Garmin Forerunner 945 GPS Running Watch

DESIGNED FOR THE DRIVEN

Garmin made this watch for you — the up-at-dawn runners and the conditioned-for-pain triathletes. While you chase your next victory, make sure you’ve got the right tool for the job.

• Lens Material – Corning® Gorilla® Glass DX
• Bezel Material – Fiber-reinforced polymer
• Quickfit Watch Band Compatible – yes (22 mm)
• Strap Material – Silicone
• Physical Size – 47 x 47 x 13.7 mm; Fits wrists with a circumference of 130-220 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 – 50 grams
• Battery Life – Smartwatch Mode: Up to 2 weeks, GPS mode with music: Up to 10 hours, GPS mode without music: Up to 36 hours
• Water Rating – 5 ATM
• Color Display – Yes
• Memory/history – 200 hours of activity data

 

 

Clock Features

• Time/date – Yes
• GPS Time Sync – Yes
• Automatic daylight saving time – Yes
• Alarm clock – Yes
• Timer – Yes
• Stopwatch – Yes
• Sunrise/sunset times – Yes

 

Sensors

• GPS – Yes
• GLONASS – Yes
• Galileo – Yes
• Garmin Elevate™ wrist heart rate monitor – Yes
• Barometric altimeter – Yes
• Compass – Yes
• Gyroscope – Yes
• Accelerometer – Yes
• Thermometer – Yes
• Pulse Ox – Yes

 

 

Daily Smart Features

 

• Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps) – yes
• Smart notifications – yes
• Text response/reject phone call with text (Android™ only) – yes
• Connectivity – Bluetooth®, ANT+®, Wi-Fi®
• Calendar – yes
• Weather – yes
• Controls smartphone music – yes
• Plays and controls watch music – yes
• Music Storage – Up to 1000 songs
• Find My Phone – yes
• Find My Watch – yes
• VIRB® Remote – yes
• Smartphone compatibility – iPhone®, Android™
• Compatible with Garmin Connect™ Mobile – yes
• Garmin Pay™ – yes

 

 

Safety and Tracking Features

• LiveTrack – yes
• Group LiveTrack – yes
• Live Event Sharing – Android™ Only
• Incident Detection during select activities – yes (Smartphone Required)
• Assistance – yes (Smartphone Required)

 

Tactical Features

• Dual grid coordinates – yes

 

Activity Tracking Features

• Step counter – yes
• Move bar (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it) – yes
• Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal) – yes
• Sleep monitoring (monitors total sleep and periods of movement or restful sleep)  – yes
• Calories burned – yes
• Floors climbed – yes
• Distance traveled – yes
• Intensity minutes – yes
• TrueUp™ – yes
• Move IQ™ – yes
• Fitness Age – yes (in app)
• Body Battery™ Energy Monitor – yes
• All-day Stress Tracking – yes

 

 

Gym & Fitness Equipment

• Available gym activity profiles – Strength, Cardio and Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Indoor Rowing and Yoga
• Cardio workouts – yes
• Strength workouts – yes
• Automatic rep counting – yes

Training, Planning and Analysis Features

• GPS speed and distance – yes
• Customizable data pages – yes
• Customizable activity profiles – yes
• Auto Pause® – yes
• Interval training – yes
• Advanced workouts – yes
• Downloadable training plans – yes
• Auto Lap® – yes
• Manual lap – yes
• Configurable lap alerts – yes
• Heat and altitude acclimation – yes
• V02 max – yes
• Training Status (lets you see if you’re training effectively by tracking your training history and fitness level trend.) – yes
• Training Load (your total training load for the last 7 days calculated from estimated EPOC) – yes
• Training load focus – yes
• Training Effect – yes
• Training Effect (anaerobic) – yes
• Primary benefit (Training Effect labels) – yes
• Custom alerts – yes
• Audio prompts – yes
• Finish time – yes
• Virtual Partner – yes
• Race and Activity – yes
• Auto multisport activities – yes
• Manual multisport activities – yes
• Course guidance – yes
• Garmin Live Segments – yes
• Strava Live Segments – yes
• Round-trip course creator (running/cycling) – yes
• Trendline™ Popularity Routing – yes
• Touch and/or button lock – yes
• Hot keys – yes
• Auto scroll – yes
• Activity history on watch – yes
• Physio TrueUp – yes

 

Heart Rate Feature

• HR zones – yes
• HR alerts – yes
• HR calories – yes
• % HR max – yes
• % HRR – yes
• Recovery time – yes
• Auto max HR – yes
• HRV stress test (measures your heart rate variability while standing still, for 3 minutes, to provide you with an estimated stress level; the scale of this is 1 to 100; low scores indicate lower stress levels) – yes (with compatible accessory)
• HR Broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+™ to paired devices) – yes
• Respiration rate (during exercise) – yes (with compatible accessory)

Running Features

• Available run profiles – yes
• Running, Indoor Track Running, Treadmill Running, Trail Running – yes
• GPS-based distance, time and pace – yes
• Running dynamics – yes (with compatible accessory)
• Vertical oscillation and ratio (the degree of ‘bounce’ in your running motion and the cost-benefit ratio with stride length) – yes (with compatible accessory)
• 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) – yes (with compatible accessory)
• Stride length (real time) – yes (with compatible accessory)
• Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute) – yes
• Performance condition (after running 6–20 minutes, compares your real-time condition to your average fitness level) – yes
• Lactate threshold (through analysis of your pace and heart rate, estimates the point where your muscles start to rapidly fatigue) – yes (with compatible accessory)
• Run workouts – yes
• Race predictor – yes
• Foot pod capable – yes

 

Cycling Feature

 

• Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories) – yes
• Courses – yes
• Cycle Map (routable cycling-specific street map) – yes
• Available cycling profiles – Biking, Indoor Biking, Mountain Biking
• Bike lap and lap maximum power (with power sensor) – yes
• Race an activity – yes
• FTP (Functional Threshold Power) – yes (with compatible accessory)
• Compatible with Vector™ (power meter) – yes
• Power meter compatible – yes
• Advanced Vector support – yes
• Compatible with Varia Vision™ (head-mounted display) – yes
• Compatible with Varia™ radar (rear-facing radar) – yes
• Compatible with Varia™ lights – yes
• Speed and cadence sensor support (with sensor) – yes

 

Swimming Features

 

• Available swim profiles – Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming
• Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, stroke distance, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories) – yes
• Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories) – yes
• Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) (pool swim only) – yes
• Drill logging (pool swim only) – yes
• Basic rest timer (up from 0) (pool swim only) – yes
• “Repeat on” rest timer (pool swim only) – yes
• Countdown start (pool swim only) – yes
• Pool swim workouts – yes 
• Heart rate from external HRM (real-time during rests, interval and session stats during rests, and automatic heart rate download post-swim) – yes (with HRM-Tri™ and HRM-Swim™)

 

In the Box

• Forerunner 945 GPS watch
• Charging cable
• Documentation