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Season 262. Day 8

URX Season 262, day eight: 7 April widens the verified field on Barrel and Nairobi; one Barrel entry records a clear morning run at −11 °C.

Season 262 is still early, but the second week opens with a broader field. The daily picture is no longer carried by a narrow midweek core — more athletes are logging verified work on the same day. The structure does not change: April still sets short multirun windows against Nairobi’s long horizon. What changes is scale.

The 7 April slice shows that shift. Thirty-nine verified runs from twenty-four athletes add up to roughly 331 km. Thirty-three of those runs went into Barrel 100, six into Nairobi. Two additional Nairobi-only entries dated 6 April appear in the file; they matter for completeness, not for weight. Barrel still carries most of the load, but Nairobi’s share of verified activity is higher than in the day-six snapshot — the open race continues to be fed alongside the April hundred.

At the top end, the distances attach to specific entries. Tim logs about 22 km on Barrel 100. Vyacheslav Krymsky answers with roughly 20 km on Nairobi. Vadim Terekhov and Anna Kotlova both clear near 18 km on Barrel the same day — different entries, same calendar pressure. Elizaveta Troshkova splits her Nairobi work into two shorter verified runs, reading as steady accumulation rather than a single block. These are not marginal additions: they move totals quickly and bring forward fatigue ahead of later April overlaps.

One entry stands out for context rather than distance. Aleksandr Rakhmetov posts a verified morning run of about 11.8 km on Barrel 100: clear conditions, asphalt, geodata, full proof. The record lists −11 °C. The distance sits mid-pack; the conditions do not. Verification holds either way.

The pressure point remains unchanged. Barrel 100 continues to pull volume because April closes first. Nairobi builds more gradually, but it is active whenever it is fed. A wider field does not soften the calendar — it simply spreads the same constraints across more athletes.