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Vegan Runners’ parkrun report 10.02.24

Vegan Runners’ parkrun report 10.02.24

February 11, 2024 0

💚🖤 What a week!  With parkrun breaking the news, even non parkrunners were pitching in to express their views on the heavily debated data debacle. On the plus side, everyone now knows about the inclusivity of this wonderful event which is sure to see attendance numbers increase. In terms of your weekly Vegan Runners’ parkrun report the aim has always been to celebrate VR parkrun achievements, including opportunities for everyone to get a mention in a non-contentious manner – so here goes – I hope you enjoy it! 💚🖤  On the 10th February 2024, facing a plethora of meteorological and terrestrial conditions (namely mud and puddles in the UK), 863 VRs managed to attend 349 different parkrun events. 805 gained a finish token and we had over 58 wonderful volunteers. Outside of the UK we had VRs repping our club at events in:   5 Germany 5 Australia 2 New Zealand 1  South Africa 1  Singapore 1 Netherlands 1  Italy 1 Ireland   Plenty of marvellous meetups took place as always – thank you to Su Z Anne for this week’s wonderful photo from the Northampton meetup celebrating Paul Jones’ 250th parkrun event – an amazing achievement and clearly celebrated in style! 🎊🥳🎂   The most popular locations for VR get-togethers were held at:   25 University of Northampton parkrun 24 Victoria Dock parkrun 17 Pontefract parkrun 12 Springburn parkrun, Glasgow  11 Bartley Park parkrun 10 Eastbourne parkrun 9 Southsea parkrun 8 Southampton parkrun 8 Hillsborough parkrun 8 Gloucester City parkrun 7 Ashton Court parkrun 7 Preston Park parkrun, Brighton 7 Hunstanton Promenade parkrun 6 Bushy parkrun 6 Colwick parkrun 6 Valentines parkrun 6 Worcester parkrun 6 Alvaston parkrun 6 Tidworth parkrun 5 Arrow Valley parkrun 5 Whitstable parkrun 5 Princes parkrun, Liverpool 5 Medina I.O.W. parkrun 5 Pomphrey Hill parkrun 5 Lee-on-the-Solent parkrun 5 Rogiet parkrun 5 Marine Parade parkrun 5 Yarborough Leisure Centre parkrun 5 Five Arches parkrun   Our top five fastest ladies on this 2nd run of February 2024 were:   🥇19:36 Clare Meraz 🥇19:37 Naomi Sutton 🥇19:49 Caroline McAleese 🥇20:16 Hannah Shiels 🥇20:42 Lesley Connors   And our top five fastest men:   🥇16:45 Philip Nind 🥇17:03 Rhys Goddard 🥇17:27 Ciar Nixon 🥇17:33 Christopher Pearson 🥇17:36 Michael Slack   All achieving super impressive times – congratulations! 🏃‍♂️🏆  Seventeen amazing VRs came first in their gender position at their parkrun, kudos & congrats to:   🏆17:03 Rhys Goddard 🏆17:37 Matt Edmonds 🏆17:46 Pete Jnr Benedickter 🏆17:49 Naeem Stevens 🏆18:12 Harry Pannell 🏆18:19 Joseph Brown 🏆18:19 Scott Braunton 🏆18:22 Dan Stent 🏆18:23 Jake Stephens 🏆19:18 Andrew Millis 🏆19:36 Clare Meraz 🏆19:37 Naomi Sutton 🏆19:49 Caroline McAleese 🏆19:59 Hester Hill 🏆20:16 Hannah Shiels 🏆20:45 Elly Maggs 🏆21:24 Fiona Newman   The average time for all Vegan Runners to complete the course on this second event of February 2024 was 29:50. Plant power! 🥦🌱🌿🥗   Data is no longer easily available for VRs who were top age graded at their parkrun, neither are the marvellous milestones, so apologies for lack of mentions here. But I did notice a couple of special events alongside Paul Jones’ 250th:  🧦 David Baker completed his last and 25th parkrun since his MND diagnosis (having completed 152 parkruns in total) which he ran with his daughter Rachel Baker who was running her 25th parkrun and wife Alice (158). We wish you all the very, very best. 💚🖤 Roisin Damm completed her 100th parkrun in 28:52 at Westpark parkrun – congratulations! 🎉🎉 Lesley Ashton was first in her age category and Fiona Newman was first age graded – of course! 🥳🏃🏃  Shoutouts and accolades to these Vegan Runners who finished their parkrun in a multiple of fifty position:   📣50 Chloé Holland 📣50 Sarah Laws 📣50 Judy Johnson 📣50 Barnaby Hicks 📣100 Jane London 📣100 Melanie Hayes 📣100 Tim Bradshaw 📣150 Eve Orange 📣150 Mirek Salmon 📣200 Matleena Elonheimo 📣350 Rosie Lester 📣650 Ella Hill 📣800 Caroline Roberts   On the noughty step this week we have twenty terribly troublesome transgressors:   😈21:00 Llyr Roberts 😈22:00 Stuart Robertson 😈23:00 Ben Vick 😈24:00 Katie Layley 😈25:00 Mike Rogers 😈25:00 Rowena Owen 😈26:00 Callum Harling 😈26:00 Nick Russon 😈27:00 Andrew Kaye 😈29:00 Andy Straw 😈30:00 Doug Porter 😈30:00 Matt Prichard 😈31:00 Holly Vincent 😈31:00 Koby Crumpler 😈32:00 Karen Arkwright 😈32:00 Elizabeth Billingham 😈33:00 Graeme Harris 😈35:00 Jane Wills 😈45:00 Lana Dzananovic 😈55:00 Michael Beadle   Collecting a repdigit finish token this week were 43 VRs! Whoops and cheers with sweetcorn ears to:   🎉🌽11 Benjamin Smith 🎉🌽11 Christopher Jones 🎉🌽11 Hannah Shiels 🎉🌽22 Alexander Cox 🎉🌽22 Carl Mowatt 🎉🌽22 Haydn Whitmore 🎉🌽22 James Edward Jepson 🎉🌽22 Kevin Newell 🎉🌽22 Nina Nickerson 🎉🌽33 Daniel Wilson 🎉🌽33 Sam Bagnall 🎉🌽44 Fiona Cownie 🎉🌽44 Greg Turner 🎉🌽44 Jacob Butler 🎉🌽44 Rachel Toone 🎉🌽44 Sharon Weinstein 🎉🌽55 Tom Preece 🎉🌽66 Jan Basha 🎉🌽66 Tom Rogers 🎉🌽77 Margaret Pritchard 🎉🌽77 Martin Mcloughlin 🎉🌽77 Michelle Steer 🎉🌽77 Paula Hirst 🎉🌽88 Gary Jarvis 🎉🌽88 Heath Harvey-List 🎉🌽88 Ian Thurston 🎉🌽88 Kev Meaney 🎉🌽88 Moira Cuthbert 🎉🌽99 Angelina Farruggia 🎉🌽99 Debbie Kessell 🎉🌽99 Jane Forbes 🎉🌽99 Jim Mcalwane 🎉🌽99 Lana Sarey El-Din 🎉🌽99 Lisa Knights 🎉🌽99 Shireen Kassam 🎉🌽111 Amy Finnigan 🎉🌽111 Caitlin Barry 🎉🌽111 Hayley Burn 🎉🌽222 Sandra Morgan 🎉🌽333 Alice Connor 🎉🌽333 Catherine Thompson 🎉🌽333 Rich Lehmann 🎉🌽666 Matthew Sweed  A-maize-ing repping for the animals. 🖤🐄🐑🐤💚 “Oh please, enough with the puns,” I hear you cry, “Bring back Mike’s reports!” Well, I’m back. I’ve beaten cancer for the 3rd time and whilst I won’t be running for a while yet I’ll continue repping, reporting, volunteering and running again as soon as I’m able. Thank you to Mike and Gary for stepping in. Well done to all of you getting out there participating in parkruns and promoting veganism. It’s sad to hear of negative reactions from non-vegans and of VRs feeling uncomfortable with wearing the Vegan Runners’ logo. I’ve experienced the “bacon butty” comment myself plus resentment from actual family members on occasion. I’ve since discovered that vegaphobia is a recognised condition and found it helpful to understand some of the reasons behind it. It’s also enabled me to feel even more confident about facing non-vegan attitudes. I hope the link is helpful for some of you, too. Have a great week! 💚🖤                 

Vegan Runners’ parkrun report 09.12.23

Vegan Runners’ parkrun report 09.12.23

December 10, 2023 0

💚🖤💦 Once again Vegan Runners faced incredibly difficult conditions for the most part with rain lashing down heavily across the UK. 641 VRs still managed to attend 306 different events, 575 completed the predominantly waterlogged 5 km courses and over 66 VRs supported parkrun by volunteering. Many meetups were scuppered by last minute cancellations but 396 of you repped with VR company this week, the largest meetups occurring at: 19 Brierley Forest parkrun 17 Newbury parkrun 11 Blaise Castle parkrun 7 Woodbank parkrun 5 Albert parkrun, Middlesbrough 5 Hull parkrun 5 Ally Pally parkrun 5 Margate parkrun 5 Preston Park parkrun, Brighton 5 Exeter Riverside parkrun 5 Lee-on-the-Solent parkrun 5 Oaklands parkrun 5 Five Arches parkrun There were also nineteen groups of four, thirty-one trios, sixty-four double acts and 179 solo reppers. Credit to Holly McCain for this week’s wonderfully wet woodland photo from the Brierley Forest parkrun meetup featuring a vegan elf spreading a bit of elf and ‘appiness🧝   The average time for all VRs to complete their soggy parkrun this week was again just slightly shy of a sub30 at 30:05! SO close.   Nineteen VRs finished first in their gender position this week, all hail these fantastically fast runners: 🏆 17:07 Harry Pannell 🏆 17:31 Philip Nind 🏆 18:13 Tom Carpenter 🏆 18:40 Daniel Borrett 🏆 18:45 Jake Stephens 🏆 19:11 James Withams 🏆 19:14 Jamie Kinghorn 🏆 19:20 Matthew Rhodes 🏆 19:24 Jon Turtle 🏆 19:43 Andrew Millis 🏆 21:03 Mimi Connolly 🏆 21:55 Catherine Charlton 🏆 22:01 Mary P Scott 🏆 23:21 Hester Hill 🏆 23:43 Lin Lascelles 🏆 23:57 Coral Putman 🏆 24:47 Dawn Williams 🏆 26:23 Susan Waller-Toyne 🏆 28:14 Andi Stacey   Our top five fastest ladies this week were: 🏅20:14 Lesley Connors 🏅21:03 Mimi Connolly 🏅21:12 Katie Louise Wright 🏅21:55 Catherine Charlton 🏅22:01 Mary P Scott   And our top five fastest men: 🏅 17:07 Harry Pannell (one second off his PB!) 🏅 17:25 Gareth Pritchard 🏅 17:27 Geoffrey Gregory 🏅 17:31 Philip Nind 🏅 18:01 Ben Wickham Excellent running in incredibly inclement conditions 🥦🏃 Brilliant results in the age grading category from Vegan Runners this week, smashing it as we had an outstandingly impressive nine VRs achieving the top age graded performance at their event this week; kudos and prestige to: 🕺 84.28% Andrew Millis 🕺 80.04% Geoffrey Gregory 🕺 79.55% Lin Lascelles 🕺 77.89% Judy Johnson 🕺 76.69% Jamie Kinghorn 🕺 74.88% Philip Nind 🕺 73.83% Tom Carpenter 🕺 73.66% Daniel Borrett 🕺 70.50% Susan Waller-Toyne   And now… for the first time ever, I am proud to announce that I have finally been able to generate a list of Vegan Runners who achieved their Personal Best of 2023 this week! Thank you of course to our amazingly talented magician statistician Gary Sherin who taught me The Way to achieve this. So here we go, let’s congratulate and celebrate fantastic achievements for these VRs who smashed out their 2023 PB in the driving rain! (N.B. these are 1st PBs of 2023 whilst registered as a Vegan Runner with parkrun). Well done to: 🏆🥇28:50 Simon Rose 🏆🥇46:10 Kathy Shaw 🏆🥇32:21 Paresh Patel 🏆🥇38:57 Rebecca Ward 🏆🥇24:41 Sam Lappage 🏆🥇21:50 Joe Burn 🏆🥇22:04 Jeremy Braithwait 🏆🥇36:34 Claire Robinson 🏆🥇33:56 James Anderson 🏆🥇36:12 Stephen Smith 🏆🥇29:20 Alix Wood 🏆🥇18:33 Neil Sexton 🏆🥇30:04 David Clarkson 🏆🥇23:36 Chantelle Cornett 🏆🥇18:21 James Green 🏆🥇24:10 Jamie Collins 🏆🥇37:19 Debbie Gee 🏆🥇22:54 Christopher Lait 🏆🥇28:15 Mollie-May Harrod-Green 🏆🥇22:50 Harvey Williams 🏆🥇28:48 Gina Dearing 🏆🥇27:52 Jon Hall 🏆🥇28:50 Jac Prigmore 🏆🥇24:26 Ieva Jasmontaite 🏆🥇26:04 Layla Whitaker 🏆🥇26:55 David Rudland 🏆🥇24:26 Richard Passe It’s highly possible that I’ve made errors here so apologies in advance if I’ve made any mistakes. Marvelous milestones were achieved this week by: 🎊 50 Thomas Preece 🎊 250 Jemma Gibson A reminder that I can only see milestones by Vegan Runners who have run at more than fifty different parkrun locations. VRs who earned themselves a barcode with a multiple of 50 get a shoutout of course, Christmas biscuits for: 🍪50 Mo Warrillow 🍪50 Katy Errock 🍪50 Heath Harvey-List 🍪50 David Rudland 🍪100 Sue House 🍪150 Emma Davids 🍪150 Sally Smith 🍪200 Han Whiteoak 🍪200 Jenny Fernandez 🍪250 Rosalie Hoskins 🍪300 Clare Pashby 🍪300 Rosie Northcott   Only four VRs landed on the noughty step this week – most of us are clearly trying to avoid upsetting Santa in the run-up to Christmas! 😈 25:00 Kellie Clark 😈 33:00 Joanne Kitchener 😈 34:00 Ruth Stockley 😈 56:00 Sarah Horrigan-Fullard   Rounding up this week’s water-logged report we have our randomly recognised repdigit reppers, who this week earn themselves a raindrop, let’s hear it for: 💧11 David Murray 💧11 Gavin Oakley 💧11 Joseph Delahunty 💧11 Neil Timms 💧22 Andrew Aldridge 💧22 Annabel Sykes 💧22 Ellenor Millican 💧22 Jenny Katsoni 💧22 Katie Louise Wright 💧22 Phil Davies 💧22 Robert Skedgell 💧22 Sarah Butler 💧22 Sebby Travers 💧33 Andy Begent 💧33 Emma Carpenter 💧44 H Matthew Howarth 💧44 Matthew Shepherd 💧44 Mike Rogers 💧44 Mirek Salmon 💧44 Sheldon Kilroe 💧55 Maya De Thabrew-Hutton 💧55 Michael Drake 💧55 Sarah Benn 💧66 Angelina Farruggia 💧66 Barnaby Norman 💧77 Anthony Holder 💧88 Jim McAlwane 💧88 John Pellegrini 💧99 Angie Ridge 💧99 Becki Clark 💧99 Gareth Lemon 💧99 Gerard Mucci 💧111 Katrina Harling 💧222 Helen Skilton   Well done everyone, great running and great repping in the pouring rain. We have just four more parkruns this year including the extra event on Christmas Day. Many people will be looking to start the New Year with a new commitment to better themselves and what better way to start 2024 than by going vegan. Let’s keep repping! Have a great week. 💚🖤        

Vegan Runners’ parkrun report 02.12.23

Vegan Runners’ parkrun report 02.12.23

December 3, 2023 0

❄️Frosty and wintery conditions were embraced and endured by only the bravest of Vegan Runners on this first parkrun of December 2023. 631 of us attended 278 events, 580 of us were given a finish token and over 50 of you nobly took on a very chilly voluntary role. Many of you had to find alternative venues as there were over 100 cancellations, mainly due to icy and snowy conditions ❄️. Lots of lovely meetups still took place, the most popular of which were held at: 26 Ashton Court parkrun 14 Sharpham Estate parkrun 9 Rothwell parkrun 8 Forest Rec parkrun 7 Bestwood Village parkrun 7 Tollcross parkrun, Glasgow 7 Great Lines parkrun, Medway 7 Swansea Bay parkrun 6 Southampton parkrun 6 Whiteley parkrun 6 Whitstable parkrun 6 Woodgate Valley Country Park parkrun 5 Brockwell parkrun, Herne Hill 5 Southsea parkrun 5 St Albans parkrun 5 Milton Keynes parkrun 5 Preston Park parkrun, Brighton 5 Worthing parkrun Thanks to Janet Birchnall Travers for this week’s meetup photo from Sharpham Estate parkrun. The average time for all Vegan Runners to complete their parkrun course this week was just shy of a sub30, coming in at 30:19. Incredible speeds from our top five fastest men this week and very close on the podium jostling for 1st position: 🏅🏃 17:14 Andy Gardiner 🏅🏃 17:27 Pawel Pasko 🏅🏃 17:33 Philip Nind 🏅🏃 17:33 High-Carb Vegan 🏅🏃 17:52 Gareth Thomas Congratulations! Congratulations also to our top five fastest women, who this week were: 🏅🏃20:22 Naomi Sutton 🏅🏃20:57 Clare Meraz 🏅🏃21:28 Laura Pettitt 🏅🏃21:43 Catherine Charlton 🏅🏃21:51 Gay O’Connor Fantastic running and repping 🏃🥦🏃. Sixteen Vegan Runners finished in first position for their gender at their parkrun this week, great results for: 🥦🏃 17:14 Andy Gardiner 🥦🏃 17:33 Philip Nind 🥦🏃 17:33 High-Carb Vegan 🥦🏃 18:00 Nehal Lavey-Khan 🥦🏃 18:07 Daniel Borrett 🥦🏃 18:24 Lee Billinghurst 🥦🏃 18:26 Matt Edmonds 🥦🏃 18:26 Dan Stent 🥦🏃 19:45 Benedict O’Connell 🥦🏃 20:42 Khan Nothnagel 🥦🏃 20:57 Clare Meraz 🥦🏃 21:31 Jiri Kempny 🥦🏃 21:43 Catherine Charlton 🥦🏃 23:13 Lesley Connors 🥦🏃 24:32 Dawn Williams 🥦🏃 26:10 Kathryn Lamb Veggie power! 🌽🥗 We had three VRs who were top age graded at their event this week, jubilations and standing ovations to: 🏆 Andrew Millis 83.85% 🏆 Margaret Pritchard 82.89% 🏆 Richard Barr 75.25% Fantastic gradings.   Marvelous Milestones this week achieved by: 🏅🏃 250 Katie Cox Congratulations! 🎊 Personal Bests will hopefully feature in future reports, although I’m struggling to get this data currently. Moving onto the random shoutout section of this report! Let’s start with our VRs who were handed a barcode with a multiple of 50 this week – fabulous repping in frrrrreeeezing conditions – salad and snowflakes for: 🥗❄️50 Pranev Sharma 🥗❄️100 Sarah Laws 🥗❄️100 Lesley Quinn 🥗❄️100 Richard James 🥗❄️100 Tony Hardy 🥗❄️150 Sonia Lord 🥗❄️200 Rafi Cavanagh 🥗❄️200 Prashant Soneji 🥗❄️200 H Matthew Howarth 🥗❄️350 Niki Edge 🥗❄️350 Elaine McMillan There were seventeen VRs who landed directly on the noughty step this week – indecorous and incorrigible timing from: 😈 18:00 Nehal Lavey-Khan 😈 20:00 Peter Veleski 😈 25:00 Lin Lascelles (shocking behaviour) 😈 26:00 James Gargett 😈 27:00 Andrew McMillan 😈 28:00 Jonny Gill 😈 28:00 Rachel Billinghurst 😈 29:00 Prashant Soneji 😈 30:00 Michelle Flower 😈 31:00 Matt Helm 😈 31:00 Peter Bunyan 😈 38:00 Katy Wilson 😈 43:00 Sara Leudar 😈 46:00 Anna Uscroft 😈 49:00 Ethan Lambart 😈 58:00 Tara Macey 😈 58:00 Rachel Marsh Well done, heroes of the zeroes 🎊💚🖤😍 And, last but not least, let’s hear it for our repdigit reppers, out in the cold for the animals, repping the 💚🖤. Awesome applause and standing ovations for these wonderful VRs: 📣🎊 11 James Porter 📣🎊 11 Jonathan Morris 📣🎊 11 Reece O’Kane 📣🎊 11 Ryan Travers 📣🎊 22 Benjamin Smith 📣🎊 22 Brendan Kenny 📣🎊 22 Brit Peacock 📣🎊 22 C James Barr 📣🎊 22 Lesley Connors 📣🎊 22 Linzi Cooper 📣🎊 22 Patrick Morris 📣🎊 22 Rosie Brown 📣🎊 33 Ceci Musgrave 📣🎊 33 Jen Conway 📣🎊 33 Kirsty Atkinson 📣🎊 33 Phil Sowerby-Williams 📣🎊 33 Wojciech Walczuk 📣🎊 44 Rachael Bickley 📣🎊 44 Rachel Billinghurst 📣🎊 44 Steven Dobner 📣🎊 55 Darren Eveleigh 📣🎊 55 Eoghan Bickley 📣🎊 55 Sarah Hull 📣🎊 66 Mike Harling 📣🎊 77 Adrian Pope 📣🎊 77 Andi Stacey 📣🎊 77 Chris Phipps 📣🎊 77 Coral Putman 📣🎊 77 Doug Porter 📣🎊 77 Lauren Mills 📣🎊 88 Alfie Gateley-Preece 📣🎊 88 Angela Cresswell 📣🎊 99 Chris Sampson 📣🎊 99 Jo Godman 📣🎊 99 Sali Daniels 💚🖤 Well done everyone, a great turnout repping our wonderful club considering the icy conditions and the many cancellations that impeded attendance this week. Next week looks a little warmer, although do check for Christmas events which might affect your intended parkrun venue. Let me know in the comments of any errors or omissions! Have a wonderful week and let’s smash out a collective sub30 next week! 💚🖤  

Vegan Runners’ parkrun report 25.11.23

Vegan Runners’ parkrun report 25.11.23

November 26, 2023 0

❄️ Crisp and frosty conditions greeted Vegan Runners on this last parkrun of November, with clear skies and sunshine enhancing most UK locations. Ground conditions were good compared to the wet and squishy terrain encountered last week, many PBs I suspect, but that’s for another post. 💚🖤 837 VRs attended 371 events, 773 members collected a barcode and over 64 of us volunteered. 💚🖤 There were 30 meetups of five or more VRs, the most popular this week held at: 26      The Old Showfield parkrun 17       Worcester Pitchcroft parkrun 11       Portobello parkrun, Edinburgh 10      Southampton parkrun 9        Preston Park parkrun, Brighton 9        Brooklands parkrun 7        Eastville parkrun 7        Hastings parkrun 7        Sherwood Pines parkrun 7        Irchester Country parkrun 6        Tamar Trails parkrun 6        Whitstable parkrun 6        Hillsborough parkrun 6        Lee-on-the-Solent parkrun 6        Centre Vale parkrun 6        Tamworth Castle Grounds parkrun Thanks to Norbert Adison for this week’s photo from The Old Showfield – the 2nd biggest VR meetup of the month!   Our top five fastest men this week achieved incredible times, congratulations to: 🏆 16:33 Naeem Stevens 🏆 16:44 Philip Nind 🏆 17:01 Richard Davis 🏆 17:04 Ben Wickham 🏆 17:18 Harry Pannell And our top five fastest ladies are: 🏆 19:25 Clare Meraz 🏆 20:07 Paula Blackledge 🏆 20:13 Mary P Scott 🏆 20:32 Katie Louise Wright 🏆 21:01 Fiona Newman Super-fast! Well done 🥦🏃   Sixteen VRs finished in first position for their gender at their parkrun, congratulations to: 🏅 Naeem Stevens 🏅 Richard Davis 🏅 Andy Gardiner 🏅 Tom Carpenter 🏅 Lee Billinghurst 🏅 Matthew Rhodes 🏅 Khan Nothnagel 🏅 Clare Meraz 🏅 Paula Blackledge 🏅 Mary P Scott 🏅 Catherine Charlton 🏅 Lesley Connors 🏅 Rachel Burgess 🏅 Marti Spence 🏅 Elly Maggs 🏅 Rosie Brown Fantastic repping 💪🏆.   Top age graded at their parkruns this week we have these absolutely amazing Vegan Runners: 🕺 84.99% Stephen Boynton 🕺 84.47% Margaret Pritchard 🕺 84.35% Vanessa Bradford 🕺 82.15% Judy Johnson 🕺 81.76% Fiona Newman 🕺 77.55% Fiona Cownie 🕺 77.23% Lesley Connors 🕺 75.85% Tom Carpenter   Nineteen VRs were handed a finish token with a multiple of fifty, shoutouts to these auspicious parkrunners: 🎊 50 Geraldine Larham 🎊 50 Ernest Bryden 🎊 100 Gill Woon 🎊 100 Louis Kowal 🎊 100 Didar Bhamrah 🎊 150 Mo Warrillow 🎊 150 Lisa Jepson 🎊 150 Sonia Crisp 🎊 150 Hilary Cockshaw 🎊 150 Keith Bremner 🎊150 Philip Margett 🎊150 Joe Brownen 🎊200 Tanya Barnes 🎊 200 Ann-Marie Fahmy 🎊 200 Tony Hardy 🎊 250 Sandra Morgan 🎊 250 Steven Quinn 🎊 350 Teresa O’Gorman 🎊 450 Kerry Irwin-Hall Fourteen wayward insubordinates found themselves on the noughty step this week, time out for: 😈 18:00 Geoffrey Gregory 😈 19:00 Peter Veleski 😈 21:00 Ben Parmar 😈 21:00 Richard Twine 😈 22:00 Mark Crowe 😈 23:00 Eloise Kate Billington 😈 28:00 James McCleary 😈 28:00 Mike McBeth 😈 30:00 Matt Ashmead 😈 30:00 Bridgitte Seymour 😈 30:00 Stephen Sellers 😈 30:00 Debra Porter 😈 31:00 Catriona McDonald 😈 39:00 Michelle Steer Many amazing and Marvellous Milestones achieved this week, huge congratulations and standing ovations to: 🥳 100 Daniella Smith 🥳 150 Christopher Pearson 🥳 200 Jhon Cosgrove 🥳 250 Lin Lascelles 🥳 250 Martin Lascelles 🥳 250 Robert Skedgell   And last but not least, our resplendent, remarkable and revered repdigit reppers who gain recognition and a broccoli emoji this week are: 🥦 11 Andy Hughes 🥦 11 Jamie Kinghorn 🥦 11 John Pellegrini 🥦 22 Gary Beardsley 🥦 22 Matt Fowler-Jones 🥦 22 Stephen Boynton 🥦 33 Chantelle Cornett 🥦 33 Malcolm Duncan 🥦 33 Mark Elwell 🥦 33 Richard Farrage 🥦 33 Roberta Jasmontaite 🥦 44 Daniel Evans 🥦 44 Jenny Mitcham 🥦 44 Kate Telford 🥦 44 Rajiv Mulchandani 🥦 55 Callum Harling 🥦 55 Doug Porter 🥦 55 Joseph Guntrip 🥦 66 Ian Thurston 🥦 66 Mark Gregory 🥦 66 Michelle Flower 🥦 66 Ruth Morrello 🥦 77 Edward Owen 🥦 77 Helen Treadgold 🥦 77 Ryan Procter 🥦 99 Claire Robinson 🥦 99 Nick Lowry 🥦 111 Annie Hamilton 🥦 111 Stephen Miller 🥦 222 Laura Fearn 🥦 222 Sonia Lord 🥦 333 Holly McCain   Another week of fantastic repping and results, all of us visibly demonstrating a range of benefits of veganism – including fun, friendships and fitness. Well done everybody! Sometimes it can feel daunting to go out in the freezing cold wearing our clear message “VEGAN RUNNERS” which isn’t always well received, but it’s always worth it. 💚🖤 I have a snowflake on my phone for our next parkrun! ❄ Enjoy the chilly challenge! Have a great week.          

parkrun roundup 18th November 2023

parkrun roundup 18th November 2023

November 19, 2023 0

Soggy and squelchy conditions underfoot on grassy terrains on this penultimate run of November, which was enjoyed and endured by 767 Vegan Runners at 361 different parkrun events. We had 704 finishers and over 63 wonderful volun-cheers. Not so many big meetups this week but plenty of smaller groups of VRs getting together. The most popular parkrun meetups this week were held at: 20 Southampton parkrun 16 Eastville parkrun 13 Beacon Hill Country Park parkrun 9 Eglinton parkrun 8 Worcester parkrun 8 Eden Project parkrun 7 Gloucester City parkrun 6 Exeter Riverside parkrun 6 Worthing parkrun 5 Bushy parkrun 5 Eastbourne parkrun 5 Colwick parkrun 5 Southsea parkrun 5 Huddersfield parkrun 5 Conkers parkrun 5 Graves parkrun 5 Brockenhurst parkrun 5 Margate parkrun 5 Folkestone parkrun 5 Seven Fields parkrun Big thanks to Alice Baker for this week’s photo from Southampton celebrating Matt Salisbury’s 150th parkrun 💚🖤 The average time for all Vegan Runners to complete their parkrun on the 18th November 2023 was 30:06 🏃🥦   An incredible seventeen VRs came first in their gender position at their parkruns this week! Congratulations to: 🏆 19:06 Daniel Borrett 🏆 26:09 Elaine Banks 🏆 21:14 Lesley Connors 🏆 23:29 Marti Spence 🏆 28:20 Rebecca Lait 🏆 20:18 Clare Meraz 🏆 24:59 Raegan Russell 🏆 18:44 Dan Stent 🏆 23:42 Greta Kegler 🏆 25:49 Claire Evans 🏆 17:46 Tom Carpenter 🏆 22:04 Rebel Gilbert 🏆 19:31 Khan Nothnagel 🏆 17:26 Philip Nind 🏆 21:11 Katie Bexley 🏆 20:40 Gary Farquharson 🏆 24:46 Rachel Burgess Fantastic repping 🥬🥕🥦   More incredible prowess from this week’s top age graded VRs at their events, plant power demonstrated admirably by: 🏅 Margaret Pritchard 80.61% 🏅 Lesley Connors 78.02% 🏅 Tom Carpenter 75.70% 🏅 Jeremy Broomfield 74.94%   On this week’s leaderboard for the fastest men we have: ⚡🏃17:10 Ciar Nixon ⚡🏃17:26 Philip Nind ⚡🏃17:42 Richard Foster ⚡🏃17:46 Tom Carpenter ⚡🏃18:17 James Taylor And this week’s fastest ladies are: ⚡🏃 20:18 Clare Meraz ⚡🏃21:11 Katie Bexley ⚡🏃21:14 Lesley Connors ⚡🏃21:20 Fiona Newman ⚡🏃21:44 Joanna Crossman Excellent times, particularly considering the squelchy conditions in most parks this week 🌟   Marvellous milestones this week were achieved by: 🏅🎊 100 Gareth Davies 🏅🎊 150 Matt Salisbury 🏅🎊 350 Doug Porter Congratulations, felicitations and commemorations on your involvement with two of the finest voluntary institutions in the land – parkrun and Vegan Runners! 💚🥕🏃🥦🖤   These Vegan Runners collected a token number which had a multiple of fifty and as such warrant a shout out for their fabulous repping of the green and black: 🥳 50 Jim McAlwane 🥳 50 Darren Eveleigh 🥳 100 Jasmine Rawlinson 🥳100 Gabriela Pasko 🥳100 Elaine Murray 🥳300 Sarah Horrigan-Fullard 🥳300 Keshab Bhattarai 🥳450 Dianne Simpson 🥳500 Damian Luscombe 🥳700 David Baker Our resplendent repdigit reppers of course deserve large, huge and thunderous applause, let’s hear it for: 🙌 11 Callum Harling 🙌 11 Dan Coughlan 🙌 11 Keith Bremner 🙌 22 Andi Stacey 🙌 22 Caroline Lloyd 🙌 22 David Brown 🙌 22 Michael Inglis 🙌 22 Robin Jowitt 🙌 33 Carrie Leach 🙌 33 Chris Calvert 🙌 33 Craig Mcallister 🙌 33 Eleanor Smith 🙌 33 Richard Carman 🙌 44 James Lampert 🙌 44 Joshila Devile 🙌 44 Melanie Hayes 🙌 44 Ruth Morrello 🙌 44 Sarah Hull 🙌 44 Simon Hurford 🙌 55 Elena Roebuck 🙌 55 Thomas Boden 🙌 77 Fiona Bates 🙌 77 Gemma Clark 🙌 88 Kerry Barnett 🙌 88 Soleil Barrett 🙌 99 David Stephens-Mikesch 🙌 99 Guy Marlow 🙌 111 David Sharratt 🙌 111 Rebecca Hawes 🙌 222 Mark Gretton Keep rocking your vegan socks 🧦 On the noughty step this week there are lots of names I recognise from appearances in previous reports – these VRs better watch out and better not cry as it’s nearing that time of year… 😈 19:00 Geoffrey Gregory 😈 24:00 Gavin Hawkton 😈 25:00 Paula Hirst 😈 25:00 Adrian Pope 😈 25:00 Louis Kowal 😈 28:00 Kate Telford 😈 33:00 Claire Barber 😈 51:00 Sarah Horrigan-Fullard – double shoutout!   Well done everyone, sorry for any errors or omissions, you are all amazing.I’m still working on how to get our PBs into this report. Currently only Gary-the-Magician-Statistician can manage this amazing data-tastic miracle! But watch this space. I will not give up! And, like you, I won’t give up on promoting veganism and explaining why meat and dairy is so wrong. There is always a peaceful solution to any violent act and a viable alternative which benefits all in the long run. Enjoy your long runs this week, those who do! And those who don’t, see you at parkruns next week 💚🖤          

Vegan Runners’ parkrun 11.11.23

Vegan Runners’ parkrun 11.11.23

November 12, 2023 0

Cool and crisp conditions pervaded the entirety of the UK on this 2nd parkrun of November with frost and fog descending on many locations before being replaced by brilliant blue skies. What a contrast from last week’s rain! 807 Vegan Runners embraced the chilly challenge and graced 350 events, with 732 VRs completing the 5km courses and at least 75 lovely VRs volunteering. Many magnificent meetups occurred, the most popular taking place at:  30 Quakers Walk parkrun  18 Southampton parkrun  12 Hastings parkrun  10 Woodhouse Moor parkrun  10 Clacton Seafront parkrun  7 Colwick parkrun  7 Worthing parkrun  7 Catford parkrun  7 Centre Vale parkrun  6 Whitstable parkrun  6 Mile End parkrun  6 Heartlands parkrun  6 Hunstanton Promenade parkrun    Thanks to Gary-the-Magician-Statistician for this week’s photo of the biggest VR meetup at Quakers Park. VRs smashed the course taking first place and first finishers for both male and female runners. Plant power 🥕🥦    The top five speediest ladies this week are:  🏅🏃19:03 Caroline McAleese  🏅🏃19:59 Katie Louise Wright  🏅🏃21:07 Mary P Scott  🏅🏃21:12 Clare Meraz  🏅🏃21:23 Fiona Newman    And the top five fastest men:  🏅🏃16:48 Philip Nind  🏅🏃17:25 Richard Foster  🏅🏃17:29 Gareth Thomas  🏅🏃17:41 Harry Pannell  🏅🏃18:02 Andrew Worster    Amazing times, fantastic repping. 🏃🥦🏃    Top age graded at their parkrun this week we have these very fit VRs:  🏆 Lin Lascelles 85.18%  🏆 Caroline McAleese 84.16%  🏆 Fiona Newman 80.36%  🏆 Judy Johnson 80.02%  🏆 Allan Parkin 72.60%        Seventeen VRs came first in their gender position at their parkrun this week, congratulations to:  🏅🏃17:41 Harry Pannell  🏅🏃18:02 Andrew Worster  🏅🏃19:03 Caroline Mcaleese  🏅🏃19:14 Tom Carpenter  🏅🏃19:29 Benjamin John Grant  🏅🏃21:07 Mary P Scott  🏅🏃21:25 Laura Seaman  🏅🏃21:28 Natalie Dawson  🏅🏃23:31 Alice Wood  🏅🏃23:32 Heather Travis  🏅🏃23:34 Terri Creaser  🏅🏃23:37 Colette Rudland  🏅🏃24:10 Saffy Walton  🏅🏃24:27 Kathryn Lamb  🏅🏃25:15 Bev Dennis  🏅🏃27:14 Kirsty Atkinson  🏅🏃27:42 Wendy Littlewood    We only just scraped a sub-30 this week with the average time for all Vegan Runners to complete their parkrun at 29:57 💚⏱🖤    Vegan Runners who were handed a barcode with a multiple of fifty get a shout-out as usual, hip hip hooray to:  📣🎊 50 Brian Greaves  📣🎊 100 Sharon Weinstein  📣🎊 100 Sharon Milley  📣🎊 100 Colin Armstrong  📣🎊 100 Christopher Jones  📣🎊 150 Jasmine Rawlinson  📣🎊 150 Kay Cottrell  📣🎊 150 Catherine Southgate  📣🎊 150 Edward Hawkins  📣🎊 200 Megan Miley  📣🎊 200 Elizabeth Billingham  📣🎊 250 Sally Anderson  📣🎊 250 Jo Godman  📣🎊 450 Denise Pullen  📣🎊 950 Andrew Mcmillan    Fourteen VRs landed exactly on the noughtie step this week, running their parkrun course in a time ending in exactly zero seconds! Castigations and chastisements to these noughties:  😈19:00 Michael Slack  😈21:00 Joseph Guntrip  😈27:00 Robin Sorflaten  😈28:00 Dudley Khouri  😈29:00 Mark Cope  😈32:00 Bernard O’Connor  😈33:00 Grace Beswick  😈33:00 Angela Smith  😈34:00 Cullan Smith  😈35:00 Katherine Harris  😈36:00 Suzi Brent  😈36:00 Meryl Shirtcliffe  😈37:00 Stephen Sellers  😈41:00 Scott Wilson  Well done, heroes of the zeroes. 🎊💚🖤😍    And, last but not least, let’s hear it for our repdigit reppers this week! Whoops and cheers and sweetcorn ears to 🌽🥳:  🌽🥳11 Alan Burgess  🌽🥳11 Andy Hughes  🌽🥳11 Christopher Lait  🌽🥳11 Heather Travis  🌽🥳11 Joe Brownen  🌽🥳11 Nigel Barnes  🌽🥳11 Saffy Walton  🌽🥳11 Sebby Travers  🌽🥳11 Stephen Boynton  🌽🥳11 Steve Proudley  🌽🥳22 Dominic John Seales  🌽🥳22 Peter Wilkin  🌽🥳22 Philip Ray  🌽🥳22 Robert Crangle  🌽🥳22 Todd Haufek  🌽🥳33 Darren Phillips  🌽🥳33 Jacob Butler  🌽🥳33 Nick Dunk  🌽🥳33 Theo Deacon  🌽🥳44 Dulcie Ruttley-Dornan  🌽🥳44 Elaine Banks  🌽🥳44 Michael Campling  🌽🥳44 Peter Roberts  🌽🥳55 Alice Bell  🌽🥳55 David Scott  🌽🥳55 Lydia Kirk  🌽🥳55 Rachael Chadwick  🌽🥳55 Sarah Laws  🌽🥳55 Tom Rogers  🌽🥳66 Charlotte Barton  🌽🥳66 Dave Broom  🌽🥳66 Katie Louise Wright  🌽🥳66 Rob Petch  🌽🥳77 Rosie Lacks  🌽🥳77 Sarah Benn  🌽🥳88 Emily Rawlins  🌽🥳88 Peter Horrel  🌽🥳99 Brian Saxby  🌽🥳111 Karen Louise Watson  🌽🥳222 Keri Jackson  🌽🥳222 Neil Timms  🌽🥳333 Stephen Miller      💚🖤 I hope this report gives a good balance between serious and fun, I’m still working on trying to find out how to get PBs which would be great to include. We can’t include all achievements and some data is impossible or at least very difficult to get. Hopefully this serves as a celebratory round-up and overview of Vegan Runners’ parkrun experiences and gives everyone a random chance of a mention. Have a wonderful week! Keep running and repping! 💚🖤     

Vegan Runners’ parkrun report 04.11.23

November 8, 2023 0

It was definitely wet and cold for most of us this first parkrun of November with our Vegan Runners’ parkrun facebook page flooded with pictures of floodings! Many cancellations were announced via the parkrun webpage here: https://www.parkrun.com/cancellations/  and were due mainly to waterlogged courses and firework events. We still had 672 members running, splashing, slipping, sliding and walking at 324 different events with 50 of us volunteering. 723 attended overall. Meetups went ahead despite the inclement conditions, the most popular of which took place at: 23 Southampton parkrun 18 Ashton Court parkrun 15 Forest Rec parkrun 12 Heaton parkrun 12 Preston Park parkrun, Brighton 11 Storeys Field parkrun 9 Worcester parkrun 9 Swansea Bay parkrun 8 Stevenage parkrun 8 Eastville parkrun 7 Ferry Meadows parkrun 7 Aberdare parkrun 7 Alvaston parkrun 7 Chalkwell Beach parkrun 6 Victoria parkrun, Glasgow 6 Gloucester City parkrun 6 Hunstanton Promenade parkrun 6 Central parkrun, Plymouth   Thank you to Norbert Adison for this week’s beautifully Autumnal photo from Ashton Park – where it looks as if you escaped the rain! ☔🌧   Congratulations to these VRs who were top age graded at their parkruns this week: 🥇 Lin Lascelles 91.36% 🥇 Andrew Millis 85.65% 🥇 Margaret Pritchard 79.01% 🥇 Judy Johnson 78.41%   Vegan Runners who finished first in their gender position at their parkruns on 4th November were: 🏃🌿 16:00 Elliot Palmer 🏃🌿 17:26 Ciar Nixon 🏃🌿 17:54 High-Carb Vegan 🏃🌿 18:40 Carl Whittaker 🏃🌿 19:08 Caroline Mcaleese 🏃🌿 19:56 Khan Nothnagel 🏃🌿 20:26 Clare Meraz 🏃🌿 20:39 Lin Lascelles 🏃🌿 22:20 Joanna Crossman 🏃🌿 22:51 Heather Travis 🏃🌿 23:52 Deborah English   Average time for all Vegan Runners was a sub-30 yet again, at 29:53💚🖤 🎊💚🖤 Amazing, considering the state of many of the courses!   Top five speediest ladies this week are:   🏅🎊 19:08 Caroline McAleese 🏅🎊 19:54 Jo Fleming 🏅🎊 20:26 Clare Meraz 🏅🎊 20:39 Lin Lascelles 🏅🎊 20:48 Paula Blackledge   Top five speediest men:   🏅🎊 16:00 Elliot Palmer 🏅🎊 17:26 Ciar Nixon 🏅🎊 17:37 Harry Pannell 🏅🎊 17:43 Philip Nind 🏅🎊 17:54 High Carb Vegan   Incredible times. 🏃🌿🏃☘️   On the noughty step this week we have these heroes of the zeros: 😈16:00 Elliot Palmer 😈21:00 Samuel Carl Key 😈25:00 Louis Kowal 😈26:00 Tamsin Crothers 😈27:00 Zoe Macpherson 😈29:00 Jay Massaad 😈30:00 Bridgitte Seymour 😈30:00 Lauren Hayes 😈31:00 James Caygill 😈31:00 Deb Beats 😈32:00 Sarah Hall 😈33:00 Tom Rogers 😈42: 00 Amanda Braidley   Well done, noughties 💚🖤😍🏅🎊   There were nine Vegan Runners who managed to grab a barcode with a multiple of fifty this week – whoops and cheers to: 🏅🏃50 Stephen Reeve 🏅🏃100 Rachael Long 🏅🏃100 Jac Prigmore 🏅🏃100 Dawn Shepherd 🏅🏃100 Chris Jackson 🏅🏃150 Chris Webb 🏅🏃200 Hannah Jones 🏅🏃250 Alison Irwin 🏅🏃750 Megan Fowler   Marvellous milestones were achieved this week as well, congratulations, celebrations and jubilations to: 🔓🏆  250 Phil Sowerby-Williams 🔓🏆300 Neil Kirsh   💚🥳🕺🏅🎊🖤   Apologies if I’ve missed any milestones – you only appear in our results if you’ve run at 20 or more different parkrun events.   Double and triple repping kudos goes to these twenty three Vegan Runners who were handed a barcode with a rep digit number! Two and three cheers for: 🎊11 David Ainsley 🎊11 Nick Bell 🎊11 Peter Roberts 🎊22 Adrian Pilbeam 🎊22 Catherine Charlton 🎊22 Dan Coughlan 🎊33 Theo Deacon 🎊44 Katy Emerson 🎊44 Matthew Savory 🎊44 Megan Miley 🎊55 Agata Szczepaniuk 🎊55 Kay Cottrell 🎊66 Brad Scarborough 🎊66 Jon Turtle 🎊66 Joseph Baxter 🎊66 Matt Ashmead 🎊66 Neil Morris 🎊77 Jackie Williams 🎊88 Alberto Deacon 🎊88 Etwal Teja 🎊88 George Murray 🎊111 Jeff Simmons 🎊111 Shireen Kassam     💚🖤 Well done everyone for representing our wonderful club. People notice the Vegan Runners’ logo and it does make them think. If, like me, your kit is getting a little worn, but your budget is a little shorn, there is a pre-loved area on our website where you can buy second hand kit in good condition at a fraction of the price: https://www.veganrunners.org.uk/product-category/preloved/   Hopefully less rain next weekend but expect a somewhat chillier start! I’ll be Run Director at Greenwich if any of you fancy joining me there! Have a great week. 💚🖤  

Vegan Runners parkrun report 21.10.23

Vegan Runners parkrun report 21.10.23

October 22, 2023 0

It was a wet and windy start for most on this third parkrun event of October as Storm Babet continued to batter many parts of the UK with high winds, torrential rain and flooding. With numerous parkruns cancelled, Vegan Runners’ attendance was understandably lower this week than usual, yet we still had 729 VRs repping the green and black across the UK at 309 locations. 664 of us ran, walked, jeffed, skidded and slipped our way around the 5km courses and over 65 wonderful souls volunteered.   Meet ups were met at and in some cases hastily rearranged due to last minute event cancellations, including the Nottingham & Sheffield Vegan Runners meet-up at Brierley Forest parkrun which had to be postponed due to flooding, they managed to meet at Forest Rec, instead. Parkrun touristing takes effort and planning but it’s all worth it and pays dividends in terms of meeting other like-minded lovely Vegan Runners and getting to explore different locations. Thank you to Dave Sowerby-Williams for the photo of this week’s second biggest meetup at Queen’s parkrun, Glasgow, celebrating Richard Evans’ 250th parkrun 🎊. Dave and Phil travelled twelve hours by coach to get there! An inspiration to us all to get out and represent our wonderful Vegan Runners’ Club further afield. The biggest meetups this week took place at:  33 Eastville parkrun 12 Queen’s parkrun, Glasgow 11 Worcester parkrun 10 Forest Rec parkrun 9 Swansea Bay parkrun 8 St Albans parkrun 8 Hastings parkrun 7 Southsea parkrun 6 Finsbury parkrun 6 Poole parkrun 6 Preston Park parkrun, Brighton 6 Sheffield Castle parkrun 6 Cassiobury parkrun 6 Land’s End parkrun   Despite treacherous conditions, we managed a not-too-shabby average finish time of 29:51 – yet another sub-30! 🥦🏃   The incredible Lin Lacelles hit parkrun news this week as she is now the new course record holder for the “Age Grade” category at Groe parkrun. Lin finished the course with a time of 20:34 which places her age category at 91.73% – an absolutely incredible achievement! The course record had stood since Event 25, which was back on 7th September 2019 (91.12%). Congratulations, Lin 💚🏆🖤   Congratulations to these Vegan Runners who all came first in their gender position at their parkrun this week:   🏅🎊 Elliot Collins 20:11 🏅🎊 Claire Evans 25:38 🏅🎊 Ben Parmar 20:06 🏅🎊 Kelly Joanne Knight 20:57 🏅🎊 Heather Travis 23:12 🏅🎊 Catherine Charlton 21:53 🏅🎊 Elly Maggs 22:32 🏅🎊 Jo Fleming 21:21 🏅🎊 Katie Louise Wright 20:31 🏅🎊 Naomi Sutton 21:57 🏅🎊 Scott Braunton 21:55 🏅🎊 Kirsty Atkinson 25:44 🏅🎊 Benjamin John Grant 18:52 🏅🎊 Fiona Newman 21:29 🏅🎊 Sophie Burnett 22:21   A nefarious nine of you landed on the noughty step this week:  😈 19:00 Julian Harrison 😈 26:00 Joe Brownen 😈 27:00 Robert Franklin 😈 29:00 Dan Coughlan 😈 30:00 Victoria Barber 😈 30:00 Grace Beswick 😈 30:00 Paul Williams 😈 35:00 Wendy Brigstock 😈 43:00 Katie Wythe   Well done, noughties! 💚🖤🎊🖤💚   Ten Vegan Runners were handed a finish token with a multiple of fifty this week, 📣s to:   🥳 50 Heather Jupp 🥳 50 Etwal Teja 🥳 50 Matthew Savory 🥳 50 Gonçalo Melo 🥳 100 Georgina Kilgour 🥳 100 Emma Gaut 🥳 150 Clare Pashby 🥳 200 Shana Banana Burchett 🥳 250 Shelley Harlock 🥳 300 Gemma Hodges 🥳 400 Lydia Burge 🥳 450 Justin Bowen   I’ve been benevolent and included the lovely Emma here, as despite officially coming in 101st position, she evidenced her 100 barcode with a photo!   There were thirty rep digit reppers this week, whoops and cheers to these resplendent representatives of our lovely club:  🥦 11 Darren Newman 🥦 11 Graham Clark 🥦 11 Pete Colwell 🥦 11 Steve Proudley 🥦 11 Steven Walsh 🥦 22 Charlotte Skipper 🥦 22 Jamie Heywood 🥦 22 Noel Williams 🥦 22 Tam Sanger 🥦 33 Jamie Cecil 🥦 33 Katrina Harling 🥦 33 Mark Myer 🥦 44 Clare Rubin 🥦 44 Edward Owen 🥦 44 Lysanne Broomfield 🥦 55 Mick Smith 🥦 88 David Murray 🥦 88 Saffy Walton 🥦 99 Alex Forrest 🥦 99 Claire Holt 🥦 99 Karen Page 🥦 99 Kathryn Lamb 🥦 99 Nicola Toogood 🥦 99 Richard Evans 🥦 99 Sarah Priestley 🥦 111 Davina Dawson 🥦 111 Emma Hunt 🥦 111 Teresa Caswell 🥦 222 Rebecca Hawes 🥦 444 Kathryn Smith   Not forgetting a mention for our speediest runners, our fastest ladies this week were:   🏃‍♀️🏆️ 20:31 Katie Louise Wright 🏃‍♀️🏆 20:34 Lin Lascelles 🏃‍♀️🏆 20:36 Lesley Connors 🏃‍♀️🏆20:57 Kelly Joanne Knight 🏃‍♀️🏆21:21 Jo Fleming   And our top five fastest men:   🏃️️🏆16:50 Jake Stephens 🏃️️🏆17:03 Philip Nind 🏃️️🏆17:30 Harry Pannell 🏃️️🏆17:42 Gareth Thomas 🏃️️🏆17:44 Gareth Pritchard   Well done everyone, great repping in the face of adverse weather conditions! You are making a difference. Just being seen in the black and green, getting people thinking and starting conversations, great first steps to inspiring change. Change for the animals, change for the planet, change for good. 💚🖤🎊🖤💚Have a great week!  

Parkrun report 5th of August 2023

Parkrun report 5th of August 2023

August 10, 2023 0

The first parkrun of August was a wet one for much of the UK, yet we still had 726 Vegan Runners attending 312 different events. 656 grabbed a finish token which means there were 70 wonderful vegan volunteers.  Mike’s poll is a great way to find out where your nearest VR parkrun meetup is happening. This week there were sociable gatherings of five or more VRs at 23 different locations, the most popular at: Ashton Court parkrun: 22 Stevenage parkrun: 13 Forest Rec and Sandringham parkrun: 11 Whinlatter Forest parkrun: 10 Shorne Woods parkrun: 9 Worcester and Dean Castle Country Park parkrun: 8 Whitstable parkrun: 7 Margate, Rutland Water and King George V Playing Field parkrun, Cheltenham: 6 Shoutouts to the following super speedy runners this week who all finished in first gender position: Caroline McAleese 19:55 Jo Fleming 21:57 Chris Pearson 18:28 Hester Hill 21:54 Geoffrey Gregory 19:14 Scott Braunton 17:45 Philip Nind 16:53 Jhon Cosgrove 18:19 Naomi Sutton 20:43 Andy Gardiner 18:15 Clare Meraz 20:42 Kelsey Wiberley 20:06 Becky Tovey 21:18  Scores this week: 7 – 6 to the ladies!  The average time taken for Vegan Runners to complete their 5k parkrun this week was… Another fast and fabulous sub 30 at 29:36! Well done, everybody! That’s shaved a healthy 17 seconds off last week’s time.  Anyone who collected a finish token with a multiple of 50 earned themselves a shoutout too, so  for: 50 Greg Myles 50 Daniel Wilson 50 Ernest Bryden 50 James Cole 100 Stephanie Hughes 100 Olena Waskiewicz 100 Louise Luna Galvin 100 Stephen Reeve 100 Andy Walsh 150 Jasmine Green 250 Lauren Hart There were only nine of you who landed on the nefarious noughty step on Saturday:  Michael Slack 18:00  Josh Skipper 21:00  Adam Doctor 21:00  Martina Smith 26:00  Callum Harling 26:00  Stuart Chalmers 29:00  Jayne Eaton 41:00  Catherine Moon 41:00  Robert Skedgell 59:00 We have some amazing milestones to celebrate this week, these Vegan Runners have run the following incredible number of parkruns! Cheers and whoops with lashings of applause and congratulations for: Geoff Roberson 100 Nikki Graham 100 Daisy Wilson 150 Sue House 150 Adam Kirsh 200 James Caygill 350 Incredible achievements and fantastic consistency representing the Vegan Runners’ club and veganism in particular.  Vegan Runners who achieved the top age grade at their parkrun this week were: Matthew Faupel 72.77% Sue Waller 74.35% Philip Nind 77.30% Fantastic repping  . And last but not least, let’s hear it for our repdigit reppers, and whilst we’re on the subject, thank you to Gary who coded a magical way to find these elusive numbers. As I’m such an incompetent novice I haven’t got the code to work yet, but where there’s a will… Meanwhile, manual shouts go to: 11: Caroline McAleese Lesley Connors Annabelle Nothnagel Ryan Pollock Lee Billinghurst 22: Colette Rudland Seren Darrell David Stephens-Mikesch Jim McAlwane 33: Kevin Morris Doug Porter 44: Rosie Brown Rachel Billinghurst Jennifer Whittle Danny Russell Gareth Rogers 55: Katrina Harling Penny Humble Eoghan Bickley 66: Alice Nicolay Laurence Russell 77: Amanda Holtey Elizabeth Czaban Gary Beeston 88: Sarah Clubb Jane London Imogen Michel Wendy Brigstock Suzanne Whiteside Martin Bell 99: Emma Bartlett Judy Johnson Nicola Toogood Margaret Pritchard Ruth Jordan Sharon Maria Boland 111: Hannah Jones Mike McBeth David Raza 222: Ajay Astbury-Jones Yay! Well done to one and all! I’m away for a couple of weeks so thank you in advance to Mike and Gary for stepping in to garner the data and craft the reports . Keep running and repping – we’re doing a fantastic job of raising awareness of veganism. For anyone who hasn’t downloaded the 5k app yet I really recommend it; you can see all your parkrun stats and volunteering roles, there are reviews of different parkrun locations, Vegan Runners’ results and so much more!  Thank you to Stacie Moss for this week’s fab pic from Sandringham! 

Bicester Parkrun and Vegan Campout report 29th of July 2023

Bicester Parkrun and Vegan Campout report 29th of July 2023

August 2, 2023 0

Vegan is a state of kind, and 300 kind, wonderful vegans were scanned at Bicester parkrun. You may have seen we have been all over various parkrun stat groups this weekend about getting such huge numbers out, a couple of poor comments but pleasingly overall far more kudos for Vegan Runners and of course for the excellent team at Bicester parkrun. Repeating the stats you may have already seen, we currently have exactly 300 Vegan Runners listed in the consolidated Club list. There are still 44 Unknowns, quite high, including a run of 10 at numbers 651-660, so it’s possible these numbers may change as the week goes on. 682 finishers, previous best was 389 at Bicester on NYD 2019, so 293 more than that, and with 235 last week, that’s 427 more so interesting to speculate exactly how many Vegans were actually there! For the first time ever Bicester parkrun found themselves in the top 10 biggest parkruns in the U.K, 682 puts them as 5th biggest this week! The photo call was amazing, as you can see, now our main photo, it was taken at 8.40, so some will have missed it. Bicester parkrun were extremely welcoming to us, I’m not sure anyone saw these numbers coming. I had thought 200, but didn’t want to put it out there in case we missed it, so 300 was off the scale, tough for the course, tough for volunteers, but everyone, runners and volunteers took it in their stride and were patient with a few bottlenecks on the course and also when the tokens ran out. There were 44 volunteers at Bicester, many were VR’s, just a brilliant morning. I always go back and clap everyone in after I’ve finished, which was a great chance to see so many friends coming in about 100mtrs before the finish. I had hobbled round on a fat ankle in about 22 mins, but no excuses it was wonderful to see so many young VR’s running in front of me, Sebby usually finishes ahead of me even when I’m fit and Tommy Kirk and Oliver Wade were both ahead of me. It was fabulous to chat to Oliver after the run, he has just turned 15 and solo reps at Berkeley Green every week, so like all of us seeing green and black everywhere was quite a change! I put up the junior runners photo from the local junior run, they are obviously the future and great for them to see other younger VR’s and make new friends. We had 4 VR’s in the junior results although looks like more may have run. Congrats to Sebby Travers/Ryan Travers, Tommy Kirk/Lydia Kirk, Theo Deacon/Olivia Deacon, Felix Wilson/Daniel Wilson, all finishing in the top 7 out of 49 at junior parkrun!! A few stats from Bicester. We had 5 of the top 6 finishers, congrats to :- Elliot Palmer Thomas Almond Matthew Du Cros Matt Edmonds Michael Slack We also the 2nd female overall with Lesley Connors, who also had the top female age graded time. Our top 5 females were :- Lesley Connors Mer Clare Aurime Dovydaityte Natalie Dawson Laura Seaman We also headed a few other lists, really impressive was Michael Burgess who headed the Age Grade list, his 81.5%, meant he was the only runner to achieve over 80% out of all 682 runners, and Jamie Kinghorn was also very high up the list in 3rd place with 78.8%. The total parkrun list also had VR’s at the top, my 500+ was the only over 500 and Sharon Maria Boland and Louise Luna Galvin were 2 of only 3, to have recorded over 400 finishes. This was of course all due to VCO, which seemed another superb success, 15,000 tickets sold, the Vegan Runner stand looked to be busy signing up whenever I walked past, Darren Comeau putting in long stints on both Saturday and Sunday. We saw so many VR hoodies and tops walking around, apologies to anyone in a VR top who I just randomly started talking to, it was great to meet you all. I hope you all had a fabulous time, Romesh was superb, Sam Ryder too, definitely worth waiting for and not getting home till 2 a.m! It was lovely to see albeit briefly some old friends, make some new friends, my only frustration was seeing friends names in the results and not bumping into them, but good to know you were all there 🙂 Same again next year?

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