I brought my sun screen. I also brought my fleece, which actually proved useful. I was in the 30k event, with 1200m climb. Even though the hills didn’t go higher than 300m, we were still mostly inside the blanket of fog, feeling like on the Bucegi Plateau on a cloudy day.

The Romanians from Twitter put up a challenge in the other events as well (21k, 42k and 50k), winning a medal and a custom coaster: