It was a hot one across the UK on 24th June yet there was an impressive number of 778 Vegan Runners repping across 337 parkrun locations. 713 of you walked or ran the course whilst 65 of you volunteered. As always, there were plenty of meetups, the most popular events were at:
Bath Skyline: 20
Southampton and Worcester: 13
Kettering and Tamar Lakes: 12
Victoria in Glasgow: 10
Southsea: 9
Swansea Bay and Blaise Castle: 8
Worthing, Coldham’s Common and Thornham Walks parkrun: 7
Eastbourne, Margate, Bognor Regis, Hastings and Holyrood: 6
Thanks to Maya Luscombe for this week’s photo from Bath Skyline 
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Some super speeds were achieved despite the heat and our top five five ladies who finished in first gender position this week were:
🏆 Kelsey Wiberley who ran the course at Warwick Racecourse achieving a new PB of 19:22 – 4 seconds quicker than last week! Kelsey also achieved an impressive repdigit age grade of 76.76%.
🥬 Kate Telford 19:41
🥬 Lesley Connors 20:16
🥬 Naomi Sutton 20:44
🥬 Tracy Moroz 21:52
Top five fastest men finishing in first place this week were:
🏆 Michael Slack 17:00 (up from third last week to first place this week)
🥬 Jake Stephens 17:30 (second last week, too)
🥬 Scott Braunton 17:59 (new entry this week!)
🥬 Gareth Pritchard 18:05 (new entry this week!)
🥬 Elliot Collins 18:18 (new entry this week!)
Top age graded performances at their parkruns this week include our very own Mike! Congratulations to these super fit VRs:
Tracy Moroz 21:52 68.83%
Elly Maggs 22:18 70.03%
Mike Harper 22:25 72.79%
Gareth Pritchard 18:05 77.24%
Catherine Charlton 19:08 82.23%
Andrew Millis 19:46 84.06%
Average time for all Vegan Runners this week was 30:11
Lots of milestones this week, so congratulations to:
Helen Treadgold: 50th
Helen celebrated a birthday too, so double congratulations are in order! 🎉🥦🥳🥦
Maya Luscombe: 50th
Natalie Zouch: 50th 🎉
Nicola Gosling: 50th 🎉
James Edward Jepson: 100th 🎉
Kate Telford: 200th 🎉
Kevin Clark: 200th 🎉
Laura Whitton: 250th 🎉
These Vegan Runners grabbed a finish token with a multiple of 50:
Emma Carpenter 50
Alan Mcnally 50
Daniel Wilson 50
Stephen Reeve 50
Elizabeth Billingham 100
Tom Barratt 100
Chrissie Buckledee 250
Peter Barlow 250
Scott Dunstone 250
Cindy Styles 450
And of course, no parkrun report would be complete without a shoutout to those VRs who managed to finish on the much-coveted noughty step! 🖤💚😈😂😈💚🖤
Michael Slack 17:00
Gavin Oakley 22:00
Al Green 22:00
Jamie Kinghorn 23:00
Stephen Robinson-Day 24:00
Jade Barrett 26:00
Mark Myer 26:00
Barnaby Norman 29:00
Debbie Kessell 30:00
Vikki Drake 32:00
Amy Eaton 33:00
Jennifer Whittle 38:00
Stephen Nash 38:00
Lydia Seager 40:00
Finally, a big shout out to all of you repping the green and black, promoting a vegan lifestyle combined with fitness and running for a better quality of life. 💚🖤 💚🖤 💚🖤 💚🖤
So here are our token repdigit reppers representing everyone this week:
11th Jack Cooper
11th Pete Colwell
11th Kevin Clark
11th Ronnie Staton
11th Stephen Boynton
11th Samuel Carl Key
11th Al Green
22nd Natalie Dawson
22nd Annabelle Nothnagel
22nd Reece O’Kane
22nd Richard Thompson
22nd Jude Wood
22nd Andy Olejnik
33rd Michael Campling
44th Jessica Bunn
44th Darren Eveleigh
44th Owen White
55th Helen Smallwood
55th Alina Eliza May Williamson
55th Christopher Jones
55th James Maker
66th Stefania Mcloughlin
66th Alex Aird
66th Duncan Mcneill
77th Lesley Quinn
77th Tom Leavesley-Matthews
77th Neil Morris
88th Nicola Toogood
88th Sara Santos
88th Susan Macdonald
88th Brandon Elliott
88th Darren Phillips
88th Gary Farquharson
111st David Stephens-Mikesch
111st Peter Taylor
222nd Andrea Fieldhouse-James
222nd Tim Windram
222nd James Graham
It’s so good to be able to see these figures soaring each week, reporting on them makes me think of how many conversations you’ve inspired, how many seeds you’ve sown, how many new Vegan Runners have grown from the result of repping. Have a great week, enjoy the sunshine and remember to check out Mike’s poll – either to suggest a location or to find somewhere to meet up with like-minded club members. 🌱 🌿☘️🍀