Episode 18 - Rodney Turner
2016-05-04
— open the full-size artworkShow artwork, April 2016HostsMelissa Erbacher Scott Trickett
GuestsGavin Mackay Rodney Turner
Show notes
The parkrun adventurers investigate another inviting launch in NSW as Bateman’s Bay parkrun Event Director Gavin Mackay stops by for a blether. We have a heart to heart with Tuggeranong parkrunner Rodney Turner, and roving adventurer Nicole reports in from Crissy Field (opens in a new tab) parkrun in the US.
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Read the transcriptGuests
Gavin Mackay
Preview of the Batemans Bay parkrun launch, finding a course in a town with no park big enough, the new double-loop route along the marina break wall with water views for the whole course, the absence of any running club in the area and his friendship with the elderly founders of the Broulee running group, and how a Scottish pharmacist from Glasgow ended up starting a parkrun he has never actually run himself.
Rodney Turner
Heart Week and returning to parkrun after open-heart surgery, the difference between a heart event and a heart attack, his ruptured valve repair in 2014, pericarditis and two episodes of heart failure afterwards, losing and rebuilding confidence, the importance of cardiac rehabilitation, and parkrun/parkwalk as a community route back to exercise.
Roving reports
In this episode
Welcome starts at 0:06
Scott Trickett and Melissa Erbacher, Mel back on the Sunshine Coast with a voice-altering lurgy. She finished her Tasmanian trip with a soaked Devonport freedom run (walked, in sideways rain) that she wants to repeat on a parkrun day, and Launceston parkrun on Saturday, shown around by Christine who has been on the show; Scotty floats a parkrun adventurers tour bus starting in Tasmania.
parkrun adventure challenge starts at 2:17listener challenge
The Red Shirt Challenge, set the previous week, runs through the whole episode. Mel reports doing it at Launceston with Christine, photographing herself with every person wearing red ("I took photos literally of myself with every single person who was wearing red"), Scott saw red shirts at the Parkville launch, listeners' red-shirt photos fill the social segment, and Scott extends it: "Another opportunity to get dressed in red, so we can continue our red challenge, Mel, for another week."
Roving reports & the Channel 5 News crew starts at 31:40
Scott crosses to roving adventurer Nicole at Crissy Field parkrun, San Francisco, billed as "some more international roving adventuring" and "our first sample of some American parkrunners". Nicole interviews Run Director Dale, Peter visiting from Barking in Essex, and Catherine from Seattle who is working to start a parkrun at Myrtle Edwards Park.
Social Adventurers starts at 36:07
Handed over "What's happening on the social scene this week, Mel?" Round-up of listener posts, mostly Red Shirt Challenge photos: Barefoot_Mike77, Gary Murphy with red dog Flynn at Highlands, Wendy Glen's 50 Club milestone tees, Tim McKinley (who photographed Scott at Parkville without realising), Macalicious21 filming the Parkville course on a GoPro, Running Guy Ryan at Tamborine Mountain, AK Selba's photo at Jells Park, Runjo Run / Recreating Mel / Finding My Balance / Will B1981 (formerly Positivism1), Ross Pentland's parkrun stats tweets, Bronwyn Bell at Nambour, Liv Coop's sunrise pictures, and listener feedback from Paul Curtin.
Launches and anniversaries starts at 41:59"Where is the cake?"
Opened "Okay, where's the cake this week, Mel?" Anniversaries in three states: Cleveland (QLD) turning three with a crazy-socks theme; Altona Beach (VIC) first anniversary, no theme but "embracing the cake vibe"; Rhodes (NSW) first birthday with an R theme, which leads into a run of R-costume suggestions.
Sign-off starts at 44:23
Scott said that took them out for episode 18, thanked listeners and hoped Mel would join him again next week; Mel said she would, and hoped her voice would return to normal. They noted that 18 episodes in they still had not worked out how to sign off the show and asked listeners to message suggestions for witty sign-off lines along the lines of "Stay classy, San Diego". Scott then named himself Scott Trickett and Mel Melissa Erbacher, said they were the parkrun adventurers, and said goodbye.