Garmin 010-02120-20 Forerunner 245 Music, GPS Running Smartwatch with Music and Advanced Dynamics, Black
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You do the running. Forerunner 245 Music does the thinking. It even gets to know you, mile after mile and song after song. This GPS smartwatch has storage for your favorite tunes, so you can keep moving to the music without having to lug your phone along. It also tracks your stats, crunches the numbers and gets to know all about your performance, your running form, your training history and even your goals. All you need to focus on is putting one foot in front of the other.
GPS running smartwatch with music advanced training features, Lens Material:Corning Gorilla Glass 3, Bezel Material: fiber-reinforced polymer, Strap material:silicone
Battery life: up to 7 days in smartwatch mode and 6 hours in GPS mode with music
Evaluates your current training status to indicate if you’re undertraining or overdoing it; Offers additional performance monitoring features
Get free adaptive training plans from Garmin coach, or create your own custom workouts on our Garmin connect online fitness community
Provides advanced running dynamics, including ground contact time balance, stride length, vertical ratio and more (When used with Running Dynamics Pod or HRM Run or HRM Tri monitors (sold separately))
Safety and tracking features include incident detection (during select activities) which sends your real-time location to emergency contacts through your paired compatible smartphone
Sync with music streaming services, such as Spotify, to easily store and play your favorite songs right from your watch
Customers say
Customers find this watch has good quality and functionality. They find it useful for running, with a consistent and accurate heart rate monitor. The watch provides daily training suggestions and performance stats. It has fantastic battery life, lasting for up to 6 hours when fully charged. Customers appreciate the accuracy and value for money. However, some customers have differing opinions on sleep tracking and ease of use.
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4 reviews for Garmin 010-02120-20 Forerunner 245 Music, GPS Running Smartwatch with Music and Advanced Dynamics, Black
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dorotheathecat –
Ok, Garmin. I love this watch!
UPDATE: Alright, so when I initially wrote this review the music component of this watch was meh for me. I had a love/hate relationship with it but now I can honestly say I love it and have upped my review to 5 stars (from 4 before). I do think Garmin listened and made changes with the updates or maybe it was just user error all along???? I honestly don’t know lol. I’ve had this watch for 8 months now and I freaking love it. I now know how to update the music via wifi and I do think the connectivity on my runs has improved. How well it connects to Garmin connect has also improved. Do I think it’s worth the $345 price its being sold at right now? Maybe. It’s amazing not being able to take my phone on my run and still having music, GPS, and some sort of security to reach my loved ones should I need it. I do wish the battery life was a little longer but for the size of this thing, I’m not complaining and it also charges pretty quickly. I have not yet run long enough (w/music) to test it with an external battery but will update as I do that. For those looking for instructions on how to update music via wifi (this was one of the things I wanted the watch to do and either I didn’t know how to or it didn’t work that well at first), I will include instructions below:Hold down second/middle button on left side of watch.Click musicClick music providersClick Spotify (should walk you thru how to set if up if you don’t)For me it takes me to the last song played. From here, I hit the three dots on the left.Click libraryThen scroll down to where you can hit update downloads.This will not work if you do not have your watch connected to wifi. To do that do this:Click and hold the middle button on the left side.Scroll down to WiFi and select.Should walk you thru it. I think you have to make sure your phone is connected to the same wifi.——————————————————————————————————————————I received this as a surprise gift from my husband about a month and a half ago. Both my husband and I are avid Garmin users and have been for several years. For context, these are the Garmin watches I have owned in the past: Forerunner 15, Vivosmart 3, and Vivomove HR. I do like this watch. In fact, you can say I love it. Based on our purchase history, I can see my husband purchased this for ~$50 less than what it is being listed as now ($345). Personally, if I was buying this for myself I would get a refurbished one or do without the music. I run about 3-4x a week and do HIIT workouts 3x a week. For what I do, this watch may be overkill but thatâs what you want right? You want a watch that will do what you want AND more. At least I do!So, what are my gripes with this watch?1- Bluetooth. Boy, oh boy, oh boy! My watch LOVES to disconnect from my headphones. If my hands arenât at the right angle while I am running, it is game over and I have to reconnect or deal with a patchy connection. At this point, I just donât bother to use the music on my watch. I am hopeful an update will fix this but Iâm not holding my breath. I find mine struggles with auto-sync on the Garmin app occasionally as well.2-Music-In relation to the bluetooth is the music concept of this watch. I really wanted to love this aspect of the watch. I really really did. I was so pumped about it! But alas, you canât always get what you want. Syncing Music the first time took an eternity and half. You also have to manually update it if you update your playlist on Spotify, I think (at least thatâs what I have to do). I wish Garmin would do something where it would automatically have your watch update the playlist if it is connected to Wi-Fi with my laptop open to Spotify but maybe my standards are too high (my iPad does this with playlists Iâve downloaded). Overall, I do like the music component of this watch-I just wish the bluetooth worked better. Many of the reviews I read on here are people complaining about how difficult it is to sync music and I agree. I consider myself pretty tech savvy but they could have made this simpler. I also would like to be able to change the songs that I am listening to on my phone from my watch. I used to be able to do this on my Vivomove HR and that was lovely while I was running. Also, please note I *think* you have to have a premium subscription to whatever music streaming service you choose to use in order to connect to the watch. I already had Spotify premium so this was no big deal to me but wanted to note that on here. I think you can also upload your own mp3 files if you have them but donât take my word for it as I havenât tried it.3-Sleep tracking- I donât find the sleep tracking to be very accurate as a whole but I think that is an issue with Garmin in general so Iâm not really holding it against this watch.4-Garmin Connect IQ- Changing my watch face is a lot harder than it should be and takes forever.What do I LOVE about this watch?1- GPS- my last watch did not have GPS (but it was pretty!) and thatâs also a big factor in why I wanted this watch. I have not found any issues with the GPS and I have found this to be fairly accurate. Connects seamlessly with Strava which I appreciate.2-The size- for the size of this watch and all it can do-WOW. Just wow! I was afraid it would be too bulky but it is not! I am a woman with very small wrists and the size is pretty good for me. I do wish they sold smaller bands but its not a big deal.3- Livetracking & security features- LOVE this! You can set live tracking to start automatically or start it manually from the app ( I do wish this was an option on my phone). This sends an email to whoever youâve listed, or all of your connections, with a link to a tracker. I love this as a woman who often goes on runs alone early in the morning or at night. There is also a feature on this watch where if you press a button 3x it sends a text to your emergency contacts and it will also do this if it notices anything unusual (you stop suddenly, etc). Probably my favorite features.4- Training status, body battery, pulse ox, & respiration-I find all of this very cool & helpful. I donât find the training status to be totally accurate for me though. None of this makes or breaks the watch for me though, itâs just nice to have. The Garmin Coach seems really cool but I havenât had an opportunity to use it. I plan to use it to train for a half marathon.5-Heart rate- I like this and find it to be accurate.6-Buttons-my last watch was touchscreen and I do love that this has buttons instead.7- Battery-battery life is OK but I wish it lasted a little longer. How quickly it charges makes up for that though!Overall, this is a really great watch. I was lusting after the Fenix 6s but that would have been overkill for me. This does what I need it to do and some more. If youâre a runner, I do think you will love this. I would personally save some money and skip the music but when it does work it is nice to have. Thanks Garmin!
OCR_Racer –
My road/trail running watch
To qualify what I was looking for when I bought this watch, I wanted a quality watch to track my road and trail running stats. I don’t care about daily steps or any sleep tracking (I know if I slept good or not, I don’t need a watch to tell me). Also, I did not want a watch with a touch screen. I’m a button guy all day long. I did look at some higher end watches (745, 945, and Fenix line), but decided that for what I needed the 245 did it all, and at a great price.With that out of the way, the Garmin 245 does everything I need it to do. It tracks my road and trail running stats, quickly syncs to the Connect app on my phone, and provides all the details I want to know. It’s lightweight, comfortable to wear, easy to set up, and easy to use.And a feature I recently started using were workouts that I designed on my phone and uploaded to my watch. For example, the workout might be –1 mile warm up6 x 1:15 sprints with a 1:45 easy run1 mile cool downI can create that on my phone, upload it to the watch, and then use it while I run. It will beep/vibrate with each change that I need to do and display the interval information that I’m currently on. And then it keeps detailed stats on every part of that workout for review.I can’t speak on how it works for workouts in the gym. Once my run is done I take it off until my next run. But if you’re looking for a solid, functional, useful, and quality fitness watch for running, and you don’t want to pay $500-700 for the upper end versions then don’t hesitate to look at the Garmin 245. It does what it’s supposed to do and does it really well.
Douglas M. Read –
Outstanding Tool
After doing extensive research prior to purchasing my first fitness watch, I finally pulled the trigger on this one and I haven’t looked back. Other watches I seriously looked at include the Apple Watch and Forerunner 945. Due to the MUCH better battery life, exercise data points, and GPS capability of this watch, my buddy who has an Apple Watch is now looking at getting one of these after he saw mine. Similarly, I am very glad I did not purchase the apple watch. Compared to the FR945, the FR245 seemed only to lack gimmicky features that I did not find important. The FR945 has the barometric altimeter, but you can still see elevation on this watch based on the GPS fix it receives (just slightly less accurate). The conclusion I came to is that this watch is a LOT of watch for the money, and you don’t really get a whole lot more with the FR945 (not enough to be worth almost twice the price at least). If you think you really might need two weeks’ worth of battery instead of one or want a lot more songs downloaded, it might be worth it to you.I’ve thoroughly enjoyed using the watch for runs, bikes, and swims; it has definitely helped me exercise smarter through the given data points. I’ve also found that seeing these metrics allows you to set more quantifiable goals that are fun to work towards. I also use the watch for things I hadn’t intended to at the time of purchase; the Garmin Connect IQ store allows you to download some pretty useful apps like weather radar, flight radar (for the aviation junkies), and even a beer tracking app that estimates when you should be back to 0.0 BAC based on your height and weight (BeerCounter).Overall, I would highly recommend this watch to anyone who wants to be able to leave their phone at home on the next run, see more data about their workouts and have a kick-butt tool to track your progress without spending an obscene amount of money.NOTE: Following the first run with the watch I was dismayed to see that it was saying my heart rate was low when it should have been high (during HIIT) and vice versa. This problem was quickly fixed by wearing the watch higher than I usually wear watches (well above the wrist bone, as recommended. Duh!).
Nordeci Oliveira –
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