Forerunner 245

Part Number 010-02120-4A

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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.

Advanced Performance Analytics

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.

More Ways to Work Out

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.

Analyze Your Running Form

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 SmartThingsapp, 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.

Stay Connected on the Run

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.

At a Glance

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.

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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)
LiveTrack

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
TrueUp
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
TracBack
UltraTrac 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

Forerunner 245
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Forerunner 245

Forerunner 245

General

Clock Features

Sensors

Daily Smart Features

Safety and Tracking Features

Activity Tracking Features

Gym & Fitness Equipment

Training, Planning and Analysis Features

Heart Rate Features

Running Features

Outdoor Recreation Features

Cycling Features

Swimming Features