your endurance, speed and power.

While you run, get an analysis of your pace and heart rate for a real-time assessment of your current ability to perform.

See your current fitness level and track changes over time to set goals, evaluate progress and more.

Track your moderate and vigorous activity minutes.

Log a 2-minute session to record key health stats, then generate a report to share with your healthcare provider.

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

Track your blood oxygen saturation while you’re awake or asleep.

Get alerts to know how you’re performing and even be guided through workouts.

Download free HIIT, strength, cardio, yoga and Pilates workouts to your Forerunner® 265S so you can switch up how you sweat.

See how much power you’re applying to the trail or road so you can manage effort and fine-tune training.

Get superior positioning accuracy and optimised battery life.

Plan race-day strategy with GPS-based pace guidance for a selected course or distance.

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

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.

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.

Download songs and playlists from your Spotify, Deezer or YouTube® Music accounts for phone-free listening (subscription may be required).

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.

Breeze through checkout lines or transit systems with participating providers.

Receive emails, texts and alerts on your watch when paired with your iPhone® or Android™ smartphone.

Friends and family can follow your real-time location3 and view preplanned courses.

See your health and fitness information, connect with friends and more.

Add watch faces, data fields and apps to your paired watch.