💚🖤 Despite the April showers, we had 890 VRs attending 403 different parkrun events on this last Saturday of April 2024. 820 members gained a finish token and we had over 70 wonderful volunteers. 192 of you gained a new Personal Best for 2024! 🏃🎉🎊
I absolutely love this week’s photo from Holyrood – thank you to Fraser Murray for the pic. It looks like a beautiful place to run and I bet the views are incredible.
Here are the meetup numbers and locations from this week:
14 Dartford Heath parkrun
12 Holyrood parkrun
10 Pomphrey Hill parkrun
9 Whiteley parkrun
9 Gloucester North parkrun
9 Eastville parkrun
8 Colwick parkrun
8 Marlborough Common parkrun
8 Jersey Farm parkrun
7 Arrow Valley parkrun
7 Preston Park parkrun, Brighton
6 Eastbourne parkrun
6 Ashton Court parkrun
6 Whitstable parkrun
6 Forest Rec parkrun
6 Hastings parkrun
6 Worthing parkrun
6 Centre Vale parkrun
5 Black Park parkrun
5 Burnage parkrun
5 Hillsborough parkrun
5 Felixstowe parkrun
5 Catford parkrun
5 Trentham Gardens parkrun
5 University of Northampton parkrun
5 Cycle Route 43 parkrun, Ystalyfera
There were also thirty meetups with four VRs, thirty-eight with three, ninety-four parkruns had a pair of VRs in the results and two hundred and fifteen of you solo repped.
Outside of the UK we also had VRs repping at this many locations in the following countries:
🇿🇦 4 South Africa
🇦🇺 3 Australia
🇵🇱 2 Poland
🇳🇿 2 New Zealand
🇩🇪 2 Germany
🇺🇸 1 United States
🇸🇪 1 Sweden
🇳🇱 1 Netherlands
🇯🇵 1 Japan
🇮🇹 1 Italy
🇮🇪 1 Ireland
🇫🇮 1 Finland
🇩🇰 1 Denmark
Our top ten fastest ladies this week were:
🥇20:32 Fiona Newman
🥇20:38 Elly Maggs
🥇21:05 Clare Meraz
🥇21:11 Eloise Kate Billington New PB 2024!
🥇21:14 Catherine Charlton
🥇21:25 Emma Eldridge
🥇21:54 Agata Szczepaniuk New PB 2024!
🥇21:54 Julie Oswald
🥇22:00 Gay O’Connor
🥇22:04 Ilze Fridrihsone New PB 2024!
Top ten fastest men:
🥇16:58 Jake Stephens
🥇16:59 Philip Nind
🥇17:30 Tom Carpenter New PB 2024!
🥇17:35 Christopher Pearson
🥇17:50 Tobias Thejll-Madsen New PB 2024!
🥇17:51 Geoffrey Gregory New PB 2024!
🥇17:54 Matthew Du Cros
🥇17:59 Andy Gardiner
🥇18:06 Shane Conroy
🥇18:09 Alastair Stables
Congratulations, amazing times! 🏃⏱🕺
An incredible twenty-one VRs came first in their gender position at their parkrun:
🏆16:58 Jake Stephens
🏆17:30 Tom Carpenter
🏆17:35 Christopher Pearson
🏆17:54 Matthew Du Cros
🏆17:59 Andy Gardiner
🏆18:09 Alastair Stables
🏆19:11 Benjamin John Grant
🏆19:14 James Porter
🏆19:29 Matt Edmonds
🏆20:04 Alex Robertson
🏆20:38 Elly Maggs
🏆21:14 Catherine Charlton
🏆22:29 Tracy Moroz
🏆22:32 Emily Axford
🏆22:32 Eleanor Wood
🏆23:24 Paula Blackledge
🏆23:39 Dawn Williams
🏆23:54 Abigail Jordan
🏆25:39 Stephanie Hughes
🏆26:21 Helen Treadgold
🏆30:11 Nina Nickerson
Marvellous milestones this week were achieved by:
🎊100 Arielle Griffiths
🎊100 Sas Leudar
🎊250 Sarah Horrigan-Fullard
Fantastic dedication and repping for the animals 🐮🐷🐐🐑🐎🐖🐄
The average time for all Vegan Runners to complete the course on this last event of April 2024 was another super sub-30, one second faster than last week, 29:58
Shoutouts to these twenty-one Vegan Runners who finished their parkrun in a multiple of fifty position:
📣 50 34:05 Buff Forbes Stone
📣 50 32:41 Clare Larter
📣 50 46:58 Suzanne Whiteside
📣 50 24:26 Andy Gosling
📣 50 21:44 Neil Douglas
📣 50 24:27 Deano Vanbeano Evans
📣 100 23:25 Nicola Harrison
📣 100 23:40 Michael Duffy
📣 100 25:33 Sean Dickinson
📣 150 32:34 Shell Dillon-Redmile
📣 200 37:54 Sarah Cook
📣 200 35:06 Ann-Marie Fahmy
📣 200 26:45 Bob Stephenson
📣 250 38:33 Sara Hinch
📣 250 34:24 Kate Chester
📣 250 29:44 Peter Major
📣 300 34:21 Catherine Brogdale
📣 400 47:38 Valerie Freestone
📣 450 29:07 Allan Shaw
📣 500 31:24 Robin Davey
📣 650 31:32 Kate Nichols
Landing bang on the coveted and elusive noughty step this week we have eighteen errant club members – have a word with yourselves:
😈 22:00 Gay O’Connor
😈 23:00 Jamie Kinghorn
😈 23:00 Felix Wilson
😈 24:00 Dane Cobain
😈 25:00 Lydia Kindred
😈 25:00 Richard Farrage
😈 27:00 Samantha Tapp
😈 28:00 Ian Beasley
😈 28:00 Deborah English
😈 28:00 Kevin Morris
😈 29:00 Laura Arnold
😈 30:00 Rachael Chadwick
😈 30:00 Trevor Hiscox
😈 31:00 Joseph Guntrip
😈 32:00 Adam Vincent-Garland
😈 32:00 Andrew Hunter-Rossall
😈 43:00 Jane Stubbington
😈 62:00 Leanne Murray
And to round up this punctilious report let’s laud and revere our repdigit reppers this week, bananas and bagels for:
🍌🥯 11 Gareth Thomas
🍌🥯 11 Marti Spence
🍌🥯 11 Martin Lascelles
🍌🥯 11 Nathann Thornton
🍌🥯 11 Paul Foster
🍌🥯 22 David Brown
🍌🥯 22 Jamie Wieland
🍌🥯 22 Steve Proudley
🍌🥯 33 Carla Brain
🍌🥯 33 Jasmine Rawlinson
🍌🥯 44 John Pellegrini
🍌🥯 44 Kevin Morris
🍌🥯 44 Margaret Pritchard
🍌🥯 44 Rebel Gilbert
🍌🥯 44 Stephen Day
🍌🥯 55 Christopher Lait
🍌🥯 55 Deb Beats
🍌🥯 55 Dylan Rickerby
🍌🥯 55 Florence Blackbourn
🍌🥯 55 Gemma Clark
🍌🥯 66 Ian Humble
🍌🥯 66 James Loosley
🍌🥯 66 Tim Edwards
🍌🥯 77 Agata Szczepaniuk
🍌🥯 77 Carla Stevens
🍌🥯 77 Claudia Lennicke
🍌🥯 77 Darren Eveleigh
🍌🥯 77 Darren Phillips
🍌🥯 77 Mirek Salmon
🍌🥯 88 Anja Robinson
🍌🥯 88 Charlotte Skipper
🍌🥯 88 Martina Smith
🍌🥯 88 Michael Stewart
🍌🥯 88 Stacey Buckby
🍌🥯 99 Jerry Barnes
🍌🥯 99 Karen Hyatt
🍌🥯 99 Melanie Goslin
🍌🥯 99 Saffy Walton
🍌🥯 111 Dave Broom
🍌🥯 111 Ian Snow
🍌🥯 222 Rebecca Webster
🍌🥯 444 Ceci Musgrave
🍌🥯 444 Pamela Denison
Yet another wonderful week of sharing our passion and beliefs on veganism within the delightful parkrun community. Every one of you repping the green and black is making a difference. Wear your VR kit with pride! In a week where Lidl (Germany) announced a 30% increase in vegan sales, awareness about the impact of eating meat on health, the environment and animal welfare is spreading rapidly and becoming increasingly difficult for non-vegans to ignore. Even the dairy industry is recognising the need for change – check out Flora’s brilliant “Skip the Cow” campaign https://www.flora.com/en-gb/skip-the-cow#
Have a wonderful week – we have our first parkrun of May next, where will you be repping? Don’t forget to add to our mid-week poll. It would be great to hit that 1,000 attendance mark!
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