Forerunner 245

This GPS smartwatch tracks your stats, crunches the numbers and gets to know all about your performance, your running form, your training and even your goals.

Features

• Assistance (built-in tracking/safety feature) lets you send your real-time location to emergency contacts through a paired compatible smartphone
• Incident detection alerts your emergency contacts automatically in the event of certain incidents (e.g., bike crash, collapse during a run); paired smartphone required
• Watch evaluates your training status to indicate if you're undertraining or overdoing it
• Additional performance-monitoring features include VO2 max, training load focus, recovery time, aerobic and anaerobic training effect, as well as an improved race predictor
• Get free adaptive training plans from Garmin Coach, or create your own custom workouts on the Garmin Connect™ online fitness community
• Health-monitoring tools include wrist-based heart rate, all-day stress tracking, Body Battery™ energy monitor, sleep analysis and more
• Wrist-based pulse oximeter is a non-medical device that provides your estimated blood oxygen saturation level—useful when adjusting to higher altitudes
• Pair with Running Dynamics Pod or HRM-Run/Tri™ monitors (not included) for advanced running dynamics like ground contact time balance, stride length, vertical ratio and more
• Connected features: smart notifications for calls and texts, automatic uploads to Garmin Connect™, LiveTrack, and the ability to control and play music on your phone
• Preloaded sports apps like running, cycling, pool swimming, indoor track, treadmill, elliptical, yoga and more
• Customize with free watch faces, apps, widgets and data fields from the Garmin Connect IQ™ store
• Battery life: up to 7 days in smartwatch mode; up to 24 hrs. in GPS mode

Technical specs