Love was in the air for parkrun this week and what a fabulous turnout we had on this Valentines’ weekend! 910 VRs managed to attend 388 different parkrun events. 832 gained a finish token and we had over 78 wonderful volunteers.
VRs were spreading the love with plenty of meetups too – thank you to Alice Baker for this week’s wonderful photo from the Southsea meetup, which was the biggest VR get-together of the week, with 36 Vegan Runners convening. Other sizeable meetups occurred at:
30 Eastville parkrun
14 Rickmansworth parkrun
12 Chippenham Playing Fields parkrun, Monmouth
11 South Woodham Ferrers parkrun
10 York parkrun
9 Worcester parkrun
8 Bushy parkrun
8 Southwick Country parkrun
8 Clumber Park parkrun
8 Hunstanton Promenade parkrun
7 Hull parkrun
7 Southwark parkrun
7 Great Lines parkrun, Medway
7 Lee-on-the-Solent parkrun
7 Centre Vale parkrun
6 Colwick parkrun
6 Hillsborough parkrun
6 Folkestone parkrun
6 Hastings parkrun
6 East Brighton parkrun
5 Pollok parkrun, Glasgow
5 Black Park parkrun
5 Eastbourne parkrun
5 Southampton parkrun
5 Hampstead Heath parkrun
5 Bestwood Village parkrun
5 Bolton parkrun
5 Margate parkrun
5 Queen’s parkrun, Glasgow
We also had VRs repping in locations as exotic and far-flung as:
4 Germany
3 Poland
3 Australia
2 New Zealand
1 Singapore
1 Netherlands
1 Italy
1 Ireland
1 Austria
220 VRs repped alone, pairs of VRs attended eighty-four events, trios were at thirty-six locations and punnets of 4 VRs represented our club at eighteen parkruns.
Parkrun is a run not a race, but we can still whoop and cheer for our top five fastest men this week who ran incredible times:
16:51 Daniel Borrett
16:56 Chris MacPherson
17:32 Jake Stephens
17:33 Matthew Du Cros
17:38 Tom Seller
And let’s hear it for our top five fastest ladies:
18:52 Naomi Sutton
20:08 Katie Louise Wright
21:01 Fiona Newman
21:07 Emma Eldridge
21:09 Elly Maggs
Congratulations!
Seventeen VRs came first in their gender position at their parkrun, fantastic times from:
16:56 Chris MacPherson
17:49 Alastair Stables
18:13 Philip Nind
18:22 Joe Burn
18:52 Naomi Sutton
19:40 Jhon Cosgrove
19:42 Sam Thorogood
21:09 Elly Maggs
21:26 Mary P Scott
21:31 Jen Conway
22:08 Julia Garan
22:23 Tracy Moroz
22:42 Marti Spence
23:08 Emily Pereira
23:45 Annie Hamilton
24:20 Dawn Williams
27:52 Rachel Strother
The average time for all Vegan Runners to complete their parkrun this week came in one second under 30 minutes at 29:59 
Marvellous milestones this week were achieved by:
250 Tony Hardy
100 Steven Buck – volunteering
Fantastic dedication to parkrun and representing our wonderful club for the animals 
We can’t get data for the milestones anymore so let me know in the comments if you’d like to be added to this report.
We no longer have access to the top age graded results either to celebrate VRs who achieved this at their parkrun, but I did notice:
78.96% Sandra Morgan
81.60% Daniel Borrett
78.62% Namoi Sutton
Not too shabby at all 
Shoutouts to these Vegan Runners who finished their parkrun in a multiple of fifty position:
50 Amy Cromarty
50 Debra Porter
50 Lynn Persse
100 Stacey Buckby
150 Anja Robinson
150 Chloe Hill
150 Katherine Harris
150 Carla Brain
150 Ian Beasley
150 Steven Crutchley
250 Ella Hill
250 Helen Treadgold
300 Alice Connor
300 Mike Harling
400 Charles Dean-Orange
550 Peter Fitzgerald
Twelve troublesome terrors landed directly on the noughty step this week, forfeits and fines for:
20:00 Oliver Herdsman
23:00 Stephen Todd
23:00 Mirek Salmon
23:00 Charlotte Barton
24:00 Layla Whitaker
27:00 Angie Ridge
28:00 Jay Johnson
28:00 Rachel Mitchell
31:00 Debra Porter
32:00 Philippa Briggs
33:00 Stephen Sellers
35:00 Catherine Thompson
Collecting a finish token with a repeating digit were these radical rep-digit reppers:
33 Fiona Newman
33 Jim Mcalwane
44 Chris Wynn
44 Daniel Hatton
44 Harvey Wooldridge
44 Roberta Jasmontaite
44 Tanya Barnes
55 David Raza
55 Malcolm Duncan
55 Matt Walker
66 Peter Welch
77 Mark Elwell
88 George Spann
88 Tim Hawkins
99 Erik Newton
99 Joseph Myers
Well done everyone! It’s so great to see VR parkrun attendance numbers rising and meetups gaining in popularity, too. It’s also wonderful to see all the photos you post on our facebook page with comments clearly showing what a kind, caring and positive community we’re all part of. You are wonderful human beings and I’m proud to be able to report on your weekly achievements! Have a great week and get ready for next week’s parkrun if you’re able to attend – it will be the last one of February! Where did that month go! 
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