The 20th May 2023 saw great numbers again with Vegan Runners repping at 370 different parkruns which is another new record with 18 more locations and seven more VRs than last week ??. Previously our highest turnout was at 359 locations. We are so close to representing our club at 50% of parkruns as 750 took place in the UK on the 20th May.
With green and black visibility increasing, more and more vegan runners are applying to join our club – the biggest and best running club in the UK. This week, 62 of us volunteered and 727 grabbed a parkrun finish token. The average time for all Vegan Runners this week was slightly over 30 minutes at 30:07 – not bad at all! I really liked Jayne Clare’s wise words posted on our Vegan Runners UK parkrun facebook page: “Never underestimate the power of planting seeds by repping in the green and black.” Top comment! ??☘️???
There were plenty of Vegan Runner meet ups this week, the largest of which was at Eastville parkrun, which hosted an incredible 26 Vegan Runners! Thank you for the photo from this event. Other popular locations this week were:
Ganger Farm – 19
Hastings parkrun – 11
Blaise Castle – 9
Fulham Palace, Worcester Pitchcroft – 8
Milton Country – 7
Bestwood, Chester, Gloucester City, Hove Promenade, Preston, Rendlesham Forest, Southsea, Thames Path and Woodhouse Moor – 6
Endcliffe, Exeter Riverside, Folkestone, Forest Rec, Hillsborough, Wendover Woods, Worthing parkrun – 5
Fantastic Milestones this week for:
Lisa Jepson 100
Kevin Doherty 150
Orla Deacon 150
Alexander Cox 200
Julie Oxenforth 250
Tamsin Crothers 250
Mark Myer 300
David Anderson 350
Congratulations to the eight super speedy first ladies this week: Kate Telford (19:54), Clare Meraz (20:17), Millie Wood (20:26), Katie Louise Wright (20:33), Serena O’Connor (20:50), Catherine Charlton (21:18), Heather Travis (21:41) and Ilze Fridrihsone (21:46).
Top five 1st place fasties (not overall fastest speeds) were: Pawel Pasko (17:44), Warren Renkel (17:54), Tom Carpenter (18:11), Tom Seller (18:45), Sam Thorogood (18:49).
Top five best age grade this week for Lin Lascelles (84.60%), Margaret Pritchard (80.11%), Paul Millsom (79.15%), Stephen Boynton (21:34) and Darren Francis (77.99%). Excellent repping ???
On the noughtie step this week we can put Keith Rochester, Steve Proudley, Amy Dittrich, Martin Stapleton, Dave Broom, Shana Banana Burchett, Kat Staunton, Erica Wilson, Christine Ramsey-Wade, Karen Ratcliffe, Elaine Mcmillan and Simon Hurford. All very noughtie, indeed!
Finish tokens with a multiple of 50 were bagged by Scott Dunstone, Sophie Goodall-Smith, Brit Peacock, Peter Wilkin, Andrew Nortrop, Emma Herd, Jim Nankivell, Darren Cochrane, Mike Rogers, Rosalie Hoskins, Gordon Smith, Andrew Mcfarland, Jacq Byers, Bernard O’Connor and Madison Hart.
Just for fun Repdigit Reppers this week were, in 11th place: Nick Leigh, Lee Burnard, Andrew Kaye
22nd: Reece O’Kane, Kevin Bunn
33rd: Stephen Reeve
44th: Louise Griffin, Christopher Stephen Caps, Trevor Lambert, Rachael Hall, Paul Moss
55th: Elizabeth Munday, Ethan Maltlyn, Rachel Billinghurst, Doug Porter, Wendy Brigstock
66th: Neil Morris, Emma Hunt
77th: Hiren Dhanecha, Amy Casson, James Caygill, Joe Harling
88th: Samuel Foote, Ray O’Shaughnessy
99th: Diane Strickland, Dawn Carr
111th: David Chamberlain, Zoe Berry, Lindsey Cotterill
444th: Katie Cox
### 2023 VRUK parkrun League ###
Number of Global parkrundays so far in 2023: 25
Number of UK parkrundays so far in 2023: 21
Vegan Runners are great at promoting a Vegan lifestyle and a love of running and fitness by repping at a fantastic range of locations. Altogether, we have repped the green and black at 854 different parkruns just this year.
That’s 854 Vegan Runners who have run at:
23+ different events: 0
22 different events: 3
21 different events: 5
20 different events: 4
10-19 different events: 128
2-9 different events: 1047
1 event location: 732
Number of runs:
23: 1 – Nathann Thornton, has run at 21 different event locations (repeated Southsea earlier in the year and this week Ganger Farm)
22: 4
21: 28
20: 29
10-19: 548
2-9: 964
1: 345
And we have a New Entry into Top 10 Fastest VR Times of 2023:
16:41 Philip Nind at Endcliffe parkrun – incredible!
Thanks again to Gary Sherin and Mike Harper for help with this week’s report. Have a great week everyone and look out for Mike’s mid-week poll to find out where the Vegan Runners’ meet ups will be. Great repping! ????????☘???️?????????
