?? Love was in the air for parkrun this week and what a fabulous turnout we had on this Valentines’ weekend! 910 VRs managed to attend 388 different parkrun events. 832 gained a finish token and we had over 78 wonderful volunteers. ?? 

VRs were spreading the love with plenty of meetups too – thank you to Alice Baker for this week’s wonderful photo from the Southsea meetup, which was the biggest VR get-together of the week, with 36 Vegan Runners convening. Other sizeable meetups occurred at: 

30 Eastville parkrun  

14 Rickmansworth parkrun  

12 Chippenham Playing Fields parkrun, Monmouth  

11 South Woodham Ferrers parkrun  

10 York parkrun  

9 Worcester parkrun  

8 Bushy parkrun 

8 Southwick Country parkrun 

8 Clumber Park parkrun 

8 Hunstanton Promenade parkrun  

7 Hull parkrun 

7 Southwark parkrun 

7 Great Lines parkrun, Medway 

7 Lee-on-the-Solent parkrun 

7 Centre Vale parkrun  

6 Colwick parkrun 

6 Hillsborough parkrun 

6 Folkestone parkrun 

6 Hastings parkrun 

6 East Brighton parkrun  

5 Pollok parkrun, Glasgow 

5 Black Park parkrun 

5 Eastbourne parkrun 

5 Southampton parkrun 

5 Hampstead Heath parkrun 

5 Bestwood Village parkrun 

5 Bolton parkrun 

5 Margate parkrun 

5 Queen’s parkrun, Glasgow 

We also had VRs repping in locations as exotic and far-flung as: 

??  4 Germany 

??   3 Poland 

??   3 Australia 

??   2 New Zealand 

??   1 Singapore 

??   1 Netherlands 

??   1 Italy 

??   1 Ireland 

??   1 Austria 

220 VRs repped alone, pairs of VRs attended eighty-four events, trios were at thirty-six locations and punnets of 4 VRs represented our club at eighteen parkruns. 

Parkrun is a run not a race, but we can still whoop and cheer for our top five fastest men this week who ran incredible times: 

?16:51 Daniel Borrett 

?16:56 Chris MacPherson 

?17:32 Jake Stephens 

?17:33 Matthew Du Cros 

?17:38 Tom Seller 

And let’s hear it for our top five fastest ladies: 

?18:52 Naomi Sutton 

?20:08 Katie Louise Wright 

?21:01 Fiona Newman 

?21:07 Emma Eldridge 

?21:09 Elly Maggs 

Congratulations! 

Seventeen VRs came first in their gender position at their parkrun, fantastic times from: 

? 16:56 Chris MacPherson 

?17:49 Alastair Stables 

?18:13 Philip Nind 

?18:22 Joe Burn 

?18:52 Naomi Sutton 

?19:40 Jhon Cosgrove 

?19:42 Sam Thorogood 

?21:09 Elly Maggs 

?21:26 Mary P Scott 

?21:31 Jen Conway 

?22:08 Julia Garan 

?22:23 Tracy Moroz 

?22:42 Marti Spence 

?23:08 Emily Pereira 

?23:45 Annie Hamilton 

?24:20 Dawn Williams 

?27:52 Rachel Strother 

The average time for all Vegan Runners to complete their parkrun this week came in one second under 30 minutes at 29:59 ??  

Marvellous milestones this week were achieved by: 

?250 Tony Hardy 

?100 Steven Buck – volunteering 

Fantastic dedication to parkrun and representing our wonderful club for the animals ?? We can’t get data for the milestones anymore so let me know in the comments if you’d like to be added to this report. 

We no longer have access to the top age graded results either to celebrate VRs who achieved this at their parkrun, but I did notice: 

?78.96% Sandra Morgan 

?81.60% Daniel Borrett 

?78.62% Namoi Sutton 

Not too shabby at all ? 

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

?50 Amy Cromarty 

?50 Debra Porter 

?50 Lynn Persse 

?100 Stacey Buckby 

?150 Anja Robinson 

?150 Chloe Hill 

?150 Katherine Harris 

?150 Carla Brain 

?150 Ian Beasley 

?150 Steven Crutchley 

?250 Ella Hill 

?250 Helen Treadgold 

?300 Alice Connor 

?300 Mike Harling 

?400 Charles Dean-Orange 

?550 Peter Fitzgerald 

Twelve troublesome terrors landed directly on the noughty step this week, forfeits and fines for: 

?20:00 Oliver Herdsman 

?23:00 Stephen Todd 

?23:00 Mirek Salmon 

?23:00 Charlotte Barton 

?24:00 Layla Whitaker 

?27:00 Angie Ridge 

?28:00 Jay Johnson 

?28:00 Rachel Mitchell 

?31:00 Debra Porter 

?32:00 Philippa Briggs 

?33:00 Stephen Sellers 

?35:00 Catherine Thompson 

Collecting a finish token with a repeating digit were these radical rep-digit reppers: 

??33 Fiona Newman 

??33 Jim Mcalwane 

??44 Chris Wynn 

??44 Daniel Hatton 

??44 Harvey Wooldridge 

??44 Roberta Jasmontaite 

??44 Tanya Barnes 

??55 David Raza 

??55 Malcolm Duncan 

??55 Matt Walker 

??66 Peter Welch 

??77 Mark Elwell 

??88 George Spann 

??88 Tim Hawkins 

??99 Erik Newton 

??99 Joseph Myers 

Well done everyone! It’s so great to see VR parkrun attendance numbers rising and meetups gaining in popularity, too. It’s also wonderful to see all the photos you post on our facebook page with comments clearly showing what a kind, caring and positive community we’re all part of. You are wonderful human beings and I’m proud to be able to report on your weekly achievements! Have a great week and get ready for next week’s parkrun if you’re able to attend – it will be the last one of February! Where did that month go! ?????