17 April is the lightest day of the past week: twenty-six runs from twenty-three athletes, about 235 km. Barrel 100 and Nairobi are level at nine sessions each — the first time this month the two have matched. Diego Velázquez adds six, Mistake two. After a week of heavy multirun output, a pull-back day like this is part of the cost.
The evening for Barrel is less about new volume than about the completion picture. The live temp board already has the top four men past the hundred-kilometre mark—Bazarov, Maksim Danilov, Ilya Muzurov, Rahmetov—and the top four women alongside them: Elizaveta Troshkova, Ekaterina, Elena Dmitrieva, Gulnaz Gaynetdinova. Slots at that level are closed; nothing more gets added, and the result waits on verification. Maksim Danilov crosses that line today, posting 24.2 km to push his total to 105.9%. For everyone above the target, Barrel is finished work.
Which is why the session distribution has flattened. Zhargal Bazarov, already at 111.5% on Barrel, puts his kilometres into Diego Velázquez — eleven km on the Art multirun that moves his standing on the 25 km board instead. Troshkova, past the Barrel ceiling at 108.7%, adds 14.1 km to Nairobi, where she sits first among women at 126.5 km cumulative. On the men’s Nairobi table, Vladislav Kokorin logs 15.8 km to hold second at 157.0 km, behind Krymsky’s 183.1 km. Margarita Pochekutova is the only athlete in this slice working both sides at once—7.0 km to Nairobi and 5.3 km to Mistake, pace-locked work sitting alongside open distance in the same day.
Going into the final third of April, the field splits along a clear line. Those with closed Barrel slots are done with the fixed deadline on the hundred; they now carry Nairobi’s open ledger, Velázquez before the Art window shuts, or Mistake’s pace kilometres — still barely a third covered for most entrants on that board. Those still short of 100% on Barrel face a narrowing window with around twelve days left. The thread from day six still holds—April multirun work has shaped the calendar throughout—but the question at the front of the field has changed. It is no longer whether the hundred gets finished. For several athletes it already has. The question now is what they do with what is left of April.
