Vladislav Kokorin won the men’s standings at Buenos Aires with 777.8 km. He led from the first day and gave up first place only once: on 26 September Alexey Sherikhov went 2.8 km ahead of him. The next day Kokorin ran the Moscow Marathon, took the lead back and stretched it to 31.5 km by the end of the race. In the women’s standings Margarita Pochekutova logged 490.2 km and held first place from 11 July onwards. Svetlana Serebryannikova was second with 316.4 km. Third place came down to the last evening: Yulia I. ran 21.4 km and finished 4.9 km ahead of Svetlana Volozhanina.
Buenos Aires is a city race from the City series and the longest race of season 263: 83 days, from 10 July to 30 September. No other race this season lasted more than 43 days, and the season’s other Open race, Business Run, took up three weeks of August. The format is Open: there is no fixed distance, and the standings are decided by total kilometres over the whole period. The race medal belongs to the limited, collectible City series and shows Buenos Aires itself.
The results list 89 athletes — 54 men and 35 women — with 1,106 runs and 10,926 km. The numbers grew month by month. In July 33 people ran 1,523 km, in August 46 people ran 2,988 km, and in September 82 people ran 6,415 km, more than half the race total. Forty-six athletes joined the league after the race had already started. Five people ran on forty or more separate days, while half the field ran on six days or fewer. The biggest day was 27 September, Moscow Marathon day, when athletes logged more than 550 km between them. Between 27 and 29 September twelve people uploaded a marathon-length run, and eight of them labelled it as the Moscow Marathon.
Men’s race: Sherikhov’s single day
Kokorin opened the race on 10 July with a 15.15 km run and went straight to the front. His distances are easy to spot: 11.11 km, 12.12 km, 15.15 km. He also hit every hundred exactly: his total read 100.0 km on 17 July, 200.0 on 27 July, 300.0 on 3 August, 400.0 on 13 August and 500.0 on 25 August. He reached 600 and 700 to within ten metres. Over the 83 days Kokorin ran on 59 separate days, more than anyone else in the race. His average pace of 5:26 was almost identical to his usual 5:24.
Sherikhov started eleven days later, on 21 July. By the end of July Kokorin had 262.6 km and Sherikhov 117.2, and until 20 August the gap stayed between 140 and 148 km. Sherikhov ran like a metronome: 52 runs, every one of them between 11 and 22 km, at an average of 6:07 — exactly his usual pace. He outran Kokorin in both August (320.7 km to 305.1) and September (308.4 to 210.1). September was where he made up the most ground: Kokorin didn’t run at all from 5 to 10 September, and the gap shrank from 116.6 km on 1 September to 31.3 km on the 20th.
On 26 September Kokorin didn’t run. Sherikhov ran 17 km and moved into first place for the first time: 709.9 km to 707.1. He stayed there for exactly one day. On 27 September Kokorin ran the Moscow Marathon — 42.2 km at 5:23 — and went back in front, this time by 39.4 km. Sherikhov didn’t run that day. Over the final three days Sherikhov added 36.4 km and Kokorin 28.5, leaving a final margin of 31.5 km, almost exactly what it had been on 20 September.
The marathon that put Kokorin back on top had been in his plans for a while: on 31 August he ran 33.3 km and labelled it “Long run before the Moscow Marathon.” Kokorin has been in the league since August 2025. He is third in the global ranking, with 19 completed races and three outright wins. Sherikhov is a league ambassador, seventh in the ranking, with 33 completed races. He didn’t caption a single run during the race.
The fight for third: Muzurov, Gavrilkin, Izmaylov
Third place in the men’s race was shared among three runners for three weeks. Between 17 August and 8 September Andrey Izmaylov, Dmitriy Gavrilkin and Ilya Muzurov swapped places from third to fifth several times.
Muzurov is an ambassador and has been in the league since January 2025, with 51 completed races and more than 5,600 career kilometres. He ran 97.8 km in July and then stopped for almost four weeks: there are no runs from him between 31 July and 25 August. At the end of August he was sixth, 75 km behind Gavrilkin. On 29 August he ran 42.2 km, and from 1 to 5 September he ran a half marathon every day — five in a row, each about 21.8 km. On 8 September he moved into third and stayed there. Muzurov ran 390.7 km in September, more than any other man that month, and finished with 541.9 km from 25 days of running.
Gavrilkin joined the league on 6 August and made his first run in the race on the 11th. He was the fastest of the top five men, averaging 4:40 over 53 runs. He wrote 40 captions, more than any other man, and some of those runs were his commute. “Haven’t run to work this briskly in a while,” he wrote on 9 September. Five days earlier, after a gastritis flare-up, he went out for 6.7 km: “I thought it would be harder after all that trouble with my gastritis.” On 22 September: “Starting to feel the fatigue. Need to ease off tomorrow.” Gavrilkin finished fourth with 497.8 km — more than half of the 872 km he has run in the league in total.
Izmaylov is an ambassador and fifth in the global ranking. He ran on 43 separate days and logged 474.8 km. On 20 September he ran 23.3 km and captioned it “Long run in pouring rain.” On 26 September he ran the Moscow Marathon 10K at 4:06 pace, and the next day the marathon itself, 42.6 km at 5:08: “Moscow Marathon. My first marathon.” That put him fifth.
Women’s race: 66 kilometres in one go
Pochekutova started on 11 July, took the lead in the women’s standings that same day and never gave it up. She is a league ambassador, fourth in the global ranking, with 25 completed races and two outright wins. She ran on just 29 days — fewer than any of the three women behind her. Pochekutova built her total with long outings. On 26 July she ran 53.2 km at 7:55, and on 24 August 66.8 km at 8:30, the longest single run of the whole race, men or women. By the end of July her lead over second place had passed a hundred kilometres, and by mid-August it was 177 km. Pochekutova finished with 490.2 km at an average of 7:12, close to her usual 7:07. She didn’t caption any of her runs.
Serebryannikova joined the league on 3 January 2026. She is fifth in the global ranking, with 15 completed races. Her kilometres in this race came from trails, club sessions and cross-country hikes with SKIri Team. On 12 July she ran the Syrny (Cheese) Trail, 24.5 km. On 3 August she tried running barefoot on sand: “4 km wore me out like 8…” On 23 August came the 31.7 km Ugresha Trail — “probably the most scenic of all the ones I’ve run around Moscow.” From late July to late August Serebryannikova and Volozhanina traded second place several times, until Serebryannikova took it for good on 29 August. Her final run in the race was the Moscow Marathon 10K on 26 September at 5:38 pace — the fastest of her 37 runs.
Volozhanina and Yulia: 78 days against one evening
Volozhanina ran Buenos Aires mostly in Novosibirsk. She is a league ambassador with 21 completed races, and during the race she made 43 runs on 41 different days. She captioned almost all of them: 5 Versts, the free weekly 5K, on the Mikhailovskaya embankment; club sessions at the Dinamo and Spartak stadiums; and the arboretum — “A run in the arboretum in the rain, a perfect end to the week,” “The arboretum smells of herbal tea today.” In early September she ran 5 Versts on Yelagin Island in St Petersburg and the PushkinRun, and on 26 September the nationwide Kross Natsii: “everyone’s running, so I’m running too.” From 14 July to 29 September Volozhanina never dropped below third.
Yulia I. is first in the global ranking, a league ambassador, with 36 completed races and five outright wins. She all but skipped July: two runs totalling 13 km on 11 and 12 July, then nineteen days without running. From August on she ran 6–10 km at a time and kept her pace like clockwork, with almost every run between 5:50 and 6:00. She closed the gap to Volozhanina steadily: 52.7 km in mid-August, 44.3 km by 1 September, 29.4 km by the 15th. On 29 September both of them ran, and the gap stayed at 16.5 km. On 30 September Volozhanina didn’t run. Yulia ran 21.4 km at 6:08, her longest run of the race, and finished 4.9 km ahead: 286.8 to 282.0.
Marathons, downpours and knee braces
Ilya Pavlov made his first run on 10 July, opening day — just one kilometre — and kept going until 30 September: 43 days of running, 323.4 km, sixth among the men. His captions trace where he spent the summer: Teriberka in July, a race in Kaliningrad in early August, Kazan — “More oxygen, easier running.” In September Pavlov ran in the hills, and on the 26th he wrote: “12 km, downpour, hills and a PB on the course.”
Maxim Danilov only started running in the race in September, and everything he did was aimed at the marathon. On 18 and 19 September he ran 74 km, and after a 45 km run he wrote: “I did it! No idea how, but I did it. It was just super hard. My legs are falling off… Ready for the marathon!” On 27 September Danilov ran the Moscow Marathon at 5:31 pace: “And way faster than I’d planned. This is most likely my first and last marathon, because I wrecked my knees completely getting ready for it. For the last month I could only run in knee braces.” With 181 km from eight runs he finished thirteenth.
Anna Egorova joined the league on 6 August and started running in Buenos Aires on 8 September. All of her 152.4 km came in the last three weeks, including the Moscow Marathon in 3:14:31 — “Great event.” Her average pace of 5:09 was well under her usual 6:10, and on total distance she finished sixth among the women. In the same weeks Egorova also finished second at Petrov-Vodkin.
Elena Dmitrieva, an ambassador and second in the global ranking, ran only in September: twelve days, 132.3 km, eighth place. On 24 September she went out for 10 km in a downpour and wrote: “Better to head out for a run in pouring rain than to skip it and regret it.”
Maxim Matskevich joined the league on 11 September and started running in the race on the 17th. Over the last ten days he logged 160.5 km, more than anyone else, and in two weeks climbed to eleventh with 221 km. Tatiana Malonog put together her 69 km in September at coffee runs and with local running communities. On 26 September she wrote: “Under the weather. Running on minimum power,” and on the 29th she captioned a run: “Finishing with shawarma.”
Buenos Aires ended on 30 September. Over those 83 days other races came and went on the season calendar: Hyperdrive 50 ended on 20 September, and Petrov-Vodkin ran through the last three weeks. After almost three months, the men’s race came down to two days: Sherikhov’s 17 km on 26 September and Kokorin’s marathon the day after. Pochekutova won the women’s race with her long outings in July and August. The last change came in the women’s third place, after Yulia’s single run on the final evening. Of the 33 people who started running in July, 23 were still going in the last ten days of September. This race had no finish line, and each of the 89 athletes decided for themselves where to stop.
