Day 35 of Season 262, covering 4 May, is the natural exhale after the Kazan weekend. Twenty-three verified runs produce 257.9 km across five virtual races — roughly half the volume of 3 May’s record 483 km — and the distribution reflects a field that is either recovering, redistributing, or, in several cases, simply redirecting its energy toward the next deadline. That deadline is Mistake: six days remain before the corridor closes on 10 May.
The day’s most consequential session is Nikolay Simon in Mistake: 26.3 km, no pace annotation. After a month of fragmented and sometimes erratic activity across the season, Simon delivers the largest single Mistake session logged by any man on 4 May, and one of the largest of the entire Mistake window. The precise implication depends on where his cumulative total was heading into the day — but any block above 25 km in a 50 km race with six days remaining is a statement. Mistake’s men’s standings at the close of business show three athletes past the 50 km corridor target, two approaching 90%, and one still at 53%: the field is not uniformly resolved.
Aleksandr Rahmetov addresses both his open obligations on the same day. He puts 11.5 km into Nairobi and then crosses to Mistake for 21.4 km — 32.9 km total, the highest combined output among any single athlete on 4 May. Rahmetov has been one of the more methodical double-format participants: he entered Historic 1945 on its first day, has been accumulating in Nairobi, and now shifts visible weight toward the pace corridor ahead of its close. The 21.4 km Mistake block puts him well beyond the 50 km target in the cumulative standings.
Maksim Danilov registers 15.7 km in .execution with a note that reads like relief: “Finally running outside!” His session pace traces back to 5:02 min/km over 15.7 km — the same efficient range he has been using in Nairobi since April. Danilov is now the second man to build a meaningful position in .execution, joining Bazarov who opened the race with 42.2 km on 3 May. Rafael Shaymardanov adds a further 10.8 km at 6:00 min/km later in the day, giving .execution four named entrants in its standings and a cumulative field total that, while still modest against Nairobi, is beginning to look like a real race rather than a placeholder.
Vyacheslav Krymskiy splits his 4 May between two Nairobi sessions: 20.9 km annotated “through the forest in treadmill mode” and 10.2 km described as “treadmill mode through the streets.” The phrasing, used consistently across both entries, likely reflects indoor or mixed-surface conditions rather than a literal treadmill — Krymskiy’s notes regularly use the phrase for steady-state urban running. The 31.1 km combined brings his cumulative Nairobi total into the range of 330 km, keeping him directly in contention with Kokorin’s 328 km from 3 May. Whether either has extended that lead in the intervening 24 hours is not yet settled.
Ilya Muzurov logs 21.1 km in Streets — his largest single session in the race since it opened on 1 May and a sign that the multirun which began as a background format is getting genuine investment. Streets runs to 31 May, so Muzurov’s 21.1 km carries no deadline urgency, but four days of activity in the race already show that he is treating it as a primary obligation, not an afterthought.
Vitaliy Soldatov closes his Historic 1945 account with 21.4 km and a single-word note — “Hard.” The race sets a minimum of 9 km in one verified run and closes 10 May; Soldatov more than doubled the target. Whether the 21 km was the result of a longer planned effort or accumulated distance, the entry is done. Six days remain in the window and the race still has space for late entrants from a field that has been adding formats incrementally since May 1.
The Nairobi table continues its slow structuring. Aleksey Sherihov adds 14.1 km, Aleksey Prieshkin 11.5 km, Ilya Pavlov 10.1 km — all steady-state entries that move cumulative totals without rearranging the top positions. The men’s Nairobi standings now show a leader past 339 km with a field that has at least three athletes north of 220 km. The gap between that leading cluster and the larger group behind it is where the race’s shape will eventually harden.
Day 35 is not a headline day. At 257.9 km it is the quietest since the season crossed into May. But the underlying patterns point forward: Mistake’s corridor has less than a week left and the men’s field is still not fully resolved, .execution now has two active builders in addition to Bazarov’s opening marathon, and Streets is absorbing consistent weekly effort. The virtual race calendar that looked dense two weeks ago has only added complexity since.
