Haanja100 2023 - The Hardest MTB Race in Baltics - Race Analysis with EN Commentary
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2024
- If you are associating yourself with MTB - then it's kind of a benchmark to pass Haanja100. I been lucky enough to be here in dry conditions, but wouldn't say I won't want to testify it on wet. The fun part comes after such races, not during, haha!
This is one of the last few race analysis this year from me - thus let me know how the season was for you too!
Activity on Strava: / strava
Time - 05:09:30
Overall:
27/426
Age Group:
24/259
00:00 - Why Haanja
00:32 - Highway to hell
01:45 - If you are strong, prove it not in the gates
02:45 - Organizers said SURPRISE here
03:27 - Not an energy save mode
04:30 - No success
05:40 - Jump into nowhere
06:35 - Rare moment to eat
07:40 - Misfortune
08:15 - SP 1
08:40 - Sabotaged markup
10:04 - Latvian going strong
11:40 - Still TOP 10
13:48 - Killer singletracks
17:08 - Twinloc problems
20:20 - Does anyone has multitool?
21:50 - Chase is ON
23:45 - No longer TOP10
24:55 - Hike the Bike
25:30 - Did you fall here?
25:50 - Country roads
26:49 - Downkill went wrong
28:15 - Only few km remaining
28:50 - Final km and cramps
29:36 - This is it
30:20 - Wasn't easy, but was worth it
What about pictures gallery you are not aware of yet? You can find some here: media/set/?v...
@IG: / tom10crafted
@Strava: / strava
2023 Season MTB Races Analysis with EN Commentary:
• MTB Races 2023 - Analysis
2023 Season MTB Races Full Onboards:
• MTB Races 2023 - Full ...
Insights about the bike & gear:
• Insights about Bikes, ...
After Stats:
/ @afterstats
/ afterstats
Information about the gear used:
Footage captured: GoPro Hero 11 + Max Lens
Tracking device: Garmin Edge 1040
Power meters: Stages Cycling XT/XTR
Bike: Scott Spark RC Pro 2022 - Спорт
Nice!!! Never heard about this event, but now I would like to also paticitapte in it 😊
Thats one of the few reasons why MTB is needed in Estonia! 🫶🏻
Great overview, super nice to see the pace and metrics of someone racing in top positions.
I have done H100 10x (unfortunately not this year), but always in the middle of the pack.
The closer you get to the rear end of the pack, the more friendly the participants become, I guess it's hard racing in the front and nobody is willing to slow down, stop or leave their tools.
I feel the same about the spa, never used it, but it comes as a package probably because the organizer books the complete hotel for this event and therefore there are fixed costs involved for them.
Thanks a lot! I am always interested to ask people... 10times, its a huge number! What made you to do back to back racing? I guess it becomes as a tradition of some sort, for september and season finish?:)
In regards to the friendliness levels - yes, I am aware that seriousness levels comes down, and this can usually be well seen by pictures galleries too! :) I always say that racing is a secondary thing, where being human is always at first - thus that sometimes detours my expectations from others too, haha! But yeah, I at least tried my luck, no guarantees, nor hard feelings on that. Sometimes it works, others it does not.
And yes - spa thing is kind of wide spread topic I guess - where imagine only minority chooses it, then spoils the whole relaxation part too. So its all good on that part, just this way or offering and thats it. Why you was not there this year?? I guess it was the warmest and best conditions ever - unlikely to repeat, ha!:)
Good job with the music and the cuts!
For the first time in the history - effort has been noticed! 🤣🪓🙏
Activity on Strava: www.strava.com/activities/9903650845
Full onboard: ua-cam.com/video/c_yMLCBpdIs/v-deo.html
Have you been there? How it was? Let me know if the comments!
Nice to see this kind of analysis from the front of the race (front from my viewpoint, I usually finish in top 30-50%).
This was my 10th Haanja 100 race and extremely enjoyable thanks to the superb weather. I don't mind muddy cold weather (as it is usually during Haanja 100) - mud and slippery roots are fun, but sometimes it's nice to ride in warm and dry too :) 2020 was also very warm and dry Haanja 100.
Haanja 100 is definitely one of my favourite races, I love it's difficult climbs and steep descents and how much singletrack it has.
It was sad to see the unfriendlyness in the front, it's a way more friendly and relaxed at positions where I race.
PS! Your Strava link is wrong - it links to some dudes run activity in Portugal.
Thanks for a notice about Strava link - missed last digit!!
I am impressed by all those people finishing it XX times - it is not a ride in the park after all, and is as challenging as it can get in our region! As someone who came here for the first time, I can see event getting better and better over the years, if new singletracks are usually added every year. Thus that collection of singles builds up and fun level grows!
Thanks for sharing your take from that - and congratulations with 10th finish! (Nice number, isn't it? haha!! Tom10©:D )
Very nice analysis. Couple of years back they did also Haanja 100 mile race but participation count was too low to keep it going, I think. You are welcome back to Estonia!
Thanks, Tõnu! If I am not mistaken they do 100 miles now with a gap of few years - for hunger to accumulate! :) Which makes sense - only few would want to do that in race mode, haha! These type of ultras are not yet in my bucket list, but who knows, maybe some day!
BTW 100 mile race is every three years, in that sense it is quite regular
@@dyingbreedMTB didn't knew that its recurring schedule - nice! 100miles sounds like an extreme burden, though! :D
Hey, nice race and good work!
What should be the good racing tyres what you recommend? and what psi?(approximate)
Hey, thanks a lot! I am becoming tires geek, thus will attack you with a bunch of questions to begin with, haha!
1. What terrain do you race?
2. What race types?
3. What is your own weight?
Very good overview of the race, I was also participating but was competing for the bottom 10 places with 11h+ time. This year conditions were great, I firstly tried to pass the course on 2021, when it was raining and conditions were very muddy, which made the climbs twice as hard. That year I needed to withdraw half way, because very slow pace. Sorry to hear about the not very friendly encounters at top, but I can assure you that people in the bottom were very friendly and helpful, maybe it is related that they are not competing. About the fees and communication, I think it is because of small organizing team, I also wanted some exceptions on first year, but with no luck.
Thanks, glad it was useful in some way! I can only imagine how hard courses becomes on wet - zero rolling, always constant momentum needed and not to mention hike the bike scenarios - like, tripling easily! How was your experience this year? I guess you didn't mind stopping in SP's and chilling too! :)
Well, its true that usually the first quarter or so of participants are much into competing, which is to be expected in the race, haha! Not the place to chit chat or find friends during the event, maybe afterwards at best! :D
@@tom10craftedIt is good to see these videos, because I am always wondering how the leaders will ride these very technical sections:) This year first 40km up to 2nd TP were very good and I felt quite strong making a sub 9hour time, but then these punchy and narrow singletracks begun, which draw all the energy out of me up to a 70th km when joy of riding started to comeback and on the gravel section I was able to go full throttle again.
Since I was slow in the end 3rd and 4th TP was already closed, but yes in the first two I was able to chill few minutes. And also I had local friends who helped me out during the race, which is a very huge bonus!
@@dyingbreedMTB Now imagine the leader going all of this 1.2times faster than I did:) At some point it comes as stronger legs, at others - more about being technical and wasting less energy. It never gets easier - you just become faster - which I can admit saying that singletracks in the middle and second half were killer for all I guess. Well, mostly! :D
Next time your goal will be to be ahead of time in SP's - I am sure this is not your last one:)
@@tom10crafted Definately not my last Haanja100, third start and second finish. Although each time I am wondering why :D
I guess I need to change my training strategy for next season, more races, but shorter distances, currenty I have done fewer, but in marathon length (min 70km long) and also losing 20kg of body weigth could benefit :D
I also saw your Tartu's marathon video, it has usually been my training for Haanja, but this year had to miss due to illness. And yes Tartu is getting more and more a gravel race, because gravel riding is more popular in Estonia..
Now as you said it out loud - you have to share the "WHY" thing :D As I been asking this question in my mind when thinking about 20 times finishers - crazy!
Just from my point of view, training is a matter of personal preference, but having at least few long rides (similar to race distance) is crucial to have in the luggage before entering such races. Not like it gives guarantees for finishing, but adds some needed strains:) And yeah, Tartu's this year was far from MTB, but still nice to be a part of that huge chunk of people! BTW, if you been ill on Tartu, then chances are high that consequences was still there on H100:)
Nuo tiek medžių ir siaurų neaiškių takų ir galvą galima pamesti:).
Vietomis tikrai buvo ką paveikti - dar metai kiti ir nebepratilps vairai tarp medžių :D
100km Karma ... it's kinda festival of pain 😅
Its more like 60-70% of Karma through the whole duration, thus only a bit below 70km !! :D
I think at 18:52-18:53 - this is where I came maybe a bit too fast and bottomed up both fork and shock, heard a cracking noise (loud one), and voila - broken frame (which I noticed only back home..) :( :)
That means I should be happy about the fact that I came there slow, ha! Thankfully Orbea has lifetime warranty to frames, yes? Now what, Alma’s time, or you don’t have it already? 😵
@@tom10crafted Alma is sold long ago. Waiting for the answer from Orbea :) I have a spare Santa Cruz (winter beater).
@@julioboogie winter arrived early then! 😅 At least it was not a completely terminal thing and you managed to reach the finish! 🤙🏼
Pradžia labai stipri, daug žadanti atrodė! Techninės problemos tikrai stipriai įtakojo rezultatą, net man BPM sukilo kai tą kuprinę kraustei 😁 ANYONE HAS MULTITOOL??!??! Visa dėžė iš niekur atsirado tik balsą reikėjo pakelti 🤣🤣🤣 Visai jau buvau susidomėjas Haanja100 kitiem metam, kol nesužinojau, kad į SPA reikės eiti 😂😂
Galimai kiti dalyviai kurie jau yra dalyvavę čia, protingiau jėgas paskirstė ir pradžioje nespaudė :D NOT ME :D Haha, gali į SPA ir nevaryt, svarbu įrankius savo įsidėk važiuojant! :D
Did Savaste overtake the lead or did he crash?
He was in a group ahead and finished 3rd overall - don’t know how it unveiled there 🤘🏼
@@tom10crafted Ok he was first in the graphic at the end I thought he won the thing.
@@rawmancemtb ahh, that was just the last segment of the course, kind of one before the finish. You can check results there though:
nelson.racetecresults.com/results.aspx?CId=16267&RId=6327&EId=1
20:38 Estukai nėra nedraugiški, jiems tiesiog dašuto tik po 5km kas yra tas multitool'as 🤣🤣😈
Galbūt reikėjo lėčiau klausti, nepagalvojau apie šitą..! 🤣🤣🫶🏻