💚🖤 On this third parkrun event of March, we had 867 Vegan Runners attending 371 different parkrun events. 803 gained a finish token and we had over 64 wonderful volunteers.
Many marvellous meetups occurred across the UK, the most popular of which was held at Gunnersbury and attended by Shiroma Silva, a BBC World Service journalist and reporter, who was interviewing Vegan Runners for an upcoming radio show about VRs at parkrun. Thank you to Rajiv Mulchandani for the wonderful photo from Gunnersbury – where the beautiful blue skies were cheekily partnered with an Arctic breeze! The most popular meetup locations this week occurred at:
29 Gunnersbury parkrun
17 Bournemouth parkrun
16 Southampton parkrun
14 Hadleigh parkrun, Essex
12 Colwick parkrun
12 Pomphrey Hill parkrun
11 Eastville parkrun
9 Halifax parkrun
9 Worcester Pitchcroft parkrun
7 Gloucester City parkrun
7 Hunstanton Promenade parkrun
6 Ashton Court parkrun
6 Whitstable parkrun
6 Bognor Regis parkrun
6 Nostell parkrun
6 Poolsbrook parkrun
6 Pont y Bala parkrun
6 Storeys Field parkrun
5 Bushy parkrun
5 Endcliffe parkrun
5 Ferry Meadows parkrun
5 Birkenhead parkrun
5 Sherwood Pines parkrun
There were groups of four VRs at 20 parkruns, three VRs at 44 events, pairs of VRs at 97 locations and 187 club members solo repping. 🖤💚
As well as Vegan Runners repping for the animals at 352 different parkrun locations within the UK, we also had club members sporting the green & black at this many locations in the following countries:
🇩🇪 6 Germany
🇮🇪 4 Ireland
🇦🇺 3 Australia
🇿🇦 2 South Africa
🇸🇪 1 Sweden
🇸🇬 1 Singapore
🇵🇱 1 Poland
🇳🇿 1 New Zealand
Our top ten fastest men this week were:
🥇17:03 Andrew Worster
🥇17:13 Jake Stephens
🥇17:17 Dan Stent
🥇17:23 Harry Pannell
🥇17:36 Philip Nind
🥇17:51 Matt Edmonds
🥇18:04 Bill Hill
🥇18:13 Matthew Du Cros
🥇18:23 Christopher Pearson
🥇18:24 Shane Conroy
And top ten fastest ladies:
🥇20:01 Elly Maggs
🥇21:00 Laura Pettitt
🥇21:09 Lin Lascelles
🥇21:10 Dory Kovacs
🥇21:13 Fiona Newman
🥇21:41 Sophie Burnett
🥇22:02 Tracy Moroz
🥇22:12 Gay O’Connor
🥇22:24 Julia Garan
🥇22:29 Aurime Dovydaityte
Incredible times! 🏃🎉🥦
These VRs came first in their gender position at their parkrun:
🏆17:03 Andrew Worster
🏆17:23 Harry Pannell
🏆17:36 Philip Nind
🏆17:51 Matt Edmonds
🏆18:23 Christopher Pearson
🏆18:29 Joe Burn
🏆19:03 Matthew Rhodes
🏆19:33 Jamie Kinghorn
🏆19:41 Scott Hunter
🏆19:54 Khan Nothnagel
🏆20:00 Andrew Milllis
🏆22:49 Dawn Williams
🏆22:56 Julie Oswald
🏆23:05 Kamile Stanelyte
🏆25:47 Hayley Wragg
🏆26:26 Susan Waller-Toyne
Proving plant-based power improves performance! 🥦🌱🌿
Marvellous milestones this week were achieved by:
🎊 Hugo Carpendale 150
Congratulations ✨
The average time for all Vegan Runners to complete the course on this third event of March 2024 was 30:31 🏃🥦
A fabulous 156 of you achieved a New Personal Best for 2024 – smashing it with plants! 🏃🎉🥦
Shoutouts to these Vegan Runners who finished their parkrun in a multiple of fifty position:
📣50 24:50 Tom Woollard
📣50 25:54 Billy Braithwait
📣50 21:41 Anthony Holder
📣50 19:31 Jamie Heywood
📣100 26:08 Deborah English
📣100 26:22 Barri Edwards
📣100 23:31 Rajiv Mulchandani
📣100 26:35 Andy Ekins
📣150 28:40 Michelle Lewington
📣150 34:07 Katy Errock
📣150 39:13 Lynne Evans
📣200 29:52 Amanda Francis
📣450 38:07 Charlotte Brown
📣650 51:36 Clare Savory
An incredible eighteen of you landed on the noughty step this week, gosh and goodness, please behave:
😈20:00 Andrew Millis
😈21:00 Laura Pettitt
😈23:00 Sarah Laws
😈23:00 Felix Wilson
😈27:00 Ian Painter
😈29:00 Gareth Lemon
😈30:00 Maya Luscombe
😈31:00 Justin Bowen
😈31:00 Caragh Johnson
😈32:00 Andrew Richardson
😈32:00 Lynn Tyler
😈34:00 Sonia Ng
😈35:00 Samantha Edginton
😈37:00 Lesley Connors
😈38:00 Helen Collis
😈46:00 Victoria Pallen
😈50:00 Joanne French
😈55:00 Sharon Maria Boland-Setu
And last but by no means least, these VRs scooped a rare and resplendent repdigit finish token, and therefore will be blessed with bananas and bunnies:
🍌🐰11 Benedict O’Connell
🍌🐰11 Chris Hewett
🍌🐰11 Craig Rouse
🍌🐰11 Kieran Child
🍌🐰11 Lawrence Richardson
🍌🐰11 Nathan Hawes
🍌🐰11 Paul Foster
🍌🐰11 Tom Grainger
🍌🐰22 Gary Beardsley
🍌🐰22 Jack Gaughan
🍌🐰22 Jon Taylor
🍌🐰22 Matthew Savory
🍌🐰22 Robert Skedgell
🍌🐰22 Simon English
🍌🐰33 Herb Love
🍌🐰33 Peter Welch
🍌🐰33 Wojciech Walczuk
🍌🐰44 Charlotte Barton
🍌🐰44 James Freddie Lloyd
🍌🐰44 Judith Oakley
🍌🐰44 Michael Woods
🍌🐰55 Dory Kovacs
🍌🐰55 Joss Kirk
🍌🐰55 Lynn Persse
🍌🐰66 Charlotte Barton
🍌🐰66 Wendy Littlewood
🍌🐰77 Benjamin Carpendale
🍌🐰77 Janos Miklos
🍌🐰77 Steven Walsh
🍌🐰77 Stuart Chalmers
🍌🐰77 Taryn Archer
🍌🐰88 Rachael Chadwick
🍌🐰111 Hugo Carpendale
🍌🐰111 Rosalie Hoskins
🍌🐰555 Jane Walker
🖤🐄🐑🐤💚 Amazing performances as usual from VRs, some great meetups and so exciting to have positive media attention from the BBC World Service. Outside VRUK, positive media is also gathering pace in the vegan world, including the film “Christspiracy” out last week, and Kirk Haworth – a vegan chef – making it to the final of the “Great British Menu”. Let’s continue to celebrate and share our vision of a meat-free world. 💚🐤🐑🐄🖤
