Garmin Forerunner 265S Multisport GPS Watch

Train brilliantly – with the Forerunner® 265S by GARMIN.
The Forerunner 265S marks a new generation of GARMIN running watches: Equipped with a colourful, crystal clear 1.1" Amoled display, the watch can be used with touch or buttons. It combines smartwatch qualities with sports expertise and thus proves brilliance on all levels – during training as well as daily life. For this purpose, GARMIN has equipped the Forerunner 265S with a powerful rechargeable battery that powers the crisp and bright display for up to 15 days or provides a whopping 24 hours of GPS tracking time. The slim sports watch – especially this smaller S version for slim wrists – remains so light and comfortable to wear that it accompanies you every step of the way and also records nightly recovery phases to assess your performance status.

This is where the concentrated know-how and the sophisticated sensor technology that are in the Forerunner 265S become apparent: Extensive physiological measurements help you to control your training efficiently. Features like training readiness give you insights into whether you're ready for your next session based on training status, recovery time and heart rate variability. Work towards your personal goals or prepare for your next race with Garmin Coach, personalised training plans and more. And with the Running Power function, you can now measure your wattage completely independently of external running sensors. More than 30 pre-installed sports apps, including running, cycling, open water swimming or triathlon, also make the Forerunner 265S a real multisport watch that provides precise readings for every activity thanks to multi-frequency GPS.

And especially in daily life, you'll really love the crisp display and the fluid touch operation. Intuitively navigate through the extensive setting options and get even faster access to messages from friends, the weather forecast or other useful smart functions such as GARMIN Pay or GARMIN Music. So you can make contactless payments on the go or control your music from your wrist. This means that you can leave your smartphone in the pocket more and more often and – thanks to offline playlists – can even leave it at home altogether. The sporty, modern design of the Forerunner 265S will make you look good wherever you go – the two-tone wristbands combined with the brilliant display make it a real eye-catcher. It's almost a shame that your opponents will only see it from behind.


Highlights:

• MORNING REPORT*: Get an overview of your sleep and training recommendations first thing in the morning, along with HRV status and weather information. You can even customise the report to fit your needs.
• RACE ADAPTIVE TRAINING PLANS: Get ready for your next race, including marathons, with training tips, personalised daily suggested workouts and completion predictions. Just enter your race, and we will build a plan that will help you meet your goals.
• DAILY SUGGESTED WORKOUTS: Receive individually created training plans. After each run, the data is adjusted to your performance and recovery, as well as to races that are coming up according to your GARMIN Connect™ calendar.
• TRAINING READINESS: Training readiness combines your acute training load with other health data such as recovery, sleep or stress and individually classifies your readiness for the next training session.
• TRAINING CONDITION: With indicators like HRV status (heart rate variability), training log and power, you get insights into your overall effort. That way you know whether you are building up your form during training, are in top form or are tired.
• HRV STATUS: Record your heart rate variability during sleep and get exciting insights into health, recovery and fitness thanks to a daily and 7-day average.


Plan your training!

• GARMIN COACH: Start an interactive workout and get free adaptive 5K, 10K and half marathon training plans from expert coaches.
• RECOVERY TIME: After each workout, the recovery time tells you when you are ready for your next activity. It is based on the training intensity and factors such as stress, daily activities and sleep.
• COURSES: Create or find existing courses in the GARMIN Connect™ app, so you will never run out of routes. Or plan a route on other platforms such as Strava and Komoot, then automatically sync them to your smartwatch.
• SLEEP COACH: Get a sleep score and personalised 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™*: Measure your body’s energy levels so that you know the best times for you to be active or to recover.
• NAP DETECTION: Automatically track or log your naps. See how they benefit your body and check the recommended time and duration they should be.
• RACE PREDICTOR: Get information about your potential pace for a 5K, 10K, half marathon or marathon.
• WOMEN'S HEALTH TRACKING: Track and store information about your menstrual cycle or pregnancy for training and nutrition information.
• JET LAG ADVISER: Depending on your destination, you will receive individual recommendations on sleep schedule, light exposure and exercise to minimise the effects of jet lag.


Prepare yourself!

• WRIST-BASED RUNNING DYNAMICS: Your smartwatch measures crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and more.
• HEART RATE MEASUREMENT*: Your heart rate is recorded regularly and helps you assess how hard you are training during activities.
• ACUTE LOAD: Compare your recent training load with the optimal range to improve your fitness.
• TRAINING EFFECT: Find out how your training sessions effect your stamina, speed, and performance.
• PERFORMANCE CONDITION: Get pace and heart rate analysis while running. This gives you a real-time assessment of your current performance.
• VO2 MAX: See your current fitness level and track long-term changes to set goals, evaluate your progress and more.
• INTENSITY MINUTES: Save your moderate and intense activity minutes.
• HEALTH SNAPSHOT™: Complete a 2-minute session to record important health statistics, then create a report to share with your doctor.
• PULSE OX SENSOR**: Check your blood oxygen level to assess acclimatisation to altitude or to detect breathing difficulties during sleep.
• TRAINING INSTRUCTIONS: Get hints on your performance and even instructions during your workouts.
• WORKOUTS: The watch comes pre-loaded with free HIIT, strength, cardio, yoga and pilates workouts to add variety to your workouts.


Measure your performance!

• RUNNING POWER ON THE WRIST: Look at how much power you're putting on the trail or the road. This way you can regulate your effort and train even more optimally.
• SATIQ™ TECHNOLOGY AND MULTI-FREQUENCY RECEPTION: Get highly accurate track recording and optimised battery life.
• PACEPRO™: Plan your race day strategy with GPS-based pace information for a specific course or distance.
• BUILT-IN SPORTS APPS: Add some variety to your training with activity profiles for cycling, triathlon, pool and open water swimming, track training and more. During competitions and training, you can switch between sports at the touch of a button.
• TRACK RUNNING: Record accurate lap distances and see your distances in metres – even on a track you have never run before. This database contains information on more than 10,000 tracks (400 metres) from all over the world.
• TRIATHLON AND MULTISPORT APP: Switch to the next sport at the touch of a button. Integrated sports apps for triathlon, duathlon, dual training and SwimRun make it possible. Alternatively, create your own multisport profile.


Stay connected!

• GARMIN MESSENGER™ APP: Send messages directly from your wrist. With the new GARMIN messenger app on compatible GARMIN smartwatches, you can exchange customised and predefined messages with other GARMIN messenger app users. (Requires an active connection to the phone with mobile phone coverage.)
• FIND MY PHONE: Have you lost your phone during an outdoor activity with active GPS? No problem! Your compatible GARMIN smartwatch saves the last position at which your watch was connected to the phone. This allows you to navigate directly to this position and find your phone.
• MUSIC AT THE WRIST: Download songs and playlists from your Spotify®, Deezer or Amazon Music account (subscription may be required).
• SAFETY AND TRACKING***: If you don't feel safe or your smartwatch has detected an accident, a message with your live position is sent to emergency contacts.
• GARMIN PAY™: Pay with just the flick of a wrist – no wallet required. For information on participating banks, visit garmin.com/garminpay/banks.
• SMART NOTIFICATIONS: Get emails, messages and more on your Forerunner when paired with an iPhone® or Android™ smartphone.
• LIVETRACK***: Friends and family can follow your real-time location and view previously planned routes.

Note:
* Fitness tracker accuracy information at garmin.com/atdisclaimer.
** Not a medical device for diagnosis or treatment. For more information, visit garmin.com/ataccuracy.
*** Requirements and restrictions for safety and tracking features are available at Garmin.com/safety.


Watch features:
• Time/date
• GPS time sync
• Automatic daylight saving time
• Alarm clock
• Timer
• Stop watch
• Sunrise/sunset times

Health and fitness features:
• Wrist-based heart rate (constant - every second)
• Daily heart rate at rest
• Abnormal heart rate alerts (high and low)
• Respiration rate (24x7)
• PULSE OX blood oxygen saturation (spot-check and optional all-day acclimatisation and during sleep)
• Fitness age
• Body Battery™ energy monitor
• Stress level measurement
• Relaxation reminders
• Relaxation timer
• Breathing exercises
• Sleep analysis (advanced)
• Sleep coach
• Nap detection
• Hydration (in GARMIN Connect™ and optionally in the Connect IQ™ widget)
• Women’s health tracking (in GARMIN Connect™ and optionally in the Connect IQ™ widget)
• Health Snapshot™

Sensors:
• GPS
• GLONASS
• Galileo
• Multifrequency reception
• SatIQ™ technology
• Heart rate measurement on the wrist (GARMIN Elevate™ technology)
• Pulse Ox
• Barometric altimeter
• Compass
• Gyroscope
• Accelerometer
• Thermometer
• Ambient light sensor

Daily smart functions (partially requires smartphone connection):
• Smart Notifications
• Text response / reject phone call with text (Android™ only)
• Smart notifications with image display on the smartwatch (Android™ only)
• Morning report
• Calendar
• Weather
• Real-time setting synchronisation with GARMIN Connect™ Mobile
• Energy saving mode: Customisable energy-saving clock mode
• Music features (smartphone control)
• Music playback (internal music memory)
• Find my Phone feature
• Find my Phone (during GPS activity)
• Compatible with GARMIN Messenger™ app
• Virb® remote control
• Smart trainer operation
• Smartphone compatibility: iPhone®, Android™
• Compatible with GARMIN Connect™ Mobile
• Stocks tracker (optional Connect-IQ app)
• Garmin Pay™ (more information as well as participating banks at www.garmin.com/en-GB/garminpay/banks/ )
• Red Shift mode

Activity profiles:
• Gym: strength, HIIT, cardio and cross training, (stair) stepping, indoor rowing, rope skipping
• Multisport: Triathlon
• Health: walking, pilates, yoga
• Indoor running: treadmill, indoor track running, virtual running
• Outdoor running: running, outdoor track running, trail running, ultra running
• Outdoor recreation profiles: hiking
• Cycling profiles: cycling, indoor cycling, mountain biking, e-bike riding, e-mountain bike riding, cyclocross, road bike, off-road bike, commuting by bike, bike tour
• Swimming profiles: indoor pool swimming, open water swimming
• On the water: stand-up paddleboarding, rowing
• Racket sports: tennis, pickleball, badminton, squash, table tennis, padel, platform tennis, racquetball
• Snow and winter: skiing, snowboarding, XC classic skiing, XC freestyle skiing
• Sports profiles: basketball, volleyball, field hockey, ice hockey, football/soccer, lacrosse, rugby, ultimate disc, cricket, softball, baseball
• In the ring: boxing, mixed martial arts
• Other: inline skating

Safety and tracking features (requires connection with smartphone):
• Incident detection during select activities
• Accident notification on the smartphone with wearables
• Emergency assistance
• Livetrack
• Live Event enabling (only Android™)

Activity tracking features:
• Step counter
• Inactivity alerts (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset)
• Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal)
• Calories burned
• Floors climbed
• Distance travelled
• Intensity minutes
• TrueUp™ (switch between compatible devices and sync activity data)
• Move IQ™ (automatic activity detection)
• GARMIN Connect challenges (optional Connect IQ app)

Training, planning and analysis features:
• Customisable screens
• Downloadable training plans
• Route guidance
• Heart-rate zones
• Heart-rate alerts
• Heart-rate calories
• % HR Max
• % HRR (percent of your heart rate reserves (maximum heart rate minus resting heart rate))
• Recharge time
• Automatic maximum heart rate
• Competition calendar
• HRV status
• Heart rate transmission (sends heart rate data over ANT+™ to paired devices)
• Respiration rate during exercise (with compatible accessories)
• GPS speed and distance
• Customisable activity profiles
• Auto Pause®
• Interval training
• Optimised intervals (including open repetitions, interval data page, recovery page and automatic detection)
• Advanced workouts
• HRM running pace and distance
• Auto Lap®
• Manual lap
• Recovery timer
• Adjustable lap alarm
• VO2Max (running)
• VO2 Max (trail running)
• Load ratio
• Training load
• Training load focus
• Training effects (aerobic and anaerobic)
• Training effect labels (primary use)
• Adjustable alerts
• Audio prompts (optional, when connected to a compatible smartphone)
• Multisport Auto Transition
• End time
• Virtual Partner (compete against a virtual person)
• Virtual Racer™ (compete against other activities)
• Automatic multi-sport activities
• Manual multi-sport activities
• Screen and/or button lock
• Hotkeys
• Auto Scroll
• Activity history on the watch
• Physio TrueUp™ (switch between compatible devices and sync training data)
• Uniform training condition

Running features:
• GPS-based distance, time and pace
• Running efficiency
• Vertical movement and vertical ratio (the upward and downward movement of your running motion and the effort-benefit ratio of your stride length).
• Ground contact time and balance (meaning the time between your foot touching the ground and it leaving the ground again and helps you run more symmetrically, possibly requires compatible accessories)
• Step length (real time)
• Running cadence (number of steps per minute)
• Distance travelled
• Grade-adjusted pace
• Performance status (compares after 6 to 20 minutes of running your current performance to your average fitness level)
• Lactate threshold (determined by analysing your pace and heart rate , the point at which your muscles start tiring more easily, requires compatible accessories)
• PacePro™ strategies
• Run workouts
• Auto climb for trail running
• Runtime estimate
• Route and weather-specific run forecast
• Running sensor compatible
• Run/Walk/Stand detection

Cycling features:
• Routes (race against previous activities)
• Laps and maximum lap power (with compatible power meter)
• Compete against activities
• Time or distance alerts (when you reach a value you set, you get an alert)
• Functional threshold power (FTP) (with compatible accessories)
• Power curve and training with % FTP
• Compatible with cadence and speed sensors
• Compatible with Vector™ and Rally™ (power meter)
• Compatible with ANT+ power meters from third-party providers
• Varia™ compatible (Varia Vision™, Varia™ radar, Varia™ bike lights)

Swimming features:
• Open water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories burned)
• Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories burned)
• Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly)
• Practice logging
• Basic rest timer (up from 0)
• Recharge timer with “repeat on”
• Auto rest (only for pool swimming)
• Time and distance alerts
• Pace alert (only for pool swimming)
• Countdown start
• Swim training
• Critical swimming speed
• Underwater wrist-based heart rate measurement
• Heart rate from external heart rate chest strap (real time data during recovery phases, stats for intervals and sessions during recovery phases, automatic download of heart rate data after swimming – requires optional HRM-Pro™, HRM-Swim™ or HRM-Pro Plus™ heart rate chest strap)

Gym and fitness equipment:
• Cardio workouts
• Strength workouts
• HIIT training
• Yoga workouts
• Pilates workouts
• On-screen workout animations
• On-Screen workout muscle map
• Automatic rep counting

Outdoor features:
• Point to point navigation
• Real-time track logging:
• Back to start (shortest stretch back to the starting point)
• TracBack® (along the route so far and the route back to the starting point)
• UltraTrack mode
• POIs along the route
• Altitude graph
• Distance to goal
• Barometric trends indicator
• Vertical speed
• Total ascent/descent
• Recovery timer
• Upcoming elevation profiles
• Area calculation (over Connect IQ™)
• Hunting and fishing calendar (over Connect IQ™)
• Waypoint projection
• Solar and lunar calendar (over Connect IQ™)


GARMIN Connect™ features:
• Synchronisation (transmission of training sessions) via Bluetooth Smart via smartphone or via cable with your PC/Mac
• Save, analyse, plan and share activities in social networks
• Live Tracking feature: show your friends or family your position in real time
• Grouptrack: track current position of your group members during your activity
• Upload training data
• Training plans:
• Map view
• Daily overview
• Diagram overviews
• Online challenges
• Comment the activities of other users

Note:
Smartphone compatibility of the GARMIN Connect™ app (system requirements): http://www.garmin.com/en-GB/ble

GARMIN Connect IQ™ features:
• Create individual display designs, integration of smartphone photos as display background
• Download apps and widgets for additional features
• Connect IQ™ Shop on the device
• Customise data fields


Technical details:
• Compatible with ANT+ and Bluetooth Smart (BLE) sensors
• Interfaces: ANT+ and Bluetooth Smart, WLAN
• Lithium-ion battery
• Display size: 1.1" (28.1 mm)
• AMOLED colour display (optional always-on display)
• Resolution: 360 × 360 pixel
• Control: touchscreen and five buttons
• Waterproof rating: swimming, 5 ATM (corresponds to a test pressure approx. 50 metres under water)
• Lens material: Corning® Gorilla® Glass 3
• Material bezel: fibre-reinforced polymer
• Case material: fibre-reinforced polymer
• Dimensions: approx. 41.7 × 41.7 × 12.9 mm
• Strap material: silicone (18 mm wide; quick release system; for a wrist circumference of 115 to 178 mm)
• Memory/History: 8 GB
• Weight: approx. 39 g

Battery life:
• Smartwatch mode: up to 15 days
• UltraTrac™ mode (reduces GPS tracking points): up to 29 hours
• GPS mode: up to 24 hours
• SatIQ GNSS mode (auto select): up to 18 hrs.
• GNSS mode with all systems + multiband: up to 15 hrs.
• GPS mode + music: up to 7.5 hours
• SatIQ GNSS mode + music: up to 7 hrs.
• GNSS mode with all systems + multiband + music: up to 6 hrs.


In the box:
• 1 GARMIN Forerunner 265S GPS multisport watch
• 1 USB charging/data cable (USB power adapter NOT included)
• 1 quick start manual





Manufacturer: GARMIN International, 1200 E 151st Street Olathe, KS 66 062 USA , www.garmin.com
Responsible person: Garmin Würzburg GmbH, Leightonstraße 7, 97074 Würzburg, Deutschland, www.garmin.com/compliance