Day 46 of Season 262 covers 15 May — a Thursday — and produces 265.6 km across 35 sessions in four formats. Nairobi claims 188.4 km, its highest share of daily volume in the post-deadline period, and the day’s session notes return to form after the annotation-free silence of 14 May. Two GPS malfunctions, a personal-best attempt, a structured interval session, and a small philosophical observation from a runner who logged her first ever 9 km five days ago make for a day with more texture than its volume alone suggests.
Ilya Muzurov logs 33.0 km in Nairobi — the largest single session of his season and a significant departure from the 21.2 km daily pattern he had maintained for more than a week. No annotation accompanies the entry, so whether the jump reflects a planned long run, accumulated backlog, or a one-time extension of his daily effort remains unclear. The 33.0 km brings his Nairobi cumulative north of 260 km, maintaining his position in the top five of the men’s standings where Kokorin (433 km) and Krymskiy (410 km) continue to lead by a distance that is not closing quickly.
Elena Dmitrieva returns to the GPS problem she flagged on 8 May. Her 26.3 km Nairobi entry carries the note: “All lies, but other runs are even more interesting. 😄 Actually 13 km and pace around 6’.” The device has again logged almost exactly double the distance she covered — and for the second time in a week, she chooses to document the discrepancy rather than accept the inflated figure. The tone is lighter than her first note (the emoji, the aside about other runs being “even more interesting”), but the underlying issue is the same: a week of faulty GPS producing systematically distorted Nairobi entries that Dmitrieva cannot fully correct.
Miroslav Gordykh files two Streets sessions, both 6.3 km, with adjacent notes. The first: “Almost PB.” The second: “Run to the stadium (GPS doesn’t work on the track, so no run there).” The two entries describe a session that began with a near-personal-best effort and continued toward a stadium for additional work — only to produce no trackable data there. Gordykh’s log across recent weeks has alternated between long runs and interval sessions; today the attempt at a PB and the GPS failure on the track appear in the same session record.
Konstantin Surganov returns to structured interval work in Francisco Goya, filing a warmup, three series of 500 + 300 m each, and a cooldown as separate entries — five records in the race for a combined 7.2 km including a 2.0 km Nairobi cooldown. The notation style has become one of the season’s constants: Surganov logs each component of a structured session independently, treating the virtual race as a training diary rather than a simple distance accumulator. His Francisco Goya cumulative is now in the low double digits, well short of the 25 km target with eight days remaining in the race.
Natalya Komarova — who completed her first-ever 9 km on the closing day of Historic 1945 five days earlier — adds 3.5 km in Nairobi with the note: “Every time it’s different. Each run is like a new acquaintance with yourself. And I’m not always a pleasant person 😄 especially the first kilometer.” The observation is small in scale and genuine in register; it sits beside Muzurov’s 33 km and Dmitrieva’s GPS dispute without competing for attention, but it marks a runner who is still finding what the sport is to her.
Rafael Shaymardanov extends his .execution account with 11.6 km — his third active session in the race, which now places him at approximately 32 km (32% of 100 km). The .execution standings continue to evolve: Simon’s two recent sessions have moved him to around 60 km, repositioning the race’s competitive picture. Francisco Goya receives 28.7 km from nine sessions and six athletes, several of them using the format as a container for structured speed work rather than steady-state distance building.
Day 46’s 265.6 km lands close to the post-deadline weekly average and contains the full range of athlete behaviour this season has come to express: the careful and the faulty, the structured and the spontaneous, the long and the small.
