GPS Running Smartwatch with Advanced Training Features  

• Evaluates your current training status to indicate if youre undertraining or overdoing it; offers additional performance monitoring features
• Get free adaptive training plans from Garmin Coach, or create your own custom workouts on our Garmin Connect online fitness community
• Provides advanced running dynamics, including ground contact time balance, stride length, vertical ratio and more
• Safety and track features, such as built-in incident detection, make it easy to share your location
• Customize with free watch faces, apps and more from our Connect IQ store
• Battery life: up to 7 days in smartwatch mode; up to 24 hours in GPS mode

You do the running. Forerunner 245 does the thinking. This GPS smartwatch doesnt just tell you where you ran. It tracks your stats, crunches the numbers and gets to know all about your performance, your running form, your training history and even your goals. All you need to focus on is putting one foot in front of the other.

Advanced Performance Analytics

What amount of training is right for you? Forerunner 245 offers personalized training and recovery insight for smarter training decisions, helping you prepare for your next race. It keeps tabs on your VO2 max and understands how heat and altitude impact your performance. And the higher your VO2 max, the higher you can expect to perform, which is exactly what is shown by the performance condition metric. Training status evaluates your recent exercise history and performance indicators to let you know if youre training productively, peaking or overreaching. See how your workouts influence the development of endurance, speed and power with aerobic and anaerobic training effect feedback. Recovery time helps you maximize the benefit of your efforts by predicting when you will be ready for your next tough challenge. You can even view your overall training load, which measures your exercise volume from the last 7 days and compares it to the optimal range for your fitness and recent training history.

More Ways to Work Out

Running is what you do, so train smarter with the tools available from our Garmin Connect online fitness community. Create your own custom workouts, or download free ones that sync right to your watch. Or, if youve got a specific goal in mind for your next 5K, check out Garmin Coach. Featuring guidance from expert coaches and free training plans that adapt to you and your goals, its a foolproof way to get to the finish line. As part of your training plan, it can even help you predict your race time. What about when you want to switch it up? Forerunner 245 also has activity profiles for cycling, pool swimming, indoor rowing and even for using the elliptical or stair-stepper.

Wellness and Advanced Sleep Monitoring

The Forerunner 245 smartwatch has tools to help keep tabs on your overall well-being and the sleep youre getting at night. These tools provide the crucial insight you can use to maximize your training. For example, its our first running watch to include a Pulse Ox sensor. This wrist-based sensor estimates your bodys blood oxygen saturation, which can help gauge how your body is absorbing oxygen  especially while you sleep. And to give you an idea of how youre sleeping, Forerunner 245 tracks your light, deep and REM stages of sleep, along with movement throughout the night. It also features all-day stress monitoring for wellness tracking during the day. If your stress level starts to climb, use the relaxation breathing timer for a few minutes of guided breathing, which can help calm your mind and body. And to help you optimize your bodys energy, Body Battery energy monitoring uses collected data to gauge your energy reserves at any moment, so you can plan your day to optimize times for activity and rest.

GENERAL

• LENS MATERIAL: Corning Gorilla Glass 3
• BEZEL MATERIAL: fiber-reinforced polymer
• QUICK RELEASE BANDS: (20 mm, Industry standard)
• STRAP MATERIAL: silicone
• PHYSICAL SIZE: 42.3 x 42.3 x 12.2 (mm)
• Fits wrists with a circumference of 127-204 mm
• DISPLAY SIZE: 1.2" (30.4 mm) diameter
• DISPLAY RESOLUTION: 240 x 240 pixels
• DISPLAY TYPE: sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP)
• WEIGHT: 38.5 g
• BATTERY LIFE: Smartwatch Mode: Up to 7 days
• GPS mode: Up to 24 hours
• WATER RATING: Swim, 5 ATM
• COLOR DISPLAY
• MEMORY/HISTORY: 200 hours of activity data

CLOCK FEATURES

• TIME/DATE
• GPS TIME SYNC
• AUTOMATIC DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME
• ALARM CLOCK
• TIMER
• STOPWATCH
• SUNRISE/SUNSET TIMES

SENSORS

• GPS
• GLONASS
• GALILEO
• GARMIN ELEVATE WRIST HEART RATE MONITOR
• COMPASS
• ACCELEROMETER

DAILY SMART FEATURES

• CONNECTIVITY Bluetooth, ANT+
• CONNECT IQ (DOWNLOADABLE WATCH FACES, DATA FIELDS, WIDGETS AND APPS)
• SMART NOTIFICATIONS
• TEXT RESPONSE/REJECT PHONE CALL WITH TEXT (ANDROID ONLY)
• CALENDAR
• WEATHER
• CONTROLS SMARTPHONE MUSIC
• FIND MY PHONE
• FIND MY WATCH
• VIRB CAMERA REMOTE
• SMARTPHONE COMPATIBILITY iPhone and Android
• COMPATIBLE WITH GARMIN CONNECT MOBILE 

SAFETY AND TRACKING FEATURES

• INCIDENT DETECTION DURING SELECT ACTIVITIES (Smartphone Required)
• ASSISTANCE (Smartphone Required): LIVE TRACK

ACTIVITY TRACKING FEATURES

• STEP COUNTER
• MOVE BAR (DISPLAYS ON DEVICE AFTER A PERIOD OF INACTIVITY; WALK FOR A COUPLE OF MINUTES TO RESET IT)
• AUTO GOAL (LEARNS YOUR ACTIVITY LEVEL AND ASSIGNS A DAILY STEP GOAL)
• SLEEP MONITORING (MONITORS TOTAL SLEEP AND PERIODS OF MOVEMENT OR RESTFUL SLEEP)
• CALORIES BURNED
• DISTANCE TRAVELED
• INTENSITY MINUTES
• TRUE UP 
• MOVE IQ
• FITNESS AGE (in-app)
• BODY BATTERY ENERGY MONITOR
• ALL-DAY STRESS TRACKING

GYM & FITNESS EQUIPMENT

• AVAILABLE GYM ACTIVITY PROFILES Strength Training, Cardio Training, Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Indoor Rowing and Yoga
• CARDIO WORKOUTS
• STRENGTH WORKOUTS
• AUTOMATIC REP COUNTING 

TRAINING, PLANNING AND ANALYSIS FEATURES

• GPS SPEED AND DISTANCE
• CUSTOMIZABLE DATA PAGES
• CUSTOMIZABLE ACTIVITY PROFILES
• AUTO PAUSE
• INTERVAL TRAINING
• ADVANCED WORKOUTS
• DOWNLOADABLE TRAINING PLANS
• AUTO LAP
• MANUAL LAP
• CONFIGURABLE LAP ALERTS
• V02 MAX
• TRAINING STATUS (LETS YOU SEE IF YOU’RE TRAINING EFFECTIVELY BY TRACKING YOUR TRAINING HISTORY AND FITNESS LEVEL TREND.)
• TRAINING LOAD (YOUR TOTAL TRAINING LOAD FOR THE LAST 7 DAYS CALCULATED FROM ESTIMATED EPOC)
• TRAINING EFFECT (AEROBIC)
• TRAINING EFFECT (ANAEROBIC)
• CUSTOMIZABLE ALERTS
• AUDIO PROMPTS
• FINISH TIME
• VIRTUAL PARTNER
• RACE AN ACTIVITY
• COURSE GUIDANCE
• TOUCH AND/OR BUTTON LOCK
• AUTO SCROLL
• ACTIVITY HISTORY ON WATCH
  
  HEART RATE FEATURES
• HR ZONES
• HR ALERTS
• HR CALORIES
• % HR MAX
• % HRR
• RECOVERY TIME
• AUTO MAX HR
• HR BROADCAST (BROADCASTS HR DATA OVER ANT+ TO PAIRED DEVICES)

RUNNING FEATURES

• AVAILABLE RUN PROFILES Running, Treadmill Running, Indoor Track Running, Trail Running
• GPS-BASED DISTANCE, TIME AND PACE
• RUNNING DYNAMICS
• VERTICAL OSCILLATION AND RATIO (THE DEGREE OF 'BOUNCE' IN YOUR RUNNING MOTION AND THE COST-BENEFIT RATIO WITH STRIDE LENGTH)
• GROUND CONTACT TIME AND BALANCE (SHOWS HOW MUCH TIME, IN THE RUNNING MOTION, YOUR FOOT IS ON THE GROUND RATHER THAN IN FLIGHT AND LETS YOU CHECK YOUR RUNNING SYMMETRY)
• STRIDE LENGTH (REAL TIME)
• CADENCE (PROVIDES REAL-TIME NUMBER OF STEPS PER MINUTE)
• PERFORMANCE CONDITION (AFTER RUNNING 6–20 MINUTES, COMPARES YOUR REAL-TIME CONDITION TO YOUR AVERAGE FITNESS LEVEL)
• RUN WORKOUTS
• RACE PREDICTOR
• FOOT POD CAPABLE

OUTDOOR RECREATION FEATURES

• POINT-TO-POINT NAVIGATION
• BREAD CRUMB TRAIL IN REAL TIME
• BACK TO START
• TRACKBACK
• ULTRA TRAC MODE
• DISTANCE TO DESTINATION
• GPS COORDINATES

CYCLING FEATURES

• AVAILABLE CYCLING PROFILES
• Biking, Indoor Biking
• COURSES
• RACE AN ACTIVITY
• TIME/DISTANCE ALERTS (TRIGGERS ALARM WHEN YOU REACH GOAL)
• COMPATIBLE WITH VARIA VISION (HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY)
• COMPATIBLE WITH VARIA RADAR (REAR-FACING RADAR)
• COMPATIBLE WITH VARIA LIGHTS
• SPEED AND CADENCE SENSOR SUPPORT (WITH SENSOR)
  
  SWIMMING FEATURES

• AVAILABLE SWIM PROFILES
• Pool Swimming
• POOL SWIM METRICS (LENGTHS, DISTANCE, PACE, STROKE COUNT/RATE, CALORIES)
• STROKE TYPE DETECTION (FREESTYLE, BACKSTROKE, BREASTSTROKE, BUTTERFLY)
• SWIM EFFICIENCY (SWOLF)
• DRILL LOGGING
• POOL SWIM WORKOUTS