The Garmin Forerunner 245 GPS Running Smartwatch is the ultimate companion for all your runningThe Garmin Forerunner 245 GPS Running Smartwatch is the ultimate companion for serious runners and fitness enthusiasts. This sleek and stylish smartwatch is loaded with features that will take your running experience to the next level.

With built-in GPS, the Forerunner 245 accurately tracks your distance, pace, and routes, so you can effortlessly monitor your progress and stay on track with your fitness goals. Whether you’re training for a marathon or simply aiming to improve your running performance, this smartwatch provides valuable insights to help you optimize your workouts.

But the Forerunner 245 isn’t just a running watch. It offers a wide range of activity tracking features, making it perfect for all kinds of workouts. From cycling to swimming, this smartwatch tracks your heart rate, steps, calories burned, and even analyzes your sleep patterns to give you a holistic view of your overall fitness level.

Stay connected and motivated with smart notifications delivered right to your wrist. Receive text messages, emails, and alerts from your favorite apps without having to reach for your phone. Plus, with the ability to sync your smartwatch with your smartphone, you can easily upload your workouts to popular fitness apps like Strava or Garmin Connect, allowing you to join a thriving community of fitness enthusiasts and share your progress.

The Forerunner 245 also offers advanced training features that cater to runners of all levels. Create customized workouts, set goals, and receive personalized training plans directly on your smartwatch. It even provides real-time coaching and performance metrics, such as VO2 max and training effect, so you can continuously improve and reach new milestones.

Featuring a durable and lightweight design, the Forerunner 245 is comfortable to wear all day long. Its vibrant and easy-to-read color display ensures that you can see your stats at a glance, even in direct sunlight. With a battery life of up to seven days in smartwatch mode and up to 24 hours in GPS mode, you don’t have to worry about constantly charging your device.

In addition to its fitness-focused features, the Forerunner 245 is a stylish accessory that can be personalized to match your individual style. Choose from a variety of interchangeable bands and watch faces to create a look that suits your taste and lifestyle.

Take your running to new heights with the Garmin Forerunner 245 GPS Running Smartwatch. Packed with advanced features, sleek design, and exceptional durability, this smartwatch is the ultimate tool for any runner or fitness enthusiast who wants to push their limits and achieve their goals.

GPS Running Smartwatch with Advanced Training Features

• Evaluates your current training status to indicate if you’re 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 dynamics¹, including ground contact time balance, stride length, vertical ratio and more
• Safety and tracking features², 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 doesn’t 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 you’re 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 you’ve 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, it’s 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.

Analyze Your Running Form

The Forerunner 245 GPS smartwatch also has the tools you need to improve your running form. The watch measures crucial running metrics² such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and balance, vertical oscillationand vertical ratio. These measurements are the key to understanding your form, so you can bring your best on every run and at every race. Your Forerunner 245 can start tracking these metrics with the addition of a compatible heart rate strap or the compact Running Dynamics Pod, which clips right onto your waistband.

More Ways to Customize

Check out our Connect IQ store, where you can add personality to Forerunner 245 by downloading apps, widgets, watch faces and more. It’s easy and — even better — it’s free. New apps are added every day, so you can keep tabs on when your  Uber  will arrive, turn on your lights at home with the  SmartThings app, and even use the AccuWeather MinuteCast app to find out when the rain will start.

Stay Connected on the Run

Forerunner 245 makes it easy to run without leaving important smart features behind. Once paired with your compatible smartphone, you’ll be able to receive text messages and see social media updates, emails and more right on your wrist. And new safety and tracking features make it easy to share your location with chosen contacts in case you need assistance — manually, or automatically with built-in incident detection, if needed. So, lace up your shoes, and head out with a little extra peace of mind.

Share and Compete

Syncing your activities to Garmin Connect is for more than just storing your data. Garmin Connect is a thriving online community where people on the go can connect and compete by joining challenges, encourage each other’s successes and even share their triumphs via social media. Garmin Connect is free and available on the web or on your smartphone.

Wellness and Advanced Sleep Monitoring

The Forerunner 245 smartwatch has tools to help keep tabs on your overall well-being and the sleep⁴ you’re getting at night. These tools provide crucial insight you can use to maximize your training. For example, it’s our first running watch to include a Pulse Ox sensor⁵. This wrist-based sensor estimates your body’s 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 you’re 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 body’s 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.

¹When used with Running Dynamics Pod or HRM-Run or HRM-Tri monitors (sold separately)
²When paired with a compatible smartphone
³Activity tracking accuracy
⁴This is not a medical device and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or monitoring of any medical condition; see Garmin.com/ataccuracy. Pulse Ox not available in all countries.