Garmin Forerunner 970 GPS Watch

For performance-driven runners, there's the Forerunner 970 - the premium GPS running and triathlon smartwatch with Garmin's brightest AMOLED display, durable sapphire lens, lightweight titanium bezel and built-in LED flashlight. Understand your overall energy efficiency with running economy, and see how much you are slowing down with step speed loss.

Battery Life and Watch Face

Outperform your longest workout with battery life you can rely on, even in the middle of an Iron Man triathlon or ultra-marathon. The Forerunner 970 features a 15-day battery life when in smartwatch mode and up to 26 hours in GPS mode. Saving power, the watch's smart mode can be activated at any time and deactivated when you no longer need it, so you can conserve battery in your downtime and burn it when you need to. A bright 1.4-inch AMOLED Sapphire crystal touch screen lens ensures a clear display and is easy to use, with side buttons enhancing navigation of the watch, while the lightweight, titanium bezel offers exceptional durability.

GPS Features

The Garmin 970 is perfect for tracking a multitude of activities! The multi-frequency satellite tracking with SatIQ technology provides accurate location data, even in tricky spots. It's impressive how it can track your runs, whether you're on roads or trails, and provide detailed stats like distance, speed, and effort. It also uses advanced running dynamics to measure things like stride length and vertical ratio, and share all the information with Garmin Connect. The safety features make this watch useful, too, making it easy to share your location if needed. The automatic message with your live location to emergency contacts when paired with a phone offers great peace of mind.

Button Controls And Touchscreen

Ensuring easy use during active days, the watch has trusted button controls that work in any environment, which enable you to easily use the watch without difficulty. A built-in speaker and microphone enable you to make and receive phone calls from your wrist when your watch is paired to your smartphone, and you can even use your smartphone's voice assistant to respond to text messages.

Multi-Sports

The perfect watch for all sports, the Forerunner 970 lets you change things up with ease thanks to built-in activity profiles for running, cycling, swimming, triathlon, trail running, hiking, strength training and many more. For brick workouts and du/triathlon races, the auto multisport feature lets you switch sports with just one button press. The 970 is compatible with advanced workouts for virtual running, indoor cycling and even pool swimming.

Navigation Functions

Allowing you to find freedom and adventure, the Garmin 970 features navigation functions to keep you on the right path. This allows you to access maps right from your watch quickly and easily, as well as maps for thousands of golf courses and ski resorts worldwide, so there are no limits on your adventures. The dynamic round-trip routing feature helps simplify the planning of your runs or hikes, letting you set your target distance and receive turn-by-turn directions that adjust to get you back to your start on schedule.

24/7 Health And Wellness Monitoring

The watch takes you beyond your sport and is fitted with 24/7 health and wellness monitoring designed to help you optimise your recovery. On your wrist, elevate wrist heart rate technology lets you monitor your heart rate without wearing a chest strap. In addition to counting steps and monitoring sleep, the watch uses heart rate to provide calories burned information and quantify the intensity of your fitness activities. It also measures your heart rate variability to calculate a stress score that helps you assess what level of activity your body is ready for. The watch will also monitor your sleep to keep tabs on your well-being and how much restful sleep you're getting each night. A brand new feature to the 970 is the evening report, which shows you a summary of your day before you go to bed and offers recommendations for sleep duration, planned training and the next day's weather. The evening report can be customised to your needs. Another new feature is the running tolerance tracker, which offers a better understanding of the impact each run has on your body so you can train effectively without taking on too much. Working alongside the running tolerance tracker is the running economy feature, which helps you understand your overall energy efficiency. Using a Pulse Ox sensor, the Garmin 970 estimates your blood oxygen saturation so you can see how well your body is absorbing oxygen when you sleep. This technology also shows when your body is likely to be at optimum performance, so you can plan your day around peak activity times. Morning reports and training readiness features combine your health and training data for easier interpretation and analysis.

Advanced Performance Analytics

Through the Forerunner 970, you can receive personalised training and recovery insights to help you prepare for future races. It works to keep track of your maximal oxygen uptake during exercise and understand how external factors may affect your performance. The Forerunner uses this data to evaluate your recent exercise history and performance indicators to let you know if you're training productively, peaking or overreaching. It can also view your overall training load, which measures your exercise volume from the last seven days and compares it to the optimal range for your fitness and recent training history. The watch also allows you to view your entire week of daily suggested workouts, which adapt after every run to match your performance and recovery.

LED Flashlight

The Garmin 970 comes with a built-in LED flashlight with variable intensities and strobe modes to help give you a greater awareness while you train at night and provides convenient illumination for when visibility conditions get tough.

Music Compatibility

With built-in memory for music, Garmin are putting the "beat" in your daily mission to beat yesterday. It's easy to transfer and then queue your favourite playlist for easy listening through Bluetooth headphones. Allowing you to leave your phone behind, because the music that helps keep you moving is right there on your wrist. You can also sync with music streaming services such as Spotify, Amazon Music and Deezer so you can listen to your favourite playlist through any workout.

Push Notifications

The Forerunner 970 allows you to receive emails, texts and alert notifications right on your watch when paired with a smartphone, so you never miss a thing. Leave your cash and cards at home; GarminPay contactless payments let you pay for purchases on the go, which allows you to pay for a post-workout coffee or energy bar to keep you going.

Garmin Connect

The Forerunner 970 allows you to connect with online fitness communities close to you and all over the world. Garmin Connect is an online tool for tracking, analysing and sharing all activities captured by your watch with other members of the Garmin family. The Forerunner automatically uploads your data to Garmin Connect so you're always sharing your progress and achievements. From your data, Garmin Connect will provide you with detailed analysis and health stats in weekly, monthly and yearly reviews. Garmin Connect also allows you to Live-Track your runs, join challenges with other members and receive insights into how you're performing.

Garmin Coach

Through the Forerunner, you can receive training plans and customised workouts from your personalised Garmin Coach. With multiple coaches to choose from, you'll be sure to receive the correct training regimes, plans and advice to increase your performance. Thanks to the amazing tracking capabilities of the watch, your coach will be able to see every performance and tailor tips and advice to suit your needs.

Connect IQ Store

Check out Garmin's Connect IQ store, where you can add personality by downloading apps, widgets, watch faces and more. It's easy and even better, it's free. New apps are added every day, so you can keep tabs on when your Uber is arriving, turn on your lights at home with the SmartThings app, and even use the AccuWeather MinuteCast app to find out when the rain will start. The Face IT watch face app allows you to choose any image from your photo library, make some tweaks, and set it as your watch face.