Built by a racer. Not a chatbot.
I'm Richard Hynek, a HYROX Elite athlete, 4× Spartan World Champion and coach. I built 8stations.ai because the tools I wanted didn't exist: something that reads your race the way an experienced coach would, and trains you the way I would. Here's the person behind the AI.
Why an elite racer built an AI platform
The only first-person page on the site. Here's the arc, and the insight underneath everything 8stations does.
The racer
What the front of a race teaches you
I've spent more than ten years at the sharp end of obstacle-course racing and HYROX. I'm a 4× Spartan World Champion, a 3× Spartan European Champion, and the winner of the hardest Spartan Race in history. In HYROX I race Elite. I've taken my time from 59:02 in my first race down to a 55:29 PB, and I'm chasing the Elite 15.
I know what a fast split feels like, and I know the specific, ugly feeling of crossing a line knowing exactly where I gave the race away. Racing at the front teaches you something a spreadsheet can't: the clock is decided in places most people never look: the transitions, the pacing decisions in the back half, the one station you let drift.
The athletes who win aren't training harder. They understand their race better.
The coach
Six years, 300+ athletes, one recurring problem
I founded RH Training Club in 2020. Six years and 300+ athletes later, I've seen the same thing in nearly every one of them. They trained hard. They were fit. And they still couldn't tell you why they weren't faster.
The answer was always in their data, but reading it properly takes a coach's eye, and most athletes will never have one looking over their shoulder every week. Across those athletes I hold a 95% success rate, and almost all of it comes down to one habit: reading the race honestly before touching the training.
The build
So I built the eye into software
8stations.ai takes everything I look for when I analyze a race (splits, station times, the roxzone, your trajectory across races) and applies it to your results in seconds. Then it builds the plan I'd build, and adapts it every week.
It's not a generic AI generator with a confident voice. It's my method, my coaching logic, and accepted sports science, delivered by AI so it can be there for you every single day.
The track record behind the platform
These numbers matter for one reason: the judgement inside this platform was earned through real racing and real coaching, not generated by a model that has never raced.
- 55:29 HYROX personal best (from 59:02 in race one)
- 4× Spartan World Champion
- 3× Spartan European Champion
- Winner of the hardest Spartan Race in history
- 10+ years at the sharp end of elite OCR & HYROX
- 300+ athletes coached since 2020 · 95% success rate
The coach
How I coach, and where that lives in the product
My coaching isn't a template. I find the limiters that are actually costing you, I start with the one that costs the most, and I work through the rest week by week as your data comes in. That logic (find the limiters, target them in order, re-check, repeat) is exactly what the 8stations engine runs on. I've run it across 300+ athletes since 2020 with a 95% success rate. The platform is that same method, made available to far more athletes than I could ever take on by hand.
Great coaching shouldn’t be a luxury
Most people who line up at a HYROX deserve to understand their own race (to know where the time went and what to do about it) and almost none of them get that. 8stations.ai exists to put a racer's eye and a coach's method in the hands of every athlete chasing a number, at a price that isn't gatekept. That's the whole point.
Why trust this platform
Real elite racing. Proven sports science. Professional coaching. The AI delivers it; it does not replace the expertise.
Earned by racing, not copied online
The judgement comes from real elite racing, a HYROX Elite racer and 4× Spartan World Champion, and six years of coaching 300+ athletes, not a model guessing from the web.
Grounded in proven science
Recommendations follow proven exercise-physiology research and real-world testing: pacing, energy systems, fatigue, transfer of training.
Honest with you
We benchmark you against the real field and tell you the limiter straight, even when it’s not the answer you wanted.
Always adapting
Your plan regenerates weekly off your real data, the way a coach would adjust, not a static PDF.
Built by a racer
Richard Hynek · Founder & Head Coach
A HYROX Elite racer & 4× Spartan World Champion. The judgement underneath 8stations is human, and it’s earned.
Your training, rebuilt every week from your real training data.
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