Episode 36 - Lucy Bartholomew
2016-09-14
— open the full-size artworkShow artwork, July 2016HostsMelissa Erbacher Scott Trickett
GuestsGareth Saunders Lucy Bartholomew
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The parkrun adventurers give you the news. South Bank (opens in a new tab) parkrun Event Director Gareth Saunders calls in, celebrating five years with parkrun Australia. And we reach new heights with international skyrunning champion, and Diamond Creek (opens in a new tab) parkrunner, Lucy Bartholomew.
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Read the transcriptGuests
Gareth Saunders
Five years with parkrun Australia: starting New Farm parkrun (Australia's second event, after Main Beach) with Tim Oberg after turning up hungover on a bike, its 42-runner first morning and slow word-of-mouth growth; moving on to found South Bank and becoming National Operations Manager and then President; a long-overdue PB two minutes quicker than his three-and-a-half-year-old mark; South Bank's Australian attendance record of 998 at its first birthday and why he never wants to repeat it; a course description taking in the Goodwill Bridge, the Go Between Bridge stairs and both sides of the river; and the barcode discount on inner-city parking.
Lucy Bartholomew
Calling in from the UK at the end of a European season: two summers racing the skyrunning series for Salomon out of Chamonix; the Mont Blanc Marathon, a tenth place at the Skyrunning World Championships in the Catalan Pyrenees on a course she found more rock-hopping than running, the Matterhorn Ultraks at Zermatt and the 15km YCC at UTMB; what skyrunning actually is (3,000m-plus of climbing inside a marathon, straight up rather than switchbacked, into the snow line) and the kit Europeans do and don't make you carry; being 20 in a field averaging 30; starting out at 15 crewing her dad at The North Face 100 and running the Surf Coast 100 with him at 16; and finding that a 5k at Southampton parkrun left her sorer than a seven-hour Chamonix run. She is off to China for the Gobi Desert 70k and back to Diamond Creek after that.
In this episode
Welcome starts at 0:10
Scott Trickett introduces episode 36, checking his maths (six sixes are 36) and welcoming Melissa Erbacher, who congratulates him on it before he concedes nobody is interested in his maths skills.
parkrun news bulletin starts at 0:34
A rapid-fire news read alternating between the two hosts, in a mock-newsreader register. Items: 18,862 parkrunners at 173 locations, 2,448 new runners and 1,664 volunteers; two Australian parkrunners medalling at the "large quadrennial international sporting event" (Katie Kelly first finisher in the para triathlon, Kurt Fearnley third in "the parkrun distance" for his fourth straight podium); Lucy Bartholomew winning the China Mountain Trails Devil's Ridge 70k in the Gobi Desert; Brendan Davies first to finish the 57.4km Run the Great Whitsunday Trail; a St Peters parkrun course revision forced by the WestConnex roadworks, with a statement from Event Director Paul Wilcock; and 11 events cancelled across Australia for flooding.
Social Adventurers starts at 27:33
Round-up of the show's social media week: Twitter love and retweets following last week's Tom Williams interview; the Strava club; Bathurst parkrun sharing the Perlustration post and dubbing the hosts "parkrun Australia Tragics"; and a Facebook post from Marie McDougall about Steve Hicks of Shepparton running a PB at his 100th parkrun, prompting the idea of a "Hicks Club" for milestone PBs.
Strava Club update starts at 27:53
The club is up to 216 members. Brendan Davies has been knocked off the top spot by George Alexandropoulos, who ran 21 times in one week for 335.6km. The leaderboard cut-off has risen to 26.2km.
Strava Art Competition starts at 29:24
Entries are still coming in with a week left to run. Melissa announces she intends to enter as well as judge. Scott reveals the fourth and final prize in option A: a parkrun polo shirt, for the newly invented "Polo Wednesdays", which leads into a run of banter about collars, ironing and activewear.
The Perlustration starts at 31:11annual listener survey
The hosts launch their listener survey on Facebook, billed as "now annual". Ten quick questions, link on the Facebook page, and listeners were asked to be honest, which Scott jokes he is regretting. Bathurst parkrun shared the post. The obscure word is picked apart later in the episode and becomes the Word of the Week.
Facts in a Haystack starts at 33:40
Answering listener Melissa Ellis's question about how many parkrun events each Australian state has, and whether statesmanship is harder in Victoria than Tasmania. Michael Schultz supplied the numbers and they are posted on Facebook: Victoria 37 events, Tasmania 3, and Queensland the hardest of all at 63, more than a year of a different event every week.
Launches and anniversaries starts at 35:34"Where is the cake?"
Launches return after a barren few weeks: Palmerston parkrun launching in the Northern Territory (ending Melissa's NT statesmanship, with kudos to Mark and the team), You Yangs launching in Victoria as a trail event on the outskirts of Melbourne, and a relaunch in New South Wales. Anniversaries: New Farm's fifth, in a purple theme to match the jacarandas and the volunteer aubergine, and Pakenham's second in an 80s theme, which Scott is attending, it is also his NENDY.
Word of the week starts at 39:26
Coined live in the closing seconds. After Melissa teases Scott for having looked up synonyms for "survey" and admits she had to look "perlustration" up in the dictionary, she suggests he teach everyone a new word every week; Scott agrees it can be how they finish the podcast, and declares the first word of the week: perlustration.
Sign-off starts at 39:29
After teasing Scotty about whether he had looked up synonyms for survey to come up with "perlustration", Mel suggested he teach everyone a new word every week; Scotty said that was how they could finish the podcast, and delivered the first word of the week, perlustration.