Another wonderful week for Vegan Runners! The sun presided over the majority of parkrun events in the UK on this second parkrun of April 2024, which saw 941 members attending 416 events. 871 VRs gained a finish token and we had over 70 wonderful volunteers.
Meet-ups a-plenty were organised and held at thirty-four different venues for groups of five and above. Thank you to Fraser Murray for this week’s fabulous photo from the biggest meetup held at Livingston, where twenty-five VRs were scanned. Other popular get-togethers occurred at:
15 South Manchester parkrun
13 Bedgebury Pinetum parkrun
12 Southampton parkrun
10 Eastville parkrun
10 Salisbury parkrun
10 Bevendean Down parkrun
8 Endcliffe parkrun
8 York parkrun
8 Centre Vale parkrun
7 Colwick parkrun
7 Southsea parkrun
7 Rothwell parkrun
6 Bushy parkrun
6 Hampstead Heath parkrun
6 Roding Valley parkrun
6 Milton Country parkrun
6 Preston Park parkrun, Brighton
6 Worthing parkrun
5 Hull parkrun
5 Cannon Hill parkrun, Birmingham
5 Whitstable parkrun
5 Forest Rec parkrun
5 Hillsborough parkrun
5 Bognor Regis parkrun
5 Lee-on-the-Solent parkrun
5 Felixstowe parkrun
5 Prospect parkrun
5 Coldham’s Common parkrun
5 Alvaston parkrun
5 Severn Valley Country parkrun
5 Bartley Park parkrun
5 Belvoir Castle parkrun
5 Yarborough Leisure Centre parkrun
There were also nineteen events with four VRs, forty-six parkruns with three Vegan Runners, eighty-nine with a pair from our club and two hundred and twenty-eight of you were solo repping.
As well as 398 parkruns in the United Kingdom, Vegan Runners also showed up in parkrun results in ten other countries (number is the number of events in each country with VRs).
3 United States
3 Ireland
3 Germany
2 Italy
2 Australia
1 Sweden
1 South Africa
1 Poland
1 Netherlands
1 Canada
parkrun is not a race but it’s still interesting to learn about and to celebrate the achievements of our fastest parkrunners. So here is a list of our top ten fastest men this week:
16:44 Philip Nind
17:11 Andrew Worster
17:14 Jake Stephens
17:29 Matt Edmonds
17:30 Christopher Pearson
17:32 Neil Sexton NewPB!
17:40 Shane Conroy NewPB!
17:53 Dave Holmes NewPB!
17:56 Alex Hinchcliffe NewPB!
18:11 Gareth Thomas
And our top ten fastest ladies:
19:49 Clare Meraz
20:06 Lesley Connors
20:55 Elly Maggs
21:15 Kamile Stanelyte
21:20 Julie Oswald
21:20 Helen Seymour NewPB!
21:25 Emma Eldridge
21:28 Katie Louise Wright
21:53 Tracy Moroz
21:55 Michelle Vaughan NewPB!
Incredible times – congratulations! 
These VRs came first in their gender position at their parkrun:
16:44 Philip Nind
17:11 Andrew Worster
17:29 Matt Edmonds
17:30 Christopher Pearson
18:42 Dan Stent
18:48 Matthew Rhodes
19:16 Douglas Williamson
19:49 Clare Meraz
20:06 Lesley Connors
20:55 Elly Maggs
21:00 Hester Hill
21:15 Kamile Stanelyte
21:20 Julie Oswald
21:44 Joseph Brown
21:53 Tracy Moroz
24:28 Elena Roebuck
Fabulous repping and proving that our plant-based diet provides the perfect fuel for a powerful parkrun 
Marvellous milestones this week were achieved by:
Katy Wilson 250
Well done, brilliant parkrun presence and repping for the animals 
The average time for all Vegan Runners to complete their course on this second event of April 2024 fell just one second short of the noughty step, coming in at a respectable 29:59 
189 of us gained a new Personal Best for 2024! 
Shoutouts to these Vegan Runners who finished their parkrun in a multiple of fifty position:
50 23:01 Catherine Charlton
50 25:38 Layla Whitaker
50 25:32 Jade Barrett
50 29:22 Fhiona Clark
50 38:14 Catherine Southgate
50 21:34 Tom Geere
50 24:05 Edward Owen
100 28:28 Jac Prigmore
100 23:45 Ryan Pollock
150 33:57 Matt Ashmead
150 25:58 Stephen Bray
250 31:17 Emily Mudhar-Fung
300 31:12 Hilary Cockshaw
300 34:00 Emma Bartlett
350 29:59 Francesca Parkes
850 33:32 Alice Baker
900 34:16 Claire Robinson
On the noughty step this week we have fourteen contumacious characters:
20:00 Tom Gayle
21:00 Hester Hill
22:00 Greg Turner
24:00 Julian Middleton
25:00 Adam Kirsh
25:00 Gary Beeston
25:00 Mandy Scott
26:00 Marti Spence
28:00 Ella Yarrow
32:00 Kate Nichols
33:00 Hannah Charlton
34:00 Emma Bartlett
35:00 Fleur Deacon
46:00 Ieva Jasmontaite
You are our heroes of the zeroes 
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And last but by no means least, an incredible fifty-one of you collected a repdigit finish token this week, Spring blossoms for:
11 Julian Harrison
11 Julie Oswald
11 Lesley Connors
11 Michael Inglis
11 Nick Barrett
11 Robert Ottolangui
11 Sam Threadgill
11 Stephen Taylor
22 Adrian Pope
22 Bev Dennis
22 Bob Love
22 Marti Spence
22 Scott Bates
33 Chris Calvert
33 David Ball
33 Elena Roebuck
33 Rebecca Lait
33 Stevie Tudor
33 Tracey Lancaster
44 David Anderson
44 Graeme Smith
44 Kasia Matuszyk
44 Laura Fearn
44 Rafael Bickley
44 Stephen Robinson-Day
44 Steve Proudley
44 Wendy Lockwood
55 Ben Musty
55 Gregory Richards
55 Michelle Vaughan
66 Amy Moore
66 Aurime Dovydaityte
66 Rob Lupton
66 Soleil Barrett
77 Agata Szczepaniuk
77 Gary Jarvis
77 Keri Jackson
77 Paula Lamont
88 Kathryn Dobson
88 Nicola Lewton
88 Sean Whiteley
88 Wendy Littlewood
99 Angela Cresswell
99 Ashley Price-Sabate
99 Jo Rickerby
99 Katy Winter
99 Laura Whitton
99 Michael Frawley
99 Mo Warrillow
333 Anna Broi
444 Valerie Freestone
I had the absolute pleasure of meeting some of the names I write about regularly in my reports at the Salisbury meet-up, including Harry Pannell and Norbert Adison. It’s great to be able to put faces to names! It was also lovely to see Sharon Weinstein and Kate Buttimer again. There was much talk about the upcoming VRUK20 Bristol meetup in May, where I’m looking forward to meeting more of you soon. Have a great week and keep an eye out for the mid-week poll to find a meet-up near you! 
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