💚🖤 What a difference the weather makes! With floods and freezing conditions a-plenty across the UK there were over 100 cancellations. We still had awesome attendance and representation with 839 Vegan Runners attending 324 different parkrun events. 783 gained a finish token and we had over 56 wonderful volunteers.
Meetups were as abundant as the cancellations on this last parkrun of February with an incredible 34 VRs repping at Chipping Sodbury – an awesome turnout. Other meetups of note took place at:
19 Hull parkrun
18 Kesgrave parkrun
17 Andover parkrun
10 Whitekirk Hill parkrun
8 Colwick parkrun
8 Worcester parkrun
8 Preston Park parkrun, Brighton
8 University of Northampton parkrun
7 Eastbourne parkrun
7 Southampton parkrun
7 Southsea parkrun
7 Brighouse parkrun
7 Eastville parkrun
6 Heaton parkrun
6 Milton Keynes parkrun
6 Brierley Forest parkrun
6 Barnstaple parkrun
6 Southend parkrun
6 Forest Rec parkrun
6 Hillsborough parkrun
6 Margate parkrun
6 Folkestone parkrun
6 Hove Promenade parkrun
6 Portsmouth Lakeside parkrun
6 Alvaston parkrun
6 Mildenhall Hub parkrun
There were also twelve meetups of five VRs, eighteen meetups of four VRs, thirty-eight trios, sixty-five duos and one hundred and sixty-four solo reppers. We are a friendly bunch! Thank you to Lesley Connors for this week’s wonderful photo from Hull parkrun.
Not only were Vegan Runners promoting animal rights and awareness of veganism across the UK, we were also advocating avocados and plant-based diets across the world repping in:
🇩🇪 3 Germany
🇦🇹 3 Australia
🇳🇱 2 Netherlands
🇮🇪 2 Ireland
🇸🇪 1 Sweden
🇸🇬 1 Singapore
🇵🇱 1 Poland
🇳🇿 1 New Zealand
🇯🇵 1 Japan
🇮🇹 1 Italy
🇩🇰 1 Denmark
Our top ten fastest men this week, with incredible times, were:
🥇16:42 Philip Nind
🥇16:53 Jake Stephens
🥇16:54 Matt Edmonds
🥇17:19 Michael Slack
🥇17:52 Christopher Pearson
🥇17:52 Scott Braunton
🥇18:02 Harry Pannell
🥇18:25 Joe Burn
🥇18:31 Ben Wickham
🥇18:39 Darren Francis
And top ten fastest ladies, proving plant power is all the fuel you need:
🥇19:45 Lesley Connors
🥇19:53 Clare Meraz
🥇19:55 Hester Hill
🥇19:58 Jo Fleming
🥇20:18 Paula Blackledge
🥇20:53 Jenny McNamara
🥇21:11 Lin Lascelles
🥇21:18 Fiona Newman
🥇21:27 Elly Maggs
🥇21:42 Helen Seymour
Congratulations!
Remarkable repping from these VRs who came first in their gender position at their parkrun:
🏆16:54 Matt Edmonds
🏆17:52 Scott Braunton
🏆18:58 Dave Holmes
🏆19:23 Nathann Thornton
🏆19:42 Brad Scarborough
🏆19:53 Clare Meraz
🏆19:55 Hester Hill
🏆19:58 Jo Fleming
🏆20:18 Paula Blackledge
🏆21:27 Elly Maggs
🏆22:28 Lisa Kaye
🏆23:14 Emily Axford
🏆23:57 Zeina Clare
🏆24:15 Emily Pereira
As you probably know, marvellous milestones are no longer easily available from parkrun data so this section relies on me finding out from other sources. This week I just know to congratulate:
🎊 Gary Jarvis on his 50th parkrun
🎊 Katie Pownall on her 50th parkrun
🎊 Luke Sayers on his 100th parkrun
🎊 Nigel Barnes on completing his 250th parkrun.
Wonderful achievements and repping for the animals 🏃🐄
The average time for all Vegan Runners to complete the course on this last event of February 2024 was 30:31 🎉🏃♀️
Shoutouts to these Vegan Runners who finished their parkrun in a multiple of fifty position:
📣50 29:40 Laura Wright
📣50 26:55 Jasmine Green
📣50 35:18 James Henderson
📣50 29:38 Robert Franklin
📣50 25:31 Wojciech Walczuk
📣50 21:44 Nicholas Mytton
📣100 26:55 Karen Austin
📣100 30:05 Melanie Hayes
📣150 35:44 Gemma Clark
📣150 28:59 Doug Porter
📣200 31:19 Rachael Long
📣200 39:35 Sara Leudar
📣200 28:40 Ian Beasley
📣350 33:04 Hannah Rushton
📣500 35:35 Lizzy Sutton
Terrible behaviour from just twelve rambunctious VRs who landed on the noughty step this week, recriminations and time to think for:
😈 Tom Carpendale
😈 August Frew
😈 Michael Woods
😈 Katherine Alexander
😈 Guy Rayment
😈 Simon Scott
😈 Jacquie Little
😈 Jason Riley
😈 Tanya Barnes
😈 Tony Thyer
😈 Viki Bell
😈 Vicky Sullivan
Repping in style and collecting a repdigit finish token we have a resplendent punnet of thirty-four VRs. Avocados and animated applause for:
🥑👏11 Adam Doctor
🥑👏11 Darren Newman
🥑👏11 Emily Pereira
🥑👏11 Gary Godden
🥑👏11 Mike Harper
🥑👏11 Pete Colwell
🥑👏22 Andrew Nortrop
🥑👏22 Emma Collins
🥑👏22 Mary P Scott
🥑👏33 Jonny Hodgson
🥑👏44 Buff Forbes Stone
🥑👏44 Craig Wallace
🥑👏44 Kathryn Smith
🥑👏55 Harrison Tricker
🥑👏55 Suzi Brent
🥑👏66 Andrew Macbeth
🥑👏66 Ashley Price-Sabate
🥑👏66 Dan Russell
🥑👏66 Emma Warren
🥑👏66 Richard Catlin
🥑👏77 Alan Burgess
🥑👏77 David Chamberlain
🥑👏77 Jasmine Rawlinson
🥑👏77 Mete Guzelsoy
🥑👏88 Mary Wilson
🥑👏99 Kate Buttimer
🥑👏111 Alison Currie
🥑👏111 Janet Birchnall-Travers
🥑👏111 Jemma Gibson
🥑👏111 Simon Fuller
🥑👏222 Heath Harvey-List
🥑👏333 Adam Kirsh
🥑👏555 Caroline Gabriel
Gosh and goodness, such fantastic achievements, well done one and all for getting out to parkruns and representing our wonderful club. Veganism continues to gain attention and traction, this week the “Moral Maze” on Radio 4 discussed the moral case for veganism. Despite the presenter’s bias, it’s interesting to notice how increasingly difficult it’s becoming for non-vegans to come up with any rational argument for continuing to eat meat and dairy. Even the farmer agrees that current consumption and production of animal products is unsustainable and harmful.
Have a wonderful week – keep running and repping for the animals.
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