Day 45 of Season 262, covering 14 May, is the first Wednesday of the season’s post-deadline phase and produces 272.5 km across 32 sessions in four active formats: Nairobi, .execution, Streets, and Francisco Goya. One statistical detail sets the day apart from every previous day in the season: not a single athlete attaches any text annotation to any session. All 32 entries are volume and distance only.
Nikolay Simon logs 26.7 km in .execution — the largest session in the race since Bazarov’s 42.2 km opening, and Simon’s largest .execution entry to date. Combined with his 25.2 km session on 12 May and the 8.5 km opener on 7 May, his cumulative in the race moves to approximately 60 km (60% of the 100 km target). The .execution standings have now compressed: Bazarov leads at 42.2 km (42%), Aleksey Sherihov is at 38.3 km (38%), and Simon has surpassed both in terms of recent investment, closing in from third. Rafael Shaymardanov adds 10.7 km and Artyom adds 10.0 km — three athletes contributing to a race that generates 47.4 km on the day.
Francisco Goya records its most active single day: 42.3 km from six sessions across six athletes. Ekaterina Petrenko continues to build with 10.3 km; Yuliya — who leads the women’s Streets standings — opens a Francisco Goya account with 10.0 km, becoming the newest entrant in a race whose women’s table is now among the most contested in the season. Tatyana adds 8.0 km to the same race, a format change for a runner who has been almost exclusively Nairobi-based since the season’s opening weeks. Francisco Goya’s 42.3 km nearly matches the total generated by Streets on the same day (44.4 km), making it the second most active race on 14 May by volume.
Nairobi absorbs 138.4 km from 17 sessions. Elizaveta Troshkova logs two entries totalling 22.3 km (14.3 km and 8.0 km), maintaining her women’s lead at 334.5 km. Margarita Pochekutova adds 13.8 km, Aleksey Prieshkin 12.5 km, and Nikolay Voltov — a name that surfaces occasionally in the standings without drawing weekly attention — runs 12.1 km in a consistent mid-table appearance.
Streets receives 44.4 km from six sessions. Rustem Rafikov contributes two sessions of 7.0 km each — a notable pivot for an athlete whose visible activity this season was concentrated in Mistake, which he closed on the final day at 106%. Rafikov’s Streets entry suggests deliberate redistribution toward the race that closes 31 May, and his 14 km across two same-day sessions is an active opening. Aleksandr Rahmetov leads with 10.1 km.
Day 45’s 272.5 km is the highest single-day total since the post-deadline reset began. The annotation-free log is not necessarily significant — not every run needs a note — but across 32 sessions it is a statistical outlier in a season where athlete commentary has been a consistent secondary data stream. The race board on 14 May is fully active: all four open formats receive meaningful volume and the .execution standings begin to compress in ways that will shape the race’s remaining five weeks.
