Midnattsloppet 5 km

Midnattsloppet 5 km

This page belongs to the 2026 edition of the 5 km. The first group left Ringvägen 26 at 21:40 and the rest followed five minutes apart, placed by expected finish time, with the finish at Hornsgatan 57. Runners gathered beforehand at the Runners’ Corner at Zinkensdamms IP.

Five kilometres of Södermalm asphalt with 36 metres of climbing in our catalogue, a third of the 10 km’s figure, makes it the gentlest line of the evening. It is not run alone: from 6.8 km to 9.8 km of their race the 21 km runners join the 5 km field, and one of the 10 km’s two water stations also serves the 5 km. The organiser pitches the distance at experienced runners and beginners alike. Runners from 14 may enter alone, and from 12 with an adult.

Because it is so often the distance a family runs together, the 5 km is also where someone is usually waiting at the finish without knowing which group their runner started in. With a shared Livebib link they see the runner on the course line, the distance covered and a finish estimate for Hornsgatan, in a browser, with no account and no app, and with the estimate marked as one. The runner decides who gets the link.