💚🖤 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!
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