Garmin Forerunner 265 Running Smartwatch - Whitestone & Tidal Blue | 49-GAR-010-02810-11

What if your next race was the performance of a lifetime? and personalised daily suggested workouts helped you do something you've never done? with the forerunner 265 running smartwatch, you'll see every insight lit up on a bright and colourful AMOLED touchscreen display. Get ready to be better for it.

Train brilliantly

With our brightest running smartwatch ever.

Key Features:

• 1.3" Bright and colourful 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
• Know where you stand with morning report
• Run, recover, repeat: With up to 13 days of battery life in smartwatch mode

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

Clock Features:

• Time/date
• GPS time sync
• Automatic daylight saving time
• Alarm clock
• Timer
• Stopwatch
• Sunrise/sunset times

Health Monitoring:

• Wrist-based heart rate (constant, every second)
• Daily resting heart rate
• Abnormal heart rate alerts: Yes (high and low)
• Respiration rate (24x7)
• Pulse OX blood oxygen saturation: Yes (spot-check, and optional all-day acclimation and in sleep)
• Fitness age
• Body battery energy monitor
• All-day stress
• Relaxation reminders
• Relaxation breathing timer
• Sleep: Yes (Advanced)
• Sleep score and insights
• Hydration: Yes (in Garmin Connect and optional Connect IQ widget)
• Women's health: Yes (in Garmin Connect and optional Connect IQ widget)
• Health snapshot

Sensors:

• GPS
• GLONASS
• GALILEO
• Multi-frequency positioning
• Satiq technology
• Garmin elevate wrist heart rate monitor
• Barometric altimeter
• Compass
• Gyroscope
• Accelerometer
• Thermometer
• Ambient light sensor
• Pulse ox blood oxygen saturation monitor

Daily Smart Features:

• Connectivity: Bluetooth, ANT+, Wi-Fi
• Connect IQ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps)
• On-device connect IQ store
• Smart notifications
• Text response/reject phone call with text (android only)
• Calendar
• Weather
• Realtime settings sync with garmin connect mobile
• Battery saver - customisable low power watch
• Controls smartphone music
• Plays and controls watch music
• Music storage
• Find my phone
• Find my watch
• Virb camera remote
• Smartphone compatibility: iPhone and Android
• Compatible with Garmin connect mobile
• Stocks: Yes (optional Connect IQ app)
• Garmin pay

Safety and Tracking Features:

• Livetrack
• Spectator messaging: Yes (with compatible smartphone)
• Live event sharing: Android Only
• Incident detection during select activities
• Incident detection alert on phone for wearables
• Assistance

Activity Tracking Features:

• Step counter
• Move bar (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it)
• Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal)
• Calories burned
• Floors climbed
• Distance travelled
• Intensity minutes
• Trueup
• Move IQ
• Garmin connect challenges app: Yes (optional Connect IQ app)

Fitness Equipment/Gym:

• Automatic rep counting
• Cardio workouts
• Available gym activity profiles: Strength, HIIT, Cardio and Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing, Indoor Rowing, Pilates, Yoga, Breathwork
• Strength workouts
• HIIT workouts
• Yoga workouts
• Pilates workouts
• On-screen workout animations
• On-screen workout muscle map

Training, Planning and Analysis Features:

• HR Zones
• HR Alerts
• HR Calories
• HR Max
• HRR
• Recovery time
• Auto max HR
• Morning report
• Race glance/widget
• HRV Status
• Training readiness
• HR broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ant+ to paired devices)
• Respiration rate (during exercise): Yes (with compatible accessory)
• GPS speed and distance
• Customisable screen(s)
• Customisable activity profiles
• Auto pause
• Interval training
• Improved interval (includes open repeats, intervals data page, rest screen and auto detection)
• Advanced workouts
• Downloadable training plans
• HRM running pace and distance
• Auto lap
• Manual lap
• Rest timer
• configurable lap alerts
• VO2 max (run)
• VO2 max (trail run)
• Training status: Improved
• Training load
• Training load focus
• Training effect
• Training effect (anaerobic)
• Primary benefit (training effect labels)
• Improved recovery time
• Daily suggested workouts: Yes (7 days)
• Customisable alerts
• Audio prompts
• Finish time
• Virtual partner
• Race an activity
• Auto multisport activities
• Multi-sport
• Course guidance
• Touch and/or button lock
• Hot keys
• Auto scroll
• Activity history on watch
• Physio trueup
• Unified training status

Running Features:

• Available run profiles: Running, Outdoor Track Running, Treadmill Running, Indoor Track Running, Trail Running, Virtual Running, Ultra Running
• GPS-based distance, time and pace
• Running dynamics
• Vertical oscillation and ratio
• Ground contact time and balance: Yes (with compatible accessory)
• Stride length (real time)
• Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute)
• Running power
• Grade-adjusted pace
• Performance condition
• Lactate threshold: Yes (with compatible accessory)
• Pacepro pacing strategies
• Run workouts
• Trail run auto climb
• Race predictor
• Course- and weather-specific race predictor
• Foot pod capable
• Run/walk/stand detection

Outdoor Recreation:

• Available outdoor recreation profiles: Hiking, skiing, snowboarding, XC classic skiing, stand up paddleboarding, rowing
• Point-to-point navigation
• Bread crumbtrail in real time
• Back to start
• Tracback
• Ultratrac mode
• UP ahead
• Elevation profile
• Distance to destination
• Barometric trend indicator with storm alert
• Vertical speed
• Total ascent/descent
• Future elevation plot
• Projected waypoint
• Sun and moon information

Cycling Features:

• Available cycling profiles: Bike, Bike Indoor, Mountain Bike, eBike, eMountain Biking
• Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories)
• Courses
• Bike lap and lap maximum power (with power sensor)
• Race an activity
• FTP (functional threshold power): Yes (with compatible accessory)
• Power curve and ftp workouts
• Compatible with vector and rally (power meters)
• Power meter compatible
• Compatible with varia vision (head-mounted display)
• Compatible with varia radar (rear-facing radar)
• Compatible with varia lights
• Speed and cadence sensor support (w/sensor)

Swimming Features:

• Available swim profiles: Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming, Swimming/Running
• Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, stroke distance, swim efficiency (swolf), calories)
• Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (swolf), calories)
• Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) (pool swim only)
• Drill logging (pool swim only)
• Basic rest timer (up from 0) (pool swim only)
• "Repeat on" rest timer (pool swim only)
• Auto rest
• Time and distance alerts
• Pacing alerts (pool swim only)
• Countdown start
• Pool swim workouts
• Critical swim speed
• Underwater wrist-based heart rate
• Heart rate from external hrm (real-time during rests, interval and session stats during rests, and automatic heart rate download post-swim): Yes (with HRM-Swim, HRM-Pro or HRM-Pro Plus)

Kid Activity Tracking Features:

• Toe-to-Toe Challenges app: Yes (Optional Connect IQ Toe-to-Toe Challenges app)

Connectivity:

• Smart trainer control

Plan your strategy

With race widget, personalised daily suggested workouts, training readiness score and more

Whet you'll love

Morning report

Receive an overview of your sleep 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 widget

Get ready for your next race - whether it's a 10K or marathon - with training tips, personalised 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.

Light, bright and made for any distance

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 favourite 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 rest.

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 activities.

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 asleep.

Audio prompts

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

Cross training

Forerunner 265 running smartwatch 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 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 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 or Deezer 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 location.

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 location 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.