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06.07.24

06.07.24

July 7, 2024 0

Inclement weather kept many VRs indoors on this first parkrun of July 2024. Only 791 Vegan Runners mustered the motivation to attend 349 events. 713 trusty faithfuls gained a finish token. There were over 78 wonderful volunteers. On the positive side numerically speaking, we now have a bountiful 1.3k membership in this wonderful Vegan Runners UK: parkrun group! Marvellous meetups remained plentiful, despite the reduced attendance. Thank you to Michelle Flower for this beautifully posed pic in front of a tree-lined avenue from the Fletcher Moss meetup, celebrating a couple of milestones. Here are the meetup locations with numbers of VRs attending: 17 Fletcher Moss parkrun 16 Forest Rec parkrun 15 Mount Stuart parkrun 14 Ashton Court parkrun 12 University of Northampton parkrun 10 Beckenham Place parkrun 10 Newbury parkrun 9 Castle Park parkrun 8 Southampton parkrun 8 Eastville parkrun 7 Southsea parkrun 7 Seaton parkrun 7 Hastings parkrun 6 Worcester Pitchcroft parkrun 6 Margate parkrun 6 Evesham parkrun 6 Roberts Park parkrun 6 Malling Rec parkrun 5 Dulwich parkrun 5 Burgess parkrun 5 Tamworth Castle Grounds parkrun There were also: Four Vegan Runners at 12 parkrun locations Three VRs at 42 parkruns Two at 80 events And one hundred and ninety-nine of you were solo repping Outside of the UK, we had Vegan Runners representing our club at the following number of events in these countries: 10 Germany 3 Australia 1 Sweden 1 Poland 1 Norway 1 Netherlands 1 Ireland 1 Canada Incredible perfomances from our top ten fastest men, all running their parkruns in well under 19 minutes: 00:16:58 Philip Nind Pavilion Gardens parkrun 00:17:27 Geoffrey Gregory Millhouses parkrun 00:17:35 Matt Edmonds Hastings parkrun 00:17:42 Gareth Thomas Sandy Water parkrun 00:18:20 Andy Gardiner Pomphrey Hill parkrun 00:18:23 Al Robertson Fletcher Moss parkrun 00:18:24 Christopher Pearson Rosliston parkrun 00:18:25 Richard Davis Hastings parkrun 00:18:25 Alastair Stables Mount Stuart parkrun 00:18:29 Neil Sexton Castle Park parkrun Our top ten fastest women this week, also with phenomenal times, were: 00:20:41 Kelsey Wiberley Warwick Racecourse parkrun 00:20:55 Lesley Connors Roberts Park parkrun 00:21:02 Alice Wood Burgess parkrun 00:21:06 Rosie Freeman Conkers parkrun 00:21:24 Fiona Newman University of Northampton parkrun 00:21:37 Elly Maggs Margate parkrun 00:22:09 Helen Seymour Eastville parkrun 00:22:16 Paula Blackledge East Brighton parkrun 00:22:31 Gay O’Connor Poole parkrun 00:22:32 Michelle Vaughan Burnage parkrun Absolutely amazing – congratulations! Congratulations too to these VRs, who came first in their gender position at their parkrun: 00:17:42 Gareth Thomas Sandy Water parkrun 00:18:24 Christopher Pearson Rosliston parkrun 00:18:25 Alastair Stables Mount Stuart parkrun 00:18:34 Nehal Lavey-Khan Canons Park parkrun 00:18:37 Louis Kowal Foots Cray Meadows parkrun 00:18:44 Jamie Kinghorn Montrose parkrun 00:19:00 Catherine Allen Houghton Hall parkrun 00:19:54 Hester Hill Tooting Common parkrun 00:20:41 Kelsey Wiberley Warwick Racecourse parkrun 00:21:06 Rosie Freeman Conkers parkrun 00:21:37 Elly Maggs Margate parkrun 00:22:45 Jen Conway Mount Stuart parkrun 00:23:18 Carla Brain Melksham parkrun 00:23:21 Sara Wilson Kingsbury Water parkrun 00:23:43 Georgie Ripper Gadebridge parkrun 00:27:03 Rosie Brown Ellesmere Port parkrun Marvellous milestones this week were achieved by: 50 Al Robertson 100 Antony Byatt Fantastic dedication and repping for the animals Let me know if you have a milestone to celebrate next week and we can give you a mention in our Wednesday parkrun poll to muster up some celebratory support! The average time for all Vegan Runners to complete the course on this first event of July 2024 was a fit and fabulous sub-30! 29:46 ⏱ Only eighty-six intrepid and inspirational VRs gained a new Personal Best for 2024 – check back tomorrow to find out who! Shoutouts to seventeen Vegan Runners who finished their parkrun in a multiple of fifty position: 50 00:27:27 Hayley Burn 50 00:35:18 Sarah Butler 50 00:27:10 Adrian Pilbeam 50 00:21:43 Ben Nevill 50 00:22:59 Rob James 100 00:33:58 Ian Linley 100 00:28:27 Kevin Hughes 100 00:28:15 Guy Shearwood 150 00:59:20 Mabel Stephens-Mikesch 200 00:32:47 David Rowe 200 00:26:53 Neil Horne 600 00:33:15 Charlotte O’Hare On the noughty step this week we have fourteen refractory affiliates, red cards all round for: 19:00 Catherine Allen 19:00 Ciar Nixon 22:00 Anthony Holder 24:00 Edward Hall-Green 25:00 Scott Matheson 27:00 Kirsty Atkinson 27:00 Sarah Hardcastle 27:00 Andy Brinkworth 28:00 Andy Begent 28:00 Martha Haslam 29:00 Amy Metcalf 33:00 Melanie Rowe 35:00 Paul Moss 36:00 Lucy Ruben There was a repdigit number (33) of repdigit reppers! Coats and umbrellas for these lovelyVRs who braved the summer weather this week: ☔11 Luis Goncalves ☔11 Sophie Burnett ☔22 Clara Mumford-Turner ☔22 Ryan Dempsey ☔33 August Frew ☔33 Cullan Smith ☔33 Dane Cobain ☔33 Jerry Barnes ☔33 Kevin Boina M’Koubou Dupé ☔33 Mark Elwell ☔33 Michael Inglis ☔33 Simon English ☔33 Stephen Sellers ☔33 Steve Proudley ☔55 James Gargett ☔55 Rob Petch ☔66 Alex Hawker ☔66 Colin Bexley ☔66 Rachel Charnock ☔77 Dominic Seales ☔77 Paul Jones ☔88 Andrew Johnson ☔88 Corrina Barton ☔88 Dudley Khouri ☔88 Gordon Smith ☔88 Tony Hardy ☔99 David Stephens-Mikesch ☔99 Jojo Love ☔99 Scott Matheson ☔111 Sarah Morgan ☔111 Sesh Narayanan ☔111 Wendy Brigstock ☔222 Diane May Next week there will be beautiful sunshine, localised specifically and uniquely at parkrun locations with rain everywhere else. So I’m looking forward to reporting soaring numbers and celebrating over 1,000 VR attendance at parkruns next week. Have a great week, everyone!      

parkrun 20.06.24

parkrun 20.06.24

June 30, 2024 0

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

22.06.24

22.06.24

June 23, 2024 0

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

15.06.24 parkrun report

15.06.24 parkrun report

June 18, 2024 0

💚🖤 Numbers were significantly down this week – perhaps due to the lovely British Summer weather? 858 Vegan Runners attended 381 different parkrun events on the 15th June 2024. 779 gained a finish token and we had over 79 wonderful volunteers.    Another fabulous photo from Eastville this week, thank you again to Norbert Addison for capturing the biggest VR meetup. Here is a list of Vegan Runners’ latest parkrun get-togethers showing the number of VRs who attended each event:    27 Eastville parkrun   14 Worcester Pitchcroft parkrun  13 Old Deer Park parkrun  12 Clare Castle parkrun  7 Swansea Bay parkrun  6 Brueton parkrun  6 Southend parkrun  6 Burgess parkrun  6 Burnage parkrun  6 Sheringham parkrun  6 Birkenhead parkrun  6 Sherwood Pines parkrun  6 Dunstable Downs parkrun  5 Hull parkrun  5 Colwick parkrun  5 Arrow Valley parkrun  5 Cannon Hill parkrun, Birmingham  5 Preston Park parkrun, Brighton  5 Queen Elizabeth parkrun  5 Haverfordwest parkrun  5 Lowestoft parkrun  5 Sittingbourne parkrun  5 Gloucester City parkrun  5 Sixfields Upton parkrun  5 Y Promenâd parkrun    There were also:  4 Vegan Runners together at twenty different parkrun locations  3 VRs at thirty-nine parkruns,  2 at one hundred and four events and  One hundred and ninety-three parkruns hosted solo Vegan Runners repping.    ✈ It seems there is a travel bug going round, as we had fantastic representation outside of the UK, with Vegan Runners in the results at this number of parkrun events in the following countries:    🇵🇱            4 Poland  🇦🇺           3 Australia  🇺🇸           2 United States  🇿🇦 2 South Africa  🇮🇪  2 Ireland  🇸🇪           1 Sweden  🇳🇱           1 Netherlands  🇯🇵    1 Japan  🇮🇹    1 Italy  🇩🇪    1 Germany  🇩🇰    1 Denmark    Our top ten fastest women this week were:    🥇00:19:48 Naomi Sutton Gnoll parkrun  🥇00:20:27 Fiona Newman Bedford parkrun  🥇00:20:35 Elly Maggs Bromley parkrun  🥇00:20:50 Clare Meraz Eastville parkrun  🥇00:21:04 Kelsey Wiberley Warwick Racecourse parkrun  🥇00:21:17 Paula Blackledge Brighton & Hove parkrun  🥇00:21:44 Rebecca Willmott Rothay Park parkrun  🥇00:21:55 Alice Wood Dishley parkrun, Loughborough  🥇00:21:56 Julie Oswald Vogrie parkrun  🥇00:22:48 Emma Warren Eastville parkrun      And top ten fastest men:    🥇00:16:30 Jonathan Thewlis Greenwich parkrun  🥇00:16:57 Geoffrey Gregory Long Eaton parkrun  🥇00:17:23 Gareth Pritchard Burgess parkrun  🥇00:17:37 Toby Crisford Pomphrey Hill parkrun  🥇00:17:43 Gareth Thomas Swansea Bay parkrun  🥇00:18:05 Matt Edmonds Hastings parkrun  🥇00:18:15 Ben Wickham Pymmes parkrun  🥇00:18:18 Shane Conroy Warwick Racecourse parkrun  🥇00:18:25 Philip Nind Clifton parkrun  🥇00:18:33 Robert Ottolangui Worcester Pitchcroft parkrun      Congratulations! Amazing times. My dream is to get into this top ten one day! I’m currently supporting a new runner who achieved their 4th parkrun PB in a row this week. It’s amazing to see how quickly someone can go from hating running and being unable to sustain a steady jog for longer than five minutes, to smashing out four PBs in a row with the last one being a sub 40 non-stop run! I love parkrun so much for this reason, it really does enable people new to running to give it a go in a truly supportive environment.    These amazing Vegan Runners came first in their gender position at their parkrun, congratulations to:    00:16:30 Jonathan Thewlis Greenwich parkrun  00:17:37 Toby Crisford Hill parkrun  00:18:05 Matt Edmonds Hastings parkrun  00:18:25 Philip Nind Clifton parkrun  00:19:48 Naomi Sutton Gnoll parkrun  00:21:44 Rebecca Willmott Park parkrun  00:23:45 Colette Rudland Green parkrun  00:24:34 Jemma Gibson Zuiderpark parkrun, Den Haag  00:24:36 Geraldine Larham Field parkrun  00:25:08 Holly Johnson Mills parkrun    I didn’t notice another VR top at Greenwich parkrun – Jonathan was clearly too fast for me to spot! 😂    Apologies for not having mentioned these Marvellous Milestones gained last week, congratulations to:  🎊100 Matt Sav  🎊250 Mark Cox    Marvellous milestones this week were achieved by:  🎊50 Stephen Andrews  🎊50 Rebecca Hawes  🎊100 Heather Jupp    Hip-hip hooray! 🏃🐄🥳🕺    One hundred and fifteen of you gained a new Personal Best for 2024 (as a registered Vegan Runner). Fantastic achievements! 🏅🎊I’ll publish these tomorrow.    The average time for all Vegan Runners to complete the course on this third event of June 2024 was 30:31 ⏱🐮    Shoutouts to these Vegan Runners who finished their parkrun in a multiple of fifty position:    📣50 00:27:43 Carla Brain  📣50 00:26:26 Jay Parnham  📣50 00:27:47 Katie Robinson  📣50 00:36:41 Christopher Lait  📣100 00:28:46 Angelina Farruggia  📣100 00:28:48 Sam Thatcher  📣150 00:32:17 Sabiene North  📣250 00:37:53 Zoe Heath  📣300 00:38:49 Lauren Hart  📣300 00:48:21 Daisy Overton      On the noughty step this week we had terrible behaviour from:    😈20 Pete Colwell Southsea parkrun  😈24 Daniel Jackson Glossop parkrun  😈25 Jessica Hey Eastville parkrun  😈26 Danie Loots Midstream parkrun  😈29 Karen Sullivan Market Harborough parkrun  😈32 Sarah Clubb Preston parkrun  😈35 Laura Hammonds Isabel Trail parkrun  😈59 Jim Eastment Bury Field parkrun      Collecting a repdigit finish token were forty fun-filled and fabulous folk; feathers and flowers this week for:    🪶💐11 Fiona Newman  🪶💐11 Julie Oswald  🪶💐11 Nathan Hawes  🪶💐11 Richard Thompson  🪶💐22 August Frew  🪶💐22 Michael Frawley  🪶💐33 Clare Meraz  🪶💐33 Derek Ridge  🪶💐33 Hannah Shuttleworth  🪶💐33 Jemma Gibson  🪶💐33 Kevin Bonfield  🪶💐33 Paula Blackledge  🪶💐33 Steve Proudley  🪶💐44 Chloé Holland  🪶💐44 David Ainsley  🪶💐44 Gemma Clark  🪶💐44 Sesh Narayanan  🪶💐55 Carl Rabey  🪶💐55 Jemma Banks  🪶💐55 Jim Eastment  🪶💐55 Kirsty Atkinson  🪶💐55 Matt Walker  🪶💐55 Rosie Brown  🪶💐66 Andrew Johnson  🪶💐66 Kate Buttimer  🪶💐77 Dawn Marshall  🪶💐77 Helen Smallwood  🪶💐77 Sarah Whitson-Russell  🪶💐88 Caroline Lloyd  🪶💐88 Louise Abbott  🪶💐99 Andrew Mcfarland  🪶💐99 Felix Wilson  🪶💐99 Ian Snow  🪶💐99 Mike Harling  🪶💐99 Mike Mcbeth  🪶💐99 Ruth Jordan  🪶💐111 Carol Jarvis  🪶💐111 Elizabeth Czaban  🪶💐222 Juliet Thomas  🪶💐444 Natalie Pringle    Well done, VRs, for running and representing our wonderful club and promoting a vegan lifestyle in a friendly and positive way at parkruns all over the world. As a club we are so good at supporting each other and coming together to celebrate, commemorate and mark important milestones and occasions. The incredibly sad news of Craig Barstow’s passing has left our community stunned; Craig was an accomplished runner, very fit and much loved by those who knew him. Details of how we can come together to honour his life will be shared soon. 🖤💚🖤  🖤🐄🐑🐤💚               

parkrun report 01.06.24

parkrun report 01.06.24

June 2, 2024 0

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

parkrun chronicle 25.05.24

parkrun chronicle 25.05.24

May 26, 2024 0

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

Vegan Runners parkrun report 11.05.24

Vegan Runners parkrun report 11.05.24

May 12, 2024 0

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

Star Wars parkrun Day 04.05.24

Star Wars parkrun Day 04.05.24

May 5, 2024 0

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

Vegan Runners parkrun report 27.04.24

Vegan Runners parkrun report 27.04.24

April 28, 2024 0

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

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! 😊🖤🐄🐑🐤💚😊 

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