Midnattsloppet 2012 live from Södermalm

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Event: Midnattsloppet (Midnight Run) 2012

When: 18 August 2012 @ 9.30pm
Location: Södermalm, Stockholm, Sweden

About the course: Midnight Race is a 10K run through a great course around Södermalm. Not easy arranged, and here you'll find flat, and easy slopes together with the uphill towards Sofia Church. The first 5 K is easy with a more difficult ending of the course.

There is a time limit on the race and you need to pass Fjällgatan before 11.30 pm and Mosebacke Square before 11.45 otherwise you must stop the race.

Why the midnight run: What makes Midnight Run so exciting and unique is the late start time, the arrangements for the participants and the audience who gather around the course to support the runners, creating the mood and atmosphere that makes a Midnight Run Evening a success.

About Södermalm: Often shortened to "Söder", is a district in central Stockholm. It covers the large island formerly called "Åsön". With a population of 99,685, it is one of the most densely populated districts of Scandinavia. Although Södermalm usually is considered an island, water to both its north and south does not flow freely but passes through locks.

Södermalm is connected to its surrounding areas by a number of bridges. It connects to Gamla Stan to the north by Slussen, a grid of road and rail and a lock that separates the lake Mälaren from the Baltic Sea, to Långholmen and Kungsholmen to the northwest by one of the city's larger bridges, Västerbron, to the islet Reimersholme to the west, to Liljeholmen to the southwest by the bridge Liljeholmsbron, to Årsta by Årstabron and Skanstullsbron in the south, and, finally, to Södra Hammarbyhamnen to the east by Danvikstull Bridge.

Administratively, Södermalm is part of Stockholm Municipality. It constitutes, together with Gamla stan and some other districts, from 2007 the administrative district Södermalms stadsdelsområde, often translated as Södermalm borough.