💚🖤 Numbers were significantly down this week – perhaps due to the lovely British Summer weather? 858 Vegan Runners attended 381 different parkrun events on the 15th June 2024. 779 gained a finish token and we had over 79 wonderful volunteers. 

Another fabulous photo from Eastville this week, thank you again to Norbert Addison for capturing the biggest VR meetup. Here is a list of Vegan Runners’ latest parkrun get-togethers showing the number of VRs who attended each event: 

27 Eastville parkrun  

14 Worcester Pitchcroft parkrun 

13 Old Deer Park parkrun 

12 Clare Castle parkrun 

7 Swansea Bay parkrun 

6 Brueton parkrun 

6 Southend parkrun 

6 Burgess parkrun 

6 Burnage parkrun 

6 Sheringham parkrun 

6 Birkenhead parkrun 

6 Sherwood Pines parkrun 

6 Dunstable Downs parkrun 

5 Hull parkrun 

5 Colwick parkrun 

5 Arrow Valley parkrun 

5 Cannon Hill parkrun, Birmingham 

5 Preston Park parkrun, Brighton 

5 Queen Elizabeth parkrun 

5 Haverfordwest parkrun 

5 Lowestoft parkrun 

5 Sittingbourne parkrun 

5 Gloucester City parkrun 

5 Sixfields Upton parkrun 

5 Y Promenâd parkrun 

There were also: 

• 4 Vegan Runners together at twenty different parkrun locations 
• 3 VRs at thirty-nine parkruns, 
• 2 at one hundred and four events and 
• One hundred and ninety-three parkruns hosted solo Vegan Runners repping. 

✈ It seems there is a travel bug going round, as we had fantastic representation outside of the UK, with Vegan Runners in the results at this number of parkrun events in the following countries: 

🇵🇱            4 Poland 

🇦🇺           3 Australia 

🇺🇸           2 United States 

🇿🇦 2 South Africa 

🇮🇪  2 Ireland 

🇸🇪           1 Sweden 

🇳🇱           1 Netherlands 

🇯🇵    1 Japan 

🇮🇹    1 Italy 

🇩🇪    1 Germany 

🇩🇰    1 Denmark 

Our top ten fastest women this week were: 

🥇00:19:48 Naomi Sutton Gnoll parkrun 

🥇00:20:27 Fiona Newman Bedford parkrun 

🥇00:20:35 Elly Maggs Bromley parkrun 

🥇00:20:50 Clare Meraz Eastville parkrun 

🥇00:21:04 Kelsey Wiberley Warwick Racecourse parkrun 

🥇00:21:17 Paula Blackledge Brighton & Hove parkrun 

🥇00:21:44 Rebecca Willmott Rothay Park parkrun 

🥇00:21:55 Alice Wood Dishley parkrun, Loughborough 

🥇00:21:56 Julie Oswald Vogrie parkrun 

🥇00:22:48 Emma Warren Eastville parkrun 

And top ten fastest men: 

🥇00:16:30 Jonathan Thewlis Greenwich parkrun 

🥇00:16:57 Geoffrey Gregory Long Eaton parkrun 

🥇00:17:23 Gareth Pritchard Burgess parkrun 

🥇00:17:37 Toby Crisford Pomphrey Hill parkrun 

🥇00:17:43 Gareth Thomas Swansea Bay parkrun 

🥇00:18:05 Matt Edmonds Hastings parkrun 

🥇00:18:15 Ben Wickham Pymmes parkrun 

🥇00:18:18 Shane Conroy Warwick Racecourse parkrun 

🥇00:18:25 Philip Nind Clifton parkrun 

🥇00:18:33 Robert Ottolangui Worcester Pitchcroft parkrun 

Congratulations! Amazing times. My dream is to get into this top ten one day! I’m currently supporting a new runner who achieved their 4th parkrun PB in a row this week. It’s amazing to see how quickly someone can go from hating running and being unable to sustain a steady jog for longer than five minutes, to smashing out four PBs in a row with the last one being a sub 40 non-stop run! I love parkrun so much for this reason, it really does enable people new to running to give it a go in a truly supportive environment. 

These amazing Vegan Runners came first in their gender position at their parkrun, congratulations to: 

00:16:30 Jonathan Thewlis Greenwich parkrun 

00:17:37 Toby Crisford Hill parkrun 

00:18:05 Matt Edmonds Hastings parkrun 

00:18:25 Philip Nind Clifton parkrun 

00:19:48 Naomi Sutton Gnoll parkrun 

00:21:44 Rebecca Willmott Park parkrun 

00:23:45 Colette Rudland Green parkrun 

00:24:34 Jemma Gibson Zuiderpark parkrun, Den Haag 

00:24:36 Geraldine Larham Field parkrun 

00:25:08 Holly Johnson Mills parkrun 

I didn’t notice another VR top at Greenwich parkrun – Jonathan was clearly too fast for me to spot! 😂 

Apologies for not having mentioned these Marvellous Milestones gained last week, congratulations to: 

🎊100 Matt Sav 

🎊250 Mark Cox 

Marvellous milestones this week were achieved by: 

🎊50 Stephen Andrews 

🎊50 Rebecca Hawes 

🎊100 Heather Jupp 

Hip-hip hooray! 🏃🐄🥳🕺 

One hundred and fifteen of you gained a new Personal Best for 2024 (as a registered Vegan Runner). Fantastic achievements! 🏅🎊I’ll publish these tomorrow. 

The average time for all Vegan Runners to complete the course on this third event of June 2024 was 30:31 ⏱🐮 

Shoutouts to these Vegan Runners who finished their parkrun in a multiple of fifty position: 

📣50 00:27:43 Carla Brain 

📣50 00:26:26 Jay Parnham 

📣50 00:27:47 Katie Robinson 

📣50 00:36:41 Christopher Lait 

📣100 00:28:46 Angelina Farruggia 

📣100 00:28:48 Sam Thatcher 

📣150 00:32:17 Sabiene North 

📣250 00:37:53 Zoe Heath 

📣300 00:38:49 Lauren Hart 

📣300 00:48:21 Daisy Overton 

On the noughty step this week we had terrible behaviour from: 

😈20 Pete Colwell Southsea parkrun 

😈24 Daniel Jackson Glossop parkrun 

😈25 Jessica Hey Eastville parkrun 

😈26 Danie Loots Midstream parkrun 

😈29 Karen Sullivan Market Harborough parkrun 

😈32 Sarah Clubb Preston parkrun 

😈35 Laura Hammonds Isabel Trail parkrun 

😈59 Jim Eastment Bury Field parkrun 

Collecting a repdigit finish token were forty fun-filled and fabulous folk; feathers and flowers this week for: 

🪶💐11 Fiona Newman 

🪶💐11 Julie Oswald 

🪶💐11 Nathan Hawes 

🪶💐11 Richard Thompson 

🪶💐22 August Frew 

🪶💐22 Michael Frawley 

🪶💐33 Clare Meraz 

🪶💐33 Derek Ridge 

🪶💐33 Hannah Shuttleworth 

🪶💐33 Jemma Gibson 

🪶💐33 Kevin Bonfield 

🪶💐33 Paula Blackledge 

🪶💐33 Steve Proudley 

🪶💐44 Chloé Holland 

🪶💐44 David Ainsley 

🪶💐44 Gemma Clark 

🪶💐44 Sesh Narayanan 

🪶💐55 Carl Rabey 

🪶💐55 Jemma Banks 

🪶💐55 Jim Eastment 

🪶💐55 Kirsty Atkinson 

🪶💐55 Matt Walker 

🪶💐55 Rosie Brown 

🪶💐66 Andrew Johnson 

🪶💐66 Kate Buttimer 

🪶💐77 Dawn Marshall 

🪶💐77 Helen Smallwood 

🪶💐77 Sarah Whitson-Russell 

🪶💐88 Caroline Lloyd 

🪶💐88 Louise Abbott 

🪶💐99 Andrew Mcfarland 

🪶💐99 Felix Wilson 

🪶💐99 Ian Snow 

🪶💐99 Mike Harling 

🪶💐99 Mike Mcbeth 

🪶💐99 Ruth Jordan 

🪶💐111 Carol Jarvis 

🪶💐111 Elizabeth Czaban 

🪶💐222 Juliet Thomas 

🪶💐444 Natalie Pringle 

Well done, VRs, for running and representing our wonderful club and promoting a vegan lifestyle in a friendly and positive way at parkruns all over the world. As a club we are so good at supporting each other and coming together to celebrate, commemorate and mark important milestones and occasions. The incredibly sad news of Craig Barstow’s passing has left our community stunned; Craig was an accomplished runner, very fit and much loved by those who knew him. Details of how we can come together to honour his life will be shared soon. 🖤💚🖤 

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