Day 43 of Season 262, covering 12 May, shifts decisive attention to .execution. Twenty-nine verified runs produce 240.3 km across four active formats — Nairobi, .execution, Francisco Goya, and Streets — and the day generates 48.5 km in .execution alone, the race’s highest single-day volume.
Nikolay Simon logs 25.2 km in .execution — his first substantial session in the race after an 8.5 km entry on 7 May. The two-session total of approximately 33.7 km places him at roughly 34% of the 100 km target, putting him in direct range of athletes who entered the race earlier. Bazarov’s 42.2 km lead at the top of the standings was established in a single session on 3 May; Aleksey Sherihov, whose two sessions now total 38.3 km, is the second-closest. Simon’s 25.2 km narrows that gap and makes .execution a race with at least three active builders in the men’s standings.
Denis Burdakov enters .execution with 10.4 km — a new arrival in the race and the sixth man to open an .execution account. His entry broadens a field that was, until this week, limited to athletes who had already completed their Mistake obligations. With Mistake and Historic 1945 closed, .execution is now the season’s primary short-format race and is beginning to attract the field’s wider attention.
Aleksey Homyakov closes Francisco Goya with a 10.0 km session and the note: “Slot closed! Workout was a success! After a tiring workday, exactly what you need.” His Francisco Goya cumulative of 26.7 km (107% of the 25 km target) makes him the first athlete to complete the race, which has been open for five days. The closing note — brief, satisfied, post-work — is entirely consistent with Homyakov’s voice throughout the season: a runner who treats each slot as a resolved obligation and moves on to the next one.
Vladislav Kokorin adds 10.8 km in Nairobi with the annotation: “Breaking in Boston 13 before Sadovoe Koltso.” The Sadovoe Koltso relay — a real-world road race on Moscow’s Garden Ring — is approaching, and Kokorin is using his Nairobi session to prepare his shoes. The note is a recurring theme in the season’s data: athletes managing a virtual race calendar alongside real-world events, and logging both in the same platform. Konstantin Surganov is doing the same thing differently — his Francisco Goya entries today consist of three series of 5×200/200 intervals, each filed as a separate session, a structured speed block logged the same way he handled his Streets intervals a week ago.
Ilya Muzurov logs 21.1 km in Nairobi — a fractional departure from the 21.2 km that has defined every previous day in his current streak, now at seven consecutive days. Anna Mak contributes the day’s most personal note: “Hurray! For the first time I ran 3 km without gasping!” It echoes Komarova’s historic first 9 km two days earlier — the season’s logs contain both competitive accumulation and small individual thresholds that arrive without announcement.
Day 43 closes with .execution clearly emerging as the season’s active focal point. Nairobi continues its steady absorption of daily volume; Francisco Goya has its first completion on its fifth active day; Streets remains in motion. The virtual race calendar has seven more weeks of open windows and a field that, having resolved its short-term obligations, is beginning to settle into the longer ones.
