Daily data engineer with a passion for gravel racing and data as evidenced by my videos ;)
Follow me as I take on multiple UCI gravel races with the ultimate goal of qualifying for the UCI World Championships Gravel. After each race, I share a race recap video filled with some commentary and data overlays. Enjoy the adventure!
Really enjoyable video - thank you - I've watched it through 2x to get as much insight about this race as possible. For your back pain - the best help in all conditions is just to work on core strength training. Potentially you have some bike fit issues, perhaps an over-long reach. Just sitting up from time to time and moving about on your bike can delay this kind of back pain, but when it arrives, you mostly have to live with it. You don't mention anything specific about nutrition, energy management strategy, or accumulated fatigue over the race. Did you stop at the feed stations? You said your legs felt good at the end but I wonder if you noticed how much and when other riders were getting tired during the race? One last question - how far into the race was the bridge that caused that bottleneck? Do you know how much it affected riders further up the field? Once again, thanks for the efforts making the video and your openness. Beste wensen.
According to your official results page [Bas] (I'm not stalking you - just wanting to learn about the course!) - shows a similar profile to all riders, in that your rolling average speed drops from 33,5kmh in the first 45k split, to 31,2kmh in the 45-80km split, and you show a further reduction in avg speed between 120-150kms - reflected in the avg speed of all riders. So clear;ly there is a lot of fatigue setting in, but I also wonder if the course is more sandy or twisty at the end too? Again, I'm just looking for any insights you can give about pacing strategy. Bedankt.
Wow, thank you for sharing your insights! I've been focusing on core training for the past year, and it has helped reduce my back pain significantly. However, it still becomes an issue during tough races. I didn't mention nutrition in my recap because I’m still gaining experience in that area, especially since this was my first race. For tomorrow's race, I plan to consume around 100g of carbs each hour. My strategy includes drinking one bag of Maurten's drink mix plus one caffeine gel every hour. I’ll also mix 1.5L of water with three bags of Maurten's drink mix in my USWE Hydra pack. These Hydra packs are great because they make you slightly more aero, and the weight penalty is minimal on a flat course. Tomorrow we’ll start in different waves, so I’m uncertain about the situation at the bridge. Hopefully, the course won’t include it, but we’ll see how it goes. Have you made any last-minute changes to your tires due to the rainy weather forecast for today and tomorrow? Thanks again for your thoughts and good luck tomorrow!
I'm not sure if pacing would be the right strategy on this course. I think there is much more to gain at the first 120km's from drafting as the course is flat. I don't recall that the end is more sandy or twisty. You can always check out the surfaces of the course if you analyse it in Komoot ;)
Dji osmo 4 en ik heb een mount met 1 schroef die vastzit aan mijn fietscomputer mount, maar die is weer alleen geschikt voor een syncross sl stuur. Ik zie dat er steeds meer bike computer mounts komen met gopro/dji mounts erin verwerkt. Misschien kun je daarop zoeken Succes!
Ja dat zeker! In het begin was het vooral afzien en bij de kopgroep blijven, maar daarna ging het te snel omhoog voor mij en ben ik eigen tempo gaan rijden en van de omgeving gaan genieten. Mooiste race tot nu toe (:
As I am the "green guy" that passed you when you were down, I hope you didn't hurt yourself too much! Whish you a quick recovery! Sometimes shit just happens. These kind of videos are always worth to watch also to learn from mistakes. In your case, it appears as if you didn't use the full space of the road when entering the corner which let you come in to steep. It happened to me in a race that I totally messed up my line because I was just cooked and lost focus.
They was an intense race…. Strange on lap 1, I was worried about that tight bend as it was poorly marshalled, a high speed downhill should have more caution, and you go down now!🙈. At least you finished and nothing broken. Well Done. Great course but of course not fully gravel. What tires did you use? Also would you do this event again or try another one?
Yeah, I should have probably been more worried haha. The marshal that stood there also told me that more people had crashed there, but it was mainly because of the tiny bit of rain that had fallen that the corner was super slippery… No not fully gravel but it was tough enough I would say (; I used specialized pathfinder in de back and Vredestein Aventura in the front for more grip😂 I really liked the course so I would like to come back. Depending on de uci gravel calendar next year. This year it was nice that I could travel to Swiss for the gravel Suisse this weekend, which is only a 3 hour drive from Singen.
Goeie vraag! Het was wel een natte editie, maar misschien gravel bike met suspension fork zou de ideale optie zijn haha. Als ik komend jaar wee zou gaan zou ik voor gravel gaan met hele brede banden 45mm of meer
Zo kreeg ik hem van Telemetry uitgelegd: 1 - You can create a Custom mini gauge, select the Power data, and use the Factor control on the right to apply the formula you described by multiplying the Power data by a number. For example, for a 60 kg person, you would set a Factor of 0.016667 (1/60). For 80 kg it would be 0.0125 (1/80) Succes ;)
Ik reed voor je toen je viel. Ik was al gekwalificeerd in Valkenburg dus voor mij was het meer een toertocht. Wat me vooral opvalt tijdens de gravel wedstrijden is dat het gemiddelde stuur niveau laag is dat geld ook voor de technische stukken. Je denkt waarschijnlijk dat groepjes rijden sneller is maar mijn ervaring was juist precies andersom. Rijd technisch goed dan voorkom je dat afremmen en optrekken wat veel energie kost en pak juist de tijd waar het geen energie kost. Rijd de groep voorbij en kies je eigen tempo dan zul je zien dat je minuten sneller bent 😉
Goeie! Ik merk inderdaad ook dat ik veel sneller door al die bochten kom als ik niet in een groep rij. Ik zal het eens proberen in de aankomende wedstrijd in Denemarken
Thank you for the insights! I think you made a lot of good decision and got on your Bike realy fast after the crash. I would have probably not stopped to fix the wahoo mount and would just put the Wahoo in my bag. First lap was crazy speed.
Thank you🙏. After the race I also thought that would probably be the best decision, but then I also had to put my action cam in my pocket as it was attached to the same mount. Very hard decision
Lo scorso anno ero anche io alla Houffagravel. Scollinato ultimo alla prima salita, arrivato a metà classifica. Il mio unico errore era stato prendere il tempo di qualifica del 2022 e cercare di starci dentro (mio tempo -15' rispetto all'ultimo qualificato 2022, ma non è bastato, dovevo abbassare ancora di 15'). Il mio consiglio è puntare al tempo, non alle posizioni, magari vedendo nelle tappe precedenti di quale % è stato abbassato e ricalcolarlo. Il livello è sempre più alto!!
@@BellaVita-Lo_Sgagna Grazie per il tuo consiglio. Ho vissuto la stessa cosa con la Gravel 150. Nel 2022 era molto più lenta rispetto al 2023, quando l'ho corsa per la prima volta. Proverò a calcolare la differenza per le prossime gare (;
The crash was really unfortunate because the qualifying position came closer and closer. About the climb in the beginning I would risk going a bit harder because you never know you are going to get to the group again. You can lose a few positions and in a singletrack you wouldn't be able to get to the front. The camelback is a good alternative, I would not say if you don't do it you will directly qualify but I do think it rides better/more comfortable without one and you don't have to bring the extra kilos with you if you take new bottles each lap. I enjoyed the race myself and I started around place 200 I guess, even with being in the startbox an hour before the start. My dad gave me bottles each lap and like I said the previous vid I went full gas until the steep paved climb and then started to recover a bit. I think the quali is really possible and good luck with the next races!
@@FlyingGravelMan If you can I think it would be good to try taking a bottle from someone. I think I can say that I have some pretty good experience but it can be difficult to take a bottle and surely if you're a bit tired and going fast. Good luck with the race!
Sterk gereden hoor! Leuk om nu ook jouw gravel videos te kijken 😊 Vraagje: wat voor padding zit er op je stuur? Lijkt me erg comfortabel namelijk en beter (ligter) dan aero bars. Groet Shannon
Dankje🙏. Ik gebruik kleine pads die net op een plat aero stuur te plakken zijn. Mijne zijn van Pro Missile en het is echt heel fijn om af en toe in die positie te liggen!
I didn't know I used to be a pro athlete! (btw i suck at swimming). I just recognized Bas' camera, that's why i waved. My name is Arthur, not sebastian;)
Dankje🙌. Nee helaas geen kaartje voor. Afgelopen jaar heb ik die wel gereden en toen kon je je een week van te voren nog inschrijven haha. Volgend weekend rij ik wel Blaavands Huk, Denemarken
Bad luck I’m sure you’ll try again and make the cut. I was racing in the UK last weekend at The Gralloch in Scotland in the 70-74 age group only 11 staters, I missed 3rd by 18 seconds and didn’t qualify, oh well have to try again, good luck to you
wauw, so nice to see that still 11 people are competing in your age cat and that the differences are still so small. My next race will be in the following weekend at Blaavands Huk, Denmark. So who knows I might make the cut there ;)
Mooie video! Raw en hard. Ik begreep je stop op 75km niet helemaal. Het leek alsof de camera los kwam en je heb vast wilde zetten. Mooi om te horen dat de Duitse vrouw jouw wil helpen. Alle verhalen over de risicovolle eerste ronde heb ik gemist. Geen auto's op de weg, geen tracktoren of wandelende mensen. Wel heel veel gevaarlijke smalle stukken en bankjes en paaltjes. Het dwingen in het begin hoort erbij. Goed gereden en ook aardig gepaced zo te zien. Groet Bernd BEAT Cycling #545
Hey Bernd, de camera en wahoo mount was lost komen te zitten door de val op km 69 en later tijdens een hobbelig stuk helaas gaan bewegen. Toen heb ik moeten stoppen om die weer vast te schroeven want anders zou ik de camera en fietscomputer waarschijnlijk verliezen. Die mevrouw daar was echt super behulpzaam en heeft me nog wat water gegeven! De groep die het grootste risico had waren de elite mannen, want die waren als eerste gestart en toen was het parcours nog niet helemaal veilig, maar dat heb ik ook maar van horen zeggen. Bij mij viel op opzich mee! Zie je bij de volgende(;
Hey! Im the guy who told you to clean the lense of the gopro at the back! It was really hard last sunday.. do you have the footage of the rear gopro at km 66? If yes I think we would see me going over the bar in the big puddle
Hey I remember haha. Thank you for that! I completely forgot that my rear cam was completely in de mud. I only have the first hour of the rear cam, so I must have missed that part with the rear cam, but my buddy was filming there with a drone and het captured a lot of people riding in there😂. When you got in there, did someone else join you or were you the second person going in de puddle?
Thank you and that was a long indoor session then haha. I hadn’t thought of it that people watch this during indoor sessions but that is really good to know. I might upload the full version in the future but I also want to be one of the first to upload the race footage to get some extra clicks and watch hours. For now I first want to focus on the race recap video that is coming out soon!
@@FlyingGravelMan Yeah, doing endurance training indoors was pretty boring. I prefer this kind of video over watching the virtual world. Anyway, I'm looking forward to your recap video
Cool! Unfortunately I did not qualify because I fell in the corner, around KM 69… a full race recap video is coming soon, if you are interested about the whole story (;
@@FlyingGravelMandoh! I didn’t watched the whole vid so you caught me :) But man, that was a nasty fall. Bummer. Yes, interested in the whole story. BTW are you going for Gravel One Fifty for a new attempt?
@@paulberghege haha, I can imagine that most people don’t watch the full video as that takes quite some time. Gravel onefifty was sold out before I was able to get a ticket, so unfortunately no. But I will go to Denmark, Singen and gravel Suisse (:
Ik heb zeker genoten. Vanaf de 2e ronde ging ik echt lekker omdat ik toen veel rijders begon in te halen. Helaas op kilometer 69 ben ik uitgegleden in een bocht en daarna niet meer lekker in de wedstrijd gekomen door wat problemen met de fiets. Hoe ging die bij jou? En ik vond het ook gezellig, bedankt nog voor je tips🙏
@@FlyingGravelMan owhh vervelend veel schade aan overgehouden? Spoedig herstel in ieder geval… zelf had ik rond 35km pech met de fiets waardoor ik helemaal door de groep ben gezakt. Bij start/finish heb ik het kunnen repareren, maar zat ik tussen de 40/45 jarige. Dus toen heb ik de strijd maar gestaakt. Op naar de volgende zeggen we dan maar!
@@sieberensen need geen schade en ik heb hem nog uit kunnen rijden gelukkig! Geen hele goede positie helaas, maar wel weer een mooie ervaring om mee te nemen naar de volgende wedstrijden (; Verveld zeg! Hopelijk was de schade bij jou ook beperkt?
@@FlyingGravelMan zekers de enige schade was mentale schade 😉 Hopelijk treffen we elkaar nog weer een keer, nog veel succes met al je doelen en ambities!
The first 25% qualifies. How do they deal with people that are already qualified via a prior race and would finish in this race within the top 25%? Do they check this, and then adjust this to the 25% unqualified finishers for this specific race? Btw curious to see if you qualified? Participated as well, and was 5 minutes to slow.. Next try at gravel 150
They do not unfortunately. So people can qualify 5 times for the same WC. I was 8 minutes too slow in Aachen, but I will share my excuses in the upcoming race recon video😉 Good luck at the gravel 150. My next challenge will @ Blåvand
