Frosty and wintery conditions were embraced and endured by only the bravest of Vegan Runners on this first parkrun of December 2023. 631 of us attended 278 events, 580 of us were given a finish token and over 50 of you nobly took on a very chilly voluntary role. Many of you had to find alternative venues as there were over 100 cancellations, mainly due to icy and snowy conditions .
Lots of lovely meetups still took place, the most popular of which were held at:
26 Ashton Court parkrun
14 Sharpham Estate parkrun
9 Rothwell parkrun
8 Forest Rec parkrun
7 Bestwood Village parkrun
7 Tollcross parkrun, Glasgow
7 Great Lines parkrun, Medway
7 Swansea Bay parkrun
6 Southampton parkrun
6 Whiteley parkrun
6 Whitstable parkrun
6 Woodgate Valley Country Park parkrun
5 Brockwell parkrun, Herne Hill
5 Southsea parkrun
5 St Albans parkrun
5 Milton Keynes parkrun
5 Preston Park parkrun, Brighton
5 Worthing parkrun
Thanks to Janet Birchnall Travers for this week’s meetup photo from Sharpham Estate parkrun.
The average time for all Vegan Runners to complete their parkrun course this week was just shy of a sub30, coming in at 30:19.
Incredible speeds from our top five fastest men this week and very close on the podium jostling for 1st position:
17:14 Andy Gardiner
17:27 Pawel Pasko
17:33 Philip Nind
17:33 High-Carb Vegan
17:52 Gareth Thomas
Congratulations!
Congratulations also to our top five fastest women, who this week were:
20:22 Naomi Sutton
20:57 Clare Meraz
21:28 Laura Pettitt
21:43 Catherine Charlton
21:51 Gay O’Connor
Fantastic running and repping 
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Sixteen Vegan Runners finished in first position for their gender at their parkrun this week, great results for:
17:14 Andy Gardiner
17:33 Philip Nind
17:33 High-Carb Vegan
18:00 Nehal Lavey-Khan
18:07 Daniel Borrett
18:24 Lee Billinghurst
18:26 Matt Edmonds
18:26 Dan Stent
19:45 Benedict O’Connell
20:42 Khan Nothnagel
20:57 Clare Meraz
21:31 Jiri Kempny
21:43 Catherine Charlton
23:13 Lesley Connors
24:32 Dawn Williams
26:10 Kathryn Lamb
Veggie power! 
We had three VRs who were top age graded at their event this week, jubilations and standing ovations to:
Andrew Millis 83.85%
Margaret Pritchard 82.89%
Richard Barr 75.25%
Fantastic gradings.
Marvelous Milestones this week achieved by:
250 Katie Cox
Congratulations! 
Personal Bests will hopefully feature in future reports, although I’m struggling to get this data currently.
Moving onto the random shoutout section of this report! Let’s start with our VRs who were handed a barcode with a multiple of 50 this week – fabulous repping in frrrrreeeezing conditions – salad and snowflakes for:
50 Pranev Sharma
100 Sarah Laws
100 Lesley Quinn
100 Richard James
100 Tony Hardy
150 Sonia Lord
200 Rafi Cavanagh
200 Prashant Soneji
200 H Matthew Howarth
350 Niki Edge
350 Elaine McMillan
There were seventeen VRs who landed directly on the noughty step this week – indecorous and incorrigible timing from:
18:00 Nehal Lavey-Khan
20:00 Peter Veleski
25:00 Lin Lascelles (shocking behaviour)
26:00 James Gargett
27:00 Andrew McMillan
28:00 Jonny Gill
28:00 Rachel Billinghurst
29:00 Prashant Soneji
30:00 Michelle Flower
31:00 Matt Helm
31:00 Peter Bunyan
38:00 Katy Wilson
43:00 Sara Leudar
46:00 Anna Uscroft
49:00 Ethan Lambart
58:00 Tara Macey
58:00 Rachel Marsh
Well done, heroes of the zeroes 
And, last but not least, let’s hear it for our repdigit reppers, out in the cold for the animals, repping the . Awesome applause and standing ovations for these wonderful VRs:
11 James Porter
11 Jonathan Morris
11 Reece O’Kane
11 Ryan Travers
22 Benjamin Smith
22 Brendan Kenny
22 Brit Peacock
22 C James Barr
22 Lesley Connors
22 Linzi Cooper
22 Patrick Morris
22 Rosie Brown
33 Ceci Musgrave
33 Jen Conway
33 Kirsty Atkinson
33 Phil Sowerby-Williams
33 Wojciech Walczuk
44 Rachael Bickley
44 Rachel Billinghurst
44 Steven Dobner
55 Darren Eveleigh
55 Eoghan Bickley
55 Sarah Hull
66 Mike Harling
77 Adrian Pope
77 Andi Stacey
77 Chris Phipps
77 Coral Putman
77 Doug Porter
77 Lauren Mills
88 Alfie Gateley-Preece
88 Angela Cresswell
99 Chris Sampson
99 Jo Godman
99 Sali Daniels
Well done everyone, a great turnout repping our wonderful club considering the icy conditions and the many cancellations that impeded attendance this week. Next week looks a little warmer, although do check for Christmas events which might affect your intended parkrun venue. Let me know in the comments of any errors or omissions! Have a wonderful week and let’s smash out a collective sub30 next week!
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