Vail Smith Smashes Fulham parkrun record

After a somewhat depressing slog around Bushy parkrun a few weeks ago, Zoe Vail Smith sought to change her luck with the Sloane Rangers down at Fulham Palace, and despite running into serious traffic on the third lap, scored a splendid personal best by reducing her 18:16 to 17:15.The first business of the day was dispensing with the proffered pace-making duties of coach who was spat out at the gun, never to be seen or heard from again.  (His brief was a punchy 17:40, but unbeknown to he, Zoe took a dim view of such pickings).The three steely laps saw nary a blow-up in sight, and the course record belonging to former Belle Imogen Ainsworth of 17:32 was heftily dismantled.  Only three men out of a field of 355 had a smart answer to our girl, and two of those could feel the draught!

Belgrave’s top Parkrunners:

Tish Jones           16:33Zoe Vail Smith   17:15Mel Wilkins        17:32Sam Amend        18:06Sarah Murphy    18:16Lou Blizzard       18:28Sophie Carter     18:33Keri Mackenzie  18:42