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
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.
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