About

What the Log is

A searchable archive of the parkrun adventurers podcast. Every released episode has a transcript with the speakers named and the segments marked, and everything in it — every person, every parkrun, every segment — has a page of its own.

This resource exists because there was a need to make the podcast's content accessible to our deaf and hard of hearing supporters. A lot of the work needed to make that happen unlocked a lot of interesting information for fans of the pod:

• Who reported from where. Every roving reporter has a page listing everywhere they have filed from, and every parkrun has a page listing every report ever filed from it.
• When a segment started, and every time it has run since — including the ones that appeared twice and were never heard of again.
• Everyone who has been on the show. The event director interviewed on the other side of the world, named and findable.

None of it could be looked up before. It was all inside the audio.

The Log is made by a listener. It is not made by the show.

The podcast

parkrun adventurers has been going since January 2016 and puts out an episode a fortnight. If you have found your way here without hearing it, start with the show itself — the Log is a better index than it is an introduction.

• Listen: parkrunadventurers.podbean.com (opens in a new tab), or in any podcast app.
• The show on Facebook: facebook.com/parkrunadventurers (opens in a new tab)
• Show your loyalty: join the parkrun group (opens in a new tab) for the podcast on your parkrun profile (opens in a new tab).
• Email the show: parkrunadventurers@gmail.com

That last address is the one to use for anything meant for the show itself — a roving report, a question for the hosts, a photograph, an entry for one of the segments. It reaches the team who make the podcast. It does not reach the Log.

This archive

Anything about these pages — a name spelled wrong, a report filed under the wrong parkrun, a transcript that reads as nonsense, a link that goes nowhere, a page your screen reader cannot get through — comes here instead.

• Report something: the feedback form
• Email the Log: log@5kadventures.net

Corrections are applied at the source, so a name fixed once stops being wrong everywhere, including in episodes that have not been through the editing pass yet. It is the single most useful thing anyone sends.

How the transcripts are made

Each episode is transcribed from its audio automatically, then put through an editing pass that names the speakers, marks the segments, describes laughter, music and crosstalk, and corrects misheard names against the roster and the parkrun event list.

Every episode page says how far its transcript has been taken, and the labels mean different things — the News page has the full explanation. The short version: Enhanced means software has been over it, Verified means a person has. Expect errors, and please report the ones you find.

Occasionally a passage is left out. When music plays (whether in the background or in the show), speech recognition keeps going and transcribes the singing as though someone was talking — so a verse of a well-known song ends up on the page, often credited to whichever voice it heard last. Those lyrics may also be copyrighted and are not ours to reproduce here. Where a passage has been taken out you will see a note saying so at that exact point in the transcript; nothing is closed over silently. The audio is untouched, and the episode's own summary still describes what happened there.

Occasionally we are asked to remove something from a transcript. Those will be marked with a note saying that the removal was on request.

Your name on these pages

Everything said about a person here was said out loud on a public podcast. Where a name or a parkrun is spelled out, we check it against parkrun's own event list and against what people publish about themselves whilst interacting with the show — but nothing is added about anyone that the show did not say.

Text is not the same as audio, though, and it would be dishonest to pretend otherwise. An hour in a podcast app is hard to search. A page with your name at the top, listing everywhere you have reported from, every award you have been given and every time you have spoken, is not. That difference is the whole point of the Log, and it is also the reason for the next paragraph.

Person pages, the list of people, full transcripts and the pages for individual parkrun events are kept out of search engines. They are findable through the search box on this site and nowhere else. Episode pages stay indexed, because they are summaries of a published show — so a search may still lead someone to an episode you were on, but not to a page that gathers together everything you have ever said.

What is left out on purpose. Children are named as they were introduced on air, but never with their ages. No one's contact details, address or workplace appear. Where the show used only a first name, the Log does not go looking for the rest of it, and it does not guess: two people are only treated as the same person when the show makes that plain. Anyone the show chose not to name is not named here either.

To have something corrected or taken down, email log@5kadventures.net or use the feedback form. It does not have to be wrong to come down — "I would rather that were not on a web page" is a whole reason, and you do not have to give one at all. Say which page, and roughly where on it. Removals are applied at the source, the same way corrections are, so they hold everywhere on the site and stay gone each time it is rebuilt.

If it is something you would rather were not searchable — an injury, an illness, someone you lost — say so and it goes, without discussion.

Two things the Log cannot do. It cannot change the podcast: the episode belongs to the show, and the show's own address is the one for that. And it cannot reach anything anyone else has already copied elsewhere.

Independence

The Adventurers Log is an independent project by a listener. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to parkrun, and it is not an official publication of the podcast.

Episode audio, artwork and show notes remain the property of the podcast and its creators, and are reproduced here to make the show findable. If anything on these pages should not be here, say so and it will come down.