💚🖤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! 🖤🐄🐑🐤💚