Garmin | SKU: 010-02863-20

Forerunner 165 GPS Smartwatch

Running Watches

€230⁰⁰ €280⁰⁰

Color: Black & Slate Grey

Garmin Forerunner 165 GPS Smartwatch Black & Slate Grey-Mist Grey & Whitestone #- 53 Degrees North

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Extended Returns

We’ve extended our returns period to 8th January 2026, so you can shop early and gift with confidence. You can return items for a replacement or refund, with a few exceptions. Returns are free to our stores in Dublin Carrickmines, Dublin Blanchardstown, and Cork City Centre.

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Description

You don’t just run. You’ve moved beyond that. Which is why you need Forerunner^® 165 — the purpose-built GPS running smartwatch that helps you meet your goals with personalised adaptive training plans and a bright display to light up your progress.

Specifications

Features
- PACE, DISTANCE, HEART RATE: This easy-to-use GPS running watch provides the essential features you need to take your running to the next level — including GPS, pace, distance and wrist-based heart rate.
- DAILY SUGGESTED WORKOUTS: Get workouts made for you. They adapt after every run to match your performance and recovery as well as the races coming up in your Garmin Connect™ smartphone app calendar.
- GARMIN COACH: Get free adaptive 5K, 10K and half-marathon training plans from expert coaches to help you take on a new challenge.
- HRV STATUS: Gain a deeper understanding of your overall health, training and recovery through heart rate variability while you sleep, based on technology developed by our Firstbeat Analytics™ team.
- MORNING REPORT: Receive an overview of your sleep1 and training outlook as soon as you wake up — alongside HRV status and weather. You can even customise your report to show you what you want to see.
- TRAINING EFFECT: With training effect, you can see how your workouts impact your fitness and understand the primary benefit from training runs and workouts.
Specs
What You'll Love
- Sleep Score and Insights: ✓
- Battery life (smartwatch mode): Up to 11 days
- Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation: Yes (spot-check, during sleep, all day) ✓
- Garmin Pay™: ✓
- Watch display type: AMOLED (optional always-on mode)
- Touchscreen: ✓
- Water rating: 5 ATM
General
- Strap material: Silicone
- Lens material: Chemically strengthened glass
- Bezel material: Fibre-reinforced polymer
- Quick release bands: Yes (20 mm, Industry standard) ✓
- Physical size: 43 x 43 x 11.6 mm
  Fits wrists with a circumference of 126-203 mm
- Weight: 39 g
- Display Size: 30.4 mm (1.2") diameter
- Display Resolution: 390x390 pixels
- Colour display: ✓
- Large font option: ✓
- Battery type: Lithium ion
- Battery life: Smartwatch mode: Up to 11 days
  Battery Saver Smartwatch mode: Up to 20 days
  GPS-Only GNSS mode: Up to 19 hours
  All-Systems GNSS mode: Up to 17 hours
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- Charging method: Garmin proprietary plug charger
- Memory/history: 4 GB
Clock features
- Time/date: ✓
- GPS time sync: ✓
- Automatic daylight saving time: ✓
- Alarm clock: ✓
- Timer: ✓
- Stopwatch: ✓
- Sunrise/sunset times: ✓
Health & Wellness Monitoring
- Wrist-based heart rate (constant, every second): ✓
- Resting heart rate: ✓
- Abnormal Heart Rate Alerts: Yes (high and low) ✓
- Respiration Rate: ✓
- Fitness Age: ✓
- Body Battery™ Energy Monitor: ✓
- All-day Stress: ✓
- Relaxation reminders: ✓
- Relaxation Breathing Timer: ✓
- Breathwork: ✓
- Sleep: Yes (Advanced) ✓
- Breathing variations: ✓
- Nap detection: ✓
- Hydration: Yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget) ✓
- Women's Health: Yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget) ✓
- Health Snapshot: ✓
Sensors
- GPS: ✓
- GLONASS: ✓
- Galileo: ✓
- Garmin Elevate™ wrist heart rate monitor: ✓
- Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitor: ✓
- Barometric altimeter: ✓
- Compass: ✓
- Accelerometer: ✓
- Thermometer: ✓
- Ambient light sensor: ✓
Daily smart features
- Connectivity: Bluetooth®, ANT+®
- Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields and apps): ✓
- On-device Connect IQ™ Store: ✓
- Smart Notifications: ✓
- Text response/reject phone call with text (Android™ only): ✓
- View images from notifications on watch (Android™ only): ✓
- Morning report: ✓
- Calendar: ✓
- Weather forecasts: ✓
- Realtime settings sync with Garmin Connect™ mobile: ✓
- Battery Saver - customisable low power watch: ✓
- Controls smartphone music: ✓
- Find my phone: ✓
- Find my watch: ✓
- Find My Phone during GPS activity: ✓
- Compatible with Garmin Messenger app: ✓
- Compatible with Garmin Connect™ Mobile: ✓
- Smartphone compatibility: iPhone®, Android™
- Red shift mode: ✓
- Garmin Share: ✓
- Passcode: ✓
Workout and Training Plans
- Daily Suggested Workout - Running (Pace and Heart Rate Based): ✓
- Garmin Running Coach: Yes (no strength add-on) ✓
- Garmin Running Coach Experts: ✓
- Garmin Coach - Prebuilt Cycling Plans: ✓
- Cardio workouts: ✓
- Strength workouts: ✓
- HIIT workouts: ✓
- Yoga workouts: ✓
- Pilates workouts: ✓
Activity profiles
- Gym: Strength, HIIT, Cardio, Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing
- WELLNESS: Walking, Pilates, Yoga
- INDOOR RUNNING: Treadmill Running, Indoor Track Running, Virtual running
- Outdoor running: Running, Outdoor Track Running, Trail Running, Ultra Running
- Outdoor recreation: Hiking
- Cycling: Biking, Indoor Biking
- Swim: Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming
- Racket sports: Tennis, Pickleball, Padel
Safety and tracking features
- Incident Detection during select activities: ✓
- Incident detection alert on phone for wearables: ✓
- Assistance: ✓
- Live Event Sharing: Android™ Only
Activity tracking features
- Step counter: ✓
- Move alerts (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): ✓
- Calories Burned: ✓
- Floors climbed: ✓
- Distance travelled: ✓
- Intensity minutes: ✓
- TrueUp™: ✓
- Move IQ™: ✓
- Garmin Connect™ Challenges app: Yes (optional Connect IQ app) ✓
- Automatic rep counting: ✓
Training, planning and analysis features
- Customisable screen(s): ✓
- Downloadable training plans: ✓
- Course guidance: ✓
- HR Zones: ✓
- HR Alerts: ✓
- HR Calories: ✓
- % HR Max: ✓
- % HRR: ✓
- Recovery Time: ✓
- Auto Max HR: ✓
- Race glance/widget: ✓
- HRV Status: ✓
- HR Broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+® to paired devices): ✓
- Respiration Rate (During Exercise): Yoga and breathwork only
- GPS speed and distance: ✓
- Customisable activity profiles: ✓
- Auto Pause® automatic timer halt: ✓
- Interval training: ✓
- Advanced workouts: ✓
- HRM running pace and distance: ✓
- Auto Lap® interval tracking feature: ✓
- Manual lap: ✓
- Rest timer: ✓
- Configurable lap alerts: ✓
- VO2 Max (Run): ✓
- VO2 Max (Trail Run): ✓
- Training Effect: ✓
- Training Effect (Anaerobic): ✓
- Primary benefit (Training Effect labels): ✓
- Voice alerts: ✓
- Finish time: ✓
- Touch and/or button lock: ✓
- Activity history on watch: ✓
- Physio TrueUp: ✓
Running features
- GPS-based distance, time and pace: ✓
- Running dynamics: ✓
- Vertical oscillation and ratio: ✓
- Ground contact time and balance: Yes (but not balance) ✓
- Stride length (real time): ✓
- Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute): ✓
- Running power: ✓
- PacePro™ Pacing Strategies: ✓
- Run workouts: ✓
- Race predictor: ✓
- Course- and weather-specific race predictor: ✓
- Foot pod capable: ✓
- Run/Walk/Stand detection: ✓
Outdoor recreation
- Point-to-point navigation: ✓
- Bread crumbtrail in real time: ✓
- Back to start: ✓
- TracBack®: ✓
- UltraTrac mode: ✓
- Elevation profile: ✓
- Distance to destination: ✓
- Total ascent/descent: ✓
- Rest Timer (Ultra Run only): ✓
- Auto Rest: ✓
- Future elevation plot: ✓
- Area calculation: Yes (via Connect IQ™) ✓
- Fish forecast: Yes (via Connect IQ™) ✓
- Sun and moon information: Yes (via Connect IQ™) ✓
Cycling features
- Courses: ✓
- Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories): ✓
- Compatible with Varia™ radar (rear-facing radar): ✓
- Compatible with Varia™ lights: ✓
- Compatible with Varia headlight camera: ✓
- Speed and cadence sensor support (w/sensor): ✓
Swimming features
- Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, stroke distance, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories): ✓
- Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories): ✓
- Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) (pool swim only): ✓
- Drill logging (pool swim only): ✓
- Basic rest timer (up from 0) (pool swim only): ✓
- "Repeat on" rest timer (pool swim only): ✓
- Auto rest (pool swim only): ✓
- Time and distance alerts: ✓
- Countdown start: ✓
- Underwater wrist-based heart rate: ✓
Kid activity tracking features
- Toe-to-Toe™ Challenges app: Yes (optional Connect IQ Toe-to-Toe™ Challenges app) ✓
Security and Legal Information
- EU Data Act Information - Wearable, Fitness Measuring and Heart Rate (HRM) Devices: ✓
Material
What's included
- Forerunner® 165 Running Watch
- USB-C charging/data cable
- Documentation
Ideal for

Running