Day 39 of Season 262, covering 8 May, is a day of conservation. Twenty-one verified runs produce 195.2 km across five active virtual races — comparable to the quiet of 6 May and the lowest total in three days — with two days remaining before Mistake and Historic 1945 both close on 10 May. In the background of that countdown, Francisco Goya opens its 25 km multi-run window today — the season’s next short-format race, running through 22 May. No sessions appear in the day’s data yet, but the corridor is open.
Aleksey Sherihov makes the day’s most consequential entry by adding 14.2 km in .execution. He becomes the fifth man to build a meaningful position in the race, joining Bazarov (42.2 km, 42%), Danilov (15.7 km), Rahmetov (11.3 km), and Simon (8.5 km). Sherihov has been one of the most consistent Nairobi athletes since April, accumulating more than 255 km in that race; the .execution entry suggests he is beginning to redirect volume toward the next open format as the short-window races approach their close.
Elena Dmitrieva logs 18.7 km in Nairobi alongside a note that reframes the entire entry: “GPS hasn’t been working properly for a week. Pace is not mine. Distance: 13.5 km.” The implication is precise — her tracking device added more than 5 km that she did not run, and she flags it explicitly rather than quietly accepting the inflated figure. The episode is a reminder that in a multi-week virtual race where cumulative distance is the only metric, the relationship between athlete and device is structural.
Vyacheslav Krymskiy annotates his 12.4 km Nairobi session as “asphalt circuit — the 7 km course of the Myshkinskoye half marathon, treadmill mode.” The phrasing is characteristically precise: Krymskiy runs a known outdoor half-marathon course in what he describes as a steady-state indoor-equivalent effort. His cumulative Nairobi total continues to build; he is among the top four men in the race’s standings and has used the Nairobi open format as a consistent training diary across the entire season.
Maksim Danilov logs 10.7 km in Historic 1945 with a note that reads as an honest accounting: “Something about the treadmill after outdoor running just doesn’t work.” The entry moves him to 118% of the race’s 9 km minimum — a comfortable completion — and likely represents one of his final sessions before the 10 May closing. Yuliya adds 10.1 km and Sergey Ratnikov adds exactly 10.0 km to the same race, with two days remaining in its window.
Ilya Muzurov logs 21.2 km in Nairobi — a session indistinguishable in volume from the previous three consecutive days in the race. Since completing Mistake early in the season, Muzurov has settled into a pattern of daily half-marathon-distance Nairobi sessions that has now extended across at least five consecutive days. Whether the 21.2 km is a deliberate daily target or the natural output of a fixed-duration run at his habitual pace, the consistency is notable in a field where most participants vary their load from day to day.
Day 39 closes the pre-deadline period without drama. Mistake registers only a single 6.0 km session — the field there is either already resolved or saving energy for the final two days. The decisive sessions in Mistake and Historic 1945 will come on 9 and 10 May; today the race board moves in the margins.
