Garmin Forerunner 970 Smartwatch Soft Gold Titanium with French Grey Case and French Grey/Translucent Indigo Band – 010-02969-12

Discover the Garmin Forerunner 970, a GPS smartwatch designed to enhance your fitness journey. With advanced health monitoring features, customizable workout modes, and smart connectivity, it supports a variety of activities to help you achieve your wellness goals.

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AMOLED DISPLAY | DURABLE SAPPHIRE LENS | TITANIUM BEZEL

LET THEM KNOW YOU’RE OUT THERE

WITH A BUILT-IN LED FLASHLIGHT

BUILT FOR THE DEMANDS OF TRAINING

WITH UP TO 15 DAYS OF BATTERY IN SMARTWATCH MODE

WE’VE GOT YOUR ROUTE

FULL-COLOUR MAPS WITH ENHANCED NAVIGATION

“CAN’T TALK, ON A RUN”

SOUNDS BETTER WITH A BUILT-IN SPEAKER AND MICROPHONE

FIND A NEW FAST

WITH RUNNING ECONOMY AND RUNNING TOLERANCE

RUNNING ECONOMY

Measure your overall energy efficiency while running — using long-term running volume, stride length and step speed loss, which tells you how much you slow down when your foot hits the ground — when you pair your watch with the HRM 600 heart rate monitor (sold separately).

RUNNING TOLERANCE

Better understand the impact each run has on your body, and get a recommended weekly maximum mileage so you can keep training effectively without taking on too much.

FULL-COLOUR MAPPING

Whether you’re running on city streets or riding densely covered trails, the Forerunner 970 smartwatch provides full-colour, built-in mapping — now even more dynamic, intuitive and simpler to follow.

GARMIN COACH ADAPTIVE TRAINING PLANS

Train for an event, achieve a milestone, or improve your fitness with Garmin Coach training plans for running, triathlon, cycling or strength. Select plans adapt daily for personalised workouts based on your performance, recovery and health metrics.

TRAINING READINESS

From the moment you wake up, get a readiness score based on your sleep quality, recovery, training load and more, so you can determine whether it’s a good day to go hard — or take it easy.

BUILT-IN SPEAKER AND MICROPHONE

Make and take phone calls from your watch when it’s paired to your smartphone. Plus, control watch functions with voice command — or use your smartphone’s voice assistant to respond to text messages and more.

MORNING REPORT

Get a customisable overview of your sleep, training outlook, HRV status, weather 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.

TURN-BY-TURN DIRECTIONS

Create or find existing courses in the Garmin Connect smartphone app, or sync from third-party platforms and get turn-by-turn directions.

DYNAMIC ROUND-TRIP ROUTING

Enter how far you want to go, and get suggested routes that will bring you back. If you break off course, your watch will map a new one that hits the same mileage.

TRAINING STATUS

Using indicators such as HRV status, your recent exercise history and VO2 max, get an easy insight into training effectiveness — and know whether you’re training productively, peaking or strained.

DAILY SUGGESTED WORKOUTS

Get workouts made for you. They adapt after every run to match your performance and recovery.

RECOVERY TIME

Know how long you need to recover before your next high-effort workout based on your latest training.

BODY BATTERY ENERGY MONITORING

Track your body’s energy levels to find the best times for activity and rest

SLEEP COACH

Get a sleep score and personalised coaching for how much sleep you need. Track sleep stages, and get insights to improve sleep quality.

NAP DETECTION

Automatically track or log your naps to see how they benefit your body and to check the recommended time and duration they should be.

HRV STATUS

Gain a deeper understanding of your overall health, stress and recovery through heart rate variability while you sleep.

SKIN TEMPERATURE

When wearing your watch to sleep, see how your average skin temperature1 changes, which can be related to your recent activity, sleep environment, potential illness, and more.

WOMEN’S HEALTH TRACKING

Track your menstrual cycle or pregnancy, plus get exercise and nutrition education. With skin temperature tracking while you sleep, get better period predictions and past ovulation estimates.

RACE PREDICTOR

Get an estimate of what your pace could be for a 5K, 10K, half-marathon and marathon if you were to run it today.

PROJECTED RACE TIME

This race-time prediction is what your race time and pace could be if you keep training well all the way through to the race date entered.

WRIST-BASED RUNNING DYNAMICS

This fitness smartwatch measures crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and more.

STEP SPEED LOSS

Improve your running form and understand how much you slow down when your foot hits the ground when you pair your watch with the HRM 600 heart rate monitor (sold separately).

WRIST-BASED HEART RATE

This watch constantly samples your heart rate to help you gauge how hard you work during activities.

MULTISPORT WORKOUTS

Create custom step-by-step multisport workouts in Garmin Connect and send them to your watch to seamlessly switch from different sport types.

HILL SCORE

Measure your capability for running uphill, and evaluate your progress over time based on your VO2 max and training history

ENDURANCE SCORE

This feature measures your ability to sustain prolonged efforts to help you understand how training from your athletic pursuits impacts your overall endurance.

ACUTE LOAD

Compare your recent training load to the optimal range to help improve your fitness.

LOAD RATIO

Track short-term to mid-term load ratio to keep your rate of training growth within bounds that will help you stay healthy and avoid setbacks.

PERFORMANCE CONDITION

While you run, get an analysis of your pace and heart rate for a real-time assessment of your current ability to perform.

VO2 MAX

See your current fitness level, and track changes over time to set goals, evaluate progress and more.

STRESS TRACKING

Find out if you’re having a calm, balanced or stressful day.

TRAINING EFFECT

See how your workouts influence your endurance, speed and power.

HEALTH SNAPSHOT

Log a 2-minute session to record key health stats, then generate a report to share with your healthcare provider.

PULSE OX SENSOR

Track your blood oxygen saturation while you’re awake or asleep3.

CROSS TRAINING

Download free HIIT, strength, cardio, yoga, Pilates and mobility workouts so you can switch up how you sweat.