Episode 29 - Jessica Trengove
2016-07-20
— open the full-size artworkShow artwork, July 2016HostsMelissa Erbacher Scott Trickett
GuestsJessica Trengove Wilfrid Palcy
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The parkrun adventurers talk DLFs and all things Airlie Beach (opens in a new tab) parkrun powwow. International adventurer and first time parkrunner Wilfrid Palcy talks about running half marathons on five continents. Marathon-bound Australian Olympic Team Athlete Jessica Trengove drops by for a chat about Rio and Rundies. And we experience your reverse freedom runs.
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Wilfrid Palcy
His round-the-world challenge, 52 half marathons in 52 weeks, started and finishing in Zurich on New Year's Eve, run to raise money for La Fondation du Souffle in memory of an uncle who died of lung cancer, and to encourage people to quit smoking. He describes relying on the running community for accommodation in each country, and his first ever parkrun at Airlie Beach that morning, having been recruited on the spot at the Anchor Bar the night before by Melissa, her husband and Tim Oberg.
Jessica Trengove
Rio preparation, altitude training at Flagstaff, Arizona, managing a foot injury with cross-training, weekly mileage and marathon-specific build, race nutrition and hydration; her Commonwealth Games bronze in Glasgow; her parkruns at Mount Gambier, Torrens and Rhodes; the Kangaroo Island Marathon; and the Rundies running-underwear business she runs with her partner Dylan and brother Jack.
In this episode
Welcome starts at 0:15
Scott Trickett, joined by Mel Erbacher on the Sunshine Coast; Scott is in a five-week volunteering stretch at the still-new Studley while Mel keeps adventuring, this week to Airlie Beach parkrun, her 32nd event. Friday dinner with the Whitsunday Running Club turned up a French runner on his own adventure who had never heard of parkrun; Mel, her husband and Tim Oberg signed him up on the spot, printed his barcode, drove him to parkrun in the morning and Mel interviewed him afterwards.
Rundies market research starts at 43:06undies vox pop
Follow-up to the Jessica Trengove interview: the hosts do "market research" for her Rundies running-underwear range by asking parkrunners what underwear they run in. Melissa Erbacher's montage of answers from women at Airlie Beach parkrun runs-; Scott's own attempt gets exactly one response, "Just get away from me, creep", and he gives up. Mel: "Maybe you should leave those sorts of questions to me in the future."
parkrun adventure challenge starts at 45:28listener challenge
The results of the "reverse freedom run" challenge set a couple of episodes earlier, listeners running their parkrun course backwards and recording it. Four submissions played: Ross Pentland at Jells parkrun (inner east Melbourne), where fog and the reversed route get him lost; "parkrun adventurer Melissa" (Melissa Ellis) with Paul at Portland parkrun, Victoria, running the out-and-back in reverse after racing it forwards; William Barlow at his Canberra parkrun (spoken as "Jindera/Junandera/Jinundera"), commentating the field and running his daughter April to the finish; and Tegan and Jules at Jells parkrun, who set the challenge in the first place. Scott: "We started at Jells. We finished at Jells. Three out of four from Victoria." Mel complains loudly that no Queenslanders took part.
Social Adventurers starts at 57:52
Instagram and Facebook round-up: Mama of Hope at Coburg; Recreating Mel's PB at Laylaw [Lalor]; parkrun tourism at Meadowbrook's launch; TJ at Altona Beach; Nod Lightyear's jump shot at Westerfolds (prompting a discussion of how to time a jump photo, and a nod to Vanessa Gibson's how-to video on the Sandgate Facebook page); Will B 1981 at Burley Griffin; Jen P at Parkville; parkrun_hearts' mirrored parkrun-flag love-heart photos at Lillydale Lake; Myred McDougall at Aberdeen parkrun in Scotland; Mark Caldercourt's deer video from Bushy Park "just for Scotty"; Michael Scott's review of the last episode; Brendan Scholarly listening at 4am, which prompts Mel to ask listeners the weirdest place or time they've listened to the podcast; and Melissa Ellis at Maribyrnong parkrun's 100th event.
The Compass Club starts at 1:02:02new tourist club
Update on the newly launched Compass Club, inside the Facebook round-up. Mel reports suggestions for what to call members who have done all four compass points of the country, Peter Pohlman [Pohlman] and others suggested names such as travellers; Nicholas J. Sando suggested "navigators". Mel and Christine, "my partner in crime in creating the Compass Club", have both settled on navigators. Michael Scott's review also mentions being intrigued by the new club.
Launches and anniversaries starts at 1:04:59"Where is the cake?"
Launches: Bathurst in New South Wales ("I'm told it's not around Mount Panorama") and Weeper [Weipa] in Queensland this week, with Christie's [Christies] Beach in South Australia launching the week after. Anniversaries: Coomera in Queensland turns four with crazy hair, and Maryborough celebrates its first with Christmas in July, Melissa Erbacher is going and is deciding whether to dress as Santa or an elf. The hosts also announce there will be no episode next week (no podcast number 30) as they take a mid-year week off; it will return the first week of August.
Sign-off starts at 1:06:54
Scotty said "that's it for this week" and reminded listeners there would be no episode the following week because he and Mel were taking a mid-year holiday, with episode 30 due in the first week of August, joking it gave anyone behind an extra week to catch up. He then thanked Mel for the tip about the limited-edition Cadbury tropical pineapple chocolate he had bought.