Episode 24 - Rochelle Vaisanen
2016-06-15
— open the full-size artworkShow artwork, 15 June 2016HostsMelissa Erbacher Scott Trickett
Roving reporterBen Brockman
GuestsPhil Ackland Rochelle Vaisanen
Show notes
The parkrun adventurers compare extra-curricular parkrun fun and roving adventurer Ben Brockman reports in from the Launceston powwow. Qld parkrunner Rochelle Vaisanen inspires us with her iron will, and Mount Gambier (opens in a new tab) parkrun Event Director Phil Ackland stops by to share his adventures.
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Rochelle Vaisanen
Completing the Cairns 70.3 half Ironman in torrential rain, three years after a breast cancer diagnosis derailed her first attempt at the distance; how parkrun anchored her through chemotherapy and surgery; discovering parkrun at Highbury Fields in London, returning to Ipswich and clicking the "start your own parkrun" link that led to her founding Ipswich QLD parkrun (75 volunteer credits, handed to Kay Sherlock when she moved to Brisbane); the hilly two-lap Ipswich course; her Queensland tourism (Kedron, Augustine Heights, Rocks Riverside, Kirra) and a planned Cape Town parkrun in September.
Phil Ackland
The Mount Gambier parkrun course around the Blue Lake ("an out and back that's uphill in both directions") and why he prefers out-and-back courses for their social nature; ultrarunning, his DNF at UTA in the Blue Mountains, his second attempt at the You Yangs 100-miler after reaching 105km last year, and long races increasingly being measured in parkruns; becoming a Territory Director for a cross-border SA/Victoria region; and his own parkrun adventuring, which began at Diamond Creek before Mount Gambier launched. Scott's attempt to nickname him "the King of the Mount" does not take.
Roving reports
In this episode
Welcome starts at 0:11
Scott Trickett and Melissa Erbacher; Mel's weekend adventure was a girls' night out with Sunshine Coast parkrunning friends, now spread across different events, ending in ten-pin bowling and sore arms, which spawns the idea of running shoes styled like bowling shoes. Scott had a social run with mates that morning testing courses for a new parkrun, three courses in a row, and the groans have him rethinking Sunday's Longest Run (he may skip the Westerfolds hill), though he is looking forward to the social side and meeting new people as he has been at the new Studley event.
Roving reports & the Channel 5 News crew starts at 9:25
Scott hands over to roving adventurer Ben Brockman, reporting from the parkrun event-team powwow in Launceston, Tasmania. Ben covers Launceston parkrun going ahead despite the northern Tasmanian floods, and interviews Elkie and the Lakeview parkrun (Belmont, Lake Macquarie) travelling party of six, Tim Oberg after his Q&A, and Alan (Shepparton ED) and Pete (Coburg ED), with the Launceston 10 road race to follow the next day.
parkrun adventure challenge starts at 45:52listener challenge
Follow-up on challenges the hosts set listeners. Brad Beer (Main Beach), challenged back in episode 8 to run a parkrun slower than 25 minutes, reported back that he did it while pacing someone to a goal. Brendan at Shellharbour accepted last week's challenge to deliver his run briefing talking like a pirate, though no audio was captured. The hosts then set themselves a challenge: to record an entire podcast in pirate accents for International Talk Like a Pirate Day in September.
Social Adventurers starts at 48:41
Facebook and Instagram round-up. Facebook: Gary Nisbet's three-generation family milestone at Capalaba (granddaughter Sienna's 20th); Peter Pohlman on the Goondiwindi launch, with a Goondiwindi/Gundagai pronunciation tangent and the Southern Cross Circuit stargazer status; Melissa Ellis taking three Berwick Springs parkrunners to Shepparton; Cara Voss in a panda onesie at Rhodes for WWF onesie week. Instagram: Bunyaville's flooded creek crossing, TJ at Balyang, Dirty Cheetahs at Crissy Field in San Francisco, Run Jo Run's big improvement at Wyndham Vale, Will B 1981 in freezing Canberra, Tanya RR at Newy parkrun's fourth anniversary and the new Westcott Way signage, John Z Webb at Launceston, Heather's Happy Snaps wanting a parkrun for Broome, Nod Lightyear at Lalor, Miss Spelt in the Stanthorpe frost, Tesla Fox at the Highlands and Frog Hollow anniversaries, and Dr Scott Watkins photographing a bridge from a bridge in Dusseldorf while listening to the podcast. Mel names the segment "busy week for all the social adventurers this week".
Strava Club update starts at 1:00:02
Scott checks the podcast's Strava club: ultrarunner Brendan Davies has joined and is expected to top the leaderboard most weeks, having knocked out 120km on holiday at 4:28 average pace. Mel (Strava handle "Rebel Rouser") explains she has fallen out of the top 100 because she has been separated from her watch, lost on her Darwin trip along with her iPod and car keys.
Launches and anniversaries starts at 1:02:10"Where is the cake?"
Mel's "where's the cake, Scotty?" round-up: the Burley Griffin launch in the ACT; Carine Glades second anniversary with a tutus-and-ties theme; North Shore in Queensland third anniversary with "fluoro rage", which Mel concedes she probably meant to type as "rave"; Town of Seaside first anniversary with a blue theme, which Mel will attend in costume; and Wangaratta in Victoria's first anniversary with a superhero theme, Scott wishing Laura and her team well.
Sign-off starts at 1:03:53
Scott said he would love to have got to Wangaratta's first anniversary but would not make it, wished Laura and her team well, and asked Mel about heading to Town of Seaside that weekend. Mel said it had been four or five weeks between costumes, that she always runs in her costumes whether or not they are built for it, recalling running Noosa parkrun dressed as Slimer and looking like a giant deflated booger after the costume's fan fell out in the first 500 metres, and that she faced a gauntlet of anniversaries at least every second week until September. Scott said they would have plenty to talk about, looked forward to pictures on Instagram, and signed off with "see you next week".