The battery life is a let-down, with only 16 hours of GPS.You need an additional chest strap heart rate monitor to get the most from this watch, because the 745 (like all wrist-worn optical monitors) can return inaccurate readings during exercise which effectively ruins all the useful training analysis and recovery advice.It’s a small, lightweight watch that’s less intrusive to wear than something like the Garmin Fenix 6 series.There’s music storage and it can sync with Spotify to store playlists offline, though streaming music will reduce your GPS battery life to just six hours.You can connect a multitude of external sensors and devices via both ANT+ and Bluetooth, including bike and running power sensors, running footpods, and exercise bikes and turbo trainers.
Garmin 745 plus#
The 745 is a very good triathlon watch, with the top-notch tracking I’ve come to expect from a high-end Garmin, plus upgraded training and recovery analysis tools.