Garmin | Forerunner 965 Running Smartwatch – Black

This Garmin Forerunner 965 Running Smartwatch has a carbon grey DLC titanium bezel with a black case. The outer part of the silicone band is black; the inner part is powder grey. 

The amoled screen is the brightest screen that Garmin has used in a GPS running watch to-date. A battery life of up to 31 hours in GPS mode allows a lot of training to be completed before you need to recharge your watch.

This Garmin GPS running watch offers a wide range of advanced training metrics and recovery insights. When coupled with built-in maps with SATIQ™ and Multi-Band GPS – you have a watch that is designed to help you complete long, challenging training sessions and races. 

Multi-Band GPS helps to improve GPS accuracy when you are surrounded by tall buildings and/or trees. 

The watch is controlled via a combination of touchscreen controls and buttons. 

Key Features of a Garmin Forerunner 965 Running Smartwatch

• Training Readiness: Your readiness score is based on factors including – but not limited to – sleep quality, recovery and training load. This helps you to decide on your effort levels for your run. 
• Full-Colour Mapping: This helps to make navigation as easy as possible. Helping you to focus on your run. A great feature if you are running in a new location.
• Triathlon and Multisport Profiles: Alternate between modes for different sports and workouts. In other words, if you want to have a different set of metrics and information for a triathlon (compared to your road run) there is a mode for that. 
• Race Widget: When you have decided on your next race, this watch will help you to prepare for it and even offer completion time predictions based upon the course details.
• Daily Suggested Workouts: Receive workout suggestions that are personalised to you, based upon your performance, recovery and upcoming races in your Garmin Connect™ calendar.
• Training Status: Are you overtraining, undertraining or training at the correct intensity? Indicators such as HRV (heart rate variability) will help to provide the answers.

To avoid any doubt, this is an advanced performance GPS running watch that is designed to help you maximise your training and race day performance.

Some of the additional features include:

• Race Predictor: Estimates your potential finish time for a 5K, 10K, half marathon and marathon.
• Wrist-based heart rate: an optical wrist-based heart rate sensor constantly measures your heart rate¹.
• VO2 Max: Measure changes in your fitness level over time.
• Music: Store music directly onto this watch. Download from a Spotify, Deezer or Amazon Music account. 
• Safety and Livetrack: If an incident is detected, this watch has the ability to send a message with your live location. You can also allow friends and family to follow your real-time location².

Technical Features

• Lens material: Corning® Gorilla® Glass DX
• Bezel material: Titanium
• Physical size: 47.1 mm x 47.1 mm x 13.2 mm
• Fits wrists with a circumference of 135-205mm
• Display size: 1.4″ (35.4 mm) diameter
• Weight: 52 grams
• Water rating: 5 ATM
• Battery life:
  
  • Smartwatch mode: Up to 23 days
  • GPS-Only GNSS mode: Up to 31 hours
  • SatIQ (AutoSelect) GNSS mode: Up to 22 hours
  • All-Systems GNSS mode + Multi-Band: Up to 19 hours
  • GPS-Only GNSS mode with music: Up to 10.5 hours
  • SatIQ (AutoSelect) GNSS mode with music: Up to 9.5 hours
  • All-Systems GNSS mode + Multi-Band with music: Up to 8.5 hours
• Charging method: Garmin proprietary plug charger
• Memory/history: 32 GB

¹Further details about Garmin’s activity tracking accuracy can be found on Garmin’s website . 

²A compatible smartphone is required. Garmin provide further details on compatibiloty requirements for the Garmin Connect App, and further details on how incident detection and assistance requirements feature works.