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Vegan Runners parkrun report 20.04.24

Vegan Runners parkrun report 20.04.24

April 21, 2024 0

💚🖤 Amazing numbers on this third parkrun of April 2024, with 967 Vegan Runners attending 405 different parkrun events. 902 of us gained a finish token and we had over 65 wonderful volunteers.    We held thirty-three meetups across the UK with five or more club members, the largest of which was again held at Eastville parkrun, where thirty-three VRs got together. Here, in order of the number of VRs, are this week’s locations where our lovely VRs got together:  33 Eastville parkrun  24 Burgess parkrun  15 Lee-on-the-Solent parkrun  14 Dover Waterfront parkrun  11 Worcester parkrun  9 Seven Fields parkrun  8 Southsea parkrun  8 Dulwich parkrun  8 Hillsborough parkrun  8 Catford parkrun  7 Colwick parkrun  7 Gunpowder parkrun  7 Hastings parkrun  7 Snowden Field parkrun  7 Alvaston parkrun  7 Storeys Field parkrun  6 Eastbourne parkrun  6 Brierley Forest parkrun  6 Bognor Regis parkrun  6 Peckham Rye parkrun  6 Hunstanton Promenade parkrun  5 Halifax parkrun  5 Lister Park parkrun, Bradford  5 Valentines parkrun  5 Huddersfield parkrun  5 Chipping Sodbury parkrun  5 Preston Park parkrun, Brighton  5 Newark parkrun  5 Fulham Palace parkrun  5 Clevedon Salthouse Fields parkrun  5 Sandringham parkrun  5 Bartley Park parkrun    We also had twenty-three meetups with four VRs, forty-one parkruns with three VRs in the results, one hundred and thirteen with two and one hundred and ninety-six of you were solo reppers. Go, VRs! 🌱🏃    Thank you to Alice Baker for this week’s wonderful photo from the 400th parkrun event at Lee-on-the-solent. 💚🖤    Outside the UK we also had VRs at this many parkruns in these countries:  🇦🇺 2 Australia  🇸🇪 1 Sweden  🇵🇱 1 Poland  🇳🇿 1 New Zealand  🇮🇹 1 Italy  🇮🇪 1 Ireland  🇩🇪 1 Germany  🇩🇰 1 Denmark    Our top ten fastest men this week, with an incredible 50% attaining a new PB for this year were:  🥇16:50 Philip Nind  🥇17:03 Andrew Worster New PB!  🥇17:15 Joseph Brown New PB!  🥇17:26 Jake Stephens  🥇17:40 Pete Jnr Benedickter New PB!  🥇17:42 Matthew Du Cros  🥇17:49 Gareth Thomas New PB!  🥇17:57 Tom Carpenter  🥇18:00 Geoffrey Gregory New PB!  🥇18:04 Shane Conroy     Our top five fastest ladies:  🥇18:51 Naomi Sutton New PB!  🥇19:04 Caroline McAleese New PB!  🥇20:42 Fiona Newman  🥇20:52 Clare Meraz  🥇21:14 Tracy Moroz New PB!  🥇21:28 Emma Eldridge  🥇21:33 Helen Seymour  🥇21:38 Elly Maggs  🥇22:03 Gay O’Connor  🥇22:04 Ilze Fridrihsone New PB!    Absolutely fantastic – congratulations! 🏃🏆🥦    These VRs came first in their gender position at their parkrun:  🏆16:50 Philip Nind  🏆17:03 Andrew Worster  🏆17:26 Jake Stephens  🏆17:57 Tom Carpenter  🏆18:04 Shane Conroy  🏆18:21 Neil Sexton  🏆18:23 Dave Holmes  🏆18:34 Thomas Harrington  🏆19:04 Caroline McAleese  🏆25:06 Georgie Ripper  🏆27:27 Stephanie Hughes    A staggering one hundred and ninety-nine of you gained a new Personal Best for 2024! 🏃🏆🌽    The average time for all Vegan Runners to complete the course on this penultimate event of April 2024 was 30:21 ⏱️    And now to the lucky tokens – which seventy-two VRs managed to obtain! 🍀    Shoutouts to these Vegan Runners who finished their parkrun in a multiple of fifty position:  📣50 22:07 Penelope Meeking  📣50 23:27 Lydia Kindred  📣50 23:18 William Sorflaten  📣50 24:52 Stephen Robinson-Day  📣50 23:34 Andy Parsons  📣100 31:16 Dawn Corlet  📣100 29:29 Jake Marrinan  📣100 25:07 Stuart Beveridge  📣150 26:09 Megan McCarthy  📣150 25:08 Charlotte Barton  📣150 28:17 Saffy Walton  📣150 45:34 Gerard Mucci  📣150 29:16 Paul Thorne  📣200 30:10 Evgenia Katsoni  📣250 35:20 Anna Broi  📣250 44:21 Victoria Pallen  📣300 42:25 Jo Rickerby  📣450 29:25 Matty Phillips  📣650 30:56 Helen Treadgold    On the noughty step this week we have twelve terrible tearaways:  😈 18:00   Geoffrey Gregory  😈 21:00   Gregory Richards  😈 22:00   Andy Walsh  😈 23:00   Jason Corden  😈 25:00   Daniel Hatton  😈 27:00   Amy Casson  😈 29:00   Sarah Priestley  😈 30:00   Eloise Rodgers  😈 37:00   Gary Jarvis  😈 39:00   Vilma Pedley  😈 41:00   Tam Sanger  😈 50:00   Dawn Cox    And collecting a repdigit finish token were an incredible forty-one resplendent herbivores; lettuce and carrots for:  🥬🥕11 James Green  🥬🥕11 Julian Harrison  🥬🥕11 Nicholas Mytton  🥬🥕11 Robert Crangle  🥬🥕11 Robert Hickey  🥬🥕11 Simon Quin  🥬🥕22 Laura Bateman  🥬🥕22 Ryan Barker  🥬🥕33 Elena Roebuck  🥬🥕33 Jason Corden  🥬🥕33 Jeremy Broomfield  🥬🥕33 Louise Griffin  🥬🥕33 Steve Proudley  🥬🥕44 Alan McNally  🥬🥕44 Ernest Bryden  🥬🥕44 Simon Tucker  🥬🥕55 Danny Coll  🥬🥕55 Gregory Myles  🥬🥕55 Peter Fitzgerald  🥬🥕55 Raegan Russell  🥬🥕55 Spencer John  🥬🥕66 Fiona Bowers  🥬🥕66 Nancy Manifold  🥬🥕77 Hayley Burn  🥬🥕77 Kathryn Dobson  🥬🥕77 Laura Whitton  🥬🥕88 Edward Hawkins  🥬🥕88 John Braid  🥬🥕88 Steve Gyles  🥬🥕88 Tam Sanger  🥬🥕99 Emily Bruchez  🥬🥕99 Rebecca Robinson  🥬🥕111 Colin Armstrong  🥬🥕111 Corrina Barton  🥬🥕111 Dawn Williams  🥬🥕111 Matthew Symonds  🥬🥕111 Samantha Tapp  🥬🥕222 Antony Byatt  🥬🥕555 Andrew McMillan  🥬🥕555 Benjamin Smith    I attended the Burgess parkrun pre-marathon meetup which included two of our top speediest men who were taking it easy before the big day; which was wonderful because now I can say that I beat Darren Comeau and Harry Pannell 🤣🤣. I also had the absolute pleasure of meeting Tracy Moroz – who is one of our fastest ladies – AND I had fun learning how to create Strava Art with Steven Crutchley and Andy Brinkworth, although the planned bird ended up decapitated and we had to abandon it. For those of you, who like me, rarely attend meetups, I highly recommend making the effort. It’s brilliant fun! Have a great week – looking forward to seeing the results of next week’s mid-week poll. Namaste.   🖤🐄🐑🐤💚               

Vegan Runners parkrun 13.04.24

Vegan Runners parkrun 13.04.24

April 14, 2024 0

💚🖤Another wonderful week for Vegan Runners! The sun presided over the majority of parkrun events in the UK on this second parkrun of April 2024, which saw 941 members attending 416 events. 871 VRs gained a finish token and we had over 70 wonderful volunteers.   Meet-ups a-plenty were organised and held at thirty-four different venues for groups of five and above. Thank you to Fraser Murray for this week’s fabulous photo from the biggest meetup held at Livingston, where twenty-five VRs were scanned. Other popular get-togethers occurred at:  15 South Manchester parkrun 13 Bedgebury Pinetum parkrun 12 Southampton parkrun 10 Eastville parkrun 10 Salisbury parkrun 10 Bevendean Down parkrun 8 Endcliffe parkrun 8 York parkrun 8 Centre Vale parkrun 7 Colwick parkrun 7 Southsea parkrun 7 Rothwell parkrun 6 Bushy parkrun 6 Hampstead Heath parkrun 6 Roding Valley parkrun 6 Milton Country parkrun 6 Preston Park parkrun, Brighton 6 Worthing parkrun 5 Hull parkrun 5 Cannon Hill parkrun, Birmingham 5 Whitstable parkrun 5 Forest Rec parkrun 5 Hillsborough parkrun 5 Bognor Regis parkrun 5 Lee-on-the-Solent parkrun 5 Felixstowe parkrun 5 Prospect parkrun 5 Coldham’s Common parkrun 5 Alvaston parkrun 5 Severn Valley Country parkrun 5 Bartley Park parkrun 5 Belvoir Castle parkrun 5 Yarborough Leisure Centre parkrun   There were also nineteen events with four VRs, forty-six parkruns with three Vegan Runners, eighty-nine with a pair from our club and two hundred and twenty-eight of you were solo repping.    As well as 398 parkruns in the United Kingdom, Vegan Runners also showed up in parkrun results in ten other countries (number is the number of events in each country with VRs).  🇺🇸   3 United States 🇮🇪    3 Ireland 🇩🇪   3 Germany 🇮🇹   2 Italy 🇦   2 Australia 🇸🇪   1 Sweden 🇿🇦   1 South Africa 🇵🇱   1 Poland 🇳🇱   1 Netherlands 🇨🇦   1 Canada   parkrun is not a race but it’s still interesting to learn about and to celebrate the achievements of our fastest parkrunners. So here is a list of our top ten fastest men this week:  🥇16:44 Philip Nind 🥇17:11 Andrew Worster 🥇17:14 Jake Stephens 🥇17:29 Matt Edmonds 🥇17:30 Christopher Pearson 🥇17:32 Neil Sexton NewPB! 🥇17:40 Shane Conroy NewPB! 🥇17:53 Dave Holmes NewPB! 🥇17:56 Alex Hinchcliffe NewPB! 🥇18:11 Gareth Thomas   And our top ten fastest ladies:  🥇19:49 Clare Meraz 🥇20:06 Lesley Connors 🥇20:55 Elly Maggs 🥇21:15 Kamile Stanelyte 🥇21:20 Julie Oswald 🥇21:20 Helen Seymour NewPB! 🥇21:25 Emma Eldridge 🥇21:28 Katie Louise Wright 🥇21:53 Tracy Moroz 🥇21:55 Michelle Vaughan NewPB!   Incredible times – congratulations! 🎊🎊   These VRs came first in their gender position at their parkrun:  🏆16:44 Philip Nind 🏆17:11 Andrew Worster 🏆17:29 Matt Edmonds 🏆17:30 Christopher Pearson 🏆18:42 Dan Stent 🏆18:48 Matthew Rhodes 🏆19:16 Douglas Williamson 🏆19:49 Clare Meraz 🏆20:06 Lesley Connors 🏆20:55 Elly Maggs 🏆21:00 Hester Hill 🏆21:15 Kamile Stanelyte 🏆21:20 Julie Oswald 🏆21:44 Joseph Brown 🏆21:53 Tracy Moroz 🏆24:28 Elena Roebuck   Fabulous repping and proving that our plant-based diet provides the perfect fuel for a powerful parkrun 🌱🥦🌽🥕   Marvellous milestones this week were achieved by: 🎊 Katy Wilson  250 Well done, brilliant parkrun presence and repping for the animals 🏃🐄   The average time for all Vegan Runners to complete their course on this second event of April 2024 fell just one second short of the noughty step, coming in at a respectable 29:59 😈🏃‍♂️   189 of us gained a new Personal Best for 2024! 🏃🎉🥦   Shoutouts to these Vegan Runners who finished their parkrun in a multiple of fifty position:  📣50 23:01 Catherine Charlton 📣50 25:38 Layla Whitaker 📣50 25:32 Jade Barrett 📣50 29:22 Fhiona Clark 📣50 38:14 Catherine Southgate 📣50 21:34 Tom Geere 📣50 24:05 Edward Owen 📣100 28:28 Jac Prigmore 📣100 23:45 Ryan Pollock 📣150 33:57 Matt Ashmead 📣150 25:58 Stephen Bray 📣250 31:17 Emily Mudhar-Fung 📣300 31:12 Hilary Cockshaw 📣300 34:00 Emma Bartlett 📣350 29:59 Francesca Parkes 📣850 33:32 Alice Baker 📣900 34:16 Claire Robinson   On the noughty step this week we have fourteen contumacious characters:  😈 20:00 Tom Gayle 😈 21:00  Hester Hill 😈 22:00  Greg Turner 😈 24:00  Julian Middleton 😈 25:00  Adam Kirsh 😈 25:00  Gary Beeston 😈 25:00  Mandy Scott 😈 26:00  Marti Spence 😈 28:00  Ella Yarrow 😈 32:00  Kate Nichols 😈 33:00  Hannah Charlton 😈 34:00  Emma Bartlett 😈 35:00  Fleur Deacon 😈 46:00  Ieva Jasmontaite  You are our heroes of the zeroes 🦸00🦸   And last but by no means least, an incredible fifty-one of you collected a repdigit finish token this week, Spring blossoms for:  🌺🌷 11 Julian Harrison 🌺🌷 11 Julie Oswald 🌺🌷 11 Lesley Connors 🌺🌷 11 Michael Inglis 🌺🌷 11 Nick Barrett 🌺🌷 11 Robert Ottolangui 🌺🌷 11 Sam Threadgill 🌺🌷 11 Stephen Taylor 🌺🌷 22 Adrian Pope 🌺🌷 22 Bev Dennis 🌺🌷 22 Bob Love 🌺🌷 22 Marti Spence 🌺🌷 22 Scott Bates 🌺🌷 33 Chris Calvert 🌺🌷 33 David Ball 🌺🌷 33 Elena Roebuck 🌺🌷 33 Rebecca Lait 🌺🌷 33 Stevie Tudor 🌺🌷 33 Tracey Lancaster 🌺🌷 44 David Anderson 🌺🌷 44 Graeme Smith 🌺🌷 44 Kasia Matuszyk 🌺🌷 44 Laura Fearn 🌺🌷 44 Rafael Bickley 🌺🌷 44 Stephen Robinson-Day 🌺🌷 44 Steve Proudley 🌺🌷 44 Wendy Lockwood 🌺🌷 55 Ben Musty 🌺🌷 55 Gregory Richards 🌺🌷 55 Michelle Vaughan 🌺🌷 66 Amy Moore 🌺🌷 66 Aurime Dovydaityte 🌺🌷 66 Rob Lupton 🌺🌷 66 Soleil Barrett 🌺🌷 77 Agata Szczepaniuk 🌺🌷 77 Gary Jarvis 🌺🌷 77 Keri Jackson 🌺🌷 77 Paula Lamont 🌺🌷 88 Kathryn Dobson 🌺🌷 88 Nicola Lewton 🌺🌷 88 Sean Whiteley 🌺🌷 88 Wendy Littlewood 🌺🌷 99 Angela Cresswell 🌺🌷 99 Ashley Price-Sabate 🌺🌷 99 Jo Rickerby 🌺🌷 99 Katy Winter 🌺🌷 99 Laura Whitton 🌺🌷 99 Michael Frawley 🌺🌷 99 Mo Warrillow 🌺🌷 333 Anna Broi 🌺🌷 444 Valerie Freestone   I had the absolute pleasure of meeting some of the names I write about regularly in my reports at the Salisbury meet-up, including Harry Pannell and Norbert Adison. It’s great to be able to put faces to names! It was also lovely to see Sharon Weinstein and Kate Buttimer again. There was much talk about the upcoming VRUK20 Bristol meetup in May, where I’m looking forward to meeting more of you soon. Have a great week and keep an eye out for the mid-week poll to find a meet-up near you! 🖤🐄🐑🐤💚               

Vegan Runners’ parkrun report 06.04.24

Vegan Runners’ parkrun report 06.04.24

April 7, 2024 0

💚🖤 With Storm Kathleen rampaging across the UK on this first parkrun of April, plus three big Sunday running events contending with parkrun attendance, we still had a healthy turnout with 899 Vegan Runners participating in 384 different parkrun events. 839 VRs gained a finish token and we had over 45 wonderful volunteers.    Many marvellous meetups to choose from as usual – thank you to Dan Stent-Clements for this week’s wonderful photo from the largest gathering at Brighton & Hove parkrun, where 22 VRs appeared in the results.    Other large numbers of Vegan Runners also at parkruns this week were:  17 Ashton Court parkrun  15 Wollaton Hall parkrun  10 Worsley Woods parkrun  9 Southampton parkrun  9 Worcester parkrun  8 Levengrove parkrun  7 Eastbourne parkrun  7 Margate parkrun  7 Central parkrun, Plymouth  6 Colwick parkrun  6 Endcliffe parkrun  6 Whitstable parkrun  6 Eastville parkrun  6 Hastings parkrun  6 Alvaston parkrun  5 Gunnersbury parkrun  5 Worcester Pitchcroft parkrun  5 Congleton parkrun  5 Kettering parkrun  5 Huddersfield parkrun  5 Stevenage parkrun  5 Alice Holt parkrun  5 Hillsborough parkrun  5 Marlborough Common parkrun  5 Coldham’s Common parkrun  5 Clevedon Salthouse Fields parkrun  5 University Parks parkrun    There were 27 parkruns with four Vegan Runners in the results, 53 with three VRs, 89 parkruns had two VRs and 187 of us were solo repping.      Outside of the UK we also had VRs repping the green and black – here are the number of events per country with VRs in the results this week:    🇩🇪      4 Germany  🇦🇺       4 Australia  🇳🇿      2 New Zealand   🇮🇪       2 Ireland  🇺🇸      1 United States  🇸🇪       1 Sweden  🇿🇦       1 South Africa  🇵🇱       1 Poland  🇳🇴      1 Norway  🇳🇱       1 Netherlands    Our top ten fastest ladies this week were:  🥇20:11 Fiona Newman New PB!  🥇20:30 Mary P Scott New PB!  🥇20:50 Julie Oswald New PB!  🥇21:08 Elly Maggs   🥇21:13 Kamile Stanelyte New PB!  🥇21:29 Lesley Connors  🥇21:43 Jen Conway  🥇22:10 Tracy Moroz  🥇22:18 Alice Nicolay  🥇22:26 Gay O’Connor    Top ten fastest men:  🥇16:35 Christopher Pearson New PB!  🥇16:47 Elliot Palmer  🥇16:51 Matt Edmonds New PB!  🥇17:02 Dan Stent   🥇17:16 Andy Gardiner  🥇17:25 Gareth Pritchard New PB!  🥇17:46 Philip Nind  🥇17:49 Scott Braunton New PB!  🥇17:52 Ben Wickham  🥇18:15 James Ross    Absolutely amazing times – congratulations! 🎉  Congratulations also to the 117 of us who gained a new PB for 2024! 🎉      These VRs came first in their gender position at their parkrun:  🏆16:47 Elliot Palmer  🏆16:51 Matt Edmonds  🏆17:46 Philip Nind  🏆17:49 Scott Braunton  🏆18:58 Benedict O’Connell  🏆19:07 Khan Nothnagel  🏆19:50 James Porter  🏆20:06 Hester Hill  🏆20:11 Fiona Newman  🏆21:13 Kamile Stanelyte  🏆22:10 Tracy Moroz  🏆22:27 Aurime Dovydaityte  🏆22:33 Emily Krombas  🏆23:23 Dawn Williams    Marvellous milestones this week were achieved by:  🎊 Sharon Maria Boland 500  🎊 Richard Davis 400 🎊 Rachel Chadwick 300  🎊 Kerry Irwin-Hall 150  🎊 Ren Pryce 50    Amazing achievements 🥳    The average time for all Vegan Runners to complete the course on this first event of April 2024 was 30:56 ⏱    Shoutouts to these twelve Vegan Runners who finished their parkrun in a multiple of fifty position:  📣50 24:52 Karen Williams  📣100 29:38 Cristy North  📣100 40:07 Natalie Shannon  📣150 36:40 Dave Broom  📣150 27:08 Ben Du Feu  📣200 29:27 Matleena Elonheimo  📣250 31:16 Hilary Cockshaw  📣300 49:00 Daniel Fleming  📣350 38:15 Lauren Hart  📣450 38:25 Lesley Quinn  📣850 50:58 Claire Robinson  📣850 35:21 Keshab Bhattarai    Noughty-noughty, a dozen disobedient VRs landed exactly on the noughty step, no cake this week I’m afraid for:  😈🍰 19:00 Sam Bagnall  😈🍰 28:00 Chris Webb  😈🍰 30:00 Sam Buley  😈🍰 31:00 Rachel Shimeld  😈🍰 32:00 Mike Lloyd  😈🍰 33:00 Sara Truckel  😈🍰 37:00 Sophie Bridger  😈🍰 38:00 Helen Collis  😈🍰 42:00 Ben Musty  😈🍰 43:00 Andy Begent  😈🍰 44:00 Catherine Southgate  😈🍰 49:00 Daniel Fleming    And finally, it’s time to mention our resplendent, vibrant and tree-mendous repdigit reppers; trees and treats for:  🌳🍭 11 Craig Rouse  🌳🍭 11 John Taylor  🌳🍭 11 Jonathan Morris  🌳🍭 11 Stephen Taylor  🌳🍭 22 Carla Stevens  🌳🍭 22 Matthew Savory  🌳🍭 33 Anthony Holder  🌳🍭 33 Matt Walker  🌳🍭 44 Jenna Selby  🌳🍭 44 Paula Hirst  🌳🍭 44 Sarah Laws  🌳🍭 44 Susan Macdonald  🌳🍭 55 Danny Coll  🌳🍭 55 Greg Turner  🌳🍭 55 Jason Corden  🌳🍭 55 Kevin Bunn  🌳🍭 66 Kev O’Connor  🌳🍭 66 Susan Waller-Toyne  🌳🍭 77 Judy Johnson  🌳🍭 77 Zaneta Morris  🌳🍭 88 Carlos Bautista  🌳🍭 88 Diane Strickland  🌳🍭 88 Joanne Egerton  🌳🍭 88 Paul Du Buf  🌳🍭 99 Alice Nicolay  🌳🍭 99 Emily Beaves  🌳🍭 99 Rachel Beeston  🌳🍭 99 Rachel Toone  🌳🍭 111 Vicky Sullivan  🌳🍭 222 Linda Jesson  🌳🍭 444 Jules Nicholson    Well done everyone, what a great week for Vegan Runners. This week we represented our club at 384 out of 2,300 parkrun venues. That’s nearly 17% representation of VRs at all parkruns in the whole world, promoting our club and its values with positivity and pride. Vegan Runners at parkrun in my view is the healthiest, most effective and least confrontational form of vegan activism. As I walked home from solo repping at my “nendy” parkrun last Saturday, one of the runners still completing the course yelled me a cheery, “Well done!”, to which I replied, “Plant Power! Thank you, well done to you, too!”. The exchange made me smile, which in turn made the next ten runners smile, too. If we can rock our VR tops at parkruns and include a friendly smile I reckon we’ll inspire at least 10% more people to investigate veganism than if we don’t smile. Just a theory but backed up by plenty of research. Try it out next week! 😊🖤🐄🐑🐤💚😊 

Vegan Runners parkrun report 30.03.24

Vegan Runners parkrun report 30.03.24

March 31, 2024 0

💚🖤 On this last parkrun of March 2024, a marvellous 958 VRs managed to attend 420 different parkrun events. 891 of us gained a finish token and we had over 67 wonderful volunteers. 228 Vegan Runners succeeded in setting a new Personal Best for 2024! 🎉🥦    It’s so exciting to watch our new parkrun facebook community grow and flourish, photos of your adventures and achievements bring the group to life in such a positive and inspirational way. Congrats to La Rubina for first pre parkrun photo & to Linda Jesson for posting the first actual photo of herself repping our lovely club at parkrun! 🎉🥦🩷    Lots of lovely meetups took place of course – thank you to Fraser Murray for this week’s high energy photo from the Edinburgh (Camper) meetup!    The most popular meetups this week were held at:  23 Eastville parkrun  20 Moors Valley parkrun  16 Queen Elizabeth parkrun  15 Edinburgh parkrun  11 Irchester Country parkrun  10 Preston Park parkrun, Brighton  9 Southwark parkrun  7 Eastbourne parkrun  7 York parkrun  7 Burgess parkrun  7 Centre Vale parkrun  6 Colwick parkrun  6 Southampton parkrun  6 Worcester parkrun  6 Hastings parkrun  6 Swansea Bay parkrun  6 Worthing parkrun  5 Oxford parkrun  5 Rothwell parkrun  5 Eden Project parkrun  5 Ferry Meadows parkrun  5 Dulwich parkrun  5 Great Denham parkrun  5 Alvaston parkrun  5 Berkeley Green parkrun  5 Sandringham parkrun    There were also twenty-six parkruns with four VRs, forty-eight with a trio repping the green and black, one hundred and ten parkruns with two VRs and two hundred and ten VRs solo repping. Well done, everyone! 🏃🎊    Vegan Runners participate in parkruns all over the world – here are the number of events per country with VRs in the results this week:  🇩🇪      5 Germany  🇦🇺      3 Australia  🇵🇱      2 Poland  🇳🇿     2 New Zealand  🇦🇹    2 Austria  🇺🇸     1 United States  🇸🇪      1 Sweden  🇳🇴     1 Norway  🇳🇱      1 Netherlands  🇯🇵      1 Japan  🇮🇪   1 Ireland  🇩🇰   1 Denmark      Congratulations to our top ten fastest men this week, who are:  🥇16:09 Jasper McDowell  🥇16:42 Philip Nind  🥇16:59 Elliot Collins New PB!  🥇17:18 Alastair Stables  🥇17:23 Andy Gardiner  🥇17:40 Daniel Borrett  🥇17:42 Bill Hill New PB!  🥇17:50 Dan Stent  🥇17:53 Tom Carpenter  🥇17:58 Jake Stephens    Amazing achievements also by this week’s top ten fastest women:  🥇18:51 Naomi Sutton New PB!  🥇20:00 Lesley Connors  🥇20:15 Fiona Newman New PB!  🥇20:32 Mary P Scott  🥇20:43 Laura Seaman New PB!  🥇21:01 Elly Maggs  🥇21:04 Clare Meraz  🥇21:07 Julie Oswald  🥇21:14 Catherine Charlton  🥇21:25 Kamile Stanelyte New PB!    Absolutely incredible times, with less than a minute between genders this week!     Talking of gender, these VRs came first in their gender position at their parkrun:  🏆16:42 Philip Nind  🏆17:18 Alastair Stables  🏆17:50 Dan Stent  🏆17:53 Tom Carpenter  🏆17:58 Jake Stephens  🏆20:00 Lesley Connors  🏆21:01 Elly Maggs  🏆21:14 Catherine Charlton  🏆22:10 Tracy Moroz  🏆22:42 Carla Brain  🏆22:44 Kira Rehfeld  🏆22:51 Geraldine Larham  🏆23:01 Jen Conway    Brilliant achievements, proving the power of plant protein for performance. 🌱🌿    The average time for all Vegan Runners to complete their parkrun this week was an astounding 29:54 🏃🏆🌽    Shoutouts to the lucky thirteen Vegan Runners who finished their parkrun in a multiple of fifty position:  📣50 27:58 Lucy Swarbrick  📣50 26:40 Stuart Morton  📣50 22:42 Alan Spacagna  📣100 24:25 Chrissie Buckledee  📣100 26:15 Stephanie Hughes  📣100 24:18 Jen Haywood  📣100 30:27 Neil Kirsh  📣150 29:56 Shireen Kassam  📣150 24:44 Rob Petch  📣200 33:57 Ruth Mountstevens  📣350 36:26 H Matthew Howarth  📣400 41:16 Jayne Eaton  📣450 32:06 Tamsin Mockford    A simultaneously lucky and unlucky thirteen again landed directly on the noughty step! Castigations, Easter carrots and chastisements for:  😈🥕19:00 Matthew Rhodes  😈🥕20:00 Lesley Connors  😈🥕23:00 Jamie Kinghorn  😈🥕23:00 Peter Taylor  😈🥕24:00 Jamie Wieland  😈🥕25:00 Lee Tooey  😈🥕25:00 Alison Sanderson  😈🥕26:00 Andy Begent  😈🥕28:00 Sophie Higham  😈🥕28:00 Rebecca Nisbet  😈🥕31:00 Vanessa Buckler  😈🥕32:00 Julie Oxenforth  😈🥕45:00 Sara Leudar    And last but by no means least, let’s hear it for our repdigit reppers, gosh and goodness you’re the best. Bunnies and bouquets for:  🐇💐 11 Alastair Penman  🐇💐 11 Bill Hill  🐇💐 11 Dave Colwell  🐇💐 11 David Ainsley  🐇💐 11 James Withams  🐇💐 11 Keith Rochester  🐇💐 11 Mark Revell-Wright  🐇💐 11 Scott Bates  🐇💐 11 Stephen Reeve  🐇💐 22 Callum Harling  🐇💐 22 Gregory Richards  🐇💐 22 Rachel Burgess  🐇💐 33 Debbie Kessell  🐇💐 33 Nigel Howard  🐇💐 33 Rob Werran  🐇💐 44 Jennifer Whittle  🐇💐 44 Matt Walker  🐇💐 55 Angelina Farruggia  🐇💐 55 Brian Saxby  🐇💐 55 Jane Stubbington  🐇💐 55 Kathryn Mcguinness  🐇💐 55 Nadiah Jamaa  🐇💐 66 Alice Wood  🐇💐 66 Emily Curnick  🐇💐 66 Hannah Ford  🐇💐 66 Jacob Butler  🐇💐 66 Matthew Sweed  🐇💐 66 Steve Proudley  🐇💐 66 Todd Haufek  🐇💐 77 Charlotte Swope  🐇💐 77 Daniel Perlaki  🐇💐 77 Gareth Snaith  🐇💐 77 Koby Crumpler  🐇💐 77 Thomas Giles  🐇💐 88 Jane Forbes  🐇💐 99 Corrina Barton  🐇💐 99 Kevin Boina M’Koubou Dupé  🐇💐 111 Amy Withnall  🐇💐 111 Jatin Shamji  🐇💐 111 Judy Johnson  🐇💐 222 Anna Duggal  🐇💐 222 Jasmine Rawlinson  🐇💐 222 Karen Louise Watson  🐇💐 222 Roxane Pratt  🐇💐 333 Alice Connor  🐇💐 333 Catherine Midgley  🐇💐 333 Katy Murrell    Well done everyone, great running and repping as always. During my parkrun on Saturday, I was overtaken by a lady around twenty years younger than me, who said, “I can’t be beaten by a vegan!”. I overtook her about ten minutes later replying, “Maybe you should change to a plant-based diet?” We ran together for a while, she told me that she was a vegan during her student days, but her father had chastised her and insisted that she included meat in her diet. She ran off, waving a cheery goodbye. Ten minutes later, I overtook her again and ended up beating her parkrun time by five minutes. Of course I waited for her at the end! We had a good chat and she told me she would give the plant-based diet another try. I personally dislike and actively avoid confrontation but find wearing my Vegan Runners top empowers me to have positive conversations in a non-confrontational way. And even on the weeks no-one comments, we are still actively promoting veganism just by wearing our Vegan Runners logo.    To conclude, here is an Easter treat! A BBC World Service feature on the rise of Vegan Runners at parkrun, reported by Shiroma Silva and aired today (31.03.24), heard by approximately 313 million listeners early this morning. Here’s a link to the report which starts at 14:33. Enjoy! 🖤🐄🐑🐤💚 

VRUK parkrun report 23.03.24

VRUK parkrun report 23.03.24

March 24, 2024 0

💚🖤 On this third parkrun event of March, we had 867 Vegan Runners attending 371 different parkrun events. 803 gained a finish token and we had over 64 wonderful volunteers.   Many marvellous meetups occurred across the UK, the most popular of which was held at Gunnersbury and attended by Shiroma Silva, a BBC World Service journalist and reporter, who was interviewing Vegan Runners for an upcoming radio show about VRs at parkrun. Thank you to Rajiv Mulchandani for the wonderful photo from Gunnersbury – where the beautiful blue skies were cheekily partnered with an Arctic breeze! The most popular meetup locations this week occurred at:   29 Gunnersbury parkrun 17 Bournemouth parkrun 16 Southampton parkrun 14 Hadleigh parkrun, Essex 12 Colwick parkrun 12 Pomphrey Hill parkrun 11 Eastville parkrun 9 Halifax parkrun 9 Worcester Pitchcroft parkrun 7 Gloucester City parkrun 7 Hunstanton Promenade parkrun 6 Ashton Court parkrun 6 Whitstable parkrun 6 Bognor Regis parkrun 6 Nostell parkrun 6 Poolsbrook parkrun 6 Pont y Bala parkrun 6 Storeys Field parkrun 5 Bushy parkrun 5 Endcliffe parkrun 5 Ferry Meadows parkrun 5 Birkenhead parkrun 5 Sherwood Pines parkrun   There were groups of four VRs at 20 parkruns, three VRs at 44 events, pairs of VRs at 97 locations and 187 club members solo repping. 🖤💚   As well as Vegan Runners repping for the animals at 352 different parkrun locations within the UK, we also had club members sporting the green & black at this many locations in the following countries:   🇩🇪   6 Germany 🇮🇪    4 Ireland 🇦🇺  3 Australia 🇿🇦   2 South Africa 🇸🇪   1 Sweden 🇸🇬   1 Singapore 🇵🇱   1 Poland 🇳🇿  1 New Zealand   Our top ten fastest men this week were:  🥇17:03 Andrew Worster 🥇17:13 Jake Stephens 🥇17:17 Dan Stent 🥇17:23 Harry Pannell 🥇17:36 Philip Nind 🥇17:51 Matt Edmonds 🥇18:04 Bill Hill 🥇18:13 Matthew Du Cros 🥇18:23 Christopher Pearson 🥇18:24 Shane Conroy   And top ten fastest ladies:  🥇20:01 Elly Maggs 🥇21:00 Laura Pettitt 🥇21:09 Lin Lascelles 🥇21:10 Dory Kovacs 🥇21:13 Fiona Newman 🥇21:41 Sophie Burnett 🥇22:02 Tracy Moroz 🥇22:12 Gay O’Connor 🥇22:24 Julia Garan 🥇22:29 Aurime Dovydaityte  Incredible times! 🏃🎉🥦   These VRs came first in their gender position at their parkrun:  🏆17:03 Andrew Worster 🏆17:23 Harry Pannell 🏆17:36 Philip Nind 🏆17:51 Matt Edmonds 🏆18:23 Christopher Pearson 🏆18:29 Joe Burn 🏆19:03 Matthew Rhodes 🏆19:33 Jamie Kinghorn 🏆19:41 Scott Hunter 🏆19:54 Khan Nothnagel  🏆20:00   Andrew Milllis 🏆22:49   Dawn Williams 🏆22:56   Julie Oswald 🏆23:05   Kamile Stanelyte 🏆25:47   Hayley Wragg 🏆26:26   Susan Waller-Toyne  Proving plant-based power improves performance! 🥦🌱🌿   Marvellous milestones this week were achieved by:  🎊 Hugo Carpendale 150  Congratulations ✨   The average time for all Vegan Runners to complete the course on this third event of March 2024 was 30:31 🏃🥦  A fabulous 156 of you achieved a New Personal Best for 2024 – smashing it with plants! 🏃🎉🥦   Shoutouts to these Vegan Runners who finished their parkrun in a multiple of fifty position:  📣50 24:50 Tom Woollard 📣50 25:54 Billy Braithwait 📣50 21:41 Anthony Holder 📣50 19:31 Jamie Heywood 📣100 26:08 Deborah English 📣100 26:22 Barri Edwards 📣100 23:31 Rajiv Mulchandani 📣100 26:35 Andy Ekins 📣150 28:40 Michelle Lewington 📣150 34:07 Katy Errock 📣150 39:13 Lynne Evans 📣200 29:52 Amanda Francis 📣450 38:07 Charlotte Brown 📣650 51:36 Clare Savory   An incredible eighteen of you landed on the noughty step this week, gosh and goodness, please behave:  😈20:00 Andrew Millis 😈21:00 Laura Pettitt 😈23:00 Sarah Laws 😈23:00 Felix Wilson 😈27:00 Ian Painter 😈29:00 Gareth Lemon 😈30:00 Maya Luscombe 😈31:00 Justin Bowen 😈31:00 Caragh Johnson 😈32:00 Andrew Richardson 😈32:00 Lynn Tyler 😈34:00 Sonia Ng 😈35:00 Samantha Edginton 😈37:00 Lesley Connors 😈38:00 Helen Collis 😈46:00 Victoria Pallen 😈50:00 Joanne French 😈55:00 Sharon Maria Boland-Setu   And last but by no means least, these VRs scooped a rare and resplendent repdigit finish token, and therefore will be blessed with bananas and bunnies:  🍌🐰11 Benedict O’Connell 🍌🐰11 Chris Hewett 🍌🐰11 Craig Rouse 🍌🐰11 Kieran Child 🍌🐰11 Lawrence Richardson 🍌🐰11 Nathan Hawes 🍌🐰11 Paul Foster 🍌🐰11 Tom Grainger 🍌🐰22 Gary Beardsley 🍌🐰22 Jack Gaughan 🍌🐰22 Jon Taylor 🍌🐰22 Matthew Savory 🍌🐰22 Robert Skedgell 🍌🐰22 Simon English 🍌🐰33 Herb Love 🍌🐰33 Peter Welch 🍌🐰33 Wojciech Walczuk 🍌🐰44 Charlotte Barton 🍌🐰44 James Freddie Lloyd 🍌🐰44 Judith Oakley 🍌🐰44 Michael Woods 🍌🐰55 Dory Kovacs 🍌🐰55 Joss Kirk 🍌🐰55 Lynn Persse 🍌🐰66 Charlotte Barton 🍌🐰66 Wendy Littlewood 🍌🐰77 Benjamin Carpendale 🍌🐰77 Janos Miklos 🍌🐰77 Steven Walsh 🍌🐰77 Stuart Chalmers 🍌🐰77 Taryn Archer 🍌🐰88 Rachael Chadwick 🍌🐰111 Hugo Carpendale 🍌🐰111 Rosalie Hoskins 🍌🐰555 Jane Walker   🖤🐄🐑🐤💚 Amazing performances as usual from VRs, some great meetups and so exciting to have positive media attention from the BBC World Service. Outside VRUK, positive media is also gathering pace in the vegan world, including the film “Christspiracy” out last week, and Kirk Haworth – a vegan chef – making it to the final of the “Great British Menu”. Let’s continue to celebrate and share our vision of a meat-free world. 💚🐤🐑🐄🖤                 

Vegan Runners parkrun report 16.03.24

Vegan Runners parkrun report 16.03.24

March 18, 2024 0

💚🖤 Magnificent attendance again on this third week of March 2024 with 920 VRs attending 391 different parkrun events. 848 gained a finish token and we had over 72 wonderful volunteers. Many marvellous meetups were organised and enjoyed again, with the most popular occurring at Eastville parkrun, with a massive thirty VRs showing how strong, dedicated and friendly our vegan running club is. Thanks to Norbert Addison for this week’s fabulous photo from the Eastville meetup – what a great picture!   Other meet-ups took place at:  11 Aldenham parkrun 11 Tetbury Goods Shed parkrun 10 Hunstanton Promenade parkrun 9 Worcester Pitchcroft parkrun 9 Stretford parkrun 9 Peel parkrun 8 Colwick parkrun 8 Hillsborough parkrun 8 Harlow parkrun 8 Hove Promenade parkrun 8 Leavesden Country parkrun 7 Southampton parkrun 7 Folkestone parkrun 7 Bartley Park parkrun 6 Southend parkrun 6 Worthing parkrun 5 Hampstead Heath parkrun 5 York parkrun 5 Lincoln parkrun 5 Arrow Valley parkrun 5 Medina I.O.W. parkrun 5 Newark parkrun 5 Seaton parkrun 5 Exeter Riverside parkrun 5 Sherwood Pines parkrun 5 Centre Vale parkrun 5 Berkeley Green parkrun 5 Central parkrun, Plymouth 5 Markshall Estate parkrun 5 University Parks parkrun   There were also twenty parkruns with four VRs, forty-five with a trio, one hundred and six duos and one hundred and eighty-nine solo reppers.   Outside of the UK we had Vegan Runners representing our club in eleven countries and eighteen different parkrun events held in:  🇩🇪   3 Germany 🇦🇺 3 Australia 🇵🇱  2 Poland 🇳🇿 2 New Zealand 🇮🇹  2 Italy 🇸🇪   1 Sweden 🇿🇦   1 South Africa 🇸🇬   1 Singapore 🇳🇱   1 Netherlands 🇮🇪   1 Ireland 🇨🇦  1 Canada   Our top ten fastest ladies this week were:  🥇19:32 Jana De Waal 🥇19:48 Katie Louise Wright 🥇19:55 Naomi Sutton 🥇19:55 Alice Wood 🥇19:59 Paula Blackledge 🥇20:44 Mary P Scott 🥇20:46 Fiona Newman 🥇21:03 Annie Hamilton 🥇21:06 Elly Maggs 🥇21:06 Lin Lascelles   And top ten fastest men:  🥇16:37 Philip Nind 🥇16:39 Benji Cavanagh 🥇16:54 Andy Gardiner 🥇17:18 Christopher Pearson 🥇17:19 Jake Stephens 🥇17:25 Dan Stent 🥇18:01 Gareth Thomas 🥇18:06 Benedict O’Connell 🥇18:08 Geoffrey Gregory 🥇18:09 Michael Slack   Congratulations to this week’s speedies! 🏃🎉🥦   These VRs came first in their gender position at their parkrun:  🏆16:37 Philip Nind 🏆18:22 Tom Carpenter 🏆18:45 Jamie Kinghorn 🏆19:55 Naomi Sutton 🏆19:59 Paula Blackledge 🏆20:14 Khan Nothnagel 🏆20:44 Mary P Scott 🏆21:06 Elly Maggs 🏆21:45 Sophie Burnett 🏆22:07 Dory Kovacs 🏆22:10 Nikola Carr 🏆22:19 Kate Telford 🏆24:46 Nicola Blatherwick 🏆28:30 Kirsty Atkinson   Proving the power of a plant-based diet. 🥦🌱🌿   The average time for all Vegan Runners to complete the course on this third event of 2024 was a super sub-30, coming in this week at 29:57 🏃🌽   🏆🎊211 of you gained a new Personal Best for 2024! 🎊🏆  Shoutouts to just ten Vegan Runners who finished their parkrun in a multiple of fifty position this week:  📣50 25:40 Jay Parnham 📣50 27:02 Kate Buttimer 📣50 56:29 Andi Stacey 📣50 24:32 Nardus Mollentze 📣50 25:44 Ian McMillan 📣100 22:38 Alexander Cox 📣200 45:40 Lisa Darrand 📣250 46:50 Alma Botes 📣350 29:33 Alex Alderton 📣350 41:11 Eoghan Bickley   On the noughty step we also have ten terribly troublesome rapscallions:  😈 23:00 Jessica Hey 😈 26:00 Dane Cobain 😈 26:00 Anthony Chesher 😈 28:00 Lisa Eardly 😈 30:00 Louis Kowal 😈 34:00 Sara Clynch 😈 35:00 Jennifer Hawkes 😈 45:00 Janet Birchnall-Travers 😈 46:00 Samantha Lynas 😈 59:00 Edward Hawkins   And finally, let’s hear it for our resplendent repdigit reppers this week, cake and confetti for:  🎂🎉11 Alan McNally 🎂🎉11 Danny Russell 🎂🎉11 David Clarkson 🎂🎉11 Hiren Dhanecha 🎂🎉11 Jonathan Morris 🎂🎉11 Kevin Du Plessis 🎂🎉11 Kirsty Atkinson 🎂🎉11 Llyr Roberts 🎂🎉11 Marc Davison 🎂🎉11 Matthias May 🎂🎉11 William Goodliffe 🎂🎉22 Geraldine Larham 🎂🎉22 Tony Williams 🎂🎉22 Wojciech Walczuk 🎂🎉33 Adrian Pope 🎂🎉33 Christian Maleedy 🎂🎉33 Dan Coughlan 🎂🎉33 Jamie Beaton 🎂🎉44 Anthony Chesher 🎂🎉44 Dawn Williams 🎂🎉44 Michelle Steer 🎂🎉44 Richard Twine 🎂🎉44 Steven Walsh 🎂🎉55 Andy Parsons 🎂🎉55 Mark Dyer 🎂🎉55 Paul Thorne 🎂🎉55 Stephen Nand-Lal 🎂🎉66 Abi Appleby 🎂🎉66 Barnaby Norman 🎂🎉66 Brian Greaves 🎂🎉66 Bruce Watters 🎂🎉66 Emma Mapletoft 🎂🎉66 Jamie Wieland 🎂🎉66 Nick Seccombe 🎂🎉77 Catherine Brogdale 🎂🎉77 Matt Prichard 🎂🎉77 Patrick Morrello 🎂🎉77 Rob Lupton 🎂🎉77 Sarah Hall 🎂🎉88 Guy Rayment 🎂🎉88 Stephen Casburn 🎂🎉99 Alison Sanderson 🎂🎉99 Carrie Leach 🎂🎉111 Karyn Chiesa 🎂🎉111 Louise Hey 🎂🎉111 Paul Davis 🎂🎉111 Samantha Hammond 🎂🎉666 Anthony Chuter   Another great week for Vegan Runners attending parkrun. I had the absolute pleasure of meeting Deb Porter at my home parkrun of Greenwich, Deb is such an inspirational and interesting lady. I was also very lucky to meet the wonderful Kate Buttimer, the incredible Brad Scarborough, the lovely Cate Mullen, the super Sharon Weinstein and the birthday celebrator Andy McMillan at the Salisbury 10-mile race on Sunday. We had such an immediate and easy connection because of our club affiliation, and it made me realise how thankful I am to be part of such a wonderful community. I’m really looking forward to meeting more of you at Gunnersbury parkrun next week!   🖤🐄🐑🐤💚       

Vegan Runners parkrun report 09.03.24

Vegan Runners parkrun report 09.03.24

March 10, 2024 0

💚🖤 There was plenty to celebrate this Mothers’ Day weekend with incredible attendance numbers – we’ll soon hit that thousand mark! We had 919 VRs attending 371 different parkrun events. 855 were awarded a finish token and we had over 64 wonderful volunteers. 🖤💚   Here’s a break-down of the number of parkrun locations outside the UK with VRs in the results:  🇩🇪   5 Germany 🇿🇦   4 South Africa 🇦🇹   4 Australia 🇳🇱   2 Netherlands 🇯🇵   2 Japan 🇺🇸  1 United States 🇸🇪   1 Sweden 🇸🇬   1 Singapore 🇮🇪   1 Ireland 🇩🇰   1 Denmark   Another incredible feature of this week is the number of meetups which took place – thank you to Darren Comeau for this week’s wonderful photo from the Kent monthly meetup at Sittingbourne, where fourteen lovely VRs gathered. Big kudos to our regional reps who are no doubt responsible for organising all these fun and fabulous rendezvous. The biggest meetups were held at:   24 Chippenham parkrun  18 Swaffham parkrun  16 Huddersfield parkrun 13 Portsmouth Lakeside parkrun  12 Colwick parkrun  10 Wyre Forest parkrun 10 Alexandra parkrun, Moss Side  9 Eastville parkrun 9 Great Denham parkrun  8 Southsea parkrun 8 Swansea Bay parkrun 8 Centre Vale parkrun 7 Hastings parkrun 7 Alvaston parkrun  6 Hull parkrun 6 Eastbourne parkrun 6 Trelissick parkrun 6 St Albans parkrun 6 Arrow Valley parkrun 6 Preston Park parkrun, Brighton 6 Clumber Park parkrun 6 Exeter Riverside parkrun 6 Folkestone parkrun 6 Lee-on-the-Solent parkrun 6 Worthing parkrun   We also had groups of five VRs repping at eleven locations, groups of four at twenty-five parkruns, trios of VRs at thirty-five parkruns and duos at eighty-two events. 192 of you solo-repped 🌱.   Phenomenal times from our fastest runners this week. Medals and applause for our top ten fastest ladies: 🥇19:20 Naomi Sutton 🥇19:43 Catherine Allen 🥇20:09 Clare Meraz 🥇20:18 Fiona Newman 🥇20:25 Lesley Connors 🥇20:43 Mary P Scott 🥇21:09 Jenny McNamara 🥇21:18 Emma Eldridge 🥇21:26 Lin Lascelles 🥇21:48 Annie Hamilton   And our top ten fastest men: 🥇16:49 Philip Nind 🥇17:32 Jake Stephens 🥇17:36 Dan Stent 🥇17:49 Matt Edmonds 🥇17:55 Carl Whittaker 🥇17:59 Michael Slack 🥇18:13 Matthew Du Cros 🥇18:16 Alastair Stables 🥇18:27 Alex Robertson 🥇18:30 Nehal Lavey-Khan   Incredible! 🏃🎊   Nineteen VRs came first in their gender position at their parkrun, felicitations and laudations to: 🏆17:49 Matt Edmonds 🏆17:55 Carl Whittaker 🏆18:27 Alex Robertson 🏆18:34 Bill Hill 🏆19:05 Andrew Millis 🏆19:06 Geoffrey Gregory 🏆19:20 Naomi Sutton 🏆19:43 Catherine Allen 🏆20:03 Khan Nothnagel 🏆20:09 Clare Meraz 🏆20:25 Lesley Connors 🏆21:45 Tom Seller 🏆21:59 Sarah Laws 🏆22:01 Paula Blackledge 🏆23:10 Georgie Ripper 🏆23:34 Julie Oswald 🏆23:36 Jasmine Green 🏆23:39 Agata Chelchowska 🏆24:42 Nina Nickerson   The average time for all Vegan Runners to complete their parkrun course on this second event of March was an incredible 30:20 🥦🏃195 of us gained a new Personal Best for 2024.  Shoutouts to these Vegan Runners who finished their parkrun in a multiple of fifty position: 📣50 31:38 Simon Tucker 📣50 23:23 Benjamin Smith 📣100 24:44 Margaret Pritchard 📣100 28:44 Rebecca Sutcliffe 📣100 27:53 Abi Appleby 📣100 34:07 Arvo Stephens-Mikesch 📣100 25:08 Adrian Pope 📣150 35:16 Emma Hunt 📣150 35:57 Ian Thurston 📣250 34:02 Beks Morley 📣350 33:42 Melanie Parry 📣400 30:48 Louise Hey 📣400 36:31 Sophie White 📣400 46:29 Stephen Sellers   Fourteen VRs landed on the noughty step this week, castigations and time out for this week’s heroes of the zeros: 😈19:00 James Taylor 😈22:00 Gary Godden 😈25:00 Alison Gillies 😈25:00 Callum Harling 😈26:00 Darren Phillips 😈27:00 Steven Quinn 😈27:00 Maria Pali 😈27:00 Abigail Jordan 😈28:00 Estelle Davis 😈39:00 Jennifer Taylor 😈44:00 Colin Smithson 😈49:00 Vicky Sullivan 😈54:00 Alex Downham 😈71:00 Rebecca Kendrick   And to round up this week’s incredible report let’s finish with a special mention for our forty-eight repdigit reppers. Magic and salads for: 🪄🥗11 Benedict O’Connell 🪄🥗11 Gavin Oakley 🪄🥗11 Jack Gaughan 🪄🥗11 Jamie Heywood 🪄🥗11 Mike Harper 🪄🥗22 Andy Brinkworth 🪄🥗22 Brad Scarborough 🪄🥗22 Dan Coughlan 🪄🥗22 Rachel Marsh 🪄🥗22 Steve Proudley 🪄🥗33 Carl Rabey 🪄🥗33 Colin Armstrong 🪄🥗33 Jasmine Green 🪄🥗33 Peter Wilkin 🪄🥗33 Stuart Chalmers 🪄🥗44 Greg Turner 🪄🥗44 Nial Bullett 🪄🥗55 Buff Forbes Stone 🪄🥗55 Kay Cottrell 🪄🥗55 Matthew Newton 🪄🥗55 Neil Kirsh 🪄🥗55 Nigel Barnes 🪄🥗66 Charles Dean-Orange 🪄🥗66 Darren Chatfield 🪄🥗66 Jiri Kempny 🪄🥗66 Krystal Paterson-Walker 🪄🥗66 Meryl Shirtcliffe 🪄🥗66 Nadiah Jamaa 🪄🥗66 Simon English 🪄🥗77 Heather Wilson 🪄🥗77 Matthew Fordham 🪄🥗77 Nicola Harrison 🪄🥗88 Helen Treadgold 🪄🥗88 Sharon Weinstein 🪄🥗88 Stephen Smith 🪄🥗88 Tony Hardy 🪄🥗99 Bex Jones 🪄🥗99 Michael Stewart 🪄🥗99 Russell Walker 🪄🥗99 Steve Gyles 🪄🥗111 Emily Bruchez 🪄🥗111 Ilze Fridrihsone 🪄🥗111 Jess Hall 🪄🥗111 Katy Wilson 🪄🥗111 Kris Parkinson 🪄🥗111 Patrick Morrello 🪄🥗111 Vicky Sullivan 🪄🥗222 Keri Jackson   What an incredible week. At a time when Spring is springing and many religions are observing a time of restraint, it’s good to remember we are vegan because we are compassionate human beings capable of exercising restraint in the place of cruelty at all times of the year. To all animals, including humans. Enjoy planning your meetups for next week and I hope to meet many of you at Gunnersbury parkrun on the 23rd March. Happy running and repping! 🖤🐄🐑🐤💚               

Vegan Runners parkrun report 02.03.24

Vegan Runners parkrun report 02.03.24

March 3, 2024 0

💚🖤Our first parkrun of March 2024 saw 804 Vegan Runners attending 353 events, despite 182 cancellations. 739 of us earned a finish token and we filled over 65 volunteering roles. 161 of you achieved a new Personal Best for 2024 – that’s incredible! 🥦🎉   Marvellous meetups took place this week at 156 parkrun events – thank you to Joseph Baxter for this week’s wonderful photo from the most popular muddy meetup at Forest Rec parkrun, where 21 VRs convened. Other popular locations this week were held at:   17 Southampton parkrun 17 Torbay Velopark parkrun 15 Victoria parkrun, Glasgow 11 Northampton parkrun 9 Wythenshawe parkrun 9 Southend parkrun 8 Colwick parkrun 8 Preston Park parkrun, Brighton 7 Southsea parkrun 7 Cannon Hill parkrun, Birmingham 7 Brockenhurst parkrun 6 Hull parkrun 6 Whitstable parkrun 6 Hillsborough parkrun 6 East Grinstead parkrun 5 Brighton & Hove parkrun 5 Kingsway parkrun, Gloucester 5 Ashton Court parkrun 5 Endcliffe parkrun 5 Brueton parkrun 5 Conkers parkrun 5 Heslington parkrun 5 Belton House parkrun 5 Stretford parkrun 5 Coldham’s Common parkrun 5 Centre Vale parkrun 5 Hunstanton Promenade parkrun   There were sixteen meetups with four VRs, thirty-four trios, seventy-eight duos and 197 of us were solo reppers. We also had Vegan Runners promoting a vegan lifestyle internationally in:  🇩🇪   5 Germany 🇦🇹   4 Australia 🇯🇵   3 Japan 🇿🇦   2 South Africa 🇵🇱   2 Poland 🇮🇪   2 Ireland 🇺🇸  1 United States 🇸🇪   1 Sweden 🇸🇬   1 Singapore 🇨🇦 1 Canada  The average time for all Vegan Runners to complete their parkrun course this week was a respectable 30:25 🏃💪  Our top ten fastest men on this first parkrun of March were these un-beet-ables:  🥇 17:18 Matt Edmonds 🥇 17:40 Philip Nind 🥇 17:50 Ben Wickham 🥇 17:51 Matthew Du Cros 🥇 17:54 Michael Slack 🥇 18:06 Carl Whittaker 🥇 18:12 Andrew Worster 🥇 18:18 James Taylor 🥇 18:18 Gareth Thomas 🥇 18:19 Christopher Pearson  And top ten fastest ladies, leaf-ing the rest behind 🌿:  🥇 20:08 Becky Tovey 🥇 20:19 Naomi Sutton 🥇 20:23 Lesley Connors 🥇 20:50 Clare Meraz 🥇 20:58 Dory Kovacs 🥇 21:00 Katie Louise Wright 🥇 21:05 Catherine Charlton 🥇 21:13 Fiona Newman 🥇 21:14 Lin Lascelles 🥇 21:59 Laura Seaman   Congratulations! 🎉🥦   These plant-powered paragons came first in their gender position at their event – praise and party poppers for:  🎉 17:18 Matt Edmonds 🎉 17:40 Philip Nind 🎉 17:50 Ben Wickham 🎉 17:54 Michael Slack 🎉 18:12 Andrew Worster 🎉 18:19 Christopher Pearson 🎉 18:25 Nehal Lavey-Khan 🎉 18:48 Khan Nothnagel 🎉 19:11 Andrew Millis 🎉 19:15 Scott Hunter 🎉 19:29 Joseph Brown 🎉 19:31 Benjamin Smith 🎉 19:46 Thomas Harrington 🎉 20:16 Chris Annear 🎉 20:19 Naomi Sutton 🎉 20:23 Lesley Connors 🎉 20:50 Clare Meraz 🎉 21:05 Catherine Charlton 🎉 23:15 Dawn Williams 🎉 23:36 Julie Oswald 🎉 25:12 Abi Ford 🎉 28:38 Rachel Kuypers    Marvellous milestones this week were achieved by: 🎊 Satty Singh 250 🎊 Jacqui Little 200  A-maize-ing accomplishments 🌽!    Shoutouts to these Vegan Runners who finished their parkrun in a multiple of fifty position: 📣 50 21:49 Rafael Bickley 📣 150 25:36 Layla Whitaker 📣 150 27:32 Joanna McKenzie 📣 150 30:50 Emma Claxton 📣 150 24:36 Steven Quinn 📣 200 30:17 Bernard O’Connor 📣 200 27:35 Gregory Myles 📣 250 27:08 Ellenor Millican 📣 300 31:29 Rosie Northcott 📣 300 41:17 Thomas Giles 📣 350 28:26 Mandy Foyster 📣 450 34:00 Cez Mabe   On the noughty step this week we have twenty terrible terrors – magic numbers for these heroes of the zeros: 😈 19:00 Dave Colwell 😈 19:00 Andy Gardiner 😈 21:00 Katie Louise Wright 😈 24:00 Chris Sampson 😈 24:00 James Gargett 😈 24:00 Lee Tooey 😈 25:00 Simon English 😈 25:00 Tim Hawkins 😈 26:00 Andy Begent 😈 26:00 Chris Dhondee 😈 27:00 Simon See 😈 27:00 Ruth Farnell 😈 29:00 Iris Deniz 😈 29:00 Sam Thatcher 😈 29:00 Andrew Johnson 😈 31:00 Maya De Thabrew-Hutton 😈 34:00 Rachael Bickley 😈 34:00 Samantha Wright 😈 34:00 Cez Mabe 😈 48:00 Ella Hill   And, last but not least, lettuce celery-brate the thirty-two Vegan Runners who this week collected a finish token with a repdigit number. They are the amazing, the incredible, the awesome and resplendent: 🌟🎈11 Marc Davison 🌟🎈11 Marti Spence 🌟🎈11 Peter Taylor 🌟🎈11 Simon Hurford 🌟🎈22 Christopher Greenaway 🌟🎈22 Jamie Cecil 🌟🎈22 Steven Hatch 🌟🎈33 Dan Poole 🌟🎈33 Kristine Anderson 🌟🎈33 Megan Coney 🌟🎈33 Tikara Nothnagel 🌟🎈44 Keith Rochester 🌟🎈44 Mollie-May Harrod-Green 🌟🎈44 Stephen Todd 🌟🎈44 Stuart Robertson 🌟🎈55 Jack Riggall 🌟🎈55 Tim Hawkins 🌟🎈66 Ruth Kaypee 🌟🎈77 Andy Walsh 🌟🎈77 David Nicholson 🌟🎈77 Emily Mortimer 🌟🎈77 Keith Gilbert 🌟🎈88 Jay Parnham 🌟🎈88 Katherine Harris 🌟🎈88 Megan Quinn 🌟🎈99 Gareth Davies 🌟🎈111 Richard Passe 🌟🎈222 Thomas Morrison 🌟🎈333 Fran Grace 🌟🎈333 Karen Ratcliffe 🌟🎈444 Victoria Barber 🌟🎈666 Dani Ross   Lettuce be honest, you are all amazing, incredible, awesome and resplendent in black and green. Don’t be put off representing Vegan Runners and wearing our kit with pride. Silly comments are made by silly people. As Popeye once said, “I’m strong to the finish ’cause I eats me spinach.” 💪🏃 Have a great week! 🖤🐄🐑🐤💚               

Vegan Runners’ parkrun report 24.02.24

Vegan Runners’ parkrun report 24.02.24

February 25, 2024 0

💚🖤 What a difference the weather makes! With floods and freezing conditions a-plenty across the UK there were over 100 cancellations. We still had awesome attendance and representation with 839 Vegan Runners attending 324 different parkrun events. 783 gained a finish token and we had over 56 wonderful volunteers.  Meetups were as abundant as the cancellations on this last parkrun of February with an incredible 34 VRs repping at Chipping Sodbury – an awesome turnout. Other meetups of note took place at:  19 Hull parkrun  18 Kesgrave parkrun  17 Andover parkrun  10 Whitekirk Hill parkrun  8 Colwick parkrun  8 Worcester parkrun  8 Preston Park parkrun, Brighton  8 University of Northampton parkrun  7 Eastbourne parkrun  7 Southampton parkrun  7 Southsea parkrun  7 Brighouse parkrun  7 Eastville parkrun  6 Heaton parkrun  6 Milton Keynes parkrun  6 Brierley Forest parkrun  6 Barnstaple parkrun  6 Southend parkrun  6 Forest Rec parkrun  6 Hillsborough parkrun  6 Margate parkrun  6 Folkestone parkrun  6 Hove Promenade parkrun  6 Portsmouth Lakeside parkrun  6 Alvaston parkrun  6 Mildenhall Hub parkrun  There were also twelve meetups of five VRs, eighteen meetups of four VRs, thirty-eight trios, sixty-five duos and one hundred and sixty-four solo reppers. We are a friendly bunch!  Thank you to Lesley Connors for this week’s wonderful photo from Hull parkrun.  Not only were Vegan Runners promoting animal rights and awareness of veganism across the UK, we were also advocating avocados and plant-based diets across the world repping in:  🇩🇪   3 Germany  🇦🇹   3 Australia  🇳🇱   2 Netherlands  🇮🇪   2 Ireland  🇸🇪   1 Sweden  🇸🇬   1 Singapore  🇵🇱   1 Poland  🇳🇿   1 New Zealand  🇯🇵   1 Japan  🇮🇹   1 Italy  🇩🇰   1 Denmark  Our top ten fastest men this week, with incredible times, were:  🥇16:42 Philip Nind  🥇16:53 Jake Stephens  🥇16:54 Matt Edmonds  🥇17:19 Michael Slack  🥇17:52 Christopher Pearson  🥇17:52 Scott Braunton  🥇18:02 Harry Pannell  🥇18:25 Joe Burn  🥇18:31 Ben Wickham  🥇18:39 Darren Francis  And top ten fastest ladies, proving plant power is all the fuel you need:  🥇19:45 Lesley Connors 🥇19:53 Clare Meraz 🥇19:55 Hester Hill 🥇19:58 Jo Fleming 🥇20:18 Paula Blackledge 🥇20:53 Jenny McNamara 🥇21:11 Lin Lascelles 🥇21:18 Fiona Newman 🥇21:27 Elly Maggs 🥇21:42 Helen Seymour  Congratulations!  Remarkable repping from these VRs who came first in their gender position at their parkrun:  🏆16:54 Matt Edmonds  🏆17:52 Scott Braunton  🏆18:58 Dave Holmes  🏆19:23 Nathann Thornton  🏆19:42 Brad Scarborough  🏆19:53 Clare Meraz  🏆19:55 Hester Hill  🏆19:58 Jo Fleming  🏆20:18 Paula Blackledge  🏆21:27 Elly Maggs  🏆22:28 Lisa Kaye  🏆23:14 Emily Axford  🏆23:57 Zeina Clare  🏆24:15 Emily Pereira    As you probably know, marvellous milestones are no longer easily available from parkrun data so this section relies on me finding out from other sources. This week I just know to congratulate:  🎊 Gary Jarvis on his 50th parkrun 🎊 Katie Pownall on her 50th parkrun 🎊 Luke Sayers on his 100th parkrun  🎊 Nigel Barnes on completing his 250th parkrun.   Wonderful achievements and repping for the animals 🏃🐄   The average time for all Vegan Runners to complete the course on this last event of February 2024 was 30:31 🎉🏃‍♀️   Shoutouts to these Vegan Runners who finished their parkrun in a multiple of fifty position:  📣50 29:40 Laura Wright  📣50 26:55 Jasmine Green  📣50 35:18 James Henderson  📣50 29:38 Robert Franklin  📣50 25:31 Wojciech Walczuk  📣50 21:44 Nicholas Mytton  📣100 26:55 Karen Austin  📣100 30:05 Melanie Hayes  📣150 35:44 Gemma Clark  📣150 28:59 Doug Porter  📣200 31:19 Rachael Long  📣200 39:35 Sara Leudar  📣200 28:40 Ian Beasley  📣350 33:04 Hannah Rushton  📣500 35:35 Lizzy Sutton  Terrible behaviour from just twelve rambunctious VRs who landed on the noughty step this week, recriminations and time to think for:   😈 Tom Carpendale  😈 August Frew  😈 Michael Woods  😈 Katherine Alexander  😈 Guy Rayment  😈 Simon Scott  😈 Jacquie Little  😈 Jason Riley  😈 Tanya Barnes  😈 Tony Thyer  😈 Viki Bell  😈 Vicky Sullivan   Repping in style and collecting a repdigit finish token we have a resplendent punnet of thirty-four VRs. Avocados and animated applause for:  🥑👏11 Adam Doctor  🥑👏11 Darren Newman  🥑👏11 Emily Pereira  🥑👏11 Gary Godden  🥑👏11 Mike Harper  🥑👏11 Pete Colwell  🥑👏22 Andrew Nortrop  🥑👏22 Emma Collins  🥑👏22 Mary P Scott  🥑👏33 Jonny Hodgson  🥑👏44 Buff Forbes Stone  🥑👏44 Craig Wallace  🥑👏44 Kathryn Smith  🥑👏55 Harrison Tricker  🥑👏55 Suzi Brent  🥑👏66 Andrew Macbeth  🥑👏66 Ashley Price-Sabate  🥑👏66 Dan Russell  🥑👏66 Emma Warren  🥑👏66 Richard Catlin  🥑👏77 Alan Burgess  🥑👏77 David Chamberlain  🥑👏77 Jasmine Rawlinson  🥑👏77 Mete Guzelsoy  🥑👏88 Mary Wilson  🥑👏99 Kate Buttimer  🥑👏111 Alison Currie  🥑👏111 Janet Birchnall-Travers  🥑👏111 Jemma Gibson  🥑👏111 Simon Fuller  🥑👏222 Heath Harvey-List  🥑👏333 Adam Kirsh  🥑👏555 Caroline Gabriel   Gosh and goodness, such fantastic achievements, well done one and all for getting out to parkruns and representing our wonderful club. Veganism continues to gain attention and traction, this week the “Moral Maze” on Radio 4 discussed the moral case for veganism. Despite the presenter’s bias, it’s interesting to notice how increasingly difficult it’s becoming for non-vegans to come up with any rational argument for continuing to eat meat and dairy. Even the farmer agrees that current consumption and production of animal products is unsustainable and harmful.   Have a wonderful week – keep running and repping for the animals.  🖤🐄🐑🐤💚                 

February 18, 2024 0

💚🖤 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! 🖤🐄🐑🐤💚             

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