Countdown to Miami T100: Bringing the Heat | Anne Haug, Jason West 🔥

In Miami you will find two stars at very different points in their careers.

Anne Haug, now into her 40s, has been one of the most consistent endurance athletes in history. Since taking the jump to long course triathlon, Anne has only finished outside of the podium once, and even that was a fourth place. A two-time Ironman World Champion, Anne showed her ability to dominate the 100k with a blistering performance at the PTO European Open in Ibiza last year.

Meanwhile, Jason West had a break out year in 2023. The American, whose first full year racing middle distance races was in 2021, smashed all expectations with a second at the PTO US Open in Milwaukee and a third at the PTO Asian Open in Singapore.

What these two do have in common is a ferocious pace on the run that sends fear into all of the other athletes on the start line. Almost no deficit is too much coming off the bike and now these pair are hoping improvements they’ve made to their overall performance will pay dividends with a win at the Miami T100.

This is the first ever race of the T100 Triathlon World Tour, a season long World Championship where the athletes have to make every race count. The Countdown to Miami T100 is on!

Watch the Miami T100 at CLASH Endurance Miami on March 9th.
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00:00 Countdown to Miami T100
01:45 Jason West: Need for Speed
12:28 Anne Haug: Consistency is Queen
20:31 Who will be the first T100 winners?
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Miami, the Magic City, home to the iconic Homestead-Miami Speedway. Come March 9 at CLASH Endurance Miami, it will host the first leg of the inaugural T100 Triathlon World Tour. The ultimate proving ground for the endurance elite. A series spanning the calendar year. Eight iconic locations. With the biggest prize purse in the sport on the line and the

Prestige of being crowned the first T100 world champion. While this may be the first time the T100 comes to Miami, the speedway has already developed a reputation for drama. Chelsea Sodaro has pulled out of the race. No, Sara’s gone down. Oh no, she’s really hurt herself. And Lucy goes down.

We need some medical over here. In the world of triathlon, the flat and fast circuit, combined with the impressive Miami heat, is an intimidating race to kick off the season. Emma Pallant-Browne is down. She passed out. She is severely dehydrated. She was really, really out of it,

Hallucinating and had no idea who I was. And the importance of victory here cannot be overstated. It’s more than a race. It’s a declaration. Amongst those that have survived and thrived in these extreme conditions is Jason West. The unassuming American hero who has spent the last five years quietly chipping away

Until his performance at last year’s PTO US Open put him firmly on the map. He’s really biting down, showing a clean pair of heels to Kristian Blummenfelt. Here they go. Jason West into second. And look at the face of Jason West. How has he done that? Jason West just there, that’s the fastest run in PTO history.

If the American with the blistering run speed can secure a win in Miami… I’m in shock that I just came in second. Many will be wondering if this is just the beginning. Said you want a bagel too? Yes, with avocado.

[Unclear] Anthony, when he had his farm, he used to bring goat’s milk or whatever, but I just felt like I can taste the udder. I hope you win Miami so that I can get more Wonder juice. After Milwaukee, the first thing he said to me was, what place did I get?

The second thing he said to me was, you can get Wonder juice whenever you want. So we have this ongoing joke… There’s this place downtown called Wonder and juices are like $15 and it’s totally ridiculous. But every once in a while, I like to go and get juice.

And it’s just one of those things that’s so unnecessary. But when he got second in Milwaukee, he’s like, you can get juice whenever you want. I hope he wins so I can go to Wonder. Jason drinks a gallon of milk a week.

And one of the most annoying things that he does that I think is disgusting is that he drinks milk out of the gallon. But now it looks a little bit cooler because it’s like a glass. Jason and I met back in… We were acquaintances for a while just through racing, draft-legal triathlon.

We would travel all over the world and see each other and chat here and there, but I wouldn’t say we knew each other well. Yours is good. You want these too? Thanks, babe. It’s like a million things. And then in 2018, the Major League Triathlon Series

Was going on and Jason was looking for a female to fill a spot because someone was hurt. He reached out and I ended up doing a couple races and that’s kind of when we hit it off. There’s no room. Where do you want me to put it? Somewhere in the middle there.

It’s all touching. We would cook dinner together every night and we would talk for hours and hours. And I remember saying to him, man, I’m so excited that we’re both extroverts, because I just am always talking. And he’s like, I am not an extrovert. I grew up in a town called Quakertown, Pennsylvania.

I have three older brothers. We were always working on something. We were working on the house. We were shovelling snow. We were always doing it together. We were definitely a really close family. He’s always just been very determined. Youngest of four boys. Yes, this is our baby.

Youngest of four boys, so trying to keep up with his older brothers. I didn’t have my own room ’till I graduated from college almost. We had a lot of bunk beds in that place. That’s always how it was and we didn’t know anything else. Growing up, my parents actually slept in the living

Room on a piece of foam because we were such a big family and living in a small place and there wasn’t a bathroom for them. And I think that was just the values of our family where everybody was just going to make all the sacrifices we had to.

And I think growing up around that, that’s just who I became as a person. You had your chores to do. You got to cut the grass. You got to do this. You got to do that. You got to do your schoolwork. Compared to the other parents, we’ll say, in the neighbourhood,

We were pretty strict. I think they just taught me so much about hard work and about what’s important. They worked incredibly hard and created a great life for me. I never felt like I was without anything. He’s always just been very determined and it’s never changed.

They were great examples growing up of how to work hard, never give up and you just keep pushing. How to continue to move forward in life, how to care about your family more than anything. They were just the perfect example of how to do all that.

And that’s just probably why I’m the person I am today. It’s so gross. Just get a glass. You won’t drink it. I know, but I have to watch you drink it. It’s weird. It’s good stuff. Should be sponsored by milk. I got introduced to wrestling really early.

When I was a little kid, my dad would be wrestling with us on the living room floor. It was just a fun thing we were doing, right. I was five years old and he said, you want to go wrestle? I said, yes, let’s go for it.

And I wrestled, I think, 45 lbs the first two years because I was so small. Jason was trying to keep up with his older brothers, whether it be school grades, racing quarter midgets, snowboarding. Wrestling. He didn’t take any crap from his brothers either. He didn’t let anybody push him around and he’s always

Just been very determined. The same things that would get you through a wrestling match are going to get you through a triathlon, the same things that are going to get you through life. Just to have that type of outlook and determination, I don’t think that it comes from whatever sport.

It comes from your upbringing. And that’s the atmosphere that he grew up in, I guess. Yes, he worked hard. And his work ethic comes from his parents, came from our parents. Wrestling and triathlon have a lot of similar values. It takes a lot of discipline, a lot of commitment and a lot

Of hard work. I was also a smaller kid growing up when I could pick somebody up and throw them on the ground. It showed maybe you don’t mess with the small kid. In order to do triathlon at this level, you have to have a certain level of the

Desire to push through really difficult things. Anything that’s worth doing is not going to be easy. I am happiest when I’m challenging myself, how far I can push myself, be uncomfortable. You want it to be hard. If you’re going to do something, you do it the right way.

I wake up every day, I try to get better. I still have really high expectations of myself. Jason West can catch him. It’s just insane by Jason West. Whatever I’ve done in the past, I want to go one step further. Jason West crossing the line to take third. He makes up our podium here in Singapore.

My race in Milwaukee really changed who I am as an athlete or what I’m capable of doing, swim, bike and run across the board. The best performance of his career. It’s created a lot of self-belief. He is really biting down. It’s created a vision of what I believe to be possible.

For Jason West, the America takes second place in Milwaukee. The race in Miami… We know that Jason West is a very, very good runner. I want to bring some special things. There’s going to be no letting up. He is definitely looking for a podium. I won the race there last year.

Jason West just went blowing by him. This is crazy. The best way to describe the Miami course, just grinds you down. You can’t hide. Your preparation needs to be good. The Miami course is just where I belong. I think I can have a good day there.

A phenomenal run for Jason West. Jason was flying on that run. Let’s hear it for Jason West. Some 8,000 km away at the other end of the spectrum is an athlete with a target on her back and nothing to prove. World-ranked number one, Anne Haug.

Since making her move to long course, she stepped straight onto the podium and has almost never left. A seasoned champion, Haug is known for consistency and year-on-year improvement, defying all expectations, all challenges. Even the challenge of time itself. Haug has come to Spain’s Canary Islands to hone her swim in the lead-up to the Miami T100.

Considering she’s never been passed on the run, any improvements here will only make her more of a threat come race day. Because I want to focus more on PTO and I know I need to improve

My swim a bit more to be a bit more in the game and not chase the whole day. Last year, I changed to a new coach, the German national coach, for the long course and open water swim where he’s coaching the Olympic champion in open water and he’s a really, really good coach.

And I just needed a new stimulus in swimming and I see some great improvements right now. To win Miami, it’d be really good at the first race of the year. It sets you mentally up very well because it’s always good to start into season knowing you have done your work.

Triathlon is a tough sport and we have to find out how we can survive so much racing. I think it’s possible and it’s just a matter of training smart and you focus on your recovery and do everything right. When I was an ITU athlete, I could swim faster.

And over the time, I lost my speed a bit. Just didn’t do the work which was needed. I had to swim harder and longer and I see really good results. The restriction is your head and you have to find solutions to get over it because that’s what racing is about.

We are all in the same physical conditions, but the one who wins in the end are the mentally strongest, I think, and you have to train it every single day. I don’t really have preparation races because I hate this expression. If I toe a start line, I want to be 100%.

There are no important races and not so important races. The first race start, I want to be as good as I can possibly be. To win Miami, you have to push to the absolute limits. You have to focus on your race, fight against your demon. You have to want to desperately win.

It’s always good to visualise before a race yourself winning a race. Anne Haug marches into the lead. Once you have this in your head, it’s easier to achieve it to win Miami. Anne Haug, it’s a win. The European Tour. What a run. I’m here to have a really good race in Miami.

You have the new kicker? Wow. Do I need to lock anything or? Yes, shut the door. Just close the door, okay. Thank you. I love to race and I love to run fast. And you can’t run fast on an Ironman. It’s impossible because you’re so out of energy. It’s an energy problem.

But a three-hour, three-and-a-half-hour race just enables you to go really, really hard and deep and chase the others and race the others. And that’s just what I personally think racing should be about. It should be about going as deep as you can and race the others and

Leave everything you have on the field of play. Three one hundreds just to get some speed and relax and then four times eight minutes on a 6% incline and two minutes easy in between and lactate testing and then a ten-minute warm down. That’s it.

And if you overall have more fitness, then you can run faster. And of course, my strongest weapon is my run and I always want to run faster. In Miami, I want to give the best performance I can give. There’s no ultimate limit in sports because there’s always room to improve.

I want to squeeze everything I have in my body on this race. I can go all in. You need to want it more than everyone else, no matter what it costs. I’m here to win Miami. If she can maintain her consistency, then as sure as day follows night and night follows day,

Anne Haug will be a threat to all in Miami. Whether an experienced veteran or a rising star looking to make a name… And look at the face of Jason West, the best performance of his career. Every athlete good enough to make it to the start line of Miami will know the infamous T100 distance,

A 2 km swim, 80 km bike and 18 km run leaves nowhere to hide. Come March 9, the best in the sport will go toe to toe. Athletes will need to put everything on the line. It’s all or nothing. And triumph in this arena will be hard-fought. First to win

Is first blood of the season. In this season, for the first time ever, every race counts.