Soggy and squelchy conditions underfoot on grassy terrains on this penultimate run of November, which was enjoyed and endured by 767 Vegan Runners at 361 different parkrun events. We had 704 finishers and over 63 wonderful volun-cheers. Not so many big meetups this week but plenty of smaller groups of VRs getting together. The most popular parkrun meetups this week were held at:
20 Southampton parkrun
16 Eastville parkrun
13 Beacon Hill Country Park parkrun
9 Eglinton parkrun
8 Worcester parkrun
8 Eden Project parkrun
7 Gloucester City parkrun
6 Exeter Riverside parkrun
6 Worthing parkrun
5 Bushy parkrun
5 Eastbourne parkrun
5 Colwick parkrun
5 Southsea parkrun
5 Huddersfield parkrun
5 Conkers parkrun
5 Graves parkrun
5 Brockenhurst parkrun
5 Margate parkrun
5 Folkestone parkrun
5 Seven Fields parkrun
Big thanks to Alice Baker for this week’s photo from Southampton celebrating Matt Salisbury’s 150th parkrun 💚🖤
The average time for all Vegan Runners to complete their parkrun on the 18th November 2023 was 30:06 🏃🥦
An incredible seventeen VRs came first in their gender position at their parkruns this week! Congratulations to:
🏆 19:06 Daniel Borrett
🏆 26:09 Elaine Banks
🏆 21:14 Lesley Connors
🏆 23:29 Marti Spence
🏆 28:20 Rebecca Lait
🏆 20:18 Clare Meraz
🏆 24:59 Raegan Russell
🏆 18:44 Dan Stent
🏆 23:42 Greta Kegler
🏆 25:49 Claire Evans
🏆 17:46 Tom Carpenter
🏆 22:04 Rebel Gilbert
🏆 19:31 Khan Nothnagel
🏆 17:26 Philip Nind
🏆 21:11 Katie Bexley
🏆 20:40 Gary Farquharson
🏆 24:46 Rachel Burgess
Fantastic repping 🥬🥕🥦
More incredible prowess from this week’s top age graded VRs at their events, plant power demonstrated admirably by:
🏅 Margaret Pritchard 80.61%
🏅 Lesley Connors 78.02%
🏅 Tom Carpenter 75.70%
🏅 Jeremy Broomfield 74.94%
On this week’s leaderboard for the fastest men we have:
⚡🏃17:10 Ciar Nixon
⚡🏃17:26 Philip Nind
⚡🏃17:42 Richard Foster
⚡🏃17:46 Tom Carpenter
⚡🏃18:17 James Taylor
And this week’s fastest ladies are:
⚡🏃 20:18 Clare Meraz
⚡🏃21:11 Katie Bexley
⚡🏃21:14 Lesley Connors
⚡🏃21:20 Fiona Newman
⚡🏃21:44 Joanna Crossman
Excellent times, particularly considering the squelchy conditions in most parks this week 🌟
Marvellous milestones this week were achieved by:
🏅🎊 100 Gareth Davies
🏅🎊 150 Matt Salisbury
🏅🎊 350 Doug Porter
Congratulations, felicitations and commemorations on your involvement with two of the finest voluntary institutions in the land – parkrun and Vegan Runners! 💚🥕🏃🥦🖤
These Vegan Runners collected a token number which had a multiple of fifty and as such warrant a shout out for their fabulous repping of the green and black:
🥳 50 Jim McAlwane
🥳 50 Darren Eveleigh
🥳 100 Jasmine Rawlinson
🥳100 Gabriela Pasko
🥳100 Elaine Murray
🥳300 Sarah Horrigan-Fullard
🥳300 Keshab Bhattarai
🥳450 Dianne Simpson
🥳500 Damian Luscombe
🥳700 David Baker
Our resplendent repdigit reppers of course deserve large, huge and thunderous applause, let’s hear it for:
🙌 11 Callum Harling
🙌 11 Dan Coughlan
🙌 11 Keith Bremner
🙌 22 Andi Stacey
🙌 22 Caroline Lloyd
🙌 22 David Brown
🙌 22 Michael Inglis
🙌 22 Robin Jowitt
🙌 33 Carrie Leach
🙌 33 Chris Calvert
🙌 33 Craig Mcallister
🙌 33 Eleanor Smith
🙌 33 Richard Carman
🙌 44 James Lampert
🙌 44 Joshila Devile
🙌 44 Melanie Hayes
🙌 44 Ruth Morrello
🙌 44 Sarah Hull
🙌 44 Simon Hurford
🙌 55 Elena Roebuck
🙌 55 Thomas Boden
🙌 77 Fiona Bates
🙌 77 Gemma Clark
🙌 88 Kerry Barnett
🙌 88 Soleil Barrett
🙌 99 David Stephens-Mikesch
🙌 99 Guy Marlow
🙌 111 David Sharratt
🙌 111 Rebecca Hawes
🙌 222 Mark Gretton
Keep rocking your vegan socks 🧦
On the noughty step this week there are lots of names I recognise from appearances in previous reports – these VRs better watch out and better not cry as it’s nearing that time of year…
😈 19:00 Geoffrey Gregory
😈 24:00 Gavin Hawkton
😈 25:00 Paula Hirst
😈 25:00 Adrian Pope
😈 25:00 Louis Kowal
😈 28:00 Kate Telford
😈 33:00 Claire Barber
😈 51:00 Sarah Horrigan-Fullard – double shoutout!
Well done everyone, sorry for any errors or omissions, you are all amazing.I’m still working on how to get our PBs into this report. Currently only Gary-the-Magician-Statistician can manage this amazing data-tastic miracle! But watch this space. I will not give up! And, like you, I won’t give up on promoting veganism and explaining why meat and dairy is so wrong. There is always a peaceful solution to any violent act and a viable alternative which benefits all in the long run. Enjoy your long runs this week, those who do! And those who don’t, see you at parkruns next week 💚🖤