Episode 10 - Brad Beer

Episode 10 — open the full-size artworkShow artwork, 31 January 2016

HostsMelissa Erbacher Scott Trickett

GuestsBrad Beer Tim Oberg

Show notes

The parkrun adventurers ruminate over running events of the non-parkrun kind, including a couple of our personal faves. Sports physio, author and Main Beach (opens in a new tab) parkrun regular, Brad Beer, gives us his top tips for injury evasion and running faster. And Tim Oberg is back to give us the inside story on sponsorship, the latest from Tribesports and a Sydney Opera House parkrun!

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In this episode

• Welcome starts at 0:06

  Scott Trickett and Melissa Erbacher mark episode 10. Scott spectated two Melbourne fun runs on consecutive weekends, Eltham (run by the local YMCA) and the better-organised Warrandyte, where Kasia ran the 2.2k; they plug the Merimbula Fun Run on 29 May, whose race director Donella is a parkrun event and territory director, and the Warwick Pentathrun on 21 May. Favourite events: Scott's Salomon Trail Series starting at Studley Park, and Mel's Pomona King of the Mountain up Mount Cooroora, where she came last and loved it; Mel is visiting Studley parkrun, two events old, this Saturday.

• Guest interview — Brad Beer starts at 15:59

  Scott hands over "And now it's time to talk to one of our parkrun adventurers, Brad Beer". Gold Coast sports physiotherapist and author on injury prevention: the five ingredients of injury-free running, the most common running injuries he sees (stress reactions/shin splints, Achilles tendinopathy, ITB friction syndrome, hip impingement), the power of rest and not spiking training load (10-15% incremental increases), and his single tip for running faster, cadence, aiming for 90 foot strikes per minute on one leg (180 steps total), which he says he counts for one minute in every five.

• parkrun adventure challenge starts at 23:34listener challenge

  Scott sets the guest a challenge inside the interview: "okay so I want to set you a parkrun adventure brad please I want you to run a 25 minute parkrun", the point being for a sub-20 runner to drop into cruise mode and meet the mid-pack. Brad accepts "I'll accept the challenge, Scott and Mel", and Mel closes the interview with "We look forward to hearing about your 25-minute parkrun."

• Tim Oberg listener Q&A starts at 32:26

  Standing Q&A slot with parkrun Australia's Tim Oberg, taking listener questions. Jakub from Gdynia asks whether parkrun will fund the hosts' trip to Poland (no, but Tim floats $4 per listener); Marianne reports a Clean Up Australia Day tidy-up at Highlands parkrun and asks whether it could become an annual national thing (Tim: yes, email him with six weeks' notice); Will asks why Adidas left as national sponsor and floats a gold-coin donation (Adidas was a three-year deal both sides chose not to renew; no cash handling at events; parkrun Australia is financially healthy, ~$20,000 in donations last year; Tim relays Tom Williams' Bushy Park 'reference point' story about keeping parkrun un-commercial); Danella asks about the likelihood of a Sydney Opera House parkrun (depends whether the path sits with City of Sydney council or the Centennial and Moore Park Trust). Mel then asks about Tribesports apparel, apricot tees sold out in the UK, singlets/vests expected in April, non-customisable at first. Tim also reports his own PB and a niggling Achilles.

• The Channel 5 News crew starts at 47:04

  The slot is addressed but empty this week. Scott "We don't have any roving adventurers... No submissions this week. I think maybe they heard Gary last week and thought, no, the bar has been set too high." Mel reassures listeners "don't worry about it. I don't have a radio voice. Not everybody sounds like Gary Clark", and Scott appeals for more: "our bar is pretty low, so keep them coming in". Scott also hopes for reports from the Albury Wodonga anniversary next week.

• Social Adventurers starts at 47:44

  Weekly scan of listener posts. Cued "We're still active on social media, so let's have a quick look around." A Melbourne-flavoured Instagram week: John Z. Webb visited Westerfolds parkrun with his son, found the hills exhausting and went back to Coburg; a photo of Albert Melbourne's Run Director John and his "inimitable style"; Chris Wade volunteering at Jells parkrun while in Melbourne; and a family heading from Brisbane to the Sunshine Coast, "the things we do for parkrun. 4.45am starts so we can go hang out at our fave parkrun with our fave Zoolanders." Scott then thanks the regular contributors by handle.

• Launches and anniversaries starts at 48:53"Where is the cake?"

  Cued by Mel inside the turn, "so where's the cake this week Scotty". Three anniversaries: Parramatta turns three (theme: brightest fluoro and a party hat), Albury Wodonga turns two (bright tights and tutus), and Dawesville in WA turns one (80s rad retro run). Plus a launch: Bairnsdale parkrun kicks off in eastern Victoria, which leads into a digression on whether a "dale" is a valley and what "bairn" means in Scotland.

• Sign-off starts at 51:21

  Scott asked Mel how listeners could best get a message to the parkrun adventurers, and she gave a Facebook message as the easiest route, plus the hashtag parkrunadventurers on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, and the email address parkrunadventurers@gmail.com. Scott then trailed episode 11, to be recorded with both hosts together on location, and, as Mel added, at a parkrun location, before leaving it there and hoping listeners would join them next week.