Garmin Forerunner 265S Black Bezel with Whitestone Case GPS Smartwatch (Whitestone and Neo Tropic)

What if your next race was the performance of a lifetime and Garmin coach training plans helped you do something you've never done, with the Garmin Forerunner 265S GPS Running Smartwatch, you’ll see every insight lit up on a 1.1-inch colorful AMOLED touchscreen display. Get ready to be better for it. Run, recover, and repeat with up to 1 day of battery life in smartwatch mode which comes in 42mm size to fit every wrist. Plan your strategy with Garmin coach, personalized daily suggested workouts, training readiness score, and more.

Morning Report

As soon as you wake up, you will receive an overview of your sleep and training outlook, alongside HRV status and weather. You can even customize your report to show you what you want to see.

Garmin Coach

Train for an event, achieve a milestone, or improve your fitness with Garmin Coach training plans for running, cycling, or strength. Just set it up in the Garmin Connect app, then let Garmin Coach create personalized daily workouts to help you reach your goals. This includes Garmin Run and Cycling Coach, which creates training plans that adapt based on your performance, recovery, and health metrics. If you’re trying to build muscle or simply increase your fitness level, the strength training plans are tailored to help you optimize your body’s performance and endurance.

Daily Suggested Workouts

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.

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 the Firstbeat Analytics team.

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 health.

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 energy.

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.

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 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 the 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 into 30-plus 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 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.