The Garmin Forerunner 165 Music is a GPS running smartwatch with a 1.2-inch AMOLED display. It has both a touchscreen and buttons. It tracks pace, distance and wrist-based heart rate, and it can store and play music from the wrist.
It includes more than 25 built-in GPS and indoor sports apps. Daily suggested workouts adapt after each run to match your performance, your recovery and the races on your Garmin Connect smartphone app calendar. Free adaptive 5K, 10K and half-marathon training plans from Garmin Coach are available.
For race preparation, you enter race details into Garmin Connect to get training tips, personalized daily suggested workouts and completion time predictions. A morning report gives an overview of your sleep and training outlook, HRV status and weather. You can customize which items it shows.
- Display
- 1.2-inch AMOLED, color
- Controls
- Touchscreen and buttons
- Battery life
- Up to 11 days in smartwatch mode
- Sports apps
- 25+ built-in GPS and indoor sports apps
- Tracking
- GPS, pace, distance, wrist-based heart rate
- Music
- Music on your wrist
- Training
- Daily suggested workouts, Garmin Coach 5K, 10K and half-marathon plans, race adaptive training
- Insights
- Training metrics, recovery insights, morning report with sleep, HRV status and weather
- App
- Garmin Connect smartphone app