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Cross Country Championships

August 21, 2024 0

General Cross-Country Information There are a number of cross-country (XC) competitions where entry is coordinated through the club. The events take place through autumn and winter. The relays and league entry fees where we will have a representative team(s) are paid by the club. The rules of cross-country leagues do vary, some have additional entry fees for each participant. In an ideal situation, the club would like to have teams in many leagues but that does require local volunteer coordinators/managers for each league. We also need sufficient numbers of participating members for team results. All participants must also have paid for their England Athletics registration via Vegan Runners UK for the current year i.e. 1st claim for the club. Any registered member who would like to be considered for any of the events below should in the first instance e-mail the Cross Country Secretary at veganrunners(at)talktalk.net. 1. Cross Country Leagues (Area) In the autumn/winter of 2023/24 Vegan Runners UK fielded senior teams in the North Midlands XC League and previously the Gwent XC League in 2021/22. For season 2024/5 we will have male & female teams in the North Midlands XC League and through our affiliation with the Sussex County Athletic Association we can participate in the Sussex XC League. The Vegan Runners South-East of England Regional Rep will be co-ordinating our entries in the Sussex XC League. If we enter any other leagues, members in those areas will be informed. Ideally the club would like participants to commit to all fixtures otherwise as many as they are available. To compete in the North Midlands XC League you need to be a resident in either Notts, Derbys, South Yorks, Staffs, Lincs, Leics, Northants, Rutland, or Cambs, you are eligible to compete. A list of participicating members needs to be submitted by the club prior to the first event otherwise amended as necessary. Participants do not need to register on the day but need to wear the black & green club top. When you finish you are given a positioning disc that you return to the VRUK Team Manager who records your name and position disc. The North Midlands XC League has four fixtures for the 24/25 season ( 12 Oct – Markeaton Park, Derby; 9 Nov – West Glebe Park, Corby; 7 Dec – Shipley Park, Heanor; 11 Jan – Bullwell Hall Park, Nottingham). The Senior/Masters Women’s event (6K approx) starts at 1.50 pm and the Senior/Masters Men’s event (10K approx) at 2.20 pm. Vegan Runners UK plans to have a shelter at the North Midlands fixtures. For more details on the North Midlands XC League visit this website. If you are interest please e-mail Peter Simpson on veganrunners(at)talktalk.net. 2. South of England Regional Cross Country Relays – 19 October 2024 These championships are organized by the SEAA, details when available can be found on the SEAA website http://www.seaa.org.uk/index.php. This event is normally held on Wormwood Scrubs, West London on the 3rd or 4th Saturday in October. There are facilities at the Linford Christie Stadium (hosted by Thames Valley Harriers). It is a championship event so the standard of competition is normally high. The club aims to raise teams of members who can compete so the club needs to know your level of achievement in the months leading up to the event, in particular over short distances like 5K, 10K, and/or off-road. Seniors and Masters / Vets are part of the same team. The senior women’s event is 3 legs of 3K (approx) and the senior men’s event is 4 legs of 4K (approx). We also need some reserves as replacement for members who need to withdraw. At the 2022 event held on 22 October, our women’s team represented by Lydia Kirk, Julia Szajdzicka & Tessa Killingbeck finished in a respectable 32/41 complete teams. Our strong men’s team represented by Dean Evans, Darren Comeau, Marc Mullen, and Alex Robertson finished 12/29 complete teams, our best result in the 4 years the club has been competing in the event. Full results of the Relays can be found here. Unfortunately, the club can only affiliate with one regional association. for information on the South of England Athletic Association go to http://www.seaa.org.uk/index.php/events/cross-country 3. English National Cross Country Relays – 2 November 2024 Venue: Berry Hill Park, Mansfield Our Vegan Runners UK women’s team of 3 (Clare Coombes, Katie Bonner & Claire Evans) finished the 2022 National XC Relays at Berry Hill Park, Mansfield 102/125 of the complete teams, a creditable performance in a highly competitive event. Each leg was 3K. At the 2023 event, the men’s team (Allan Shaw, Brit Peacock, Jonathan Holt & Mark Gregory) finished 129 / 152 . Each leg was 2.5k or 2 laps. For results go to https://results.sporthive.com/events/7126131311424531968 and for information on the English Cross Country Association go to http://www.englishcrosscountry.co.uk/. The English National XC Relays is a championship event so the club will need competitive members for the 2024 event, ideally, men need to be running under 21 minutes for a 5K and women under 27 minutes for a 5K although the distance for the senior women’s event is 3K (1 lap), the men run 2x 2.5K laps. All runners need to be registered by Vegan Runners UK with England Athletics so any members with ‘Club Membership Only’ need to pay the additional £19 via Vegan Runners UK. If you are EA registered by another club you can only run for that club unless you switch clubs well in advance of the event and pay the EA admin fee. There is no distinction between master and senior categories, all compete in the same event. The women’s event normally starts at 1.50 pm and the men’s event at 2.40 pm. Given the time of year, it does get dark quickly towards the end of the men’s event, another reason for limiting the times of our men to 21 minutes. Junior events are held prior to the senior events. There are 4 legs for a senior men’s team and 3 legs for a senior women’s team. In 2019 we managed to raise 3 men’s teams and 1 women’s team. There are other age-group relays for runners under 20 years starting from 11 am. Runners need to compete in their age group if there is enough interest for a team. Team entries are paid by the club and the order of runners is confirmed a day or two before the event. We also need some runners in reserve as cover for withdrawals so not everyone interested will necessarily get a leg to run. The closing date for entries by the club is normally the 2nd week in October so the club needs to hear from interested members by a date to be specified later in the Summer preferably earlier and e-mail the Club Cross Country Secretary at veganrunners(at)talktalk.net. Vegan Runners UK normally has a shelter at this event. 4. London Cross Country Championships – 16 November 2024 These championships are organized by the SEAA, details when available can be found on the SEAA website http://www.seaa.org.uk/index.php. Members who have lived in London or one of its boroughs for at least one year or have worked in London for at least a year are eligible for these championships, held at Parliament Hill, Hampstead Heath. It is not a relay so there is no limit on the number of runners i.e. 1 runner or as many as are interested can run, slow or fast. All runners must also be EA registered via Vegan Runners UK. The senior women’s event is 6K starting at 1.15 pm and the senior men’s event is 10K starting at 2 pm. The entry fee when confirmed should be payable to Vegan Runners UK either by bank transfer or PayPal, the club will e-mail the account details to interested members. The closing date for entries is early November so, Vegan Runners UK needs your payment by 1 November say. Members entered collect their numbers and chip on the day of registration. E-mail Peter Simpson on veganrunners(at)talktalk.net if you are interested. 5. South of England Masters Cross Country Championship – 7 December 2024 (venue to be confirmed) These championships are organized by the SEAA, details when available can be found on the SEAA website http://www.seaa.org.uk/index.php. The venue for the 2023 SEAA Masters XC Championships was Oxford AC at Horspath, Oxford. The timetable included the SEAA Inter-Counties XC Champs. Unfortunately to persistent rain in the days leading up to the event, it was cancelled on the day. The Master’s events are for runners over 40 years of age, men, and women. The age categories are V40-49, V50-59, and V60-69. Any V70+ men run with the masters women, a distance of 6K approx starting at 11.45 am otherwise the master’s men run 10K approx (more like 9K by experience) starting at 2.10 pm. As normal all competitors must be EA registered for Vegan Runners UK. The entry fee was £9 (tbc for the 2024 event). Members entered collect their number and chip on the day of registration. In the December 2022 event, Colin Braybrook had to run for his 1st claim club in the V50 category otherwise Vegan Runners UK had no members running. E-mail Peter Simpson on veganrunners(at)talktalk.net if you are interested. 6. English County Cross Country Championships – December 2024 / January 2025 Most English County Athletic Associations hold a cross-country championship for EA-registered runners who have been resident in the county for a minimum of 9 months or their county of birth. Anyone interested should look on their County Association website for details and arrange for their entry. Some counties have separate dates for junior age groups, seniors, and masters. The main date for this championship is normally the first Saturday in January. The entry form will likely ask for the team manager’s details but you can enter your own, follow the payment details and collect your number and chip on the day. It maybe useful to take your own tent. 7. South of England Regional (Main) Championships – 25 January 2025 These championships are organized by the SEAA, details when available can be found on the SEAA website http://www.seaa.org.uk/index.php. The venue for the SEAA Main XC Championships is Beckenham Place Park, southeast London / Kent. Any EA registered members of Vegan Runners UK may enter but need to take into account the potential tough conditions, especially for the men’s race over a distance of 15K towards. Any member likely to finish over 1 hour 30 minutes is discouraged from entering or will need to complete 2 of the 3 laps within 50 minutes. The senior women’s 8K event starts around 1.30pm and the senior men’s 15K around 2.30 pm. Master runners are also welcomed. The entry fee was £10 (tbc for the 2025 event) and should be payable to Vegan Runners UK either by bank transfer or PayPal, the club can e-mail the account details to interested members. The closing date for entries is mid December so, Vegan Runners UK needs your payment (amount tbc) by the 2nd week of December 2024. Members will collect their number and chip on the day of registration. Vegan Runners UK plans to have a shelter at this event. E-mail Peter Simpson on veganrunners(at)talktalk.net if you are interested. At the January 2024 event Vegan Runners UK had a team of 4 women (Evgenia Katsoni 215th, Elly Maggs 167th, Laura Seaman 119th & Helen Treadgold 310 / 362) who finished in a creditable position of 27 / 37 complete teams. Our men’s team was one short of the 6 members required but never-the-less did well with Carl Whittaker 323th, Nehal Levy-Khan 324th, Darren Comeau 439th , Allan Shaw 544th  & Ben Day 576th / 720 who finished. The results of the 2024 event can be viewed at https://results.sporthive.com/events/7156589368352702464/races/11. 8. English National Cross Country Championships – 22 February 2025 The venue for the 2025 ECCA National Championship returns to Parliament Hill, Hampstead Heath, London after a break of 3 years. A re-scheduling of the 2024 event at Weston Park, Shropshire was held on 14 September. It was due to be held at the normal weekend in February but due to persistent rain leading up to the day, off-road parking conditions were unsuitable so it was postponed until later in the year. Unfortunately due to September being a peak time for road events, numbers were much lower and there were no competitors representing Vegan Runners. In February 2023 the championships were held at Bolesworth Castle in Cheshire where we had many members participating. The ECCA Championships are open to all EA-registered members of Vegan Runners UK. Runners of a wide range of abilities enter although it is not suitable for complete beginners. The event schedule normally has the senior women’s 8K starting at 1.35 pm and the senior men’s 12K at 3 pm with junior events preceding. With longer daylight and shorter distance, there isn’t a time limit for the men’s race except that conditions are likely to be tough at this time of year. The entry fee likely to be around £14. For more details about the event and the English Cross Country association go to https://www.englishcrosscountry.co.uk/the-national-cross-country-championships/entry-procedure/. There is normally a link at the bottom of the entry procedure that allows members to personally enter. Vegan Runners UK plans to have a shelter or tent at this event. E-mail Peter Simpson on veganrunners(at)talktalk.net if you are interested. For members on Facebook go onto the Club Members group and visit https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10162727405185212&set=pcb.815408402220186 where a member took lots of photos of the course and our runners at the 2020 event in Wollaton Park, Nottingham.

06.07.24

06.07.24

July 7, 2024 0

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!      

parkrun 20.06.24

parkrun 20.06.24

June 30, 2024 0

💚🖤 An outpouring of support shown for Craig Barstow’s family and friends and an emotional parkrun for Vegan Runners this week as VRs came together to dedicate this event to Craig, running with his picture and with Craig in mind. For those who don’t know, Craig sadly passed away at the parkrun event in Chevin Forest on 15th June. A much-loved member of Vegan Runners, Craig was also a member of the Harrogate Harriers and members from both clubs ran together at our biggest meetup this week in Leeds, at Woodhouse Moor parkrun. Thank you to Jo Rickerby for sharing the photo commemorating this event.    On this last parkrun of June 2024, numbers surged back up into the 900s. 913 VRs attended 369 different parkrun events. 844 gained a finish token and we had over 70 wonderful volunteers.    Here are the meetup locations with numbers of VRs attending:  35 Woodhouse Moor parkrun  24 Vogrie parkrun  23 Poole parkrun  17 Jersey Farm parkrun  13 Eastville parkrun  11 Hampstead Heath parkrun  11 Worcester Pitchcroft parkrun  8 Ganger Farm parkrun  7 Shorne Woods parkrun  6 Pegwell Bay parkrun  6 Pomphrey Hill parkrun  6 Bognor Regis parkrun  6 Hastings parkrun  6 Sixfields Upton parkrun  5 Brighton & Hove parkrun  5 Hull parkrun  5 Eastbourne parkrun  5 Colwick parkrun  5 Southampton parkrun  5 Southsea parkrun  5 Braunstone parkrun  5 Arrow Valley parkrun  5 Long Eaton parkrun  5 Wycombe Rye parkrun  5 Barnstaple parkrun  5 Rising Sun parkrun  5 Folkestone parkrun  5 Tooting Common parkrun  5 Catford parkrun  5 Isabel Trail parkrun  5 Centre Vale parkrun  5 Warwick Racecourse parkrun  5 Hunstanton Promenade parkrun  5 Peel parkrun  5 Storeys Field parkrun  5 Beacon Hill Country Park parkrun  5 Wakehurst parkrun    There were also:  Four Vegan Runners at 13 parkrun locations  Three VRs at 40 parkruns  Two at 99 events  And one hundred and eighty 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:  🇩🇪 3 Germany  🇸🇪            2 Sweden  🇿🇦 2 South Africa  🇳🇱           2 Netherlands  🇩🇰 2 Denmark  🇨🇦 2 Canada  🇦🇺           2 Australia  🇺🇸           1 United States  🇵🇱            1 Poland  🇮🇹 1 Italy  🇮🇪 1 Ireland      Our top ten fastest men this week, with phenomenal times, were:  🥇00:16:45 Philip Nind Colwick parkrun 78.31% age grade  🥇00:17:19 Matt Edmonds Fulham Palace parkrun 75.07% age grade  🥇00:17:25 Geoffrey Gregory Shepton Mallet parkrun 80.19% age grade  🥇00:17:39 Neil Sexton Poole parkrun 80.93% age grade  🥇00:17:54 Joe Burn Isabel Trail parkrun 73.65% age grade  🥇00:18:02 Matthew Du Cros Poole parkrun 71.72% age grade  🥇00:18:03 Joseph Brown Milford Waterfront parkrun 72.30% age grade  🥇00:18:06 Alex Hinchcliffe Vogrie parkrun 71.27% age grade  🥇00:18:11 Michael Slack Woodhouse Moor parkrun 77.36% age grade  🥇00:18:13 Shane Conroy Warwick Racecourse parkrun 74.38% age grade    And incredible perfomances also from our top ten fastest women, with eight out of ten running their parkrun course in under 21 minutes:  🥇00:20:07 Fiona Newman Ferry Meadows parkrun 86.58% age grade  🥇00:20:07 Katie Louise Wright Hove Promenade parkrun 76.47% age grade  🥇00:20:11 Paula Blackledge Brighton & Hove parkrun 83.07% age grade  🥇00:20:19 Kelsey Wiberley Warwick Racecourse parkrun 73.34% age grade  🥇00:20:29 Clare Meraz Gloucester North parkrun 75.10% age grade  🥇00:20:41 Lesley Connors Woodhouse Moor parkrun 80.10% age grade  🥇00:20:41 Caroline McAleese Stratford Park parkrun, Stroud 78.32% age grade  🥇00:20:41 Helen Seymour Marine Parade parkrun 72.28% age grade  🥇00:21:33 Charlotte Barton Pegwell Bay parkrun 68.68% age grade  🥇00:21:34 Julie Oswald Vogrie parkrun 81.76% age grade     I’ve checked out the age grades of our top tens this week purely out of interest, national class level is 80%. World class is 90%. Just goes to show how effectively a vegan diet can fuel top class performance. 🏃🌽🥕🏃 Absolutely amazing – congratulations! 🎉🎊    These VRs came first in their gender position at their parkrun:  🏆00:16:45 Philip Nind Colwick parkrun  🏆00:17:25 Geoffrey Gregory Shepton Mallet parkrun  🏆00:18:03 Joseph Brown Milford Waterfront parkrun  🏆00:19:13 Scott Hunter Sharpham Estate parkrun  🏆00:20:11 Paula Blackledge Brighton & Hove parkrun  🏆00:20:19 Kelsey Wiberley Warwick Racecourse parkrun  🏆00:20:29 Clare Meraz Gloucester North parkrun  🏆00:20:41 Caroline McAleese Stratford Park parkrun, Stroud  🏆00:20:41 Helen Seymour Marine Parade parkrun  🏆00:21:34 Julie Oswald Vogrie parkrun  🏆00:22:26 Geraldine Larham University of Northampton parkrun  🏆00:23:01 Sophie Burnett Sizewell parkrun  🏆00:23:18 Lydia Kindred Swaffham parkrun  🏆00:25:37 Kirsty Atkinson Shiraz Trail parkrun      Marvellous milestones this week were achieved by:  🎊25 David Webb  🎊50 Rebecca Webster  🎊300 Sue Waller  Fantastic dedication and repping for the animals 🏃🐄🐐🐑🐎🐖    The average time for all Vegan Runners to complete the course on this last event of June 2024 was 30:15 ⏱    One hundred and thirty-four 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 00:29:51 Kay Cottrell  📣50 00:31:40 Rachael Ban  📣50 00:22:21 August Frew  📣100 00:26:25 Carrie Leach  📣100 00:33:23 Derryn Wenhold  📣100 00:33:42 Wendy Brigstock  📣100 00:28:29 Andrew Johnson  📣100 00:28:24 Darren Phillips  📣150 00:25:48 Jon Taylor  📣150 00:26:15 Rajiv Mulchandani  📣150 00:28:27 Akos Marton  📣200 00:34:02 Diane May  📣250 00:32:11 Stacie Long  📣250 00:41:42 David Sharratt  📣250 00:28:12 David Anderson  📣300 00:31:28 Emma Gaut  📣400 00:31:33 Sofia Liubarova    On the noughty step this week we have seventeen again, penalities and forfeits for:  😈20:00 Richard Foster Ashton Court parkrun  😈20:00 Adam Kirsh Pegwell Bay parkrun  😈22:00 Jamie Kinghorn Montrose parkrun  😈23:00 Jason Corden Brierley Forest parkrun  😈23:00 Sean O’Connor Severn Bridge parkrun  😈25:00 Dani Ross Winchester parkrun  😈25:00 Carrie Webb Storeys Field parkrun  😈26:00 Chris Dhondee Catford parkrun  😈27:00 Sean Dickinson Felixstowe parkrun  😈28:00 Andrew Collinson Poole parkrun  😈28:00 Alison Unwin Whinlatter Forest parkrun  😈28:00 Nicola Lewton Cirencester parkrun  😈30:00 Damien Walsh Storeys Field parkrun  😈32:00 Alice Peillon Mile End parkrun  😈47:00 Neil Byrne Waterworks parkrun  😈49:00 Andrea Lynda Gnoll parkrun  😈65:00 Steve Proudley Hafan Pwllheli parkrun    And last but not least, let’s hear it for our amazing repdigit reppers! Ice cream and strawberries this week for:  🍧🍓11 Gareth Davies  🍧🍓11 Helen Seymour  🍧🍓11 Julie Oswald  🍧🍓11 Lydia Kindred  🍧🍓11 Matt Dyer  🍧🍓11 Nathann Thornton  🍧🍓11 Richard Thompson  🍧🍓22 Lee Billinghurst  🍧🍓22 Michael Jefferys  🍧🍓22 Nehal Lavey-Khan  🍧🍓33 Charlotte Skipper  🍧🍓33 Craig McAllister  🍧🍓33 Dan Russell  🍧🍓44 Gareth Rogers  🍧🍓44 Lesley Connors  🍧🍓44 Matthew Perrin  🍧🍓44 Richard Twine  🍧🍓44 Steven Buck  🍧🍓55 Joseph Molyneux  🍧🍓55 Josh Skipper  🍧🍓55 Roseanne Soar  🍧🍓66 Ben Parkinson  🍧🍓66 Steve Proudley  🍧🍓77 Emily Pereira  🍧🍓77 Ian Everett  🍧🍓77 Olivia Deacon  🍧🍓77 Rebecca Lait  🍧🍓77 Ruth Jordan  🍧🍓77 Samantha Tapp  🍧🍓88 Emma Blackmore  🍧🍓88 Rachel Charnock  🍧🍓99 Claire Louise Carroll  🍧🍓99 Heath Harvey-List  🍧🍓111 Chris  Dhondee  🍧🍓222 Janet Birchnall-Travers  🍧🍓222 Joanna Cruttenden  🍧🍓222 Sarah Priestley  🍧🍓222 Stephen Miller  🍧🍓333 James Porter    No closing words from me this week, your posts and pictures have said it all. RIP Craig Barstow, clearly a much-loved member of the Vegan Runners’ community. 🖤💚     

22.06.24

22.06.24

June 23, 2024 0

💚🖤 Fantastic numbers this week considering all the other events which were taking place on this fourth event of June 2024. 893 Vegan Runners attended 385 different parkrun events. 813 gained a finish token and we had over 80 wonderful volunteers. It was tutu parkrun day – the 22nd day of the month (two-two) when some parkrunners rock up to their parkrun event wearing tutus. Two VRs ran their tutu event, not in tutus as far as I know, but in exactly 22:22 – congratulations tutu:  🩰 Carla Brain Cwmbran parkrun  🩰 Ryan Travers Central parkrun, Plymouth  😂😂    It’s been absolutely brilliant to see so many parkrun Marvellous Meetup photos and posts this week, including one group of tutu clad VRs at Quakers Walk parkrun. Credit goes to Jim McAlwane this time for a great shot of the Lowestoft meetup. Here’s a list of the most popular meetups showing number of VRs who attended:    18 Cwmbran parkrun  17 Eastville parkrun  15 Lowestoft parkrun  13 Worcester parkrun  12 Southend parkrun  10 Medina I.O.W. parkrun  10 Quakers Walk parkrun  9 Stretford parkrun  8 Littlehampton Prom parkrun  8 Bug Hunter Waters parkrun  7 Lee-on-the-Solent parkrun  7 Higginson parkrun, Marlow  6 Eastleigh parkrun  5 Ashton Court parkrun  5 Colwick parkrun  5 Southsea parkrun  5 Bestwood Village parkrun  5 Lymington Woodside parkrun  5 Rother Valley parkrun  5 Forest Rec parkrun  5 Chevin Forest parkrun    There were also:  Eighteen parkrun events with four Vegan Runners  Sixty-two events with three VRs  Ninety-one parkruns with a pair of plant-powered people  One hundred and ninety-three of you solo repped.  I couldn’t find out how many of you were wearing tutus! 🩰    Outside of the UK, we had plenty of Vegan Runners representing our club at the following number of events in these countries around the 🌎:  🇩🇪  4 Germany  🇵🇱            3 Poland  🇿🇦 2 South Africa  🇮🇹  2 Italy  🇦🇹 2 Austria  🇦🇺           2 Australia  🇺🇸           1 United States  🇸🇪            1 Sweden  🇳🇴 1 Norway  🇳🇱           1 Netherlands  🇮🇪  1 Ireland      Our top ten fastest men this week were:  🥇00:16:50 Matt Edmonds Kingston parkrun  🥇00:17:04 Philip Nind Sence Valley Forest Park parkrun  🥇00:17:26 Gareth Pritchard Fulwell Quarry parkrun  🥇00:17:36 Jake Stephens Quakers Walk parkrun  🥇00:17:37 Pete Jnr Benedickter Millennium Country parkrun, Forest of Marston Vale  🥇00:17:40 Jhon Cosgrove Southsea parkrun  🥇00:17:50 Al Robertson Stretford parkrun  🥇00:17:59 Geoffrey Gregory Oaklands parkrun  🥇00:18:08 Joseph Brown Haverfordwest parkrun  🥇00:18:15 Taylor Huxster Ross-on-Wye parkrun    Top ten fastest women:  🥇00:18:38 Caroline McAleese Cwmbran parkrun  🥇00:19:11 Naomi Sutton Severn Bridge parkrun  🥇00:19:52 Fiona Newman Bedford parkrun  🥇00:20:07 Kelsey Wiberley Warwick Racecourse parkrun  🥇00:20:25 Clare Meraz Milano Nord parkrun  🥇00:20:57 Lesley Connors Crichton parkrun  🥇00:21:01 Elly Maggs Margate parkrun  🥇00:21:11 Helen Seymour Chipping Sodbury parkrun  🥇00:21:13 Laura Dunkling Coldham’s Common parkrun  🥇00:21:19 Jenny McNamara Burnham and Highbridge parkrun    It’s been so fantastic to have witnessed via our weekly results the fantastic progress of Fiona Newman, who has been chasing a sub20 parkrun for a while now. Fiona has gone from a best age grading of 58.93% in 2015 to an age grading of 87.67% now – absolutely incredible!   Congratulations to everyone in our top ten. You are all inspirational 💚🏃🖤    Also inspirational are the one hundred and twenty-five VRs who gained a new Personal Best for 2024 – I’ll publish names and results of these superheroes tomorrow🏆    Marvellous milestones this week were achieved by:  🎊100 Sebby Travers  🎊250 Zoe Muggeson Heath  Congratulations! Sebby not only completed his 100th parkrun within the 11-14 age range, but also completed it in style pulling off a new PB of 20:15! Brilliant running and repping 🏃🏆🌽    First in their gender position at their parkrun this week we have these eighteen super-fit runners:  🏅00:16:50 Matt Edmonds Kingston parkrun  🏅00:17:04 Philip Nind Sence Valley Forest Park parkrun  🏅00:17:36 Jake Stephens Quakers Walk parkrun  🏅00:17:37 Pete Jnr Benedickter Millennium Country parkrun, Forest of Marston Vale  🏅00:17:59 Geoffrey Gregory Oaklands parkrun  🏅00:18:15 Taylor Huxster Ross-on-Wye parkrun  🏅00:18:38 Caroline McAleese Cwmbran parkrun  🏅00:19:10 Nehal Lavey-Khan Leavesden Country parkrun  🏅00:19:11 Naomi Sutton Severn Bridge parkrun  🏅00:19:16 Luis Goncalves Donaupark parkrun  🏅00:19:52 Fiona Newman Bedford parkrun  🏅00:20:18 Tom Carpenter Milford Waterfront parkrun  🏅00:20:25 Clare Meraz Milano Nord parkrun  🏅00:21:01 Elly Maggs Margate parkrun  🏅00:21:06 Hester Hill Grovelands parkrun, Enfield  🏅00:21:49 Emma Warren Lydiard parkrun  🏅00:22:43 Sarah Laws Fulbourn Hospital parkrun  🏅00:23:10 Natalie Dawson Eastbourne parkrun  🏅00:27:29 Emily Mudhar-Fung Stadspark parkrun, Sittard    The average time for all Vegan Runners to complete the course on this fourth event of June 2024 was 30:16 ⏱    Shoutouts to these Vegan Runners who finished their parkrun in a multiple of fifty position:  📣50 00:22:29 Millie Winifred Flynn  📣50 00:28:06 Tracey Lancaster  📣50 00:38:20 Derryn Wenhold  📣50 00:31:03 Nadiah Jamaa  📣50 00:43:03 Kirk Shepherd  📣50 00:28:16 Mark Myer  📣100 00:27:39 Laura Whitton  📣100 00:29:30 Gaivile Vezeviciute  📣100 00:31:28 Barnaby Norman  📣100 00:26:15 Richard James  📣150 00:30:37 Laura Fearn  📣150 00:30:04 Joanna Tomlinson  📣150 00:55:27 Katy Errock  📣200 00:28:05 Laura Bateman  📣200 00:54:18 Shay Feehan  📣200 00:41:18 Dave Broom  📣200 00:32:37 Nicholas Wood  📣200 00:25:07 Paul Williams  📣250 00:29:38 Neil Timms  📣350 00:51:53 Stefanie Spangenberg  📣450 00:54:24 Lynn Persse  📣500 00:38:33 Adam Vincent-Garland  📣550 00:42:42 Michael Beadle    Not sure what misdemeanours were committed by these miscreants, but on the noughty step they landed! Time out for:  😈24:00   Jason Dickinson Sandy Water parkrun  😈25:00   Shamira Naidu-Young Gladstone parkrun  😈27:00   Rory Browne Stamford Park parkrun  😈28:00   Dan Schindler Hove Promenade parkrun  😈30:00   Esther Tout Malling parkrun  😈31:00   Helen Turton Clumber Park parkrun  😈31:00   Holly Voncent Keswick parkrun  😈37:00   Sue House Worcester parkrun  😈40:00   Justin Bowen Phoenix parkrun  😈49:00   Stephen Sellers Arrow Valley parkrun  😈49:00   Jo Fleming Eastville parkrun    And oh my goodness I nearly forgot, our fun and fabulous repdigit reppers this week – no way – I get a mention too! Whoops and cheers for:  🥳🕺11 Craig Rouse  🥳🕺11 Elly Maggs  🥳🕺11 Jonathan Morris  🥳🕺11 Joseph Guntrip  🥳🕺11 Pete Colwell  🥳🕺11 Simon Fitzmaurice  🥳🕺22 David Gray  🥳🕺22 Emma Carpenter  🥳🕺22 Jan Basha  🥳🕺22 Jenny Mcnamara  🥳🕺22 John M Haldane  🥳🕺22 Matthew Savory  🥳🕺22 Nick Charlton  🥳🕺22 Stephen Reeve  🥳🕺33 Alex Hawker  🥳🕺33 Charlotte Barton  🥳🕺33 Hannah Shuttleworth  🥳🕺33 Joseph Molyneux  🥳🕺33 Martina Smith  🥳🕺33 Nathan Hawes  🥳🕺33 Wil Webber  🥳🕺44 Simon Hurford  🥳🕺55 Adrian Pilbeam  🥳🕺55 Cathy Genovese  🥳🕺66 Ellenor Millican  🥳🕺66 Jillian Bourgeois  🥳🕺77 Chloé Holland  🥳🕺88 Melanie Hayes  🥳🕺88 Stacey Buckby  🥳🕺99 Caroline Lloyd  🥳🕺99 Emily Pinto  🥳🕺99 Phil Sowerby-Williams  🥳🕺99 Rachel Mitchell  🥳🕺111 Kira Rehfeld  🥳🕺111 Philippa Wheeler  🥳🕺222 Lucy Ruben  🥳🕺333 Claire Robinson  🥳🕺333 James Caygill    Another great week for Vegan Runners at parkruns. Well done to everyone getting out into our parkrun communities wearing the Vegan Runners tops, a powerful and peaceful statement to all who see us.   Remember next week (Saturday 29th June) is our commemorative run for Craig Barstow – show your support and pin his photo to your vest. Let’s flood our VR socials with pictures of support. Try and attend a meetup near you if you can.  Have a great week 🖤🐄🐑🐤💚     

15.06.24 parkrun report

15.06.24 parkrun report

June 18, 2024 0

💚🖤 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. 🖤💚🖤  🖤🐄🐑🐤💚               

parkrun report 01.06.24

parkrun report 01.06.24

June 2, 2024 0

💚🖤 Wow – what a sensational start to the new month! We are so close to hitting that 1,000 target! 953 Vegan Runners attended 406 different parkruns on this first event of June. 890 gained a finish token and we had over 63 wonderful volunteers. 🏃🎉    Lots of fun and friendly meetups taking place again, such a great opportunity to meet other VRs and get noticed by non-vegan runners at parkrun. Thank you to Su E Savva for this week’s wonderful photo from the Zuiderpark parkrun meetup in The Netherlands, where there were Vegan Runners from Wales, England & Holland.    Here are the meetups which hosted the most VRs:    33 Worcester parkrun     29 Zuiderpark parkrun, Den Haag     21 Peel parkrun     19 Netley Abbey parkrun     14 Ashton Court parkrun  14 Ruchill parkrun     12 Hove Promenade parkrun     9 Salcey Forest parkrun     8 Southsea parkrun  8 Cannon Hill parkrun, Birmingham  8 Catford parkrun     7 Forest Rec parkrun  7 Preston Park parkrun, Brighton  7 Hunstanton Promenade parkrun     6 Clumber Park parkrun  6 Swansea Bay parkrun  6 Stratford-upon-Avon parkrun     5 St Albans parkrun  5 Shipley Country parkrun  5 Huddersfield parkrun  5 Eastville parkrun  5 Glossop parkrun  5 Sittingbourne parkrun  5 Worthing parkrun  5 Somerdale Pavilion parkrun  5 Central parkrun, Plymouth  5 Blaise Castle parkrun  There were also twenty-five events with four VRs in the results, forty-two events with a trio of Vegan Runners, eighty-eight parkruns with a pair of VRs and two hundred and twenty-four of you were solo repping.    The number of events in countries outside the UK with VRs in the results were:    🇩🇪        6 Germany  🇮🇪         4 Ireland  🇦🇺        4 Australia  🇿🇦        3 South Africa  🇳🇱        3 Netherlands  🇸🇪        2 Sweden  🇳🇴       1 Norway  🇨🇦       1 Canada  🇦🇹        1 Austria    Our top ten fastest women this week were:    🥇20:45 Laura Pettitt Bournemouth parkrun  🥇21:04 Jen Conway Brighton & Hove parkrun  🥇21:08 Lesley Connors Lister Park parkrun, Bradford  🥇21:15 Agata Szczepaniuk Stretford parkrun  🥇21:26 Millie Wood University Parks parkrun  🥇21:48 Emma Warren Somerdale Pavilion parkrun  🥇21:50 Clare Meraz Ashton Court parkrun  🥇21:54 Kelsey Wiberley Warwick Racecourse parkrun  🥇21:56 Ilze Fridrihsone Alexandra parkrun, Moss Side  🥇22:09 Eleanor Wood Littleport parkrun    Top ten fastest men:    🥇16:27 Philip Nind Mansfield parkrun  🥇16:35 Andy Gardiner Cardiff parkrun  🥇16:56 Christopher Pearson Watermead Country Park parkrun  🥇17:19 Alex Hinchcliffe Newark parkrun  🥇17:41 Al Robertson Peel parkrun  🥇17:48 Gareth Pritchard Sedgefield parkrun  🥇17:54 Joseph Brown Haverfordwest parkrun  🥇17:54 Gareth Thomas Aberdare parkrun  🥇18:03 Richard Davis Eastbourne parkrun  🥇18:05 Alastair Stables Eglinton parkrun    Congratulations, speedies! 🎊🏃    Just eight VRs came first in their gender position at their parkrun, well done to:    🏆16:27 Philip Nind Mansfield parkrun  🏆16:35 Andy Gardiner Cardiff parkrun  🏆17:48 Gareth Pritchard Sedgefield parkrun  🏆18:03 Richard Davis Eastbourne parkrun  🏆18:05 Geoffrey Gregory Forest Rec parkrun  🏆19:20 Ciar Nixon Fort William parkrun  🏆22:26 Alice Wood Dishley parkrun, Loughborough  🏆22:28 Emily Axford Blaise Castle parkrun  🏆25:19 Stephanie Hughes Hadleigh parkrun, Essex    Marvellous milestones last week were achieved by:    🎊50 Ryan  🎊 100 Clive Buck – after 10 years and 5 months!     And marvellous milestones this week:    🎊 100 Emily Pinto  🎊 300 Luis Goncalves    Fabulous repping – 300 parkruns is amazing! Let me know of any milestones I’ve missed.    The average time for all Vegan Runners to complete the course on this first event of June 2024 was 30:12 ⏱🐮    One hundred and eighty-nine of you gained a new Personal Best for 2024! 🥳🕺    Shoutouts to twenty-five Vegan Runners who finished their parkrun in a multiple of fifty position:  📣50 24:35 Katie Bonner  📣50 23:41 Debbie Jones  📣50 30:12 Ruth Mountstevens  📣50 26:58 Florence Blackbourn  📣50 29:55 Caroline Lait  📣50 26:55 Carl Rabey  📣50 20:33 Alex Eden  📣50 24:58 Gary Beeston  📣50 20:54 Jacob Butler  📣100 22:42 Eloise Kate Billington  📣100 22:19 John Andrews  📣150 27:12 Peter Bunyan  📣150 23:56 Steven Walsh  📣200 28:18 Emily Evans  📣250 32:08 Theresa Robinson  📣250 34:32 Dushy Pillai  📣250 39:28 Wendy Brigstock  📣300 25:39 Lucy Pauw  📣300 41:09 Katy Thorpe  📣300 31:51 George Murray  📣400 36:11 Katy Mathers  📣400 44:04 Hortencia McKechnie  📣400 33:27 Colin Bexley  📣450 32:36 Donna Lukes  📣550 28:32 David Baker    Yay! 🥳🕺    Only eleven of you landed on the elusive noughty step this week. Jumping into June with contumacious aplomb we have:     😈21:00 Andy Walsh  😈22:00 Simon English  😈27:00 Susan Hardy  😈28:00 Morag Ferguson  😈28:00 Rosalie Hoskins  😈29:00 Emily Nurden  😈30:00 Damien Walsh  😈36:00 Richard Woods  😈39:00 Carol Jarvis  😈45:00 Marcine Hammond  😈52:00 Karen Brown    And collecting a repdigit finish token we have thirty-one bodacious buddies; bells and bicycles for:🔔🚲11 Hester Hill 🔔🚲11 Jon Forbes 🔔🚲11 Pete Colwell  🔔🚲11 Simon Quin  🔔🚲11 Stephanie Hughes  🔔🚲22 Bev Dennis  🔔🚲22 Chris Hamann  🔔🚲22 Lesley Connors  🔔🚲22 Michael Shaw  🔔🚲22 Nigel Barnes  🔔🚲33 Michael Jefferys  🔔🚲33 Rob Wishart  🔔🚲44 Kate Dunbar  🔔🚲44 Lesley Ashton  🔔🚲44 Mark Myer  🔔🚲66 Matthew Oxby  🔔🚲66 Rosie Brown  🔔🚲66 Sally Jones  🔔🚲77 David Mclaughlin  🔔🚲77 Elaine Murray  🔔🚲77 Justin Park  🔔🚲77 Matt Salisbury  🔔🚲88 Justin Bowen  🔔🚲88 Kae Johnson  🔔🚲88 Mici Oliver  🔔🚲99 Mark Piprani  🔔🚲99 Sue Savva  🔔🚲111 Sarah Laws  🔔🚲222 Layna Thompson  🔔🚲333 Carol Sweeting  🔔🚲333 Penny Humble    That’s it for this week’s report! I’ll post the PBs tomorrow. Enjoy the sunshine! Check our mid-week poll on our facebook page so you can see where meetups will be happening next week. Can we hit the thousand-mark next Saturday? Of course we can! See you there – even if you can’t run due to an accident with a bicycle or whatever your reason – volunteering will still get you scanned. Remember to bring a buff if you’ll be wearing a volunteer’s tabard (which will hide your t-shirt). Have a great week!  🖤🐄🐑🐤💚               

parkrun chronicle 25.05.24

parkrun chronicle 25.05.24

May 26, 2024 0

💚🖤  On this last event of May 2024, 963 Vegan Runners attended 394 different parkrun events. 897 VRs collected a finish token and we had over 66 wonderful volunteers.    Great photos this week of marvellous meetups taking place – thank you to Sue House for this week’s wonderful photo from the Marine Parade meetup in Weston-Super-Mare – not far from Bristol and the largest get-together this week. Here is a list of the most popular locations:     25 Marine Parade parkrun  17 Felixstowe parkrun  14 Winchester parkrun  12 Edinburgh parkrun  12 Worcester parkrun  10 Swansea Bay parkrun  8 Southampton parkrun  8 Peacehaven parkrun  8 Ferry Meadows parkrun  8 Worthing parkrun  7 Colwick parkrun  7 Linwood parkrun  7 Millhouses parkrun  6 Brighton & Hove parkrun  6 Medina I.O.W. parkrun  6 Preston Park parkrun, Brighton  6 Great Lines parkrun, Medway  6 Alvaston parkrun  6 Tamworth Castle Grounds parkrun  5 Leamington parkrun  5 Endcliffe parkrun  5 Southsea parkrun  5 Brueton parkrun  5 Huddersfield parkrun  5 Bolton parkrun  5 Stevenage parkrun  5 Gunpowder parkrun  5 Dulwich parkrun  5 Victoria parkrun, Glasgow  5 Cassiobury parkrun  5 Hastings parkrun  5 Tooting Common parkrun  5 Crewe parkrun  5 Hunstanton Promenade parkrun    How funny that there were five VRs at Dulwich! Sorry to have missed you, I didn’t see any other green and black tops. It was a busy one, though. There were also thirty parkrun events with four VRs, forty-two with three, one hundred and nine locations with a pair of Vegan Runners and one hundred and seventy-nine of you were solo repping. 🥦🏃    Outside of the UK we also had Vegan Runners repping for the animals at this many locations in the following countries:  🇿🇦     4 South Africa  🇮🇪      4 Ireland  🇩🇪     4 Germany  🇦🇺     4 Australia  🇸🇪     2 Sweden  🇳🇴    2 Norway  🇺🇸     1 United States  🇵🇱     1 Poland  🇮🇹     1 Italy  🇦🇹      1 Austria    Our top ten fastest women this week were:  🥇18:50 Naomi Sutton  🥇18:51 Caroline McAleese  🥇19:43 Catherine Charlton  🥇20:02 Fiona Newman  🥇20:42 Katie Louise Wright  🥇21:20 Clare Meraz  🥇21:31 Agata Szczepaniuk  🥇21:31 Helen Seymour  🥇21:32 Emma Eldridge  🥇21:44 Paula Blackledge        Top ten fastest men:  🥇16:52 Philip Nind  🥇17:34 Matthew Du Cros  🥇17:39 Matt Edmonds  🥇17:44 Dan Stent  🥇17:47 Ben Wickham  🥇18:09 James Ross  🥇18:16 Richard Davis  🥇18:16 Pete Colwell  🥇18:21 Nehal Lavey-Khan  🥇18:22 Geoffrey Gregory    Amazing to see all top ten men coming in with sub 20s and so close to four women running sub 20s too – Fiona Newman is two seconds away – Congratulations! 🎉🎊    These VRs came first in their gender position at their parkrun:  🏆17:39 Matt Edmonds  🏆17:44 Dan Stent  🏆18:22 Geoffrey Gregory  🏆18:30 Joseph Brown  🏆18:50 Naomi Sutton  🏆18:51 Caroline McAleese  🏆18:56 Joe Burn  🏆19:37 Benjamin John Grant  🏆19:43 Catherine Charlton  🏆19:53 James Porter  🏆20:26 Douglas Williamson  🏆21:20 Clare Meraz  🏆21:31 Agata Szczepaniuk  🏆22:22 Georgie Ripper  🏆22:52 Lydia Kindred  🏆23:34 Rebecca Willmott  🏆25:01 Maria Rita Fiannacca  🏆27:29 Aoife Burke    Proving the power of a plant-based diet for athletic prowess 🌽🥕    Marvellous milestones this week were achieved by:  🎊 50 Kate Buttimer  Fantastic dedication and repping for the animals 🏃🐄    Two hundred and one of you managed a new Personal Best for 2024! Check separate post for names 😊     The average time for all Vegan Runners to complete their parkrun course on this last event of May 2024 was 30:12     Shoutouts to eighteen Vegan Runners who finished their parkrun in a multiple of fifty position:    📣50 31:36 Suzi Brent  📣50 28:19 Tracey Wade  📣50 23:46 Callum Harling  📣50 25:30 Theo Deacon  📣50 22:27 Ryan Peek  📣50 24:21 Sheldon Kilroe  📣50 22:50 Colin Braybrook  📣100 25:36 Abigail Jordan  📣100 25:31 Beks Morley  📣100 26:47 Lesley Anne Ashton  📣100 29:05 Ian Thurston  📣150 31:30 Sue House  📣200 29:28 Heather Jupp  📣200 30:07 Kerry May  📣200 36:42 Sue Pullen  📣250 39:27 Vilma Pedley  📣300 35:41 Josie Ridge  📣750 56:57 Martin Wheeler    On the noughty step we have an astonishing assembly of seventeen incorrigibles, including the wonderful husband and wife team, Alice and David Baker 💚🖤. Also, Mrs. Milestone, the normally lovely Kate Buttimer stars here this week – as if one mention wasn’t enough 😂    😈22:00 Mark Elwell  😈22:00 Mary P Scott  😈22:00 August Frew  😈22:00 Ilze Fridrihsone  😈23:00 George Spann  😈25:00 Rachel Billinghurst  😈25:00 Tikara Nothnagel  😈28:00 Matthew Savory  😈29:00 Alice Baker  😈29:00 David Baker  😈29:00 Peter Roberts  😈32:00 Caroline Kinghorn  😈32:00 Clare Larter  😈37:00 Stephanie Scoltock  😈49:00 Polski Walker  😈55:00 Sarah Horrigan-Fullard  😈56:00 Kate Buttimer    And to wind up this week’s parkrun chronicle, let’s big up and celebrate our repdigit reppers who collected an elusive and inclusive finish token with a repeating number. Cakes & cocktails for:    🧁🍸11 Fiona Newman  🧁🍸11 Pete Colwell  🧁🍸22 Colette Rudland  🧁🍸22 Laurence Baldwin  🧁🍸22 Michael Jefferys  🧁🍸22 Nathan Hawes  🧁🍸22 Sam Bagnall  🧁🍸33 Charlie Bulled  🧁🍸33 Felix Wilson  🧁🍸33 Jason Corden  🧁🍸44 Christian Maleedy  🧁🍸44 Joanne Egerton  🧁🍸44 Kevin Morris  🧁🍸55 Gareth Rogers  🧁🍸55 Greg Turner  🧁🍸55 Jan Basha  🧁🍸55 Mark Piprani  🧁🍸66 Dawn Williams  🧁🍸66 Nick Russon  🧁🍸66 Sean Lucas  🧁🍸77 Julia Garan  🧁🍸77 Katy Wilson  🧁🍸77 Stephen Miller  🧁🍸77 Thomas Giles  🧁🍸88 Jo Zamo  🧁🍸88 Nancy Manifold  🧁🍸88 Paula Barrowcliffe  🧁🍸88 Tim Bradshaw  🧁🍸99 Gareth Davies  🧁🍸99 Graeme Smith  🧁🍸99 Harrison Winfield  🧁🍸99 Kay Cottrell  🧁🍸99 Tikara Nothnagel  🧁🍸111 Becki Clark  🧁🍸111 Jacquie Little  🧁🍸111 James Graham  🧁🍸111 Kate Hickman  🧁🍸222 Liam Wilde  🧁🍸222 Nicholas Wood  🧁🍸333 Jake Marrinan  🧁🍸444 Jenny Styles  🧁🍸555 Jennifer Taylor    I hope you’re all enjoying a fun-filled and fabulous bank holiday weekend if you’re in the UK and living the dream if not. It’s the first parkrun of June next, let’s see if we can get 1,000 VRs scanned! Spreading the vegan message one parkrun at a time.    🖤🐄🐑🐤💚               

Vegan Runners parkrun report 11.05.24

Vegan Runners parkrun report 11.05.24

May 12, 2024 0

💚🖤 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!  🖤🐄🐑🐤💚               

Star Wars parkrun Day 04.05.24

Star Wars parkrun Day 04.05.24

May 5, 2024 0

💚🖤  May the fourth be with you! And VRs were certainly out in force on this first parkrun of May. We had 896 members representing our wonderful club at 391 different parkrun events. 837 gained a finish token and we had over 60 wonderful volunteers. That’s so close to 900 – let’s smash that barrier next week!    ⢀⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣠⠤⠤⠤⣤⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀  ⠻⣍⠙⠭⢉⡛⠒⠲⠤⠶⠛⠉⡀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠈⠙⠳⢤⣤⡤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠴⡄  ⠀⠈⢳⡀⠀⠈⠙⢶⡄⢀⣤⣤⣌⠢⠘⠀⢂⣤⣤⡀⠀⣠⠴⠒⠒⠂⠀⢠⠞⠁  ⠀⠀⠀⢳⡀⠀⠀⠀⠋⢹⣿⣿⣿⠀⠤⡄⣾⣿⣿⡿⠘⠃⠀⠀⠀⢀⡴⠋⠀⠀  ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠓⠦⢤⣼⣄⠉⠉⡉⠀⠬⠄⠈⣉⣉⣀⣬⣤⣤⠴⠖⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀  ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢷⡈⠉⠉⡝⠛⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⣠⣼⠛⣿⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀  ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⡾⡙⢢⢤⣁⠀⢀⣀⡤⠒⣻⠉⡠⢴⡾⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀  ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⡷⣗⢺⡌⠉⠏⢹⠁⢀⠔⣹⣤⣴⠟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀  ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⢳⠏⡡⢸⠀⠈⠘⠁⠐⢻⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀  ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡾⠋⠁⢸⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀  ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠛⠒⠒⠚⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠚⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀    Marvellous meetups of five and more took place this week at thirty-five different locations – thank you to Maya Luscombe for this week’s wonderful photo from the Severn Bridge meetup, the largest parkrun gathering this week. Here is a list of venues with most VRs in the results:    21 Severn Bridge parkrun  15 Horton Park parkrun  13 Bognor Regis parkrun  12 Parke parkrun  11 Sixfields Upton parkrun  11 Queen’s parkrun, Glasgow  9 Eastbourne parkrun  9 Forest Rec parkrun  8 Cannon Hill parkrun, Birmingham  7 Scunthorpe parkrun  7 Preston Park parkrun, Brighton  7 Hove Promenade parkrun  7 Jersey Farm parkrun  6 Colwick parkrun  6 Crystal Palace parkrun  6 Durham parkrun  6 Northala Fields parkrun  6 Great Denham parkrun  6 Great Dunmow parkrun  6 Catford parkrun  6 Battlestead Croft parkrun  5 Finsbury parkrun  5 Worcester parkrun  5 Rothwell parkrun  5 Medina I.O.W. parkrun  5 Ferry Meadows parkrun  5 Eastville parkrun  5 Southend parkrun  5 Hillsborough parkrun  5 Felixstowe parkrun  5 Centre Vale parkrun  5 Alvaston parkrun  5 Storeys Field parkrun  5 Sandringham parkrun  5 Cycle Route 43 parkrun, Ystalyfera    Outside of the UK, Vegan Runners represented veganism and our lovely running club at this many locations in the following countries:    🇩🇪     5 Germany  🇿🇦     3 South Africa  🇦🇺    3 Australia  🇸🇪     2 Sweden  🇳🇿    2 New Zealand  🇺🇸     1 United States  🇳🇴  1 Norway  🇳🇱     1 Netherlands  🇩🇰     1 Denmark  🇦🇹  1 Austria    Great worldwide repping – Globi-wan Kenobi 🌎    Our top ten fastest ladies this week were:  🥇18:38 Caroline McAleese New PB! 🎉  🥇19:01 Naomi Sutton  🥇20:28 Elly Maggs  🥇20:34 Fiona Newman  🥇20:41 Clare Meraz  🥇21:01 Katie Louise Wright  🥇21:11 Elizabeth Barreiro New PB! 🎉  🥇21:19 Agata Szczepaniuk New PB! 🎉  🥇21:19 Helen Seymour New PB! 🎉  🥇21:25 Lesley Connors    And our top five fastest men:  🥇16:42 Jake Stephens New PB! 🎉  🥇17:06 Gergely Arvay  🥇17:08 Benji Cavanagh  🥇17:18 Philip Nind  🥇17:27 Naeem Stevens New PB! 🎉  🥇17:28 Matt Edmonds  🥇17:31 Tom Seller New PB! 🎉  🥇17:38 Gareth Thomas New PB! 🎉  🥇17:42 Jamie Kinghorn New PB! 🎉  🥇17:50 Christopher Pearson    Congrats, speedies! ⚡🏃    Eighteen VRs came first in their gender position at their parkrun, trophies and tribulations to these trailblazers:  🏆🕺16:42 Jake Stephens  🏆🕺17:08 Benji Cavanagh  🏆🕺17:18 Philip Nind  🏆🕺17:27 Naeem Stevens  🏆🕺17:42 Jamie Kinghorn  🏆🕺17:50 Christopher Pearson  🏆🕺18:01 Tom Carpenter  🏆🕺18:18 Andrew Worster  🏆🕺18:38 Caroline Mcaleese  🏆🕺18:39 Khan Nothnagel  🏆🕺18:52 Matthew Rhodes  🏆🕺19:01 Naomi Sutton  🏆🕺20:28 Elly Maggs  🏆🕺20:34 Andy Gardiner  🏆🕺21:25 Lesley Connors  🏆🕺22:25 Julie Oswald  🏆🕺23:04 Louise Griffin  🏆🕺25:05 Susan Waller-Toyne    Marvellous milestones this week were achieved by:  🎊Steve Miller  100  Amazing accomplishment!🏃🎉🐄    The average time for all Vegan Runners to complete the course on this first event of May 2024 was just over the 30 mark at 30:17 ⏱    One hundred and forty-eight of you gained a new Personal Best for 2024! 🏃🎉🎊🥳    Stars not wars for these Vegan Runners who finished their parkrun in a multiple of fifty position:  🌟⭐50 26:10 Karen Arkwright  🌟⭐50 25:51 Florence Blackbourn  🌟⭐50 31:20 Sue Savva  🌟⭐50 22:43 Anthony Holder  🌟⭐100 32:45 Emily Rawlins  🌟⭐100 33:31 Emma Collins  🌟⭐100 46:54 Vicky Sullivan  🌟⭐100 28:22 Haydn Whitmore  🌟⭐200 30:19 Kerry May  🌟⭐200 33:12 Stacie Long  🌟⭐650 42:47 Viki Bell    Eighteen of you chose to go over to dark side by landing on the noughty step this week, dark + slides for:  🌑🛝21:00   Scott Hunter  🌑🛝22:00   Rufus Flack  🌑🛝23:00   Nigel Barnes  🌑🛝24:00   Colette Rudland  🌑🛝27:00   Chris Dhondee  🌑🛝29:00   Martina Smith  🌑🛝30:00   Evelyn Redwood  🌑🛝30:00   Mo Warrillow  🌑🛝30:00   Joe Wachniuk  🌑🛝30:00   Kay Cottrell  🌑🛝32:00   Emily Batkin  🌑🛝33:00   Gary Sherin  🌑🛝33:00   Jacquie Little  🌑🛝36:00   Lisa Baxter  🌑🛝45:00   Karolina Gibson  🌑🛝56:00   Nura Karpowitsch  🌑🛝58:00   Becs Lambart  🌑🛝62:00   Tracy Moroz    A phenomenal forty Vegan Runners collected a repdigit finish token this week, Chocolate Chip Wookiees and Darth Taters for:  🍪🥔11 Alex Robertson  🍪🥔11 Kevin Du Plessis  🍪🥔11 Kira Rehfeld  🍪🥔11 Michael Frawley  🍪🥔11 Nick Charlton  🍪🥔11 Theo Deacon  🍪🥔22 Angie Pelling  🍪🥔22 Carla Brain  🍪🥔22 Daniel Wilson  🍪🥔22 David Brown  🍪🥔22 Rafael Bickley  🍪🥔22 Rosie Brown  🍪🥔33 Bev Dennis  🍪🥔33 Colin Braybrook  🍪🥔33 Gareth Davies  🍪🥔33 Mike Harper  🍪🥔33 Sarah Laws  🍪🥔44 Agata Szczepaniuk  🍪🥔44 Kevin Newell  🍪🥔44 Neil Sexton  🍪🥔55 Alex Eden  🍪🥔55 Angela Smith  🍪🥔55 Roxann Holder  🍪🥔66 Chloe Haigh  🍪🥔66 Chris Dixon  🍪🥔66 Thomas Boden  🍪🥔77 Charlotte Murphy  🍪🥔77 David Chamberlain  🍪🥔77 Matt Salisbury  🍪🥔77 Rob Lupton  🍪🥔88 Alex Hawker  🍪🥔88 Dave Holmes  🍪🥔88 Jay Massaad  🍪🥔88 Jen Conway  🍪🥔88 Tom Rogers  🍪🥔99 Gill Walter  🍪🥔99 Jamie Heywood  🍪🥔99 Paul Williams  🍪🥔222 Deborah Parfitt  🍪🥔222 Mark Cox    Enjoy the Bank Holiday weekend if you’re in the UK – hopefully some fun and sunshine for us all. Keep running and repping – look out for our mid-week poll and let’s smash that 900 barrier next week! 🖤🐄🐑🐤💚                 

Vegan Runners parkrun report 27.04.24

Vegan Runners parkrun report 27.04.24

April 28, 2024 0

💚🖤 Despite the April showers, we had 890 VRs attending 403 different parkrun events on this last Saturday of April 2024. 820 members gained a finish token and we had over 70 wonderful volunteers. 192 of you gained a new Personal Best for 2024! 🏃🎉🎊    I absolutely love this week’s photo from Holyrood – thank you to Fraser Murray for the pic. It looks like a beautiful place to run and I bet the views are incredible.    Here are the meetup numbers and locations from this week:  14 Dartford Heath parkrun  12 Holyrood parkrun  10 Pomphrey Hill parkrun  9 Whiteley parkrun  9 Gloucester North parkrun  9 Eastville parkrun  8 Colwick parkrun  8 Marlborough Common parkrun  8 Jersey Farm parkrun  7 Arrow Valley parkrun  7 Preston Park parkrun, Brighton  6 Eastbourne parkrun  6 Ashton Court parkrun  6 Whitstable parkrun  6 Forest Rec parkrun  6 Hastings parkrun  6 Worthing parkrun  6 Centre Vale parkrun  5 Black Park parkrun  5 Burnage parkrun  5 Hillsborough parkrun  5 Felixstowe parkrun  5 Catford parkrun  5 Trentham Gardens parkrun  5 University of Northampton parkrun  5 Cycle Route 43 parkrun, Ystalyfera    There were also thirty meetups with four VRs, thirty-eight with three, ninety-four parkruns had a pair of VRs in the results and two hundred and fifteen of you solo repped.    Outside of the UK we also had VRs repping at this many locations in the following countries:  🇿🇦     4 South Africa  🇦🇺    3 Australia  🇵🇱    2 Poland  🇳🇿   2 New Zealand  🇩🇪   2 Germany  🇺🇸  1 United States  🇸🇪    1 Sweden  🇳🇱     1 Netherlands  🇯🇵     1 Japan  🇮🇹     1 Italy  🇮🇪     1 Ireland  🇫🇮     1 Finland  🇩🇰     1 Denmark      Our top ten fastest ladies this week were:  🥇20:32 Fiona Newman  🥇20:38 Elly Maggs   🥇21:05 Clare Meraz  🥇21:11 Eloise Kate Billington New PB 2024!  🥇21:14 Catherine Charlton  🥇21:25 Emma Eldridge  🥇21:54 Agata Szczepaniuk New PB 2024!  🥇21:54 Julie Oswald  🥇22:00 Gay O’Connor  🥇22:04 Ilze Fridrihsone New PB 2024!      Top ten fastest men:  🥇16:58 Jake Stephens  🥇16:59 Philip Nind  🥇17:30 Tom Carpenter New PB 2024!  🥇17:35 Christopher Pearson  🥇17:50 Tobias Thejll-Madsen New PB 2024!  🥇17:51 Geoffrey Gregory New PB 2024!  🥇17:54 Matthew Du Cros  🥇17:59 Andy Gardiner  🥇18:06 Shane Conroy  🥇18:09 Alastair Stables    Congratulations, amazing times! 🏃⏱🕺    An incredible twenty-one VRs came first in their gender position at their parkrun:  🏆16:58 Jake Stephens  🏆17:30 Tom Carpenter  🏆17:35 Christopher Pearson  🏆17:54 Matthew Du Cros  🏆17:59 Andy Gardiner  🏆18:09 Alastair Stables  🏆19:11 Benjamin John Grant  🏆19:14 James Porter  🏆19:29 Matt Edmonds  🏆20:04 Alex Robertson  🏆20:38 Elly Maggs  🏆21:14 Catherine Charlton  🏆22:29 Tracy Moroz  🏆22:32 Emily Axford  🏆22:32 Eleanor Wood  🏆23:24 Paula Blackledge  🏆23:39 Dawn Williams  🏆23:54 Abigail Jordan  🏆25:39 Stephanie Hughes  🏆26:21 Helen Treadgold  🏆30:11 Nina Nickerson    Marvellous milestones this week were achieved by: 🎊100 Arielle Griffiths 🎊100 Sas Leudar 🎊250 Sarah Horrigan-Fullard    Fantastic dedication and repping for the animals 🐮🐷🐐🐑🐎🐖🐄    The average time for all Vegan Runners to complete the course on this last event of April 2024 was another super sub-30, one second faster than last week, 29:58    Shoutouts to these twenty-one Vegan Runners who finished their parkrun in a multiple of fifty position:  📣 50 34:05 Buff Forbes Stone  📣 50 32:41 Clare Larter  📣 50 46:58 Suzanne Whiteside  📣 50 24:26 Andy Gosling  📣 50 21:44 Neil Douglas  📣 50 24:27 Deano Vanbeano Evans  📣 100 23:25 Nicola Harrison  📣 100 23:40 Michael Duffy  📣 100 25:33 Sean Dickinson  📣 150 32:34 Shell Dillon-Redmile  📣 200 37:54 Sarah Cook  📣 200 35:06 Ann-Marie Fahmy  📣 200 26:45 Bob Stephenson  📣 250 38:33 Sara Hinch  📣 250 34:24 Kate Chester  📣 250 29:44 Peter Major  📣 300 34:21 Catherine Brogdale  📣 400 47:38 Valerie Freestone  📣 450 29:07 Allan Shaw  📣 500 31:24 Robin Davey  📣 650 31:32 Kate Nichols    Landing bang on the coveted and elusive noughty step this week we have eighteen errant club members – have a word with yourselves:  😈 22:00 Gay O’Connor  😈 23:00 Jamie Kinghorn  😈 23:00 Felix Wilson  😈 24:00 Dane Cobain  😈 25:00 Lydia Kindred  😈 25:00 Richard Farrage  😈 27:00 Samantha Tapp  😈 28:00 Ian Beasley  😈 28:00 Deborah English  😈 28:00 Kevin Morris  😈 29:00 Laura Arnold  😈 30:00 Rachael Chadwick  😈 30:00 Trevor Hiscox  😈 31:00 Joseph Guntrip  😈 32:00 Adam Vincent-Garland  😈 32:00 Andrew Hunter-Rossall  😈 43:00 Jane Stubbington  😈 62:00 Leanne Murray    And to round up this punctilious report let’s laud and revere our repdigit reppers this week, bananas and bagels for:  🍌🥯 11 Gareth Thomas  🍌🥯 11 Marti Spence  🍌🥯 11 Martin Lascelles  🍌🥯 11 Nathann Thornton  🍌🥯 11 Paul Foster  🍌🥯 22 David Brown  🍌🥯 22 Jamie Wieland  🍌🥯 22 Steve Proudley  🍌🥯 33 Carla Brain  🍌🥯 33 Jasmine Rawlinson  🍌🥯 44 John Pellegrini  🍌🥯 44 Kevin Morris  🍌🥯 44 Margaret Pritchard  🍌🥯 44 Rebel Gilbert  🍌🥯 44 Stephen Day  🍌🥯 55 Christopher Lait  🍌🥯 55 Deb Beats  🍌🥯 55 Dylan Rickerby  🍌🥯 55 Florence Blackbourn  🍌🥯 55 Gemma Clark  🍌🥯 66 Ian Humble  🍌🥯 66 James Loosley  🍌🥯 66 Tim Edwards  🍌🥯 77 Agata Szczepaniuk  🍌🥯 77 Carla Stevens  🍌🥯 77 Claudia Lennicke  🍌🥯 77 Darren Eveleigh  🍌🥯 77 Darren Phillips  🍌🥯 77 Mirek Salmon  🍌🥯 88 Anja Robinson  🍌🥯 88 Charlotte Skipper  🍌🥯 88 Martina Smith  🍌🥯 88 Michael Stewart  🍌🥯 88 Stacey Buckby  🍌🥯 99 Jerry Barnes  🍌🥯 99 Karen Hyatt  🍌🥯 99 Melanie Goslin  🍌🥯 99 Saffy Walton  🍌🥯 111 Dave Broom  🍌🥯 111 Ian Snow  🍌🥯 222 Rebecca Webster  🍌🥯 444 Ceci Musgrave  🍌🥯 444 Pamela Denison    Yet another wonderful week of sharing our passion and beliefs on veganism within the delightful parkrun community. Every one of you repping the green and black is making a difference. Wear your VR kit with pride! In a week where Lidl (Germany) announced a 30% increase in vegan sales, awareness about the impact of eating meat on health, the environment and animal welfare is spreading rapidly and becoming increasingly difficult for non-vegans to ignore. Even the dairy industry is recognising the need for change – check out Flora’s brilliant “Skip the Cow” campaign https://www.flora.com/en-gb/skip-the-cow#   Have a wonderful week – we have our first parkrun of May next, where will you be repping? Don’t forget to add to our mid-week poll. It would be great to hit that 1,000 attendance mark!   🖤🐄🏃🐑💚               

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