The Garmin Forerunner 165 is a GPS running smartwatch with a 1.2-inch AMOLED color display. It has both a touchscreen and buttons. It includes wrist-based heart rate, GPS, pace and distance tracking, and more than 25 built-in GPS and indoor sports apps.
It gives daily suggested workouts that adapt after each run to your performance, your recovery and the races on your Garmin Connect smartphone app calendar. Garmin Coach offers free adaptive 5K, 10K and half-marathon training plans. Race adaptive training adds training tips and completion time predictions based on the race details you enter in Garmin Connect.
Recovery and health features include recovery time, sleep monitoring with sleep score, nap detection, Body Battery energy monitoring, HRV status, stress tracking and women's health tracking. A morning report shows your sleep and training outlook, HRV status and weather, and you can customize it. Running dynamics measure cadence, stride length, ground contact time and more from the wrist.
- Display
- 1.2-inch AMOLED color display
- Controls
- Touchscreen and buttons
- Battery life
- Up to 11 days in smartwatch mode; up to 19 hours in GPS mode
- Sports apps
- 25+ built-in GPS and indoor sports apps
- Tracking
- GPS, pace, distance, wrist-based heart rate, intensity minutes, VO2 max
- Running metrics
- Cadence, stride length, ground contact time, training effect, race predictor (5K, 10K, half-marathon, marathon)
- Recovery
- Recovery time, HRV status, Body Battery, sleep score, nap detection, stress tracking
- Training
- Daily suggested workouts, Garmin Coach plans (5K, 10K, half-marathon), race adaptive training, courses
- Other features
- Morning report, audio prompts, women's health tracking