Lygnernslingan 85 km, by the numbers
A full lap of Lake Lygnern in the Swedish November — forest track, gravel and the Hallandsleden, run mostly in the dark at both ends. Every figure on this page is computed from 249 real finishes across 4 editions (2022–2025) — checkpoint by checkpoint. Not estimates. The actual field.
- Median finish
- 12:00
- hours, all finishers
- Finish rate
- 90.5%
- 249 of 275 starters
- Front of the pack
- 9:12
- fastest 10% finish under
- Median age
- 42
- 24.1% of the field is female
Where your hours would land.
249 finish times, one bar per hour. The median finisher crosses at 12h 00m; the fastest 10% are done under 9h 12m.
When the field actually arrives.
The median finisher's real arrival at all 9 timed checkpoints, and how the field's pace moves segment by segment.
| Checkpoint | KM | Median arrival | Field pace here |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grind | 1.2 | 0:07 | 0.72× |
| Navåsen | 19.4 | 2:39 | 1.00× |
| Äskhult | 50.0 | 7:07 | 1.05× |
| Lerbäck | 68.0 | 9:34 | 0.96× |
| Ramhulta | 78.7 | 11:00 | 0.92× |
| Smälteryd | 83.5 | 11:52 | 1.36× |
| PRE | 84.5 | 11:56 | 0.80× |
| FV | 84.7 | 11:57 | 0.97× |
| Mål | 85.0 | 11:59 | 0.81× |
Field pace: the median finisher's pace on the segment into this checkpoint, relative to their own whole-race average — right/orange = slower than race pace, left/blue = faster. PRE, FV and Mål are run-in mats spread across the last 500 m; their segments are too short for their pace figures to mean much. Runners who missed a cutoff or dropped are not in the data (finishers only).
The race is planned on paper. It's decided out there.
The slowest stretch of the entire course for the median finisher — 1.36× their whole-race pace, 11h 52m into the race.
The second-hardest segment — 1.05× their whole-race pace, 7h 07m into the race.
The fastest segment on the course for the median finisher — the field moves at 0.72× its whole-race pace into Grind.
Same course. Different race every year.
2024 was the brutal year — only 89.6% of starters finished. The fastest winning time in the data is 7:27 (2023).
| Year | Starters | Finishers | Finish rate | Winning time | Median finish | Sub-24 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 44 | 40 | 90.9% | 8:02 | 11:25 | 100% |
| 2023 | 67 | 61 | 91% | 7:27 | 12:01 | 100% |
| 2024 | 77 | 69 | 89.6% | 7:40 | 11:41 | 100% |
| 2025 | 87 | 79 | 90.8% | 7:34 | 12:15 | 100% |
Lygnernslingan 85 km FAQ
- What is a typical Lygnernslingan 85 km finish time?
- The median finish across 249 finishers (2022–2025) is 12h 00m. The fastest 10% finish under 9h 12m; the slowest 10% finish after 15h 01m.
- What percentage of runners finish Lygnernslingan 85 km?
- 90.5% across the last 4 editions (249 finishers from 275 starters).
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Methodology & sources
Split data: official per-runner checkpoint times for 4 Lygnernslingan 85 km editions (2022–2025), 249 finishers at 9 timed checkpoints. All split-derived figures describe finishers only — runners who dropped or missed a cutoff do not appear in split data, so buffer statistics understate how tight cutoffs are for the full field. Medians are used throughout; no figure on this page is modeled or extrapolated.