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Midnight Sun Gravel 2020

This year with no stage races in the horizon, we decided to participate in the Midnight Sun Gravel (https://www.midnightsungravel.com/) event in Southern Finland. This non competitive event consist in two routes to choose from, that link Helsinki and Turku mostly through gravel and forest roads, some single tracks and then some asphalt. One is the route Veloce, with about 600km, which can be ridden non stop for those crazy ultra distance who can sit in the saddle with no sleep for days. The first and only participant to complete this route was Anssi Rantanen and his crazy time 38h 55min. We opted for the route Explorer, about 650km and a beautiful landscapes crossing the Turku Archipelago. You can decide to do it non-stop but you'll be conditioned by the schedule of the 7 ferries that you need to take to cross between islands. The first participant to complete the Explorer was Antti Saari 76h 20min route, follow by us using a time of 103h and 30min. The event is highly recommended and Davide, the organiser, has done a super job choosing the routes and putting together a track that we enjoyed at its most, with incredible temperatures and not really mosquitos at this time. You can decide to do it at once or just having taking a bit easier like we did. In our case Luis was the commander in charge and he study the route to split it in 5 stages, looking for the best places to overnight (we had one night in the forest by a lake, and the 3 others in campings), and the shops and restaurants where to stop to feed.