Garmin's Forerunner 745 Brings Triathlon-Focused Training to $500 Smartwatch

In September 2020, amid a world where athletic ambition had been quietly suspended by pandemic, Garmin released the Forerunner 745 — a $500 smartwatch built for the triathlete who measures life in metrics. It is less a new invention than a consolidation: a single device gathering the scattered capabilities of an overcrowded lineup and offering them to the athlete who refuses to stop training, whatever the circumstances. The watch speaks to a particular human impulse — the desire to quantify effort, to find meaning in numbers, to prepare for a race that may or may not come.