Day 34 of Season 262, covering 3 May, is the season’s largest output day so far. Thirty-one verified runs produce 483.3 km — more than any single day of the season to date — split across five virtual races: Nairobi with 318.9 km, Mistake with 51.3 km, .execution with 48.7 km, Streets with 39.4 km, and Historic 1945 with 25.1 km. Nothing in April came close to this volume. What changed is that athletes who spent the past two weeks managing Barrel 100’s deadline now have a full calendar in front of them and apparently chose to spend it all at once.
The headline is in Nairobi, and the scale of it points to a single explanation: the Kazan Marathon 2026. The race took place on 3 May, and the session notes confirm it. Vladislav Kokorin posts 42.8 km at 5:15 min/km and labels it “second personal best of the season” — a detail that reads differently once you know the setting was a real marathon course in Kazan. His cumulative Nairobi total pushes to 328 km, first among men. Gульназ Gainetdinova covers 42.6 km at 6:11 min/km and Margarita Pochekutova runs 42.5 km at 5:35 min/km; neither annotates their session, but the distance and the date place them squarely in the same event. Pochekutova’s Nairobi position climbs to 203 km (second among women) while her Mistake closing push — she sits at 95% of the 50 km corridor target — waits another day.
Zhargal Bazarov was also in Kazan, and he used the occasion differently. He opens his .execution account with 42.2 km at 5:19 min/km and writes simply: “Kazan is a very beautiful city!” His note doubles as race annotation and travel impression. Bazarov finished Barrel 100 with 111.5 km at 5:08 min/km, leading the men’s pace standings. He did not log that session into Nairobi but into .execution — the second hundred-kilometre race of the season — which takes him to 42% of the target in a single day. A fifth athlete logs 21.3 km in Nairobi under the label “Kazan Marathon (day 2) — 21.1 km”, completing the half-marathon distance on the race’s second event day.
Tatyana Sesina covers four races on 3 May: 9.0 km at 4:56 min/km in Streets, 10.0 km at 4:55 min/km in Historic 1945, 18.0 km at 5:17 min/km and 12.6 km at 5:23 min/km in Nairobi — 49.6 km total across four formats. Historic 1945 is a single-run race; her 10 km at 4:55 min/km is effectively already closing it. She is the only athlete this season to appear across four separate race formats in a single day.
In Mistake, which closes in seven days, two women post major corridor sessions. Svetlana Serebryannikova runs 21.1 km at 6:21 min/km, bringing her total to 46.6 km (93% of target) — one substantial session from closing. Elena Myazina adds 20.1 km at 6:30 min/km, moving to 79% at 39.5 km. Both sessions are inside the 5:40–6:50 corridor. The men’s Mistake front remains unsettled: Aleksey Homyakov contributes 10.1 km at 5:45 min/km, reaching 33.8 km (68%), with Surganov close behind at 67%.
Season 262 is 34 days old and carrying more simultaneous weight than at any point in April. The total output on 3 May — 483 km — exceeds what was logged across two full April days combined in many stretches of the month. The races that opened on 1 May are already attracting serious sessions, and .execution, which spent its first week largely invisible, now has Bazarov’s 42 km block as a benchmark for anyone considering a late entry into the season’s second hundred.
