💚🖤 With Storm Kathleen rampaging across the UK on this first parkrun of April, plus three big Sunday running events contending with parkrun attendance, we still had a healthy turnout with 899 Vegan Runners participating in 384 different parkrun events. 839 VRs gained a finish token and we had over 45 wonderful volunteers.
Many marvellous meetups to choose from as usual – thank you to Dan Stent-Clements for this week’s wonderful photo from the largest gathering at Brighton & Hove parkrun, where 22 VRs appeared in the results.
Other large numbers of Vegan Runners also at parkruns this week were:
17 Ashton Court parkrun
15 Wollaton Hall parkrun
10 Worsley Woods parkrun
9 Southampton parkrun
9 Worcester parkrun
8 Levengrove parkrun
7 Eastbourne parkrun
7 Margate parkrun
7 Central parkrun, Plymouth
6 Colwick parkrun
6 Endcliffe parkrun
6 Whitstable parkrun
6 Eastville parkrun
6 Hastings parkrun
6 Alvaston parkrun
5 Gunnersbury parkrun
5 Worcester Pitchcroft parkrun
5 Congleton parkrun
5 Kettering parkrun
5 Huddersfield parkrun
5 Stevenage parkrun
5 Alice Holt parkrun
5 Hillsborough parkrun
5 Marlborough Common parkrun
5 Coldham’s Common parkrun
5 Clevedon Salthouse Fields parkrun
5 University Parks parkrun
There were 27 parkruns with four Vegan Runners in the results, 53 with three VRs, 89 parkruns had two VRs and 187 of us were solo repping.
Outside of the UK we also had VRs repping the green and black – here are the number of events per country with VRs in the results this week:
🇩🇪 4 Germany
🇦🇺 4 Australia
🇳🇿 2 New Zealand
🇮🇪 2 Ireland
🇺🇸 1 United States
🇸🇪 1 Sweden
🇿🇦 1 South Africa
🇵🇱 1 Poland
🇳🇴 1 Norway
🇳🇱 1 Netherlands
Our top ten fastest ladies this week were:
🥇20:11 Fiona Newman New PB!
🥇20:30 Mary P Scott New PB!
🥇20:50 Julie Oswald New PB!
🥇21:08 Elly Maggs
🥇21:13 Kamile Stanelyte New PB!
🥇21:29 Lesley Connors
🥇21:43 Jen Conway
🥇22:10 Tracy Moroz
🥇22:18 Alice Nicolay
🥇22:26 Gay O’Connor
Top ten fastest men:
🥇16:35 Christopher Pearson New PB!
🥇16:47 Elliot Palmer
🥇16:51 Matt Edmonds New PB!
🥇17:02 Dan Stent
🥇17:16 Andy Gardiner
🥇17:25 Gareth Pritchard New PB!
🥇17:46 Philip Nind
🥇17:49 Scott Braunton New PB!
🥇17:52 Ben Wickham
🥇18:15 James Ross
Absolutely amazing times – congratulations! 🎉
Congratulations also to the 117 of us who gained a new PB for 2024! 🎉
These VRs came first in their gender position at their parkrun:
🏆16:47 Elliot Palmer
🏆16:51 Matt Edmonds
🏆17:46 Philip Nind
🏆17:49 Scott Braunton
🏆18:58 Benedict O’Connell
🏆19:07 Khan Nothnagel
🏆19:50 James Porter
🏆20:06 Hester Hill
🏆20:11 Fiona Newman
🏆21:13 Kamile Stanelyte
🏆22:10 Tracy Moroz
🏆22:27 Aurime Dovydaityte
🏆22:33 Emily Krombas
🏆23:23 Dawn Williams
Marvellous milestones this week were achieved by:
🎊 Sharon Maria Boland 500
🎊 Richard Davis 400
🎊 Rachel Chadwick 300
🎊 Kerry Irwin-Hall 150
🎊 Ren Pryce 50
Amazing achievements 🥳
The average time for all Vegan Runners to complete the course on this first event of April 2024 was 30:56 ⏱
Shoutouts to these twelve Vegan Runners who finished their parkrun in a multiple of fifty position:
📣50 24:52 Karen Williams
📣100 29:38 Cristy North
📣100 40:07 Natalie Shannon
📣150 36:40 Dave Broom
📣150 27:08 Ben Du Feu
📣200 29:27 Matleena Elonheimo
📣250 31:16 Hilary Cockshaw
📣300 49:00 Daniel Fleming
📣350 38:15 Lauren Hart
📣450 38:25 Lesley Quinn
📣850 50:58 Claire Robinson
📣850 35:21 Keshab Bhattarai
Noughty-noughty, a dozen disobedient VRs landed exactly on the noughty step, no cake this week I’m afraid for:
😈🍰 19:00 Sam Bagnall
😈🍰 28:00 Chris Webb
😈🍰 30:00 Sam Buley
😈🍰 31:00 Rachel Shimeld
😈🍰 32:00 Mike Lloyd
😈🍰 33:00 Sara Truckel
😈🍰 37:00 Sophie Bridger
😈🍰 38:00 Helen Collis
😈🍰 42:00 Ben Musty
😈🍰 43:00 Andy Begent
😈🍰 44:00 Catherine Southgate
😈🍰 49:00 Daniel Fleming
And finally, it’s time to mention our resplendent, vibrant and tree-mendous repdigit reppers; trees and treats for:
🌳🍭 11 Craig Rouse
🌳🍭 11 John Taylor
🌳🍭 11 Jonathan Morris
🌳🍭 11 Stephen Taylor
🌳🍭 22 Carla Stevens
🌳🍭 22 Matthew Savory
🌳🍭 33 Anthony Holder
🌳🍭 33 Matt Walker
🌳🍭 44 Jenna Selby
🌳🍭 44 Paula Hirst
🌳🍭 44 Sarah Laws
🌳🍭 44 Susan Macdonald
🌳🍭 55 Danny Coll
🌳🍭 55 Greg Turner
🌳🍭 55 Jason Corden
🌳🍭 55 Kevin Bunn
🌳🍭 66 Kev O’Connor
🌳🍭 66 Susan Waller-Toyne
🌳🍭 77 Judy Johnson
🌳🍭 77 Zaneta Morris
🌳🍭 88 Carlos Bautista
🌳🍭 88 Diane Strickland
🌳🍭 88 Joanne Egerton
🌳🍭 88 Paul Du Buf
🌳🍭 99 Alice Nicolay
🌳🍭 99 Emily Beaves
🌳🍭 99 Rachel Beeston
🌳🍭 99 Rachel Toone
🌳🍭 111 Vicky Sullivan
🌳🍭 222 Linda Jesson
🌳🍭 444 Jules Nicholson
Well done everyone, what a great week for Vegan Runners. This week we represented our club at 384 out of 2,300 parkrun venues. That’s nearly 17% representation of VRs at all parkruns in the whole world, promoting our club and its values with positivity and pride. Vegan Runners at parkrun in my view is the healthiest, most effective and least confrontational form of vegan activism. As I walked home from solo repping at my “nendy” parkrun last Saturday, one of the runners still completing the course yelled me a cheery, “Well done!”, to which I replied, “Plant Power! Thank you, well done to you, too!”. The exchange made me smile, which in turn made the next ten runners smile, too. If we can rock our VR tops at parkruns and include a friendly smile I reckon we’ll inspire at least 10% more people to investigate veganism than if we don’t smile. Just a theory but backed up by plenty of research. Try it out next week! 😊🖤🐄🐑🐤💚😊
