With Storm Kathleen rampaging across the UK on this first parkrun of April, plus three big Sunday running events contending with parkrun attendance, we still had a healthy turnout with 899 Vegan Runners participating in 384 different parkrun events. 839 VRs gained a finish token and we had over 45 wonderful volunteers.
Many marvellous meetups to choose from as usual – thank you to Dan Stent-Clements for this week’s wonderful photo from the largest gathering at Brighton & Hove parkrun, where 22 VRs appeared in the results.
Other large numbers of Vegan Runners also at parkruns this week were:
17 Ashton Court parkrun
15 Wollaton Hall parkrun
10 Worsley Woods parkrun
9 Southampton parkrun
9 Worcester parkrun
8 Levengrove parkrun
7 Eastbourne parkrun
7 Margate parkrun
7 Central parkrun, Plymouth
6 Colwick parkrun
6 Endcliffe parkrun
6 Whitstable parkrun
6 Eastville parkrun
6 Hastings parkrun
6 Alvaston parkrun
5 Gunnersbury parkrun
5 Worcester Pitchcroft parkrun
5 Congleton parkrun
5 Kettering parkrun
5 Huddersfield parkrun
5 Stevenage parkrun
5 Alice Holt parkrun
5 Hillsborough parkrun
5 Marlborough Common parkrun
5 Coldham’s Common parkrun
5 Clevedon Salthouse Fields parkrun
5 University Parks parkrun
There were 27 parkruns with four Vegan Runners in the results, 53 with three VRs, 89 parkruns had two VRs and 187 of us were solo repping.
Outside of the UK we also had VRs repping the green and black – here are the number of events per country with VRs in the results this week:
4 Germany
4 Australia
2 New Zealand
2 Ireland
1 United States
1 Sweden
1 South Africa
1 Poland
1 Norway
1 Netherlands
Our top ten fastest ladies this week were:
20:11 Fiona Newman New PB!
20:30 Mary P Scott New PB!
20:50 Julie Oswald New PB!
21:08 Elly Maggs
21:13 Kamile Stanelyte New PB!
21:29 Lesley Connors
21:43 Jen Conway
22:10 Tracy Moroz
22:18 Alice Nicolay
22:26 Gay O’Connor
Top ten fastest men:
16:35 Christopher Pearson New PB!
16:47 Elliot Palmer
16:51 Matt Edmonds New PB!
17:02 Dan Stent
17:16 Andy Gardiner
17:25 Gareth Pritchard New PB!
17:46 Philip Nind
17:49 Scott Braunton New PB!
17:52 Ben Wickham
18:15 James Ross
Absolutely amazing times – congratulations! 
Congratulations also to the 117 of us who gained a new PB for 2024!
These VRs came first in their gender position at their parkrun:
16:47 Elliot Palmer
16:51 Matt Edmonds
17:46 Philip Nind
17:49 Scott Braunton
18:58 Benedict O’Connell
19:07 Khan Nothnagel
19:50 James Porter
20:06 Hester Hill
20:11 Fiona Newman
21:13 Kamile Stanelyte
22:10 Tracy Moroz
22:27 Aurime Dovydaityte
22:33 Emily Krombas
23:23 Dawn Williams
Marvellous milestones this week were achieved by:
Sharon Maria Boland 500
Rachel Chadwick 300
Kerry Irwin-Hall 150
Ren Pryce 50
Amazing achievements 
The average time for all Vegan Runners to complete the course on this first event of April 2024 was 30:56 
Shoutouts to these twelve Vegan Runners who finished their parkrun in a multiple of fifty position:
50 24:52 Karen Williams
100 29:38 Cristy North
100 40:07 Natalie Shannon
150 36:40 Dave Broom
150 27:08 Ben Du Feu
200 29:27 Matleena Elonheimo
250 31:16 Hilary Cockshaw
300 49:00 Daniel Fleming
350 38:15 Lauren Hart
450 38:25 Lesley Quinn
850 50:58 Claire Robinson
850 35:21 Keshab Bhattarai
Noughty-noughty, a dozen disobedient VRs landed exactly on the noughty step, no cake this week I’m afraid for:
19:00 Sam Bagnall
28:00 Chris Webb
30:00 Sam Buley
31:00 Rachel Shimeld
32:00 Mike Lloyd
33:00 Sara Truckel
37:00 Sophie Bridger
38:00 Helen Collis
42:00 Ben Musty
43:00 Andy Begent
44:00 Catherine Southgate
49:00 Daniel Fleming
And finally, it’s time to mention our resplendent, vibrant and tree-mendous repdigit reppers; trees and treats for:
11 Craig Rouse
11 John Taylor
11 Jonathan Morris
11 Stephen Taylor
22 Carla Stevens
22 Matthew Savory
33 Anthony Holder
33 Matt Walker
44 Jenna Selby
44 Paula Hirst
44 Sarah Laws
44 Susan Macdonald
55 Danny Coll
55 Greg Turner
55 Jason Corden
55 Kevin Bunn
66 Kev O’Connor
66 Susan Waller-Toyne
77 Judy Johnson
77 Zaneta Morris
88 Carlos Bautista
88 Diane Strickland
88 Joanne Egerton
88 Paul Du Buf
99 Alice Nicolay
99 Emily Beaves
99 Rachel Beeston
99 Rachel Toone
111 Vicky Sullivan
222 Linda Jesson
444 Jules Nicholson
Well done everyone, what a great week for Vegan Runners. This week we represented our club at 384 out of 2,300 parkrun venues. That’s nearly 17% representation of VRs at all parkruns in the whole world, promoting our club and its values with positivity and pride. Vegan Runners at parkrun in my view is the healthiest, most effective and least confrontational form of vegan activism. As I walked home from solo repping at my “nendy” parkrun last Saturday, one of the runners still completing the course yelled me a cheery, “Well done!”, to which I replied, “Plant Power! Thank you, well done to you, too!”. The exchange made me smile, which in turn made the next ten runners smile, too. If we can rock our VR tops at parkruns and include a friendly smile I reckon we’ll inspire at least 10% more people to investigate veganism than if we don’t smile. Just a theory but backed up by plenty of research. Try it out next week! 
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