Stockholm Midnattsloppet 2014

For those who don't know, Midnattsloppet is a 10km road running race that attracts a lot of runners here in Stockholm (more or less 30,000 this year). It is a sort of runners party, since excluding the first two groups, there are people running that as a masquerade. As it happened last year, last Saturday I ran Midnattsloppet as another person. I wasn't really planning to run it, but once I got the possibility, I thought it could have been both fun and a good training. In fact, it was.
Last year I was pretty lucky since the person I was replacing was ranked for starting in the second group (1b), right after the elite runners. This year I was not so lucky and I started from the back (1c, which is the last group starting at the same time as the top runners). Consequently, I struggled a lot in the first 1.5-2km to overtake runners starting ahead of me.

Midnattsloppet 2014: start

Concerning my race, in the first 7km I was able to run quite fast (around 3'15''/km), while after I got a pretty tired, especially because the race through Södermalm is kind of hilly. I finished the competition with the 11th best time (32'46''), 2' behind the winner. I took it as a test and I'm satisfied. I was able to run faster than the last year and after crossing the finish line I was still feeling fresh enough.

#	No.	Name	Club	Y	SG	Time
1	123	Morwabe, William (SWE)	Kenya	87	1A	00:30:30
2	104	Tulu Chala, Ebba (SWE)	Spårvägens FK	96	1A	00:30:46
3	137	Boström, Mårten (FIN)	Sjundeå IF	82	1A	00:31:07
...	...	...	...	...	...	...
11	1353	Isaksson, Daniel (SWE)	ELU IF/stockholm	74	1C	00:32:46

Full results here.