Aviemore ParkRun notches up number 353 in great conditions
It was a day for leaving the demons behind at Aviemore’s ever more popular ParkRun.
The 353rd running of the event will remain particularly special for Lindsay McCue from Edinburgh.
A delighted race director Pete Wright reported: “We were all so happy to see Lindsay return to the course.
“The last time she came she fell and injured her shoulder badly.
“But she had recovered and was here to put all her demons behind her. Well done, Lindsay!”
She and her husband George were among the 89 happy participants on the celebrated Speyside Way course who included well-versed veterans and many first-timers.
The weather stayed fine for them all and, as ever, it was first and foremost a social occasions with so many old friends getting up to date with each other.
Leading results:
1 Jonathon Hardman 17.51; 2 Mark Apsey of Reading Roadrunners 18.00; 3 Fraser Currie 18.26; 4 Unknown; 5 Unknown; 6 Samuel Jones 19.14; 7 Simon Jeyenes of Fife AC 20.28; 8 Michah Daigeaun 20.55; 9 Benjamin Brimacombe 21.10; 10 Lindsay Batstone 21.51.
The event was brilliantly stewarded again by volunteers Ailie Jones Bill deWitt, George Graham, Katie Hanson, Laoise Hill, Mark Caulfield, Pete Wright, Samuel Jones, Sue Oxley, Zoe Jones and Zoe Russell.