
Forerunner 170 is the purpose-built GPS running smartwatch with personalized beginner-friendly training plans and advanced training metrics that’ll help you reach your goals.
| 1.2” Colorful AMOLED Touchscreen Display | Up to 10 Days of Battery Life in Smartwatch Mode | Advanced Training Metrics and Recovery Insights | Garmin Coach Personalized Training Plans | 80+ Built-In Sports Apps | Smart Notifications and Garmin Pay Contactless Payments |

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Pace, Distance, Heart Rate |
Daily Suggested Workouts |
Garmin Coach Adaptive Training Plans |
| 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 rate. | Get workouts made for you. These daily suggestions, now with run-walk workouts, adapt after every run to match your performance and recovery. | 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. |
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HRV Status |
Advanced Training Features |
On-The-Go Features |
| 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. | 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. | Pay from your wrist with Garmin Pay contactless payments, and receive smart notifications when paired with your smartphone. |

PLAN |
Long Battery Life |
Morning Report |
Evening Report |
Recovery Time |
Sleep Coach |
| 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. | Receive an overview of your sleep, recovery, daily calendar, HRV status and more as soon as you wake up. | Prepare for tomorrow before bed with a reminder of sleep need, tomorrow’s workout, weather and events. | Know how long to recover before your next high-effort workout based on your latest training. | Get a sleep score and personalized coaching for how much sleep you need. Track sleep stages, and get insights to improve sleep quality. |
Nap Detection |
Body Battery Energy Monitoring |
Courses |
Course Planner |
Race Predictor |
| Automatically track or log your naps to see how they benefit your body and what their ideal time and duration should be. | Track your body’s energy levels throughout the day to find the best times for activity and rest. | Create or find existing courses in the Garmin Connect app and from third-party platforms, then sync them directly to your watch. | 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. | Get an estimate of what your pace could be for a 5K, 10K, half marathon and marathon. |
Breathing Variations |
Women’s Health Tracking |
| Have a better understanding of your health with insights into shifts in your breathing patterns as you sleep. These shifts could be related to environment, alcohol or potential sleep disorders such as sleep apnea. | Track and log your menstrual cycle or pregnancy, and get exercise and nutrition education. |
PREPARE |
Wrist-Based Heart Rate |
Wrist-Based Running Dynamics |
VO2 Max |
Intensity Minutes |
Acute Load |
| The watch constantly samples your heart rate day and night and helps you gauge how hard you work during activities. | Improve your form with running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and more. | See your current fitness level, and track changes over time to set goals, evaluate progress and more. | Track your moderate and vigorous activity minutes to help meet your goals. | Compare your recent training load to the optimal range to help improve your fitness. |
Pulse Ox Sensor |
Quick Workout |
Voice Alerts |
Stress Tracking |
Health Snapshot |
| Track your blood oxygen saturation while you’re awake or asleep. | Create running workouts directly on your watch based on desired time and intensity level. | Get alerts to know how you’re performing (when paired with your smartphone). | Find out if you’re having a calm, balanced or stressful day. | Log a 2-minute session to record key health stats, then generate a report to share with your health care provide |
Lifestyle Logging |
Health Status |
Cross Training |
Activity Tracking |
Fitness Age |
| Log behaviors — such as caffeine and alcohol intake — and view reports on how they impact your health in the Garmin Connect app. | 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. | 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.. | Keep tabs on your daily steps, calories burned, floors climbed and more from your wrist. | Estimate how fit you are compared to your actual age. |
Mobility |
| Increase your flexibility and strength with free downloadable mobility workouts. |
PERFORM |
Built-In GNSS |
Wrist-Based Running Power |
Built-In Sports Apps |
Pacepro Feature |
Track Running |
| Our built-in GNSS supports multiple satellite systems, so you track where you run and record key stats, including distance and pace. | See how much power you’re applying to the trail or road so you can manage effort and fine-tune training. | Tap in to 80+ built-in activities, including cycling, open-water swimming, strength training and more. | Plan race-day strategy with pace guidance for a selected course or distance. | Record accurate lap distances, and see your distances in meters. |
CONNECT |
Safety and Tracking |
Livetrack Location Sharing |
Smart Notifications |
On-Wrist Texting |
Garmin Connect App |
| If your watch senses that an incident occurred, it will send a message with your live location. Or if you feel unsafe, you can do it manually. | Friends and family can follow your real-time location and view preplanned courses. | Receive emails, texts and alerts on your watch when paired with your iPhone or Android smartphone. | Use the keyboard to send quick text responses on your paired watch (Android only or through the Garmin Messenger app) so you can keep your phone in your pocket. | See your health and fitness information, connect with friends and more. |
Connect IQ Store |
Google Maps App |
Garmin Share |
Color Filters and Watch Face Customization |
Garmin Pay Contactless Payments |
| Add watch faces, data fields and apps to your paired watch. | Enter your destination in Google Maps on your Android smartphone, then follow turn-by-turn directions on your wrist. | Sync up with friends by sharing saved locations, courses and workouts with other nearby compatible devices. | Get color display options — including gray scale, red/green, green/red or blue/yellow — to assist with various forms of color blindness. Choose from various watch faces with customizable data and colors. | Breeze through checkout lines or transit systems with participating providers. |