❄️Frosty and wintery conditions were embraced and endured by only the bravest of Vegan Runners on this first parkrun of December 2023. 631 of us attended 278 events, 580 of us were given a finish token and over 50 of you nobly took on a very chilly voluntary role. Many of you had to find alternative venues as there were over 100 cancellations, mainly due to icy and snowy conditions ❄️.
Lots of lovely meetups still took place, the most popular of which were held at:
26 Ashton Court parkrun
14 Sharpham Estate parkrun
9 Rothwell parkrun
8 Forest Rec parkrun
7 Bestwood Village parkrun
7 Tollcross parkrun, Glasgow
7 Great Lines parkrun, Medway
7 Swansea Bay parkrun
6 Southampton parkrun
6 Whiteley parkrun
6 Whitstable parkrun
6 Woodgate Valley Country Park parkrun
5 Brockwell parkrun, Herne Hill
5 Southsea parkrun
5 St Albans parkrun
5 Milton Keynes parkrun
5 Preston Park parkrun, Brighton
5 Worthing parkrun
Thanks to Janet Birchnall Travers for this week’s meetup photo from Sharpham Estate parkrun.
The average time for all Vegan Runners to complete their parkrun course this week was just shy of a sub30, coming in at 30:19.
Incredible speeds from our top five fastest men this week and very close on the podium jostling for 1st position:
🏅🏃 17:14 Andy Gardiner
🏅🏃 17:27 Pawel Pasko
🏅🏃 17:33 Philip Nind
🏅🏃 17:33 High-Carb Vegan
🏅🏃 17:52 Gareth Thomas
Congratulations!
Congratulations also to our top five fastest women, who this week were:
🏅🏃20:22 Naomi Sutton
🏅🏃20:57 Clare Meraz
🏅🏃21:28 Laura Pettitt
🏅🏃21:43 Catherine Charlton
🏅🏃21:51 Gay O’Connor
Fantastic running and repping 🏃🥦🏃.
Sixteen Vegan Runners finished in first position for their gender at their parkrun this week, great results for:
🥦🏃 17:14 Andy Gardiner
🥦🏃 17:33 Philip Nind
🥦🏃 17:33 High-Carb Vegan
🥦🏃 18:00 Nehal Lavey-Khan
🥦🏃 18:07 Daniel Borrett
🥦🏃 18:24 Lee Billinghurst
🥦🏃 18:26 Matt Edmonds
🥦🏃 18:26 Dan Stent
🥦🏃 19:45 Benedict O’Connell
🥦🏃 20:42 Khan Nothnagel
🥦🏃 20:57 Clare Meraz
🥦🏃 21:31 Jiri Kempny
🥦🏃 21:43 Catherine Charlton
🥦🏃 23:13 Lesley Connors
🥦🏃 24:32 Dawn Williams
🥦🏃 26:10 Kathryn Lamb
Veggie power! 🌽🥗
We had three VRs who were top age graded at their event this week, jubilations and standing ovations to:
🏆 Andrew Millis 83.85%
🏆 Margaret Pritchard 82.89%
🏆 Richard Barr 75.25%
Fantastic gradings.
Marvelous Milestones this week achieved by:
🏅🏃 250 Katie Cox
Congratulations! 🎊
Personal Bests will hopefully feature in future reports, although I’m struggling to get this data currently.
Moving onto the random shoutout section of this report! Let’s start with our VRs who were handed a barcode with a multiple of 50 this week – fabulous repping in frrrrreeeezing conditions – salad and snowflakes for:
🥗❄️50 Pranev Sharma
🥗❄️100 Sarah Laws
🥗❄️100 Lesley Quinn
🥗❄️100 Richard James
🥗❄️100 Tony Hardy
🥗❄️150 Sonia Lord
🥗❄️200 Rafi Cavanagh
🥗❄️200 Prashant Soneji
🥗❄️200 H Matthew Howarth
🥗❄️350 Niki Edge
🥗❄️350 Elaine McMillan
There were seventeen VRs who landed directly on the noughty step this week – indecorous and incorrigible timing from:
😈 18:00 Nehal Lavey-Khan
😈 20:00 Peter Veleski
😈 25:00 Lin Lascelles (shocking behaviour)
😈 26:00 James Gargett
😈 27:00 Andrew McMillan
😈 28:00 Jonny Gill
😈 28:00 Rachel Billinghurst
😈 29:00 Prashant Soneji
😈 30:00 Michelle Flower
😈 31:00 Matt Helm
😈 31:00 Peter Bunyan
😈 38:00 Katy Wilson
😈 43:00 Sara Leudar
😈 46:00 Anna Uscroft
😈 49:00 Ethan Lambart
😈 58:00 Tara Macey
😈 58:00 Rachel Marsh
Well done, heroes of the zeroes 🎊💚🖤😍
And, last but not least, let’s hear it for our repdigit reppers, out in the cold for the animals, repping the 💚🖤. Awesome applause and standing ovations for these wonderful VRs:
📣🎊 11 James Porter
📣🎊 11 Jonathan Morris
📣🎊 11 Reece O’Kane
📣🎊 11 Ryan Travers
📣🎊 22 Benjamin Smith
📣🎊 22 Brendan Kenny
📣🎊 22 Brit Peacock
📣🎊 22 C James Barr
📣🎊 22 Lesley Connors
📣🎊 22 Linzi Cooper
📣🎊 22 Patrick Morris
📣🎊 22 Rosie Brown
📣🎊 33 Ceci Musgrave
📣🎊 33 Jen Conway
📣🎊 33 Kirsty Atkinson
📣🎊 33 Phil Sowerby-Williams
📣🎊 33 Wojciech Walczuk
📣🎊 44 Rachael Bickley
📣🎊 44 Rachel Billinghurst
📣🎊 44 Steven Dobner
📣🎊 55 Darren Eveleigh
📣🎊 55 Eoghan Bickley
📣🎊 55 Sarah Hull
📣🎊 66 Mike Harling
📣🎊 77 Adrian Pope
📣🎊 77 Andi Stacey
📣🎊 77 Chris Phipps
📣🎊 77 Coral Putman
📣🎊 77 Doug Porter
📣🎊 77 Lauren Mills
📣🎊 88 Alfie Gateley-Preece
📣🎊 88 Angela Cresswell
📣🎊 99 Chris Sampson
📣🎊 99 Jo Godman
📣🎊 99 Sali Daniels
💚🖤 Well done everyone, a great turnout repping our wonderful club considering the icy conditions and the many cancellations that impeded attendance this week. Next week looks a little warmer, although do check for Christmas events which might affect your intended parkrun venue. Let me know in the comments of any errors or omissions! Have a wonderful week and let’s smash out a collective sub30 next week! 💚🖤