Garmin Forerunner 265 Running Smartwatch with Silicone Band, 46mm Case, and 8 GB Memory (Aqua-Black)

Train brilliantly with the Garmin Forerunner 265 Smartwatch. You’ll see every insight lit up on a colorful AMOLED touchscreen display. Get ready to be better for it. Know where you stand with the morning report. Run, recover, and repeat with up to 13 days of battery life in smartwatch mode. It comes in a 46mm case size. Plan your strategy with race adaptive training, personalized daily suggested workouts, training readiness score, and more.
What You'll Love
Receive an overview of your sleep 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. 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. 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. 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 Garmin’s Firstbeat Analytics team.
Plan
Free adaptive 5K, 10K, and half marathon training plans from expert coaches. 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 favorite third-party platforms. 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 health. 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 energy. 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.
Prepare
This smartwatch measures crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time, and more. The 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 with VO2 Max. Track your moderate and vigorous activity minutes. Log a 2-minute session to record key health stats, and 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 265 so you can switch up how you sweat.
Perform
See how much power you’re applying to the trail or road so you can manage the effort and fine-tune training. Get superior positioning accuracy and optimized battery life. Plan race-day strategy with GPS-based pace guidance for a selected course or distance with Pacepro. Tap into over 30 built-in activities, including cycling, open-water swimming, strength training, and more. 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 10000 tracks (400 meters) from all over the world. Switch between sports automatically by using built-in profiles for triathlons, duathlons, brick workouts, and swim runs - so you can focus on the race and let your watch take care of recording splits. You can also create your custom multisport profiles.
Connect
Download songs and playlists from your Spotify, Deezer, Amazon Music, 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 location. 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 location and view preplanned courses. See your health and fitness information, connect with friends, and more - in the free, zero-subscription Garmin Connect app. Add watch faces, data fields, and apps to your paired watch.