Episode 28 - The Run Beyond Project
2016-07-12
— open the full-size artworkShow artwork, 22 June 2016HostsMelissa Erbacher Scott Trickett
GuestsAmanda Shannon David Criniti Shelley Cootes
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The parkrun adventurers compare Stack Club entry prices, and take a trip to NSW where Event Director Shelley Cootes guides us around the multi-faceted Penrith Lakes (opens in a new tab) parkrun. And both Rhodes and The Ponds (opens in a new tab) parkruns also feature when David Criniti and Amanda Shannon of ‘The Run Beyond Project’ join us to share the details of this inspiring initiative.
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Shelley Cootes
Penrith Lakes parkrun's three alternate courses at the Sydney International Regatta Centre, its regular hearing-impaired parkrunners and Auslan interpreter, the March 2016 access-gate and car-park crisis that nearly closed the event, and the campaign that both saved it and opened the door to a second Penrith parkrun.
David Criniti
The Run Beyond Project, using running to teach goal-setting, commitment and resilience to high-school students; its origins in the Helmsman Project sailing programme, the first cohort of boys at Chester Hill High (four Afghani students and one from Somalia) and their Tasmanian half marathon, and what parkrun at Rhodes and The Ponds has added to the programme.
Amanda Shannon
Running The Run Beyond Project with a cohort of girls at Evans High School, selection, the after-school training build-up towards a 10K goal race, the students' backgrounds and their families' support, and taking the girls to Rhodes and The Ponds parkruns, which she credits as the most positive part of the programme.
In this episode
Welcome starts at 0:12
Melissa Erbacher hosting with Scott Trickett, who joined the Stack Club at a trail run ten minutes from home on Sunday, hurting his hip in a fall at 2k and dragging on to 11.5k of 17k before his first ever DNF. Mel recalls her own stack while walking the Nambour course, took the dogs to a dog-heavy Kawana, and has ordered three lucky-dip pairs of Vibram five-toed shoes for $99. The pair apologise to Wauchope for mispronouncing it, with Mel's mum among the listeners who set them straight, and say hi to Scott's mum, a listener since episode one.
Meet the ED starts at 8:07
Studio interview with Shelley Cootes, founding Event Director of Penrith Lakes parkrun (NSW), prompted by Brendan Davies naming it his favourite parkrun a couple of weeks earlier. Covers the event's three alternate courses at the Sydney International Regatta Centre (lap of the lake, the two-lap cross-country course, and the popular Southern Bank course), its group of regular hearing-impaired parkrunners and the Auslan interpreter who volunteers for them, the March 2016 loss of the access gate and car park that nearly closed the event down, the community and media campaign that followed, and the resulting push for a second Penrith parkrun. She has volunteered 77 times and planned her 50th parkrun for 30 July 2016 to coincide with Penrith Lakes' 100th event.
Social Adventurers starts at 39:32
Round-up of listener posts from Instagram and Facebook: Tanya RR's 40-second/40-sounds Singapore parkrun holiday video; Underscore PK at Mount Barker parkrun in the rain after 51st birthday celebrations; the Dirty Cheaters on tour (M. Botto at Curl Curl, Dorata Asinio at Hobart) and Zippy Rainbow's 100th at Curl Curl; Expat Runner's family at Kilkenny parkrun in Ireland; Ben Brockman's fifth different parkrun in five weeks at Greenwich, run without his barcode; Running Optimistic's GCAM finisher-shirt group shot; Hey TJ's reverse parkrun challenge freedom run at Gels [Jells]; Macgirl19 at Torrens; Oz Twin Mama's first parkrun as a walk at Broad Beach [Broadbeach] Waters. On Facebook: Alan Connolly volunteering at Cobram, Brendan (an ED, trailed as an upcoming guest) getting a large parkrun-tree tattoo on his ankle, and Tim Oberg asking for help with a GPS device. Also trails next week's reverse freedom run challenge audio.
Launches and anniversaries starts at 47:01"Where is the cake?"
Opened by Scott "Do we have any cake this week or do we have any launches this week?" Launches: Renmark parkrun in South Australia and Meadowbrook parkrun in Queensland (with a detour into how to pronounce Meadowbrook and where it sits relative to Brisbane). Anniversaries: Noosa's second, celebrated onesie-style, Mel recalls the freezing 80s-themed first anniversary, and Armadale's [Armidale's] second, with a best-or-worst headwear theme, which turns into a running joke about Scott's sombreros and "the Tuesday Scott".
Sign-off starts at 50:06
Scotty ended the episode with "Anyway, that's it. Good show", Mel said she had enjoyed it, and he trailed the next episode: a special guest they would not name, another powwow he was heading to, and his wife celebrating her 100th parkrun that week.