Once again Vegan Runners faced incredibly difficult conditions for the most part with rain lashing down heavily across the UK. 641 VRs still managed to attend 306 different events, 575 completed the predominantly waterlogged 5 km courses and over 66 VRs supported parkrun by volunteering. Many meetups were scuppered by last minute cancellations but 396 of you repped with VR company this week, the largest meetups occurring at:
19 Brierley Forest parkrun
17 Newbury parkrun
11 Blaise Castle parkrun
7 Woodbank parkrun
5 Albert parkrun, Middlesbrough
5 Hull parkrun
5 Ally Pally parkrun
5 Margate parkrun
5 Preston Park parkrun, Brighton
5 Exeter Riverside parkrun
5 Lee-on-the-Solent parkrun
5 Oaklands parkrun
5 Five Arches parkrun
There were also nineteen groups of four, thirty-one trios, sixty-four double acts and 179 solo reppers. Credit to Holly McCain for this week’s wonderfully wet woodland photo from the Brierley Forest parkrun meetup featuring a vegan elf spreading a bit of elf and ‘appiness
The average time for all VRs to complete their soggy parkrun this week was again just slightly shy of a sub30 at 30:05! SO close.
Nineteen VRs finished first in their gender position this week, all hail these fantastically fast runners:
17:07 Harry Pannell
17:31 Philip Nind
18:13 Tom Carpenter
18:40 Daniel Borrett
18:45 Jake Stephens
19:11 James Withams
19:14 Jamie Kinghorn
19:20 Matthew Rhodes
19:24 Jon Turtle
19:43 Andrew Millis
21:03 Mimi Connolly
21:55 Catherine Charlton
22:01 Mary P Scott
23:21 Hester Hill
23:43 Lin Lascelles
23:57 Coral Putman
24:47 Dawn Williams
26:23 Susan Waller-Toyne
28:14 Andi Stacey
Our top five fastest ladies this week were:
20:14 Lesley Connors
21:03 Mimi Connolly
21:12 Katie Louise Wright
21:55 Catherine Charlton
22:01 Mary P Scott
And our top five fastest men:
17:07 Harry Pannell (one second off his PB!)
17:25 Gareth Pritchard
17:27 Geoffrey Gregory
17:31 Philip Nind
18:01 Ben Wickham
Excellent running in incredibly inclement conditions 
Brilliant results in the age grading category from Vegan Runners this week, smashing it as we had an outstandingly impressive nine VRs achieving the top age graded performance at their event this week; kudos and prestige to:
84.28% Andrew Millis
80.04% Geoffrey Gregory
79.55% Lin Lascelles
77.89% Judy Johnson
76.69% Jamie Kinghorn
74.88% Philip Nind
73.83% Tom Carpenter
73.66% Daniel Borrett
70.50% Susan Waller-Toyne
And now… for the first time ever, I am proud to announce that I have finally been able to generate a list of Vegan Runners who achieved their Personal Best of 2023 this week! Thank you of course to our amazingly talented magician statistician Gary Sherin who taught me The Way to achieve this. So here we go, let’s congratulate and celebrate fantastic achievements for these VRs who smashed out their 2023 PB in the driving rain! (N.B. these are 1st PBs of 2023 whilst registered as a Vegan Runner with parkrun). Well done to:
28:50 Simon Rose
46:10 Kathy Shaw
32:21 Paresh Patel
38:57 Rebecca Ward
24:41 Sam Lappage
21:50 Joe Burn
22:04 Jeremy Braithwait
36:34 Claire Robinson
33:56 James Anderson
36:12 Stephen Smith
29:20 Alix Wood
18:33 Neil Sexton
30:04 David Clarkson
23:36 Chantelle Cornett
18:21 James Green
24:10 Jamie Collins
37:19 Debbie Gee
22:54 Christopher Lait
28:15 Mollie-May Harrod-Green
22:50 Harvey Williams
28:48 Gina Dearing
27:52 Jon Hall
28:50 Jac Prigmore
24:26 Ieva Jasmontaite
26:04 Layla Whitaker
26:55 David Rudland
24:26 Richard Passe
It’s highly possible that I’ve made errors here so apologies in advance if I’ve made any mistakes.
Marvelous milestones were achieved this week by:
50 Thomas Preece
250 Jemma Gibson
A reminder that I can only see milestones by Vegan Runners who have run at more than fifty different parkrun locations.
VRs who earned themselves a barcode with a multiple of 50 get a shoutout of course, Christmas biscuits for:
50 Mo Warrillow
50 Katy Errock
50 Heath Harvey-List
50 David Rudland
100 Sue House
150 Emma Davids
150 Sally Smith
200 Han Whiteoak
200 Jenny Fernandez
250 Rosalie Hoskins
300 Clare Pashby
300 Rosie Northcott
Only four VRs landed on the noughty step this week – most of us are clearly trying to avoid upsetting Santa in the run-up to Christmas!
25:00 Kellie Clark
33:00 Joanne Kitchener
34:00 Ruth Stockley
56:00 Sarah Horrigan-Fullard
Rounding up this week’s water-logged report we have our randomly recognised repdigit reppers, who this week earn themselves a raindrop, let’s hear it for:
11 David Murray
11 Gavin Oakley
11 Joseph Delahunty
11 Neil Timms
22 Andrew Aldridge
22 Annabel Sykes
22 Ellenor Millican
22 Jenny Katsoni
22 Katie Louise Wright
22 Phil Davies
22 Robert Skedgell
22 Sarah Butler
22 Sebby Travers
33 Andy Begent
33 Emma Carpenter
44 H Matthew Howarth
44 Matthew Shepherd
44 Mike Rogers
44 Mirek Salmon
44 Sheldon Kilroe
55 Maya De Thabrew-Hutton
55 Michael Drake
55 Sarah Benn
66 Angelina Farruggia
66 Barnaby Norman
77 Anthony Holder
88 Jim McAlwane
88 John Pellegrini
99 Angie Ridge
99 Becki Clark
99 Gareth Lemon
99 Gerard Mucci
111 Katrina Harling
222 Helen Skilton
Well done everyone, great running and great repping in the pouring rain. We have just four more parkruns this year including the extra event on Christmas Day. Many people will be looking to start the New Year with a new commitment to better themselves and what better way to start 2024 than by going vegan. Let’s keep repping! Have a great week.
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