Harju MTB race 2024

In this video I am the first race of the 2024 season. It is called Harju MTB and it is located in Jyväskylä, Central Finland.

The route is just about less than one kilometer and it will be ridden 15 times. It’s technically easy, but physically challenging, because there is a lot of climbing.

I managed to get an external cameraman, and as a result, the video also includes footage from along the route.

Here is the link to the event: https://www.jyps.fi/tapahtumat-ja-toiminta/kilpailutoiminta/keski-suomen-pyorailycup/harju-mtb

00:00:00 Video description
00:02:19 Channel teaser
00:02:41 Riding part
00:06:58 Summary

Hello and welcome back to my channel! Now The Race season has begun and my first race is today. I’m here at Jyväskylä Harju and the race name is Harju MTB Harju is a big hill in the city center of the Jyväskylä, which is located in central Finland. The route is just about 1 km long and it’s technically quite easy but physically it’s quite challenging, because there is a lot of climbing. The weather is pretty cold today. The temperature is about plus 7°C. I will participate men 40 series and it means that I’m going to ride 15 laps. I think that I will be one of the last finishers because I’m not very fast especially on this kind of short races. I’m going to ride on this Canyon LUX CF7, that I bought last autumn. I did a video of unboxing and assembling the bike and if you want to see that please check it from there! I also participated Halloween hike 50 km ride last Autumn on this bike and that video can be found there. In this season I was invited to a team called Wattisopulit. There are several members on the team and we all are competing in different series on Jyväskylä pyöräilyseura cup in this season. The cup consists of 10 different races. Some of the races are just Strava segments that can be done whenever you want. But there will be also at least five different races where I’m going to participate if everything goes okay. I’m going to use also to use a gravel bike that I bought last Autumn in one event and if you want to see the video of my gravel bike, please check it from there. I’m also going to participate from 2 to 5 different longer races in this season and I guess that there will be some kind of footage from all of them. But now it’s time to see how this kind of riding goes! 10 – 9 – 8 – 7 – 6 5 – 4 – 3 – 2 – 1 And Go! I had not enough power. You were a good challenger! It feels pretty but I haven’t done that kind of exercise ever and it doesn’t feel very good now. Maybe later! – Okay – Thank you! Yeah that was a hard ride! I guess that I haven’t done that hard and that long constant ride ever before. I guess that I was last on the main 40 series but I had tough competition with the second last one I guess that there was only one uh after me and he was on the men 18 Series. Yeah but that was very good physical training for me. If I manage to go to the next race it’s in Aittovuori in Uurianen in central Finland also. The route goes also on same kind of hill but it’s a little bit longer. I guess that I need to ride that three times (laps) but I have heard that it’s physically same kind of right like this. So this was very good training for that. It’s in about three weeks. More of that in the next video. If you liked this video, please press the like button and if you haven’t subscribed my channel yet please do that also and please remember to press the bell button to get the reminders of my new videos. Thank you for watching! Bye!