diff --git a/PFERD/crawl/http_crawler.py b/PFERD/crawl/http_crawler.py
index facc2ba..45f9df2 100644
--- a/PFERD/crawl/http_crawler.py
+++ b/PFERD/crawl/http_crawler.py
@@ -67,12 +67,18 @@ class HttpCrawler(Crawler):
         the request was made. This ensures that authentication is not performed needlessly.
         """
         async with self._authentication_lock:
+            log.explain_topic("Authenticating")
             # Another thread successfully called authenticate in-between
             # We do not want to perform auth again, so we return here. We can
             # assume the other thread suceeded as authenticate will throw an error
             # if it failed and aborts the crawl process.
             if caller_auth_id != self._authentication_id:
+                log.explain(
+                    "Authentication skipped due to auth id mismatch."
+                    "A previous authentication beat us to the race."
+                )
                 return
+            log.explain("Calling crawler-specific authenticate")
             await self._authenticate()
             self._authentication_id += 1
             # Saving the cookies after the first auth ensures we won't need to re-authenticate