The Garmin Forerunner 965 GPS running smartwatch prioritises your health with a pulse OX sensor, sleep monitoring, stress tracking, and much more. Don't lose your way; enjoy full-color mapping whether you’re on city streets or hidden trails. The Garmin Forerunner 965 features a vibrant 1.4” AMOLED touchscreen alongside physical buttons.

What’s new?

• Touchscreen and buttons - on a 1.4” colourful AMOLED display.
• Built-in music storage - download songs and playlists from your Spotify, Deezer or Amazon Music accounts for phone-free listening.
• Wrist-based running dynamics - measures crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and more.
• 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.
• Battery life - up to 23 days in smartwatch mode, 31 hours in GPS mode.
• Waterproof - 5 ATM rating.
• Full-colour mapping - whether you’re running on city streets or riding densely covered trails, Forerunner 965 provides, full-color, built-in mapping to keep you on track.

The Garmin Forerunner 965 GPS also features:

Health tracking

• Morning report - Receive an overview of your sleep 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.
• 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 Firstbeat Analytics™ team.
• Recovery plan - know how long you need to recover before your next high-effort workout based on your latest training.
• Sleep monitor and sleep score - understand how your body’s recovering with sleep score, breakdown of your sleep stages and detailed insights for improved sleep quality.
• Body battery energy monitoring - track your body’s energy levels to find the best times for activity and rest.
• Women’s health tracking - track and log your menstrual cycle or pregnancy to get exercise and nutrition education.
• Wrist-based heart rate - the watch constantly samples your heart rate to help you gauge how hard you work during activities.
• 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.

Training plan

• Race predictor - get an estimate of what your pace could be for a 5K, 10K, half marathon and marathon.
• Courses - create or find existing courses in the Garmin Connect app, or sync from your favourite third party platforms.
• Garmin coach - free adaptive 5K, 10K and half marathon training plans from expert coaches.
• 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.
• 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 - preloaded with free HIIT, strength, cardio, yoga and Pilates workouts so you can switch up how you sweat.
• Race widget - including training tips, personalised daily suggested workouts and completion time predictions based on course details, weather and performance.
• Daily suggested workouts - 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.
• 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.
• Round-trip routing - enter how far you want to go and get suggested routes that will bring you back. Even use TrendLine™ to find the best local paths.

Performance metrics

• 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 optimised 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+ built-in activities, including cycling, open-water swimming, strength training and more.
• Track running - record accurate lap distances and see your distances in metres.
• Triathlon and multisport profiles - switch between sports with one press by using built-in profiles, or you can create your own.
• Load ratio - track short-term to mid-term load ratio to keep your rate of training growth within bounds that will help you stay healthy and avoid setbacks.
• ClimbPro - see real-time information on your current and upcoming climbs.
• Real-time stamina - prevent burning out and use this data to track and manage your exertion.
• Up ahead - get at-a-glance awareness for points of interest along the course, such as aid stations.

Lifestyles aids

• Safety and tracking - if you feel unsafe or if your watch senses that an incident occurred, your watch will send a message with your live location.
• 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 location and view preplanned courses.

• Garmin connect app - see your health and fitness information, connect with friends and more — in this free, zero-subscription app.
• Connect IQ store - add watch faces, data fields and apps to your paired watch.