💚🖤  May the fourth be with you! And VRs were certainly out in force on this first parkrun of May. We had 896 members representing our wonderful club at 391 different parkrun events. 837 gained a finish token and we had over 60 wonderful volunteers. That’s so close to 900 – let’s smash that barrier next week!  

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Marvellous meetups of five and more took place this week at thirty-five different locations – thank you to Maya Luscombe for this week’s wonderful photo from the Severn Bridge meetup, the largest parkrun gathering this week. Here is a list of venues with most VRs in the results: 

21 Severn Bridge parkrun 

15 Horton Park parkrun 

13 Bognor Regis parkrun 

12 Parke parkrun 

11 Sixfields Upton parkrun 

11 Queen’s parkrun, Glasgow 

9 Eastbourne parkrun 

9 Forest Rec parkrun 

8 Cannon Hill parkrun, Birmingham 

7 Scunthorpe parkrun 

7 Preston Park parkrun, Brighton 

7 Hove Promenade parkrun 

7 Jersey Farm parkrun 

6 Colwick parkrun 

6 Crystal Palace parkrun 

6 Durham parkrun 

6 Northala Fields parkrun 

6 Great Denham parkrun 

6 Great Dunmow parkrun 

6 Catford parkrun 

6 Battlestead Croft parkrun 

5 Finsbury parkrun 

5 Worcester parkrun 

5 Rothwell parkrun 

5 Medina I.O.W. parkrun 

5 Ferry Meadows parkrun 

5 Eastville parkrun 

5 Southend parkrun 

5 Hillsborough parkrun 

5 Felixstowe parkrun 

5 Centre Vale parkrun 

5 Alvaston parkrun 

5 Storeys Field parkrun 

5 Sandringham parkrun 

5 Cycle Route 43 parkrun, Ystalyfera 

Outside of the UK, Vegan Runners represented veganism and our lovely running club at this many locations in the following countries: 

🇩🇪     5 Germany 

🇿🇦     3 South Africa 

🇦🇺    3 Australia 

🇸🇪     2 Sweden 

🇳🇿    2 New Zealand 

🇺🇸     1 United States 

🇳🇴  1 Norway 

🇳🇱     1 Netherlands 

🇩🇰     1 Denmark 

🇦🇹  1 Austria 

Great worldwide repping – Globi-wan Kenobi 🌎 

Our top ten fastest ladies this week were: 

🥇18:38 Caroline McAleese New PB! 🎉 

🥇19:01 Naomi Sutton 

🥇20:28 Elly Maggs 

🥇20:34 Fiona Newman 

🥇20:41 Clare Meraz 

🥇21:01 Katie Louise Wright 

🥇21:11 Elizabeth Barreiro New PB! 🎉 

🥇21:19 Agata Szczepaniuk New PB! 🎉 

🥇21:19 Helen Seymour New PB! 🎉 

🥇21:25 Lesley Connors 

And our top five fastest men: 

🥇16:42 Jake Stephens New PB! 🎉 

🥇17:06 Gergely Arvay 

🥇17:08 Benji Cavanagh 

🥇17:18 Philip Nind 

🥇17:27 Naeem Stevens New PB! 🎉 

🥇17:28 Matt Edmonds 

🥇17:31 Tom Seller New PB! 🎉 

🥇17:38 Gareth Thomas New PB! 🎉 

🥇17:42 Jamie Kinghorn New PB! 🎉 

🥇17:50 Christopher Pearson 

Congrats, speedies! ⚡🏃 

Eighteen VRs came first in their gender position at their parkrun, trophies and tribulations to these trailblazers: 

🏆🕺16:42 Jake Stephens 

🏆🕺17:08 Benji Cavanagh 

🏆🕺17:18 Philip Nind 

🏆🕺17:27 Naeem Stevens 

🏆🕺17:42 Jamie Kinghorn 

🏆🕺17:50 Christopher Pearson 

🏆🕺18:01 Tom Carpenter 

🏆🕺18:18 Andrew Worster 

🏆🕺18:38 Caroline Mcaleese 

🏆🕺18:39 Khan Nothnagel 

🏆🕺18:52 Matthew Rhodes 

🏆🕺19:01 Naomi Sutton 

🏆🕺20:28 Elly Maggs 

🏆🕺20:34 Andy Gardiner 

🏆🕺21:25 Lesley Connors 

🏆🕺22:25 Julie Oswald 

🏆🕺23:04 Louise Griffin 

🏆🕺25:05 Susan Waller-Toyne 

Marvellous milestones this week were achieved by: 

🎊Steve Miller  100 

Amazing accomplishment!🏃🎉🐄 

The average time for all Vegan Runners to complete the course on this first event of May 2024 was just over the 30 mark at 30:17 ⏱ 

One hundred and forty-eight of you gained a new Personal Best for 2024! 🏃🎉🎊🥳 

Stars not wars for these Vegan Runners who finished their parkrun in a multiple of fifty position: 

🌟⭐50 26:10 Karen Arkwright 

🌟⭐50 25:51 Florence Blackbourn 

🌟⭐50 31:20 Sue Savva 

🌟⭐50 22:43 Anthony Holder 

🌟⭐100 32:45 Emily Rawlins 

🌟⭐100 33:31 Emma Collins 

🌟⭐100 46:54 Vicky Sullivan 

🌟⭐100 28:22 Haydn Whitmore 

🌟⭐200 30:19 Kerry May 

🌟⭐200 33:12 Stacie Long 

🌟⭐650 42:47 Viki Bell 

Eighteen of you chose to go over to dark side by landing on the noughty step this week, dark + slides for: 

🌑🛝21:00   Scott Hunter 

🌑🛝22:00   Rufus Flack 

🌑🛝23:00   Nigel Barnes 

🌑🛝24:00   Colette Rudland 

🌑🛝27:00   Chris Dhondee 

🌑🛝29:00   Martina Smith 

🌑🛝30:00   Evelyn Redwood 

🌑🛝30:00   Mo Warrillow 

🌑🛝30:00   Joe Wachniuk 

🌑🛝30:00   Kay Cottrell 

🌑🛝32:00   Emily Batkin 

🌑🛝33:00   Gary Sherin 

🌑🛝33:00   Jacquie Little 

🌑🛝36:00   Lisa Baxter 

🌑🛝45:00   Karolina Gibson 

🌑🛝56:00   Nura Karpowitsch 

🌑🛝58:00   Becs Lambart 

🌑🛝62:00   Tracy Moroz 

A phenomenal forty Vegan Runners collected a repdigit finish token this week, Chocolate Chip Wookiees and Darth Taters for: 

🍪🥔11 Alex Robertson 

🍪🥔11 Kevin Du Plessis 

🍪🥔11 Kira Rehfeld 

🍪🥔11 Michael Frawley 

🍪🥔11 Nick Charlton 

🍪🥔11 Theo Deacon 

🍪🥔22 Angie Pelling 

🍪🥔22 Carla Brain 

🍪🥔22 Daniel Wilson 

🍪🥔22 David Brown 

🍪🥔22 Rafael Bickley 

🍪🥔22 Rosie Brown 

🍪🥔33 Bev Dennis 

🍪🥔33 Colin Braybrook 

🍪🥔33 Gareth Davies 

🍪🥔33 Mike Harper 

🍪🥔33 Sarah Laws 

🍪🥔44 Agata Szczepaniuk 

🍪🥔44 Kevin Newell 

🍪🥔44 Neil Sexton 

🍪🥔55 Alex Eden 

🍪🥔55 Angela Smith 

🍪🥔55 Roxann Holder 

🍪🥔66 Chloe Haigh 

🍪🥔66 Chris Dixon 

🍪🥔66 Thomas Boden 

🍪🥔77 Charlotte Murphy 

🍪🥔77 David Chamberlain 

🍪🥔77 Matt Salisbury 

🍪🥔77 Rob Lupton 

🍪🥔88 Alex Hawker 

🍪🥔88 Dave Holmes 

🍪🥔88 Jay Massaad 

🍪🥔88 Jen Conway 

🍪🥔88 Tom Rogers 

🍪🥔99 Gill Walter 

🍪🥔99 Jamie Heywood 

🍪🥔99 Paul Williams 

🍪🥔222 Deborah Parfitt 

🍪🥔222 Mark Cox 

Enjoy the Bank Holiday weekend if you’re in the UK – hopefully some fun and sunshine for us all. Keep running and repping – look out for our mid-week poll and let’s smash that 900 barrier next week! 🖤🐄🐑🐤💚