Forerunner® 245

Name: Forerunner® 245
Brand: Garmin
SKU: 010-02120-11

Merlot

R6 999,00

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General
Lens material	Corning^® Gorilla^® glass 3
Bezel material	Fiber-reinforced polymer
Quick release bands	Yes (20 mm, Industry standard)
Strap material	Silicone
Physical size	42.3 x 42.3 x 12.2 (mm); Fits wrists with a circumference of 127-204 mm
Colour display
Display size	1.2" (30.4 mm) diameter
Display resolution	240 x 240 pixels
Display type	Sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP)
Weight	38.5 g
Battery life	Smartwatch Mode: Up to 7 days; GPS mode: Up to 24 hours
Water rating	5 ATM
Memory/history	200 hours of activity data

Clock features
Time/date
GPS time sync
Automatic daylight saving time
Alarm clock
Timer
Stopwatch
Sunrise/sunset times

Health monitoring
Wrist-based heart rate (constant, every second)
Daily Resting Heart Rate
Abnormal Heart Rate Alerts	Yes (high and low)
Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation	yes (spot-check and optionally in sleep)
Fitness age	Yes (in app)
Body Battery™ Energy Monitor
All-day stress tracking
Relaxation breathing timer
Sleep
Hydration	Yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget)
Menstrual Cycle	Yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget)

Sensors
GPS
GLONASS
Galileo
Garmin Elevate^™ wrist heart rate monitor
Compass
Accelerometer
Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitor

Daily smart features
Connectivity	Bluetooth^®, ANT+^®
Connect IQ^™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps)
Smart notifications
Text response/reject phone call with text (Android™ only)
Calendar
Weather
Controls smartphone music
Find my phone
Find my watch
VIRB^® camera remote
Smartphone compatibility	iPhone^® and Android^™
Compatible with Garmin Connect^™ Mobile

Safety and tracking features
LiveTrack
Live Event Sharing	Android™ Only
Incident Detection during select activities
Assistance

Activity tracking features
Step counter
Move bar (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
Distance travelled
Intensity minutes
TrueUp™
Move IQ™

Fitness equipment/gym
Available gym activity profiles	Strength training, Cardio training, Elliptical training, Stair stepping, Indoor rowing and Yoga
Cardio workouts
Strength workouts
Automatic rep counting

Training, planning and analysis features
HR zones
HR alerts
HR calories
% HR max
% HRR
Recovery time
Auto max HR
HR broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+^™ to paired devices)
GPS speed and distance
Customisable screen(s)
Customisable activity profiles
Auto Pause®
Interval training
Advanced workouts
Downloadable training plans
Auto Lap®
Manual lap
Configurable lap alerts
VO2 max
Training status (lets you see if you’re training effectively by tracking your training history and fitness level trend)
Training load (your total training load for the last 7 days calculated from estimated EPOC)
Training effect (aerobic)
Training effect (anaerobic)
Customisable alerts
Audio prompts
Finish time
Virtual partner
Race an activity
Course guidance
Touch and/or button lock
Auto scroll
Activity history on watch
Physio TrueUp

Running features
Available run profiles	Running, Treadmill running, Indoor track running, Trail running
GPS-based distance, time and pace
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)
Performance condition (after running 6–20 minutes, compares your real-time condition to your average fitness level)
PacePro™ Pacing Strategies
Run workouts
Race predictor
Foot pod capable

Outdoor recreation features
Point-to-point navigation
Bread crumbtrail in real time
Back to start
TracBack®
UltraTrac mode
Distance to destination
GPS coordinates

Cycling features
Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories)
Courses
Available cycling profiles	Biking, Indoor biking
Race an activity
Compatible with Varia Vision™ (head-mounted display)
Compatible with Varia™ radar (rear-facing radar)
Compatible with Varia™ lights
Speed and cadence sensor support (with sensor)

Swimming features
Available swim profiles	Pool swimming
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 workouts
Underwater wrist-based heart rate

Kid activity tracking features
Toe-to-Toe™ Challenges	yes (optional Connect IQ app)