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24 Sept 2026

Know Your Finish Time Before You Finish

Updates after every split, not just before the gun goes.

A goal time you set months out rarely survives contact with how the race actually goes. Athlete IQ replaces the guess with a prediction built from your own race history, one that keeps updating as you run rather than sitting fixed from the day you set it.

How predicted finish time works

Your predicted finish is calculated from your race history and shifts as that history grows, so you can see how it's moved over the past year and how close previous predictions actually landed against your real result. Mid-race, it recalculates split by split, based on how you're actually running right now rather than how you hoped you'd run going in. Every recalculation is visible, not just the final number.

Predicted finish time updating live after each split

Why a fixed goal time falls apart on race day

A goal time set weeks out is really just a guess dressed up as a plan, it can't account for how you're actually feeling on the day, the weather, or a station that goes worse than training suggested. A prediction that recalculates live does what a fixed number never can, it tells you the truth about where you're actually headed, updated with every split rather than locked in before the gun even goes.

Predicted time chart updating after each split during a race

Where to find it

Check your predicted time on your profile before race day, then keep an eye on it live during the race itself. It sits alongside your splits and updates automatically after each one, no need to leave the tracking screen to see it.

Who gets the most out of it

Athletes with enough race history for the model to work from, and anyone who's ever set a goal time that turned out wildly optimistic. If you've raced HYROX before and logged the result, there's already enough there for a meaningful pre-race number.

Getting the most out of it

Use the pre-race number to sanity check your goal time before you commit to a pacing plan. If Athlete IQ's prediction and your goal are miles apart, that's worth investigating before race day, not discovering the hard way at station four. Mid-race, treat a shifting prediction as information, not pressure, it's telling you what's actually happening, not judging you for it.

Pacing target racing your PB, with a recommended time shown alongside it

Common questions

How accurate are these predictions? They're estimates built from your own history, expect them to land close but not exact, and to get sharper the more races you've logged.

Does it use other athletes' data or just mine? It's built from your own race history specifically, that's what makes it personal rather than a generic estimate.

Can I see how past predictions compared to my actual results? Yes, the prediction view shows how it's moved over the past year alongside how close earlier predictions landed.

Predicted finish time is part of Race Predictions inside Athlete IQ, one of the two pillars in ROXFIT Ultra. See everything Ultra includes.

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