Planned or noth, the Nigth marathon became an important part of organizers’ lives. Each year we started earlier to prepare for the next and each year we raised the bar a bit further. I am not saying we were doing perfect job, but each of passed 5 events were well received and that might be the reason why this race grows this fast…

Preparations fot the Fifth started even before the 4. Night marathon was held. Anyway, some things had to be improved – the most important being listed:

• Race center got wider and better lit
• Marathon have got an honorable lap in the end
• Runners got high quality T-Shirts.
• Finisher medals are molded
• Registrations were collected on trka.rs
• We introduced the timing system
• For the first time we organized running school competition

Each of these points was an issue for itself, whose implementation took months at a time.

While we were busy organizing the event, we were surprised with floods in Croatia, BiH and Serbia. Everything stopped for a moment, priorities changed fast and our crew concentrated on helping those in need. Nobody thought of the event, just how can we help.

After the worst passed, watter withdrew, people were taken care of, animals in shelters we returned to our initial mission, but we had to readjust our goals. We made necessary cuts so we decided to redirect food from our sponsors to the impacted schools (thanks to Simin and BioLand) to Svilajnac, and money 100rsd from each entry fee for the animal shelter.

Some runners who couldn’t come gave their entry fees as a help too!

It was not easy to cope with the cuts but we managed somehow.

5. Night marathon had with 960 starters 188 runners more than last year, which is 24% growth. There were 886 finishers. We had runners from 23 countries and 174 cities!

We are happy to be the hosts for many running schools from the region.

It is a big challenge to organize the best event, because all our people want to run 🙂 However, thanks to the friends, families and around 170 volunteers we did it. The crew knows iths thing already.

Race center started at 17h, but we had some runner from far away even earlier. Schools and clubs came as groups, but there were plenty of the others too. Cameras were flashing all over the place and young and healthy people were simply shining 🙂

Before dark the youngest had their competition.

Before we knew it, it was already 20:30 and minimarathon started! Smiling crowd of around 200 souls hured ahead with brave boys leading the way.The pros won the race but everyone enjoyed their medals on the finish line.

Serbia is basketball nation. That doesn’t exclude runners stretching around.

People were preparing for the main start. Each in their own way. Night madness 🙂

However, we have to be responsible to our health, so please do the medical test before running any race! We are happy there were no major incidents on the 5. Night marathon.

After the countdown runners hurled over the start line while people were cheering from all sides.

It is hard to split the runner and organizer in one person. However, I overcame desire to sleep and enjoyed the ride.

While waiting for the dawn with vegan Ananda pasta, we were all happy and tired. We did it again!

After we welcomed the last runner, we started the less known part of the job – cleaning up, leave the city clean as it was. Again the good crew comes handy! Who is tired, who wants to sleep?! Att 9:00 everything is gone, as there was never a huge event.

Some new crew is playing basketball on he same court, and we are going to take some rest before starting everything again… 🙂

Another thanks for our partners:

• Enter ITS – IT support

Prizes:

• Pansport
• Herbalife i Magic Studio
• SuperNatural Med
• Dunavski rafting

Results

Photos

• 5. Noćni maraton – Prijemni centar i priprema za trke
• 5. Noćni maraton – Minimaraton (6km)
• 5. Noćni maraton – Start i staza
• 5. Noćni maraton – Cilj (prvi deo)
• 5. Noćni maraton – Cilj (drugi deo)
• Album 1 – Mihailo Bogdanović
• Album 2 – Mihailo Bogdanović
• Album 3 – Mihailo Bogdanović
• Album 4 – Mihailo Bogdanović
• 5. Noćni maraton – Album 1 – Pripreme u Glavnom štabu, Vladimir Bogovac
• 5. Noćni maraton – Album 2 – Podizanje prijavnog centra, Vladimir Bogovac
• 5. Noćni maraton – Album 3 – Prijavni centar i zagrevanje trkača, Vladimir Bogovac
• 5. Noćni maraton – Album 4 – Minimaraton 6km, Vladimir Bogovac
• Noćni maraton 2014 – Prijemni centar i pripreme za trku, Magdalena Kalaba
• Noćni maraton 2014 – Dodela nagrada – deca, Magdalena Kalaba
• Noćni maraton 2014 – Minimaraton, Magdalena Kalaba
• Noćni maraton 2014 – Polumaraton i Maraton, Magdalena Kalaba
• 5. Noćni maraton – Dragan Dragišić
• 5. Noćni maraton – Milovan Slijepčević

Winner of the 5. Night marathon

Minimarathon – women:

1. Aleksandra Marinkov 23:15.78
2. Katarina Pohlod 23:42.03
3. Dragana Dokmanović 24.14.92

Minimarathon – men:

1. Ognjen Stojanović 18:28.77
2. Živan Milošević 19:06.69
3. Damir Stojanov 20:10.77

Halfmarathon – women:

1. Radmila Đurović Raguž 1:37:02.14
2. Jamanta Šafranj 1:38.23.89
3. Dragana Špehar 1:38:50.90

Halfmarathon – men:

1. Ivan Miškeljin 1:15:31.83
2. Josip Major 1:17:26.85
3. Mladen Minić 1:19:33.60

Marathon – women:

1. Veronika Jurišić 3:16:41.89
2. Tanja Stojanovski 3:42:20.46
3. Marina Nikolić 4:30:54.68

Marathon – men:

1. Uglješa Nikolić 2:57:34.10
2. Andrija Đorđević 3:02:47.11
3. Veljko Popović 3:08:01.12

I would like to thank everybody once again for making the 5. Night marathon possible!