Garmin Forerunner 265S - Whitestone/Neo Tropic

Features

• 1.1″ bright and colorful 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

What You'll Love

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 customize your report to show you what you want to see.

Garmin Coach

• 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 personalized workouts, select plans even adapt based on your performance 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 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 First beat Analytics™ team.

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 favorite 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 body’s natural recovery process

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.

Breathing Variations

• For a closer glimpse of your health, the breathing variations feature helps you understand shifts in your breathing patterns as you sleep2. These shifts could be related to environment, alcohol, or potential sleep disorders such as sleep apnea.

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 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 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

• Download free HIIT, strength, cardio, yoga and Pilates workouts to your Forerunner® 265S 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 optimized battery life.

Pace Pro Feature

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

Built-In Sports Apps

• Tap into 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 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 own custom multisport profiles.

CONNECT

Music

• Download songs and playlists from your Spotify, Deezer or YouTube® Music 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 location. Or if you feel unsafe, you can do it manually.

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.

Live track

• Friends and family can follow your real-time location4 and view preplanned courses.

Garmin Trails

• Access thousands of trails and send them directly to your compatible device for offline use with a subscription to Garmin Connect+ in the Garmin Connect™ app or to Outdoor Maps+ in the Garmin Explore™ app. Available in selected areas. Learn more.

Garmin Connect App

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

Connect Iq™ Store

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

Google Maps App

• Know where to go when walking, running or cycling. Enter your destination in Google Maps on your Android™ smartphone, then follow turn-by-turn directions on your wrist.