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.

FULL-COLOR 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.

TRIATHLON AND MULTISPORT PROFILES

Switch between sports automatically by using built-in profiles for triathlons, duathlons, brick workouts and swimruns – 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.

RACE ADAPTIVE TRAINING PLANS

Get ready for your next race, including marathons, with training tips, personalized daily suggested workouts and completion time predictions. Just enter your race, and we’ll build a plan that’ll help you meet your goals.

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^™ smartphone app 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.

MORNING REPORT

Get a customizable overview of your sleep¹, training outlook, HRV status, weather and more as soon as you wake up.

COURSES WITH TURN-BY-TURN DIRECTIONS

Create or find existing courses in the Garmin Connect app, or sync from your favorite third party platforms and get turn-by-turn directions.

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.

RECOVERY TIME

Know how long you need to recover before your next high-effort workout based on your latest training.

SLEEP COACH

Get a sleep score and personalized 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 health¹.

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 energy².

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.

HRV STATUS

Gain a better understanding of your overall health, recovery and training performance while you sleep.

WOMEN’S HEALTH TRACKING

Track and log your menstrual cycle or pregnancy to get exercise and nutrition education.

GARMIN COACH

Free adaptive 5K, 10K and half marathon training plans from expert coaches.

RACE PREDICTOR

Get an estimate of what your pace could be for a 5K, 10K, half-marathon and marathon.

WRIST-BASED RUNNING DYNAMICS

This smartwatch measures crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and more.

WRIST-BASED HEART RATE

The watch constantly samples your heart rate to help you gauge how hard you work during activities¹.

ENDURANCE SCORE

This feature measures your ability to sustain prolonged efforts and combines training data from all of your athletic pursuits to help you understand how training impacts your overall endurance. This dynamic measurement uses your VO2 max, short-term/long-term training loads and other factors to gauge your fitness progress beyond just VO2 max.

HILL SCORE

This feature measures your capability for running uphill and evaluates your progress over time based on your VO2 max and training history. It measures your running strength on steep ascents and running endurance on long ascents and provides a score based on your performance over time.

ACUTE LOAD

Compare your recent training load to the optimal range to help improve your fitness.

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.

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.

STRESS TRACKING

Find out if you’re having a calm, balanced or stressful day.

TRAINING EFFECT

See how your workouts influence your endurance, speed and power.

HEALTH SNAPSHOT

Log a 2-minute session to record key health stats, then generate a report to share with your healthcare provider.

PULSE OX SENSOR

Track your blood oxygen saturation while you’re awake or asleep², and gain awareness of how you’re adapting to altitude.

CROSS TRAINING

Forerunner 965 is preloaded with free HIIT, strength, cardio, yoga and Pilates workouts so you can switch up how you sweat.

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.

PACEPRO^™ FEATURE

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

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.

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.

BUILT-IN SPORTS APPS

Tap in to 30+ built-in activities, including cycling, open-water swimming, strength training and more.

MUSIC

Download songs and playlists from your Spotify, Deezer or Amazon Music accounts for phone-free listening.

SAFETY AND TRACKING

If your watch senses that an incident occurred, it will send a message with your live location³. 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.

LIVETRACK

Friends and family can follow your real-time location³ and view preplanned courses.

GARMIN CONNECT

See your health and fitness information, connect with friends and more — in this free, zero-subscription app.

CONNECT IQ^™

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

In the Box

• Forerunner 965 GPS running watch
• USB-C charging/data cable
• Documentation