💚🖤 Beautiful sunshine blessed most of the UK on this third parkrun event of May 2024. Vegan Runners had an incredible turnout – biggest ever? – this week with 939 club members attending 409 different parkrun events! 859 gained a finish token and we had over 80 wonderful volunteers.
Don’t forget to post your meetup photos! Thank you to David Webb’s wife for this week’s photo from the Bromley meetup, where fourteen lovely VRs convened. Very sorry to have missed this one!
The most popular meetups this week were held at:
19 Centre Vale parkrun
16 Wotton parkrun
13 Springburn parkrun, Glasgow
12 Southsea parkrun
12 Chelmsford Central parkrun
10 Sherwood Pines parkrun
9 Worcester parkrun
9 Witney parkrun
8 Colwick parkrun
7 Southampton parkrun
7 The Old Showfield parkrun
6 Milton Country parkrun
6 Brierley Forest parkrun
6 Hillsborough parkrun
6 Pomphrey Hill parkrun
6 Cassiobury parkrun
6 Hove Promenade parkrun
5 Hadleigh parkrun, Essex
5 Eastbourne parkrun
5 Arrow Valley parkrun
5 Brueton parkrun
5 Cannon Hill parkrun, Birmingham
5 Scunthorpe parkrun
5 Hastings parkrun
5 Haigh Woodland parkrun
5 Worthing parkrun
5 Itchen Valley Country parkrun
5 Central parkrun, Plymouth
There were also twenty-two parkruns with four VRs in the results, forty-four with a trio of VRs, ninety-eight duos and two hundred and sixteen of you repped alone.
Outside of the UK we had plenty of Vegan Runners spreading the green and black love – here is a list of the number of locations within the countries where club members ran:
🇦🇺 4 Australia
🇩🇪 3 Germany
🇸🇪 2 Sweden
🇩🇰 2 Denmark
🇦🇹 2 Austria
🇺🇸 1 United States
🇿🇦 1 South Africa
🇵🇱 1 Poland
🇳🇴 1 Norway
🇳🇱 1 Netherlands
🇲🇾 1 Malaysia
🇫🇮 1 Finland
Lots of Personal Best attainments accrued again this week – well done to one hundred and fifty-two of you! Random shout-outs to these three generated randomly:
🎉 Jamie Rendell 20:47
🎉 Niki Sinead Jones 56:42
🎉 Lee Bolinger 29:58
The average time for all Vegan Runners to complete their parkrun course this week was: 30:15 🎊
Our top ten fastest men this week are:
🥇16:47 Jake Stephens No.1 three weeks in a row!
🥇16:51 Gergely Arvay New PB!
🥇16:56 Philip Nind
🥇17:14 Matt Edmonds
🥇17:21 Alastair Stables
🥇17:28 Gareth Pritchard
🥇18:03 James Ross New PB!
🥇18:07 Nehal Lavey-Khan New PB!
🥇18:07 Jamie Kinghorn
🥇18:12 Geoffrey Gregory
And our top ten fastest ladies:
🥇19:36 Caroline McAleese
🥇19:48 Clare Meraz
🥇20:15 Naomi Sutton
🥇20:29 Elly Maggs
🥇20:49 Laura Dunkling New PB!
🥇21:49 Jen Conway
🥇21:50 Lesley Connors
🥇21:55 Millie Wood New PB!
🥇22:00 Ilze Fridrihsone New PB!
🥇22:08 Elizabeth Barreiro
Incredible times, congratulations! 🏃🌽🥕⏱
Twenty-three VRs came first in their gender position at their parkrun, proving the power of a plant-based diet:
🏆16:47 Jake Stephens
🏆16:51 Gergely Arvay
🏆16:56 Philip Nind
🏆17:21 Alastair Stables
🏆17:28 Gareth Pritchard
🏆18:07 Jamie Kinghorn
🏆18:38 Alex Robertson
🏆19:02 Benjamin John Grant
🏆19:22 Joe Burn
🏆19:27 Bill Hill
🏆19:34 Tom Seller
🏆19:36 Caroline McAleese
🏆19:48 Clare Meraz
🏆20:15 Naomi Sutton
🏆20:29 Elly Maggs
🏆21:49 Jen Conway
🏆21:50 Lesley Connors
🏆22:37 Michelle Vaughan
🏆22:42 Eleanor Wood
🏆23:19 Elaine Banks
🏆24:13 Emily Pereira
🏆24:16 Lydia Kindred
🏆27:43 Tracey Lancaster
A Marvellous milestone achieved this week by:
🎉 Linda Jesson 250
Shoutouts to these Vegan Runners who finished their parkrun in a multiple of fifty position:
📣50 32:07 Catherine Myer
📣50 34:44 Adam Vincent-Garland
📣50 21:53 Yogi Hughes
📣100 26:24 Debbie Pearce
📣100 29:53 Nick Russon
📣100 22:03 Kevin Boina M’Koubou Dupé
📣150 32:28 Deborah Parfitt
📣250 34:44 Linda Jesson
📣300 37:13 Allissa Goddard
📣400 49:30 Fiona Brennan
📣450 38:42 Rebecca Kendrick
On the noughty step this week we have eighteen reprehensible insubordinates:
😈21:00 Sam Wilson
😈21:00 Oliver Herdsman
😈22:00 Louis Kowal
😈22:00 Ilze Fridrihsone
😈25:00 Richard Evans
😈25:00 Craig Mcallister
😈27:00 Nicola Harrison
😈28:00 Simon Rose
😈30:00 Rhona Sturgeon
😈30:00 Hugo Carpendale
😈30:00 George Batty
😈31:00 Peter Holt
😈31:00 Emily Mortimer
😈32:00 James Caygill
😈33:00 Amy Withnall
😈35:00 Caroline Finill
😈40:00 Julia Vardy
😈41:00 Shaun Court
And hip-hip hooray to these forty-five VRs who collected a repdigit finish token. Peas and pineapples for:
🫛🍍11 Chris Wynn
🫛🍍11 Greg Turner
🫛🍍11 Kevin Du Plessis
🫛🍍11 Mary P Scott
🫛🍍11 Matt Dyer
🫛🍍11 Michael Inglis
🫛🍍11 Sebby Travers
🫛🍍22 Peter Horrel
🫛🍍33 Etwal Teja
🫛🍍33 Jacob Butler
🫛🍍33 James Freddie Lloyd
🫛🍍33 Kevin Morris
🫛🍍33 Stephen Casburn
🫛🍍44 Angie Pelling
🫛🍍44 Anja Robinson
🫛🍍44 Juleka Nwankwo
🫛🍍55 Christopher Greenaway
🫛🍍55 Kay Cottrell
🫛🍍55 Roxane Pratt
🫛🍍55 Sonia Ng
🫛🍍55 Wendy Brigstock
🫛🍍66 Damian Luscombe
🫛🍍66 Eilidh Stanfield
🫛🍍66 Karen Austin
🫛🍍66 Lana Sarey El-Din
🫛🍍66 Matthew Knight
🫛🍍66 Paul Bennett
🫛🍍66 Rachel Kuypers
🫛🍍66 Sinead McCarthy
🫛🍍77 Claudia Lennicke
🫛🍍77 Kim Ashworth
🫛🍍77 Luke Mckay
🫛🍍77 Robert Skedgell
🫛🍍77 Suzanne Sale
🫛🍍88 Hebe Dyson
🫛🍍88 Max Engel
🫛🍍88 Nelson Wright
🫛🍍99 Maria Wicks
🫛🍍99 Sean Dickinson
🫛🍍111 Lucy Swarbrick
🫛🍍111 Spencer John
🫛🍍111 Stephen Sellers
🫛🍍444 Janet Joyce
🫛🍍444 Katy Mathers
🫛🍍555 Kristine Anderson
Great repping!
Special Events
As you may or may not know, countries can nominate one special day per year on which they can stage an additional parkrun event. Normally, this takes place on a public holiday, festival or celebration. So far this year, there have been special events on:
27th April (Southern Africa Freedom Day)
04th May (Japan Greenery Day)
09th May (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden Ascension Day)
Results from these events have traditionally not been reported but as there were four countries hosting special events last week, and in the spirit of the Eurovision Song Contest, I thought it worthwhile sharing the results of our twelve Vegan Runner reppers. Well done and tillykke, gratulerer, grattis og onnittelut to:
🇩🇰 21:08 Jonathan Holt Amager Fælled parkrun
🇩🇰 26:16 Matt Salisbury Amager Fælled parkrun
🇩🇰 56:01 Sharon Maria Boland Amager Fælled parkrun
🇩🇰 23:51 Jen Conway Fælledparken parkrun
🇩🇰 32:49 Maria Hamilton Fælledparken parkrun
🇩🇰 20:42 Nathann Thornton Vejen parkrun
🇳🇴 31:10 Lauren Feber-Turner Festningen parkrun
🇸🇪 23:46 August Frew Haga parkrun
🇸🇪 25:40 Dave Sowerby-Williams Haga parkrun
🇸🇪 27:12 Phil Sowerby-Williams Haga parkrun
🇫🇮 22:36 Nick Mytton Tokoinranta parkrun
🇫🇮 22:59 George Spann Tokoinranta parkrun
Hope you’ve all enjoyed a wonderful weekend wherever you were. Watch out for our mid-week poll – I expect Bristol will be popular as we will be enjoying Vegan Runners 20th Anniversary celebrations there. Look forward to meeting some of you there. Have a great week!
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