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Forerunner 170 is the purpose-built GPS running smartwatch with personalised beginner-friendly training plans and advanced training metrics that’ll help you reach your goals.

PACE, DISTANCE, HEART RATE
This easy-to-use GPS running smartwatch has the essential features you need to take your running to the next level — including GPS, pace, distance and wrist-based heart rate³.
DAILY SUGGESTED WORKOUTS
Get workouts made for you. These daily suggestions, now with run-walk workouts, adapt after every run to match your performance and recovery.
GARMIN COACH ADAPTIVE TRAINING PLANS
Train for an event, achieve a milestone, or improve your fitness with training plans that adapt daily based on your recovery and health metrics. Choose from beginner-friendly plans with run-walk workouts and less volume, or pick plans for more intense training.
HRV STATUS
Gain a deeper understanding of your overall health, training and recovery through heart rate variability. Your watch monitors the time variations between consecutive heartbeats while you sleep.
ADVANCED TRAINING FEATURES
Training readiness helps you determine if you’re primed to run. Training status lets you know if you’re training productively, and training effect provides you with insight into the primary benefit of your workouts.
ON-THE-GO FEATURES
Pay from your wrist with Garmin Pay contactless payments², and receive smart notifications when paired with your smartphone.

Features:

• LONG BATTERY LIFE - With up to 10 days in smartwatch mode and up to 20 hours in GPS mode, you’ll get a more complete picture of your health and training.
• MORNING REPORT - Receive an overview of your sleep, recovery, daily calendar, HRV status and more as soon as you wake up.
• EVENING REPORT - Prepare for tomorrow before bed with a reminder of sleep need, tomorrow’s workout, weather and events.
• RECOVERY TIME - Know how long to recover before your next high-effort workout based on your latest training.
• SLEEP COACH - Get a sleep score and personalised coaching for how much sleep you need. Track sleep stages, and get insights to improve sleep quality³.
• NAP DETECTION - Automatically track or log your naps to see how they benefit your body and what their ideal time and duration should be.
• BODY BATTERY™ ENERGY MONITORING - Track your body’s energy levels throughout the day to find the best times for activity and rest³.
• Courses - Create or find existing courses in the Garmin Connect™ app and from third-party platforms, then sync them directly to your watch.
• COURSE PLANNER - Prepare for what’s to come with course planner. This feature lets you add cut-off times, notes, rest plans, checkpoints and aid stations to keep you on track throughout the race.
• RACE PREDICTOR - Get an estimate of what your pace could be for a 5K, 10K, half marathon and marathon.
• BREATHING VARIATIONS - Have a better understanding of your health with insights into shifts in your breathing patterns as you sleep⁴. These shifts could be related to environment, alcohol or potential sleep disorders such as sleep apnea.
• WOMEN’S HEALTH TRACKING - Track and log your menstrual cycle or pregnancy, and get exercise and nutrition education.
• WRIST-BASED HEART RATE - The watch constantly samples your heart rate day and night and helps you gauge how hard you work during activities³.
• WRIST-BASED RUNNING DYNAMICS - Improve your form with running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and more.
• VO2 MAX - See your current fitness level, and track changes over time to set goals, evaluate progress and more.
• INTENSITY MINUTES - Track your moderate and vigorous activity minutes to help meet your goals.
• ACUTE LOAD - Compare your recent training load to the optimal range to help improve your fitness.
• PULSE OX SENSOR - Track your blood oxygen saturation while you’re awake or asleep⁴.
• QUICK WORKOUT - Create running workouts directly on your watch based on desired time and intensity level.
• Voice alerts - Get alerts to know how you’re performing (when paired with your smartphone).
• STRESS TRACKING - Find out if you’re having a calm, balanced or stressful day.
• HEALTH SNAPSHOT - Log a 2-minute session to record key health stats, then generate a report to share with your healthcare provider.
• LIFESTYLE LOGGING - Log behaviours — such as caffeine and alcohol intake — and view reports on how they impact your health in the Garmin Connect app.
• HEALTH STATUS - Look for changes in your health data that could indicate added stress to your body, so you can know when you’re trending away from your usual range.
• CROSS TRAINING - Browse Garmin Connect for free HIIT, strength, cardio, yoga and Pilates workouts. You can even build your own in the app and send to your watch.
• ACTIVITY TRACKING - Keep tabs on your daily steps, calories burned, floors climbed and more from your wrist³.
• FITNESS AGE - Estimate how fit you are compared to your actual age.
• MOBILITY - Increase your flexibility and strength with free downloadable mobility workouts.
• BUILT-IN GNSS - Our built-in GNSS supports multiple satellite systems, so you track where you run and record key stats, including distance and pace.
• WRIST-BASED RUNNING POWER - See how much power you’re applying to the trail or road so you can manage effort and fine-tune training.
• BUILT-IN SPORTS APPS - Tap in to 80+ built-in activities, including cycling, open-water swimming, strength training and more.
• PacePro™ Feature - Plan race-day strategy with pace guidance for a selected course or distance.
• TRACK RUNNING - Record accurate lap distances and see your distances in meters.
• SAFETY AND TRACKING - If your watch senses that an incident occurred, it will send a message with your live location⁵. Or if you feel unsafe, you can do it manually.
• LIVETRACK™ LOCATION SHARING - Friends and family can follow your real-time location⁵ and view preplanned courses.
• SMART NOTIFICATIONS - Receive emails, texts and alerts on your watch when paired with your iPhone® or Android™ smartphone.
• ON-WRIST TEXTING - Use the keyboard to send quick text responses on your paired watch (Android only or through the Garmin Messenger™ app⁶) so you can keep your phone in your pocket.
• GARMIN CONNECT APP - See your health and fitness information, connect with friends and more.
• CONNECT IQ™ STORE - Add watch faces, data fields and apps to your paired watch.
• GOOGLE MAPS™ APP - Enter your destination in Google Maps on your Android smartphone, then follow turn-by-turn directions on your wrist.
• GARMIN SHARE - Sync up with friends by sharing saved locations, courses and workouts with other nearby compatible devices.
• COLOUR FILTERS AND WATCH FACE CUSTOMISATION - Get colour display options — including grey scale, red/green, green/red or blue/yellow — to assist with various forms of colour blindness. Choose from various watch faces with customisable data and colours.
• GARMIN PAY CONTACTLESS PAYMENTS - Breeze through checkout lines or transit systems with participating providers.