Team Vegan Round The Bays 2008
Posted by nzvs 02-04-2008
24 Team Vegan members ran the annual 'Auckland Round the Bays fun run and walk' (along with 70,000 or so others!) A great day for it and an amazing experience, not just to run as a team for the first time, but to run in such a huge community event - it is virtually impossible to run the entire event with such a massive crowd gathered behind the start line (which stretched back for ages), and quite a sensation when everyone starts to move.Sixteen of us started as a big group altogether (photo above), while another speedier group headed right to the front for a fast start.
The team tops worked great - in fact even walking to our assembly point before the run, we had someone come up to us saying 'wow are you vegans - I've been vegan for 31 years I didn't know there was a team', so we may have gotten a new recruit before we even started! But we definitely also need some branding on our backs, which would be especially good when passing the teams running for meat and dairy companies! (Which there were lots of - especially from Fonterra).
No official times are available yet, but fastest was the teams trainer Michael Bourke who ran the 8.4 km in around 36 minutes.
Great day, and great stuff everyone!!
For photos see the gallery section of the website.
http://teamvegan.net.nz/
