Day 36 of Season 262 covers 5 May, the second morning after the Kazan weekend, and the numbers confirm the field is fully reactivated. Thirty-seven verified runs produce 333.2 km across four active virtual races — the highest single-day total in four days — with Nairobi absorbing more than 200 km on its own. Five days remain before Mistake and Historic 1945 both close on 10 May.
The headline session belongs to Tatyana: 42.2 km in Nairobi, a full marathon-distance run with no annotation. Tatyana entered Mistake at the start of the season but has logged just 6.5 km there (13%), placing her at the foot of the women’s Mistake table. In Nairobi the picture is entirely different — her cumulative total now stands at 213 km, ranking her second among women in the race. The 42.2 km session carries no note to contextualise what it is — a standalone effort, a continuation of post-Kazan momentum, or something else — but the volume is unambiguous. It is the largest individual session logged anywhere in Season 262 since the Kazan wave of marathon runs on 3 May.
Konstantin Surganov runs the most structurally complex day of the week. He opens with a 10 km Mistake easy run (“10 km at a calm pace”), a routine addition to a slot that has already crossed 100% of the 50 km corridor target. He then moves to Streets and runs what his session log makes unmistakably clear is a structured track workout: a 5×100/100 pre-series opener, three identical interval series (600 + 400 r60″ · 500 + 500 r60″ · 400 r60″ + 400 r60″ + 200), and a closing 6×100/100 — each set filed as a separate Streets entry. The total across all Streets sessions is 13 km of purposeful speed work on top of an already-complete Mistake slot, bringing his combined output for the day to 25.1 km.
Miroslav Gordykh logs 24 km in Streets with the description “long run across three bridges” — the largest Streets session of 5 May and one of the largest single entries in the race since it opened 1 May. At 34.1 km cumulative (68% of the 50 km target), Gordykh is the most consistent Streets builder in the men’s standings, and a long run of this distance in a format with 26 days remaining reads as a statement of intent rather than a deadline response.
Historic 1945 generates 32 km from two sessions. Dmitriy Bulatov runs 21.3 km and files the compressed annotation “utterly wrecked” — a single phrase that conveys more about the session than any split data could. At 237% of the 9 km minimum target, Bulatov now sits second in the men’s standings. Nikolay Simon opens his Historic 1945 account with 10.7 km at 5:51 min/km, reaching 119% in a single entry. Simon’s Mistake position remains at 53% (26.3 km of 50 km) with five days to the deadline — his pivot toward Historic 1945 on a day when Mistake still has open space is a visible prioritisation choice.
The wider field continues its steady accumulation across formats. Ilya Muzurov adds 21.2 km in Nairobi, Vyacheslav Krymskiy logs 16.3 km annotated “stadium drills, treadmill mode,” and Aleksey Sherihov adds 15.1 km — three sessions that maintain the Nairobi leading cluster without reshaping it. In Mistake, Aleksey Homyakov logs 10 km to a note that sounds like the season has found its seasonal register: “Almost summer weather, same mood. Running to light music.” Homyakov is at 108% of the Mistake target; his slot is effectively closed.
Day 36 moves the race board without resolving it. Mistake has five sessions over 8 km from athletes at different completion percentages; the men’s table still has one participant at 53%, and the women’s field has Pochekutova at 95% with five days to close the gap. Historic 1945 is in its final week with three men already past 100% and a fourth — Simon — just entered. The virtual race calendar has moved into the phase where every session is a countdown reading.
