Day 33 of Season 262, covering 2 May, belongs almost entirely to Nairobi. Twenty-four verified runs produce 191.9 km, and 159.8 km of that — 83% of the day’s total — flows into the open-distance race. Streets and Mistake collect 13.0 km and 6.5 km respectively. The rest barely registers. Whatever energy Barrel 100’s closure displaced has consolidated cleanly into Nairobi.
A separate thread runs quietly through the day’s log. The Kazan Marathon 2026 took place over the weekend of 2–3 May, and several URX athletes were among its participants. On 2 May at least three runners published 10 km Nairobi sessions that are explicitly labelled in their notes: “Kazan! Morning! A wonderful race at the 2026 Kazan Marathon!”, “Kazan Marathon (day 1) — 10 km”, and one who recorded a personal best of 59:05. None of these sessions are large enough to appear as individual data points in the day’s volume — each is 10.1 km in a table dominated by Troshkova’s 36 km — but taken together they signal that a part of the field was running a real race in Kazan while their results posted into the Season 262 calendar.
The day is defined by Elizaveta Troshkova. She posts three Nairobi sessions: 15.1 km at 4:34 min/km, 11.2 km at 6:05 min/km, and 10.0 km at 5:26 min/km — 36.3 km total. The first session is the outlier. A 4:34 min/km average over 15 km is not a warm-up pace; it is a track workout inserted into an open-distance accumulation campaign. Troshkova’s cumulative Nairobi total now stands at 265 km, and her 5:32 min/km average remains well ahead of every other woman in the standings by speed. The three-session day adds roughly 15% to her monthly lead without using any race other than Nairobi.
Andrey Izmaylov produces May 2’s most arresting single number: 10.1 km at 4:01 min/km in Nairobi. This is not a short sprint; it is a 10 km race-pace effort inside a quarter-long multirun. Izmaylov’s cumulative Nairobi total climbs to 104 km with an overall pace of 5:10 min/km — sixth among men by distance but significantly faster than any other athlete in the top-10 except Prieshkin. He follows that session later in the day with 3.4 km at 5:53 min/km, a recovery fragment. The contrast between the two outputs gives a clear picture of how his day was structured.
Aleksey Sherihov adds the largest single-session Nairobi block for any other man: 19.1 km at 6:04 min/km, which brings his cumulative total toward 191 km — fourth in the men’s standings. Konstantin Surganov puts in 16.0 km at 5:59 min/km, a pace that sits at the upper edge of the corridor he has been managing since April’s Mistake sessions began. In Nairobi’s context, 5:59 min/km over 16 km is efficient building rather than top-of-table running, but Surganov’s 5:48 min/km average in Mistake positions him well for corridor work if he finishes there before the May 10 close.
Mistake receives only one session on May 2: 6.5 km from Tatyana at 6:32 min/km — corridor-legal, incremental. Mistake’s pressure is building quietly: eight days remain and the women’s leaders sit at 95% and 93%, while the men need between 16 and 32 km each to close their corridor targets. The sessions are coming, but May 2 shows none of that urgency on the surface.
With Nairobi now at 265 km for Troshkova, 301 km for Krymskiy, and 328 km for Kokorin in the cumulative standings, the open-distance race is entering a phase where the distances are too large to be reversed quickly. The question over the next eight weeks is not whether these three will reach the top of the table — they are already there — but how many more athletes find their way into a top-10 that is still being written.
