Episode 23 - Brendan Davies

2016-06-09

In this episode

• Adventure recap with on-course interviews — Darwin parkrun (NT)

  Mel recounts her Northern Territory trip (Darwin parkrun, the City to Surf, holding a crocodile named Fluffy) and plays two short on-location vox pops she recorded at Darwin parkrun: first with Shane and Lorraine Tull, then with three local women introduced as Louise, Jill and Joe. Includes a 'podcast bomb' interruption from a visiting Nambour parkrunner. Also the reveal that Mel has become the 10th person ever to join the Peel Club (a parkrun in every Australian state and territory), with its full on-air explanation and the roll-call of prior members: Brendan Peel, Alan and Rasheen Burrell, Dave Robbo, Tim Oberg, Jenny Quigley, Richard Miles and Carol Cunningham.

• Guest interview — Brendan Davies (Comrades Marathon)

  Elite ultrarunner Brendan Davies calls in from Kruger National Park, South Africa, after finishing 19th at the Comrades Marathon in under six hours (89km down run, Pietermaritzburg to Durban, averaging 3:58/km). Covers his pacing plan, trail-running background, home parkruns (Penrith Lakes and Lawson), his 16:09 5K PB at The Ponds, breaking news that Penrith Lakes parkrun's council access dispute looks resolved, and his Trail Kids program for children.

• Meet the ED — Tracey Bryan, Aveley parkrun (WA)

  Event Director interview with Tracey Bryan of Aveley parkrun in Perth's Swan Valley: how she secured a defibrillator via a local accountancy donation and a Stockland Aveley community grant, her route into parkrun via her sister at Heaton Park in Manchester, taking over as ED from founder Dave Allmark, the course description, course record holder Matt Smith's fourth place at the World Duathlon Championships, and her plan to attend the third-anniversary doctors-and-nurses themed event dressed as a patient in plaster casts.

• Roving Adventurer report — Paul Kitching at the West Beach parkrun launch (SA)

  PK reports from the inaugural West Beach parkrun in Adelaide, walking the course with his family and describing it (beach reserve, sand dunes, a bridge, out and back along Linear Park beside the Torrens — the third Adelaide parkrun on Linear Park). He then interviews Camilla from the City of Charles Sturt / OPAL, Mayor Angela Evans, two Tasmanian parkrun tourists (Leanne and Lee), and joint Event Directors Shelly and Lorraine, with 187-188 finishers on the day.

• Social Adventurers

  Hosts work through listener interaction across platforms: Nick Bailey explaining why Cooks River parkrun doesn't cross its bridges (a council negotiation they lost); Instagram commute pics from Chris Fraser (Illawarra coastline, heading to New Farm parkrun and City to South) and Johnsy Webb; a Twitter transit picture from 'Procrastinations'; Stuart Marshall Training volunteering; a Tuggeranong video of Josh Torley running just over 15 minutes in the rain; and Ben Brockman, ED at Devonport, reporting an official email that used the word 'volunTOURing'.

• Launches and anniversaries ("Where is the cake?")

  Cued explicitly at [00:59:53] with 'Do we have any cake this week? Where's the cake?'. One launch this week: Goondiwindi in Queensland. Anniversaries: Frog Hollow (Victoria) second with a Once Upon a Time theme, Mitchelton third with an ugly sock theme, Newy fourth with a green theme, and Shell Harbour second with a pirate party — with a challenge issued to Shell Harbour ED Brendan to do his presentations in pirate talk.