Day 38 of Season 262 covers 7 May, and the defining shift is in Historic 1945. The race logs 51.9 km across five sessions — its highest single-day volume since the season began — with Victory Day two days away and the 10 May closing three days out. Forty verified runs produce 321.1 km in total, a rebound from the quiet of 6 May, with every active format receiving meaningful sessions.
Kseniya Girich names it explicitly in her Historic 1945 session note: “Run for Victory Day ❤️🔥 It felt easy.” Girich runs 9 km at 7:15 min/km, reaching exactly 100% of the race’s minimum, and becomes one of five athletes filing Historic 1945 sessions on 7 May. Yuliya Panenkova adds 12.4 km in the same race — her largest Historic 1945 entry so far — and combines it with 10.7 km in Streets for 23.1 km total. The two-format day brings her Streets cumulative to 19.2 km (38% of the 50 km target), a substantial advance from a standing that had been modest entering the week.
Aleksey Homyakov closes his Mistake slot. “Charged up for the whole day! Slot closed!” reads his session note after 10 km in the race — his cumulative total stands at 53.9 km (108%), making him the second man to formally close a Mistake account in Season 262. Ilya Muzurov was the first, at 54.5 km (109%). The men’s Mistake table has five athletes past 100% of the 50 km corridor at this point; Nikolay Simon remains at 53% (26.3 km) with three days left in the window.
Zhargal Bazarov enters Historic 1945 with 13.3 km at 4:48 min/km — the fastest pace in the race’s entire standings and the fastest single-session entry among today’s five Historic 1945 athletes. Bazarov already leads .execution at 42.2 km (42% of the 100 km target), making him the only athlete in Season 262 currently occupying the top position in two separate race formats. The 4:48 entry also sets a visible reference point for a race whose standing pace range otherwise runs from 5:28 to 7:15 min/km.
Aleksandr Rahmetov joins .execution with 11.3 km at 5:53 min/km, becoming the fourth named entrant in a race that now has six athletes on its board. His season has consistently followed this pattern: complete a format past 100%, then open the next available window. Rahmetov holds 117% in Historic 1945, 104% in Mistake, and is now active in .execution — three simultaneous positions across the season’s open-window races. Nikolay Simon also enters .execution on 7 May with 8.5 km, alongside two Streets sessions totalling 5.9 km, adding the race to a footprint that already spans Mistake, Historic 1945, and Streets.
Elizaveta Troshkova logs 26 km in Nairobi across two sessions (16 km and 10 km), maintaining the women’s lead at 324.5 km. Olga Suharevskaya makes the day’s most concentrated Mistake push: three sessions totalling 17.8 km filed within the same calendar day, transforming her cumulative from a marginal position into 36% of the 50 km corridor in a single afternoon’s work — an entry that shows the race still attracting committed late arrivals even in its final 72 hours. Vyacheslav Krymskiy logs 13.4 km in Nairobi annotated “in the forest, treadmill mode” — the third consecutive day he has described a Nairobi session in those exact terms, confirming the phrase as a consistent signal for a particular type of steady-state indoor running within his training architecture.
The day ends with both short-window races in their final 72 hours. Mistake’s women’s field still has Pochekutova at 95% and Suharevskaya accelerating from well below; the men’s table is largely settled except for Simon’s open 26 km. Historic 1945, which began the month as the season’s least-populated format, has absorbed more than 200 km in seven days and will almost certainly see further volume before the 10 May closing. The virtual race board is entering its most concentrated finishing phase of Season 262.
