Participants in GöteborgsVarvet HM will start in waves. The runners will be placed in start groups according to the rules below.

Around three weeks prior to the start we will send you detailed start information and then you also be informed about your starting number and starting group.

1.
1.1
Runners who carried out GöteborgsVarvet HM 2009 and/or 2010 will be get their starting position after their best result from these two years.

1.2
Runners who compete in the special GöteborgsVarvets Seedningslopp / Pre race, a quarter of a marathon, arranged on the 20st of March 2011.

The time you get in GöteborgsVarvets Seedningslopp / Pre race will be calculated into a half marathon time and this time is as good as a result from GöteborgsVarvet HM (see table A below). If you run both GöteborgsVarvet HM and GöteborgsVarvet Seedningslopp / Pre race, the best time will be counted - you cannot be placed in a poorer starting group.

Your time from GöteborgsVarvets Seedningslopp / Pre race can be used only for GöteborgsVarvet 2011.

2.
Runners who ran a sanctioned race during 2010/2011 according to the distances in table B below, can be placed in the groups Elite - 1B by sending us a copy of the result (for example the result list, cerificate or a link). Send us your result to varvet@gfif.se before the 24th of March 2011.

3.
Runners who were registered for GöteborgsVarvet HM 2010 but didn’t start or reach the finish line.

4.
Remaining runners will get placed in start groups in priority after the date of their payment.

And of course, you must have a valid entry for GöteborgsVarvet HM 2011, to able to use these rules.

Note! The table above is preliminary. Depending on how many who run GöteborgsVarvets Seedningslopp / Pre race, or send us result from other races, the table above may be adjusted.

Table B.

If you have results from other races than GöteborgsVarvet HM during 2010/2011, you may get a starting position in one of the starting groups Elit-1B, if the result is better than the times below: