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 forerunner 265 smartwatch, you'll see every insight lit up on a colourful amoled touchscreen display. get ready to be better for it.

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 customise 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 runners. Just set it up in the Garmin Connect app, then let Garmin Coach create personalised daily workouts to help you reach your goals from your first 5K to a full marathon. This includes Garmin Run Coach, which creates plans that adapt based on your performance, recovery and health metrics.

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 its 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 youre 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 First beat Analytics team.

LIGHT, BRIGHT AND MADE FOR ANY DISTANCE
Plan
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 COACH
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 bodys natural recovery process2.

BODY BATTERY ENERGY MONITORING
See your energy levels throughout the day so youll 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.

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

PREPARE
WRIST-BASED RUNNING DYNAMICS
This running smartwatch measures crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and more.

WRIST-BASED HEART RATE
This running 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 youre having a calm, balanced or stressful day.

PULSE OX SENSOR
Track your blood oxygen saturation while youre awake or asleep2.

Audio prompts
Get alerts to know how youre performing and even be guided through workouts.

CROSS TRAINING
Download free HIIT, strength, cardio, yoga and Pilates workouts to your Forerunner265 so you can switch up how you sweat.

PERFORM
WRIST-BASED RUNNING POWER
See how much power youre applying to the trail or road so you can manage effort and fine-tune training.

SAT IQ TECHNOLOGY AND MULTI-BAND GPS
Get superior positioning accuracy and optimised battery life.

Pace ProFeature
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 youve never run before with a database with more than 10,000 tracks (400 metres) 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 own custom multisport profiles.

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

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 PAYCONTACTLESS PAYMENTS
Breeze through checkout lines or transit systems with participating providers.

Smart notifications
Receive emails, texts and alerts on your running watch when paired with your iPhoneor Androidsmartphone.

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.

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

IN THE BOX

• Forerunner 265 running watch
• USB-C charging/data cable
• Documentation