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™)

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Charging cable
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