Inclement weather kept many VRs indoors on this first parkrun of July 2024. Only 791 Vegan Runners mustered the motivation to attend 349 events. 713 trusty faithfuls gained a finish token. There were over 78 wonderful volunteers.
On the positive side numerically speaking, we now have a bountiful 1.3k membership in this wonderful Vegan Runners UK: parkrun group!
Marvellous meetups remained plentiful, despite the reduced attendance. Thank you to Michelle Flower for this beautifully posed pic in front of a tree-lined avenue from the Fletcher Moss meetup, celebrating a couple of milestones.
Here are the meetup locations with numbers of VRs attending:
17 Fletcher Moss parkrun
16 Forest Rec parkrun
15 Mount Stuart parkrun
14 Ashton Court parkrun
12 University of Northampton parkrun
10 Beckenham Place parkrun
10 Newbury parkrun
9 Castle Park parkrun
8 Southampton parkrun
8 Eastville parkrun
7 Southsea parkrun
7 Seaton parkrun
7 Hastings parkrun
6 Worcester Pitchcroft parkrun
6 Margate parkrun
6 Evesham parkrun
6 Roberts Park parkrun
6 Malling Rec parkrun
5 Dulwich parkrun
5 Burgess parkrun
5 Tamworth Castle Grounds parkrun
There were also:
Four Vegan Runners at 12 parkrun locations
Three VRs at 42 parkruns
Two at 80 events
And one hundred and ninety-nine of you were solo repping
Outside of the UK, we had Vegan Runners representing our club at the following number of events in these countries:
10 Germany
3 Australia
1 Sweden
1 Poland
1 Norway
1 Netherlands
1 Ireland
1 Canada
Incredible perfomances from our top ten fastest men, all running their parkruns in well under 19 minutes:
00:16:58 Philip Nind Pavilion Gardens parkrun
00:17:27 Geoffrey Gregory Millhouses parkrun
00:17:35 Matt Edmonds Hastings parkrun
00:17:42 Gareth Thomas Sandy Water parkrun
00:18:20 Andy Gardiner Pomphrey Hill parkrun
00:18:23 Al Robertson Fletcher Moss parkrun
00:18:24 Christopher Pearson Rosliston parkrun
00:18:25 Richard Davis Hastings parkrun
00:18:25 Alastair Stables Mount Stuart parkrun
00:18:29 Neil Sexton Castle Park parkrun
Our top ten fastest women this week, also with phenomenal times, were:
00:20:41 Kelsey Wiberley Warwick Racecourse parkrun
00:20:55 Lesley Connors Roberts Park parkrun
00:21:02 Alice Wood Burgess parkrun
00:21:06 Rosie Freeman Conkers parkrun
00:21:24 Fiona Newman University of Northampton parkrun
00:21:37 Elly Maggs Margate parkrun
00:22:09 Helen Seymour Eastville parkrun
00:22:16 Paula Blackledge East Brighton parkrun
00:22:31 Gay O’Connor Poole parkrun
00:22:32 Michelle Vaughan Burnage parkrun
Absolutely amazing – congratulations!
Congratulations too to these VRs, who came first in their gender position at their parkrun:
00:17:42 Gareth Thomas Sandy Water parkrun
00:18:24 Christopher Pearson Rosliston parkrun
00:18:25 Alastair Stables Mount Stuart parkrun
00:18:34 Nehal Lavey-Khan Canons Park parkrun
00:18:37 Louis Kowal Foots Cray Meadows parkrun
00:18:44 Jamie Kinghorn Montrose parkrun
00:19:00 Catherine Allen Houghton Hall parkrun
00:19:54 Hester Hill Tooting Common parkrun
00:20:41 Kelsey Wiberley Warwick Racecourse parkrun
00:21:06 Rosie Freeman Conkers parkrun
00:21:37 Elly Maggs Margate parkrun
00:22:45 Jen Conway Mount Stuart parkrun
00:23:18 Carla Brain Melksham parkrun
00:23:21 Sara Wilson Kingsbury Water parkrun
00:23:43 Georgie Ripper Gadebridge parkrun
00:27:03 Rosie Brown Ellesmere Port parkrun
Marvellous milestones this week were achieved by:
50 Al Robertson
100 Antony Byatt
Fantastic dedication and repping for the animals
Let me know if you have a milestone to celebrate next week and we can give you a mention in our Wednesday parkrun poll to muster up some celebratory support!
The average time for all Vegan Runners to complete the course on this first event of July 2024 was a fit and fabulous sub-30! 29:46 ⏱
Only eighty-six intrepid and inspirational VRs gained a new Personal Best for 2024 – check back tomorrow to find out who!
Shoutouts to seventeen Vegan Runners who finished their parkrun in a multiple of fifty position:
50 00:27:27 Hayley Burn
50 00:35:18 Sarah Butler
50 00:27:10 Adrian Pilbeam
50 00:21:43 Ben Nevill
50 00:22:59 Rob James
100 00:33:58 Ian Linley
100 00:28:27 Kevin Hughes
100 00:28:15 Guy Shearwood
150 00:59:20 Mabel Stephens-Mikesch
200 00:32:47 David Rowe
200 00:26:53 Neil Horne
600 00:33:15 Charlotte O’Hare
On the noughty step this week we have fourteen refractory affiliates, red cards all round for:
19:00 Catherine Allen
19:00 Ciar Nixon
22:00 Anthony Holder
24:00 Edward Hall-Green
25:00 Scott Matheson
27:00 Kirsty Atkinson
27:00 Sarah Hardcastle
27:00 Andy Brinkworth
28:00 Andy Begent
28:00 Martha Haslam
29:00 Amy Metcalf
33:00 Melanie Rowe
35:00 Paul Moss
36:00 Lucy Ruben
There was a repdigit number (33) of repdigit reppers! Coats and umbrellas for these lovelyVRs who braved the summer weather this week:
☔11 Luis Goncalves
☔11 Sophie Burnett
☔22 Clara Mumford-Turner
☔22 Ryan Dempsey
☔33 August Frew
☔33 Cullan Smith
☔33 Dane Cobain
☔33 Jerry Barnes
☔33 Kevin Boina M’Koubou Dupé
☔33 Mark Elwell
☔33 Michael Inglis
☔33 Simon English
☔33 Stephen Sellers
☔33 Steve Proudley
☔55 James Gargett
☔55 Rob Petch
☔66 Alex Hawker
☔66 Colin Bexley
☔66 Rachel Charnock
☔77 Dominic Seales
☔77 Paul Jones
☔88 Andrew Johnson
☔88 Corrina Barton
☔88 Dudley Khouri
☔88 Gordon Smith
☔88 Tony Hardy
☔99 David Stephens-Mikesch
☔99 Jojo Love
☔99 Scott Matheson
☔111 Sarah Morgan
☔111 Sesh Narayanan
☔111 Wendy Brigstock
☔222 Diane May
Next week there will be beautiful sunshine, localised specifically and uniquely at parkrun locations with rain everywhere else. So I’m looking forward to reporting soaring numbers and celebrating over 1,000 VR attendance at parkruns next week. Have a great week, everyone!
