Season 262 is still early, but the board is no longer thin. Roughly forty-eight athletes have logged about seven hundred kilometres of verified work — a clear step up from the first week baseline. Nairobi has widened as well: twenty-one entrants, six days into a ninety-one-day window. More athletes are committing to proof, and the open race is no longer sitting in the background.
The 6 April slice shifts the picture. Twenty-seven verified runs from nineteen athletes add up to roughly 288 km. Seventeen of those runs went into Barrel 100, ten into Nairobi. Barrel still leads the day, but Nairobi’s share is materially higher than before — ten of twenty-seven versus four of thirty-seven in the previous sample. The field behind that volume is wider too: nineteen athletes instead of twelve, even as total distance comes off the earlier April peak.
That redistribution shows up in how sessions are shaped. The longest single efforts in this batch sit on Nairobi: Margarita Pochekutova near 19 km, Tatyana around 16. On Barrel 100, Alexey Sherikhov stacks multiple substantial runs in one day, while Vladislav Kokorin and Dmitriy Chyornyy work in the mid-teens. Nikolay Voltov places comparable distance into Nairobi in the same band.
The underlying tension holds. Barrel 100 still pulls against an April deadline; Nairobi keeps building over a longer horizon. Day seven reads as a broader field spreading effort across both clocks — not a full shift away from Barrel, but no longer a one-sided allocation either.
