Our first parkrun of March 2024 saw 804 Vegan Runners attending 353 events, despite 182 cancellations. 739 of us earned a finish token and we filled over 65 volunteering roles. 161 of you achieved a new Personal Best for 2024 – that’s incredible! 
Marvellous meetups took place this week at 156 parkrun events – thank you to Joseph Baxter for this week’s wonderful photo from the most popular muddy meetup at Forest Rec parkrun, where 21 VRs convened. Other popular locations this week were held at:
17 Southampton parkrun
17 Torbay Velopark parkrun
15 Victoria parkrun, Glasgow
11 Northampton parkrun
9 Wythenshawe parkrun
9 Southend parkrun
8 Colwick parkrun
8 Preston Park parkrun, Brighton
7 Southsea parkrun
7 Cannon Hill parkrun, Birmingham
7 Brockenhurst parkrun
6 Hull parkrun
6 Whitstable parkrun
6 Hillsborough parkrun
6 East Grinstead parkrun
5 Brighton & Hove parkrun
5 Kingsway parkrun, Gloucester
5 Ashton Court parkrun
5 Endcliffe parkrun
5 Brueton parkrun
5 Conkers parkrun
5 Heslington parkrun
5 Belton House parkrun
5 Stretford parkrun
5 Coldham’s Common parkrun
5 Centre Vale parkrun
5 Hunstanton Promenade parkrun
There were sixteen meetups with four VRs, thirty-four trios, seventy-eight duos and 197 of us were solo reppers. We also had Vegan Runners promoting a vegan lifestyle internationally in:
5 Germany
4 Australia
3 Japan
2 South Africa
2 Poland
2 Ireland
1 United States
1 Sweden
1 Singapore
1 Canada
The average time for all Vegan Runners to complete their parkrun course this week was a respectable 30:25 
Our top ten fastest men on this first parkrun of March were these un-beet-ables:
17:18 Matt Edmonds
17:40 Philip Nind
17:50 Ben Wickham
17:51 Matthew Du Cros
17:54 Michael Slack
18:06 Carl Whittaker
18:12 Andrew Worster
18:18 James Taylor
18:18 Gareth Thomas
18:19 Christopher Pearson
And top ten fastest ladies, leaf-ing the rest behind 
:
20:08 Becky Tovey
20:19 Naomi Sutton
20:23 Lesley Connors
20:50 Clare Meraz
20:58 Dory Kovacs
21:00 Katie Louise Wright
21:05 Catherine Charlton
21:13 Fiona Newman
21:14 Lin Lascelles
21:59 Laura Seaman
Congratulations!
These plant-powered paragons came first in their gender position at their event – praise and party poppers for:
17:18 Matt Edmonds
17:40 Philip Nind
17:50 Ben Wickham
17:54 Michael Slack
18:12 Andrew Worster
18:19 Christopher Pearson
18:25 Nehal Lavey-Khan
18:48 Khan Nothnagel
19:11 Andrew Millis
19:15 Scott Hunter
19:29 Joseph Brown
19:31 Benjamin Smith
19:46 Thomas Harrington
20:16 Chris Annear
20:19 Naomi Sutton
20:23 Lesley Connors
20:50 Clare Meraz
21:05 Catherine Charlton
23:15 Dawn Williams
23:36 Julie Oswald
25:12 Abi Ford
28:38 Rachel Kuypers
Marvellous milestones this week were achieved by:
Satty Singh 250
Jacqui Little 200
A-maize-ing accomplishments 
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Shoutouts to these Vegan Runners who finished their parkrun in a multiple of fifty position:
50 21:49 Rafael Bickley
150 25:36 Layla Whitaker
150 27:32 Joanna McKenzie
150 30:50 Emma Claxton
150 24:36 Steven Quinn
200 30:17 Bernard O’Connor
200 27:35 Gregory Myles
250 27:08 Ellenor Millican
300 31:29 Rosie Northcott
300 41:17 Thomas Giles
350 28:26 Mandy Foyster
450 34:00 Cez Mabe
On the noughty step this week we have twenty terrible terrors – magic numbers for these heroes of the zeros:
19:00 Dave Colwell
19:00 Andy Gardiner
21:00 Katie Louise Wright
24:00 Chris Sampson
24:00 James Gargett
24:00 Lee Tooey
25:00 Simon English
25:00 Tim Hawkins
26:00 Andy Begent
26:00 Chris Dhondee
27:00 Simon See
27:00 Ruth Farnell
29:00 Iris Deniz
29:00 Sam Thatcher
29:00 Andrew Johnson
31:00 Maya De Thabrew-Hutton
34:00 Rachael Bickley
34:00 Samantha Wright
34:00 Cez Mabe
48:00 Ella Hill
And, last but not least, lettuce celery-brate the thirty-two Vegan Runners who this week collected a finish token with a repdigit number. They are the amazing, the incredible, the awesome and resplendent:
11 Marc Davison
11 Marti Spence
11 Peter Taylor
11 Simon Hurford
22 Christopher Greenaway
22 Jamie Cecil
22 Steven Hatch
33 Dan Poole
33 Kristine Anderson
33 Megan Coney
33 Tikara Nothnagel
44 Keith Rochester
44 Mollie-May Harrod-Green
44 Stephen Todd
44 Stuart Robertson
55 Jack Riggall
55 Tim Hawkins
66 Ruth Kaypee
77 Andy Walsh
77 David Nicholson
77 Emily Mortimer
77 Keith Gilbert
88 Jay Parnham
88 Katherine Harris
88 Megan Quinn
99 Gareth Davies
111 Richard Passe
222 Thomas Morrison
333 Fran Grace
333 Karen Ratcliffe
444 Victoria Barber
666 Dani Ross
Lettuce be honest, you are all amazing, incredible, awesome and resplendent in black and green. Don’t be put off representing Vegan Runners and wearing our kit with pride. Silly comments are made by silly people. As Popeye once said, “I’m strong to the finish ’cause I eats me spinach.” Have a great week! 
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