Episode 27 - Dani McLaren
2016-07-06
— open the full-size artworkShow artwork, 22 June 2016HostsMelissa Erbacher Scott Trickett
GuestsDani McLaren Lynette Hewsen
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The parkrun adventurers find our bearings and point you in the exciting directions of Australia’s newest parkrun club. We talk to Point Cook (opens in a new tab) parkrunner and Braveheart Dani McLaren about running 7 marathons in 7 states in 7 days. Event Director Lynette Hewsen drops by to tell us about the newly launched Cobram (opens in a new tab) parkrun, and we throw down another challenge for all parkrun adventurers!
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Dani McLaren
Running seven marathons in seven days in seven states for Bravehearts, the Triple Seven Challenge. Why she does it (child sexual assault awareness), the 20-21 national runners and ~100 state runners, injuries in the group, her back-to-back 100-110km/week training and mental strength, doing it faster in her second year, and the parkrun connection: she is Point Cook's ED, was supported by Westerfolds, Diamond Creek and Lalor friends in Melbourne, and timed the Kingscliff leg so she could run one lap of the Braveheart course and then jump straight into Kingscliff parkrun, handing her barcode to RD Tammy at the line.
Lynette Hewsen
The launch of Cobram parkrun in northern Victoria, 132 participants and 11 volunteers, pre-launch nerves, the mix of tourists and registering locals, and the bush-trail course over Parks Victoria's Quinn Island where a koala crossed runners' paths. Also her own parkrun story: introduced via friends and the Shepparton launch, ~50 parkruns and ~25 volunteer credits, favourites Launceston and Jells Park, and why she pitches parkrun locally as inclusion plus discovering your own backyard.
In this episode
Welcome starts at 0:14
Scott Trickett and Melissa Erbacher, with a hello to Mel's mum joining 27 episodes in. Mel missed the Freedom Run at Main Beach on Friday night but made the drinks and dinner at the surf club afterwards, putting faces to Facebook names and catching up with Chris Timms from Launceston parkrun, whose husband Daniel was running Sunday's marathon.
The Compass Club starts at 1:56new tourist club
FIRST APPEARANCE of the Compass Club. Mel and Chris Timms (Launceston) invent it over dinner at Main Beach on the Friday night: visit the easternmost, westernmost, northernmost and southernmost parkrun events in Australia. As of this episode those are Kingscliff (E), Geographe Bay (W), Darwin (N) and Hobart (S); the hosts note it will change as new events launch (Byron Bay would take the eastern point) and that an Alice Springs event would one day give it a centre. Mel and Chris drove over the border to do Kingscliff the next morning specifically to bank a point. They also ask listeners to help coin a name for members ("compassions?"), by analogy with the Southern Cross Circuit's "stargazer".
Meet the ED starts at 23:40
Interview with Lynette "Lynne" Hewsen, Event Director of the newly launched Cobram parkrun in northern Victoria on the Murray, ~50km north of Shepparton. 132 participants and 11 volunteers at the launch; bush-trail course with sand, gravel, grass and mud, running onto Parks Victoria's Quinn Island where several runners saw a koala cross the path. She came to parkrun via the Shepparton launch (through friends of Alan Connolly), has ~50 parkruns and ~25 volunteer credits, and names Launceston and Jells Park as favourites.
Social Adventurers starts at 31:08
Instagram and Facebook round-up: Bea Brockman and Nicholas J. Sando both at Bushy Park ("like a stampede"); Jeanette Campbell and family at Cairns; Oscar the Hound PB at Portland; Tesla Fox at Altona Beach after Mornington the week before; Primal Boys Fitness at the Strathalbyn launch; a Mel at the Cobram launch; TJ at Frog Hollow; Nambour in reverse; Nod Lightyear running with Dani McLaren in Victoria; Run For Your Life NZ's misty pic from Puarenga; Mark Caldercourt "live from Cob Vegas" at Cobram; Elaine and Gary Nisbet's Tribe Sports delivery; Sonja Pohlman's whale video from The Beaches; Peter Pohlman at Highfields on federal election day.
Launches and anniversaries starts at 37:33"Where is the cake?"
One launch coming up: Wauchope, NSW, which the hosts spend a full minute failing to pronounce and apologising for in advance. Anniversaries: Gatton turning three, Pittsworth turning two (80s dress-up), Bendigo, Victoria with a Gold Rush theme, Dubbo turning one with long socks, and Phillip Island turning one with a penguin theme (come dressed in blue, black and white).
parkrun adventure challenge starts at 42:14listener challenge
The reverse freedom run challenge, trialled by the hosts before being thrown open to listeners. Mel's audio: a pre-dawn, head-torch reverse run of the Nambour course with seven Sunshine Coast locals recruited on Facebook the night before, plus late-comers from Noosa. Scott's first attempt at Coburg failed because Coburg is an out-and-back (his running partner Tim tells a Kirra reverse story instead, in torrential rain); his second, at Westerfolds on the Sunday, worked, with ten runners hitting the big hill early. Listeners are asked to record their own reverse freedom run on their phone and email it to parkrunadventurers@gmail.com for next week's show, ideally on a course that isn't an out-and-back.
Strava Club update starts at 54:53
Scott reports the podcast's Strava Club is now on 133 members and that they are an active bunch, he ran 25km in the week and only placed 72nd on the top-100 list. He says he'll be watching for the reverse freedom runs on Strava during the week.
Sign-off starts at 55:55
Scotty declared "another week, another episode done", and Mel left listeners with the reverse parkrun freedom run challenge, urging them to get creative, do it any day or time, in head torches as they had at Nambour or in fancy dress, and to send audio in to parkrunadventurers at gmail.com. Scotty said his own torrential rain at Coburg meant there were no excuses, and they said goodbye and see you next week.