Hedvig, my oldest daughter, runs with me through the goal in Stockholm Marathon.
Today it´s five days since I run my first marathon. I promised to give you a litter more detailed report of the run and here it comes.
But first I would like to thank all people that supported and greeted me. My wife and my three children were waiting along the race and cheered me two times during the race and at the finish at Stockholm Stadion. They showed great endurance in waiting for me along the raoad, and their smiling faces filled me with new energy every time I passed by. Also my oldest brother and my yongest brother-in-law came to see me, which made me happy.
As I´ve told I live streamed reports during the race and this was widely acclaimed among my colleagues at Svenska Dagbladet and other people that follow me on the net. I used Bambuser with a Nokia N95 with standard headset cable attached to my t-shirt, with you can see at the image above. In the beginning there was no problem reporting this way since the pace was quite slow. But at the end when I was really tired I felt that even small reports drained me from energy.
Here you can see my times during the race:
| Distans | Totaltid | Sträcktid | Min/km | Plac |
| 5 km | 0.33.44 | 33.44 | 6.44/km | 10158 |
| 10 km | 1.05.27 | 31.43 | 6.20/km | 9651 |
| 15 km | 1.36.58 | 31.30 | 6.18/km | 9214 |
| 20 km | 2.08.00 | 31.02 | 6.12/km | 8860 |
| Halvmaraton | 2.14.26 | 6.25 | 5.50/km | 8645 |
| 25 km | 2.37.42 | 23.16 | 5.58/km | 8185 |
| 30 km | 3.09.06 | 31.24 | 6.16/km | 7686 |
| 35 km | 3.42.30 | 33.23 | 6.40/km | 7259 |
| 40 km | 4.16.28 | 33.58 | 6.47/km | 7031 |
| Mål | 4.29.54 | 13.25 | 6.07/km | 6938 |
As you can see I kept a quite even pace throughout the race. My half marathon time is almost exactly half of the full time. I tried to keep my own pace and only in the beginning I had some problem to know what was the right pace for me. As you can se above, between 21 and 25 km I run at my fastest pace. At that time I was running on the second lap at Djurgården, a part of the track that was longer than I expected, so that was mentally a tough part of the course. Until then everything had went on very fast. There was lot of people along the cource to look at the marathon and there was a great atmosphere along the race.
But after 30 km everything felt much worse. I was really tired and started to think abouth wether I would fulfill the race. I slowed down the pace and tried to do km for km. It was a hot and sunny day, about 28°C and I had to drink a lot. At this time, my goal of 4,30 started to fade away. Then on the last 2 km my brother-in-law met me and run along with me, wow what a boost. And then at the last curve my daughter run along with me over the finishing line. With her help I could put on a spurt to finish six seconds below 4,30.
Still I haven´t decided wether to run another marathon. If so I need to exercise much more before, because I would like to, and I think I have the capacity of, beating my time from this year: 4,29.54.
