She’s Back! Anne Haug Returns to Racing With a Tricked Out P5
In March we caught up with Anne Haug, the 2019 IRONMAN world champ and the fastest woman ever over the full-distance thanks to her 8:02:38 at Challenge Roth last year, as she was preparing for IRONMAN South Africa.
Unfortunately, shortly after that chat, Haug got sick and had to pull out of the race in Nelson Mandela Bay. Last weekend she returned to racing, though, winning Spain’s longest-running triathlon, the Volcano Triathlon, which is hosted by one of her sponsors, Club La Santa.
This weekend Haug will take on a tougher field (her 2:05:51 finish in Lanzarote last weekend, which included a 33:45 10 km run split, put her fifth overall and over 15 minutes ahead of the next woman in the race) when she competes at Challenge Salou in Spain. Other women to watch for include Italian Elisabetta Curridori, Nikita Pakiewiez from Belgium and Judith Corachan Vaquera from Spain.
As long as her fitness continues to build well, Haug says she’ll look to compete at IRONMAN Hamburg at the beginning of June, where she’s likely to take on Kat Matthews (who is fresh off a blazing 8:10 performance at IRONMAN Texas) and last year’s Hamburg champ, Jackie Hering.
We were all set to post these photos of Haug’s bike during the lead up to her race in South Africa, but had to hold off until this week as her team has been looking to keep the innovative new hydration system she’ll be racing with under wraps.
Haug is riding the latest version of the Cervelo P5. The bike was released just before Roth last year and made an auspicious debut.
Haug rides a Rotor Aldhu Aero 2x crankset with 155 mm crank arms and 56/ 42 rings. There’s a Rotor Inspider power meter, too.
The front wheel is a DT Swiss ARC 1100 …
… Coupled with the ARC 1100 Dicut Disc. She rides Schwalbe Pro One tires (28 front – 30 rear).
Shimano disc brakes provide stopping power on the DT Swiss wheels.
The Speedbar.nl cockpit includes the Profile Design HSF/800 BTA bottle, and you’ll also notice another tube that allows Haug to access liquid from a second hydration system (see below).
The “under development” frame bottle was 3D printed and installed on the P5 frame by Haug’s partner and mechanic, Sebastian. It features a special slot for refills on the fly.
Rear hydration is handled with the X-Lab behind the saddle mount.
Haug rides a Gebiomized Stride saddle.
Speedplay aero pedals keep things light.
The Shimano Dura Ace components are enhanced with Ceramic Speed pulleys. Haug rids with an 11-30 rear cassette.
Her gear selction seems odd to me.
Excellent ride for Haug in Challenge Salou on her “Tricked Out P5”.
However I guess it’s ‘easy’ to bury yourself for 90km if you know you’ll be DNFing in T2.
Been ill apparently, but with that ride seems more likely a leg problem.
Hope that the ‘no run’ option taken was so that Hamburg might still be doable. She has to validate to race Kona.
She has been ill but that wasn’t the reason for the DNF.
I was told she cut her foot on Friday night and told the race organisers she would be unable to run.
Thank you for that info.
I note the Challenge Salou bike course is described as 80km (NB with climbs) so Haug’s 2:02 extrapolates up to 2:18 for 90km.
Sounds as if she’ll be able to toe the line at Jungfernstieg in 3 weeks.
I’m sorry, are we no longer interested in Anne Haug’s most relevant piece of gear - the tires?
Ha! I thought exactly the same thing - the wheel/ tire picture and caption is the first thing I went to…p-ones, no more Xperimental stuff
I’m quite surprised by how many things on the bike are botch jobs. For a 4000 euro cockpit, using electrical tape to fasten the shifters seems odd. The quality of the 3D printed bottle is also just so so.
Can you just drill 2 holes in a frame for hydration hose?
I thought custom-self 3D printed parts were against the rules? Surely Ironman ban on using electrical tape to close the gap between aerobars should be in effect here as well given the tape on the cockpit? Or do rules just not apply to pros.
You caught that too, did you? Sounds like awfully big gears with short cranks, but I’m certain there was considerable testing involved before landing on that combination.
As far as I can tell from the pictures the tape is only there to secure the shifters. Effectively the same as grip tape on anyone else’s bars. Where is she using tape to create a fairing?
I’m more concerned about the 3D printed water bottle(?) in the main triangle. I don’t think there’s a chance that whole thing is used to hold liquid, even if it does at least provide an easier way to get the liquid into the frame. It looks like a cheap, light fairing to me.
My interpretation of the rules were that they are meant to prevent unsafe attachments to the bike (on the assumption that big name manufacturer products were always safe), not to prevent fairings (which is the intended side-effect without having to outright say it). Having tape secure objects and having plastic mounted storage containers drilled into freshly bored holes is exactly what was banned.
The ‘duct tape’ reference in the rules was to prohibit its use for ‘fairing’ effect. Using tape to secure the blips seems completely OK. I’ll leave judgement on the rather unaesthetic fluid storage triangular container to others / event/DTU refs (Hamburg).
IM Rules 5.03 (b) “Protective screens, fuselages, fairings, or any other devices or materials (including duct tape) added or blended into the structure with the intent to reduce (or having the effect of reducing) resistance to air penetration are prohibited. Aerodynamic assemblies and protuberances on the head tube or elsewhere are prohibited. Provided that the use of adhesive tape (including duct tape) does not fundamentally alter or enlarge the general shape of the structure, adhesive tape may be affixed to the bike (e.g., to cover valve cutout of the rear disc wheel, to cover bolts access, etc.)”
That’s a rough 3D print job. She basically just turned it into a BMC Timemachine.
Does the new P5 have storage under the aero bottle mount on the down tube like the P-series? (the old model doesn’t, its just standard bosses)
If it does, no drilling of the frame needed, just drill the storage cover.