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VRUK parkrun report 23.03.24

VRUK parkrun report 23.03.24

March 24, 2024 0

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

Vegan Runners parkrun report 16.03.24

Vegan Runners parkrun report 16.03.24

March 18, 2024 0

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

Vegan Runners parkrun report 09.03.24

Vegan Runners parkrun report 09.03.24

March 10, 2024 0

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

Vegan Runners parkrun report 02.03.24

Vegan Runners parkrun report 02.03.24

March 3, 2024 0

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

Vegan Runners’ parkrun report 24.02.24

Vegan Runners’ parkrun report 24.02.24

February 25, 2024 0

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

February 18, 2024 0

💚🖤 Love was in the air for parkrun this week and what a fabulous turnout we had on this Valentines’ weekend! 910 VRs managed to attend 388 different parkrun events. 832 gained a finish token and we had over 78 wonderful volunteers. 💚🖤    VRs were spreading the love with plenty of meetups too – thank you to Alice Baker for this week’s wonderful photo from the Southsea meetup, which was the biggest VR get-together of the week, with 36 Vegan Runners convening. Other sizeable meetups occurred at:  30 Eastville parkrun   14 Rickmansworth parkrun   12 Chippenham Playing Fields parkrun, Monmouth   11 South Woodham Ferrers parkrun   10 York parkrun   9 Worcester parkrun   8 Bushy parkrun  8 Southwick Country parkrun  8 Clumber Park parkrun  8 Hunstanton Promenade parkrun   7 Hull parkrun  7 Southwark parkrun  7 Great Lines parkrun, Medway  7 Lee-on-the-Solent parkrun  7 Centre Vale parkrun   6 Colwick parkrun  6 Hillsborough parkrun  6 Folkestone parkrun  6 Hastings parkrun  6 East Brighton parkrun   5 Pollok parkrun, Glasgow  5 Black Park parkrun  5 Eastbourne parkrun  5 Southampton parkrun  5 Hampstead Heath parkrun  5 Bestwood Village parkrun  5 Bolton parkrun  5 Margate parkrun  5 Queen’s parkrun, Glasgow    We also had VRs repping in locations as exotic and far-flung as:  🇩🇪  4 Germany  🇵🇱   3 Poland  🇵🇱   3 Australia  🇳🇿   2 New Zealand  🇸🇬   1 Singapore  🇳🇱   1 Netherlands  🇮🇹   1 Italy  🇮🇪   1 Ireland  🇦🇹   1 Austria    220 VRs repped alone, pairs of VRs attended eighty-four events, trios were at thirty-six locations and punnets of 4 VRs represented our club at eighteen parkruns.    Parkrun is a run not a race, but we can still whoop and cheer for our top five fastest men this week who ran incredible times:  🥇16:51 Daniel Borrett  🥇16:56 Chris MacPherson  🥇17:32 Jake Stephens  🥇17:33 Matthew Du Cros  🥇17:38 Tom Seller    And let’s hear it for our top five fastest ladies:  🥇18:52 Naomi Sutton  🥇20:08 Katie Louise Wright  🥇21:01 Fiona Newman  🥇21:07 Emma Eldridge  🥇21:09 Elly Maggs    Congratulations!    Seventeen VRs came first in their gender position at their parkrun, fantastic times from:  🏆 16:56 Chris MacPherson  🏆17:49 Alastair Stables  🏆18:13 Philip Nind  🏆18:22 Joe Burn  🏆18:52 Naomi Sutton  🏆19:40 Jhon Cosgrove  🏆19:42 Sam Thorogood  🏆21:09 Elly Maggs  🏆21:26 Mary P Scott  🏆21:31 Jen Conway  🏆22:08 Julia Garan  🏆22:23 Tracy Moroz  🏆22:42 Marti Spence  🏆23:08 Emily Pereira  🏆23:45 Annie Hamilton  🏆24:20 Dawn Williams  🏆27:52 Rachel Strother    The average time for all Vegan Runners to complete their parkrun this week came in one second under 30 minutes at 29:59 🏃🥦       Marvellous milestones this week were achieved by:  🎊250 Tony Hardy  🎊100 Steven Buck – volunteering  Fantastic dedication to parkrun and representing our wonderful club for the animals 🏃🐄 We can’t get data for the milestones anymore so let me know in the comments if you’d like to be added to this report.    We no longer have access to the top age graded results either to celebrate VRs who achieved this at their parkrun, but I did notice:  🏅78.96% Sandra Morgan  🏅81.60% Daniel Borrett  🏅78.62% Namoi Sutton  Not too shabby at all 💪    Shoutouts to these Vegan Runners who finished their parkrun in a multiple of fifty position:  📣50 Amy Cromarty  📣50 Debra Porter  📣50 Lynn Persse  📣100 Stacey Buckby  📣150 Anja Robinson  📣150 Chloe Hill  📣150 Katherine Harris  📣150 Carla Brain  📣150 Ian Beasley  📣150 Steven Crutchley  📣250 Ella Hill  📣250 Helen Treadgold  📣300 Alice Connor  📣300 Mike Harling  📣400 Charles Dean-Orange  📣550 Peter Fitzgerald    Twelve troublesome terrors landed directly on the noughty step this week, forfeits and fines for:  😈20:00 Oliver Herdsman  😈23:00 Stephen Todd  😈23:00 Mirek Salmon  😈23:00 Charlotte Barton  😈24:00 Layla Whitaker  😈27:00 Angie Ridge  😈28:00 Jay Johnson  😈28:00 Rachel Mitchell  😈31:00 Debra Porter  😈32:00 Philippa Briggs  😈33:00 Stephen Sellers  😈35:00 Catherine Thompson    Collecting a finish token with a repeating digit were these radical rep-digit reppers:  🌟🎈33 Fiona Newman  🌟🎈33 Jim Mcalwane  🌟🎈44 Chris Wynn  🌟🎈44 Daniel Hatton  🌟🎈44 Harvey Wooldridge  🌟🎈44 Roberta Jasmontaite  🌟🎈44 Tanya Barnes  🌟🎈55 David Raza  🌟🎈55 Malcolm Duncan  🌟🎈55 Matt Walker  🌟🎈66 Peter Welch  🌟🎈77 Mark Elwell  🌟🎈88 George Spann  🌟🎈88 Tim Hawkins  🌟🎈99 Erik Newton  🌟🎈99 Joseph Myers    Well done everyone! It’s so great to see VR parkrun attendance numbers rising and meetups gaining in popularity, too. It’s also wonderful to see all the photos you post on our facebook page with comments clearly showing what a kind, caring and positive community we’re all part of. You are wonderful human beings and I’m proud to be able to report on your weekly achievements! Have a great week and get ready for next week’s parkrun if you’re able to attend – it will be the last one of February! Where did that month go! 🖤🐄🐑🐤💚             

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! 💚🖤     

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