Despite the April showers, we had 890 VRs attending 403 different parkrun events on this last Saturday of April 2024. 820 members gained a finish token and we had over 70 wonderful volunteers. 192 of you gained a new Personal Best for 2024!     I absolutely love this week’s photo from Holyrood – thank you to Fraser Murray for the pic. It looks like a beautiful place to run and I bet the views are incredible.    Here are the meetup numbers and locations from this week:  14 Dartford Heath parkrun  12 Holyrood parkrun  10 Pomphrey Hill parkrun  9 Whit ..read more

Amazing numbers on this third parkrun of April 2024, with 967 Vegan Runners attending 405 different parkrun events. 902 of us gained a finish token and we had over 65 wonderful volunteers.    We held thirty-three meetups across the UK with five or more club members, the largest of which was again held at Eastville parkrun, where thirty-three VRs got together. Here, in order of the number of VRs, are this week’s locations where our lovely VRs got together:  33 Eastville parkrun  24 Burgess parkrun  15 Lee-on-the-Solent parkrun  14 Dover Waterfront parkrun  11 ..read more

Another wonderful week for Vegan Runners! The sun presided over the majority of parkrun events in the UK on this second parkrun of April 2024, which saw 941 members attending 416 events. 871 VRs gained a finish token and we had over 70 wonderful volunteers.   Meet-ups a-plenty were organised and held at thirty-four different venues for groups of five and above. Thank you to Fraser Murray for this week’s fabulous photo from the biggest meetup held at Livingston, where twenty-five VRs were scanned. Other popular get-togethers occurred at:  15 South Manchester parkrun 13 Bedgebury ..read more

 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 ..read more

 On this last parkrun of March 2024, a marvellous 958 VRs managed to attend 420 different parkrun events. 891 of us gained a finish token and we had over 67 wonderful volunteers. 228 Vegan Runners succeeded in setting a new Personal Best for 2024!     It’s so exciting to watch our new parkrun facebook community grow and flourish, photos of your adventures and achievements bring the group to life in such a positive and inspirational way. Congrats to La Rubina for first pre parkrun photo & to Linda Jesson for posting the first actual photo of herself repping our lovely club at ..read more

 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 ..read more

Magnificent attendance again on this third week of March 2024 with 920 VRs attending 391 different parkrun events. 848 gained a finish token and we had over 72 wonderful volunteers. Many marvellous meetups were organised and enjoyed again, with the most popular occurring at Eastville parkrun, with a massive thirty VRs showing how strong, dedicated and friendly our vegan running club is. Thanks to Norbert Addison for this week’s fabulous photo from the Eastville meetup – what a great picture!   Other meet-ups took place at:  11 Aldenham parkrun 11 Tetbury Goods Shed parkrun 10 H ..read more

 There was plenty to celebrate this Mothers’ Day weekend with incredible attendance numbers – we’ll soon hit that thousand mark! We had 919 VRs attending 371 different parkrun events. 855 were awarded a finish token and we had over 64 wonderful volunteers.    Here’s a break-down of the number of parkrun locations outside the UK with VRs in the results:     5 Germany    4 South Africa    4 Australia    2 Netherlands    2 Japan   1 United States    1 Sweden    1 Singapore    1 Ireland   ..read more

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, Glasg ..read more

What a difference the weather makes! With floods and freezing conditions a-plenty across the UK there were over 100 cancellations. We still had awesome attendance and representation with 839 Vegan Runners attending 324 different parkrun events. 783 gained a finish token and we had over 56 wonderful volunteers.    Meetups were as abundant as the cancellations on this last parkrun of February with an incredible 34 VRs repping at Chipping Sodbury – an awesome turnout. Other meetups of note took place at:    34 Chipping Sodbury parkrun  19 Hull parkrun  18 Kesgrave p ..read more