Episode 38 - Tom Do Canto
2016-09-27
— open the full-size artworkShow artwork, July 2016HostsMelissa Erbacher Scott Trickett
GuestsSally Coyle Tom Do Canto
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The parkrun adventurers share the love and more trail misadventures. We find out how to run fast with NSW parkrunner Tom Do Canto, and Burley Griffin (opens in a new tab) parkrun Event Director Sally Coyle stops by to give us a tour of the nation’s capital.
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Tom Do Canto
Life as a new dad and how a sub-15 parkrunner trains: 15-16 minute parkruns and a hoped-for tilt at the ~14:20 national parkrun record at Parramatta or Rhodes; meeting his wife Lana while she was scanning at St Peters parkrun and their "parkrun baby"; parkrun overseas at Wimbledon Common, Richmond, Bushy Park (first finisher) and San Francisco; winning the Six Foot Track 45k in the Blue Mountains; his debut road marathon at Melbourne (national championships) with a sub-2:18 goal; and how pacemakers, packs and drafting work at the front of a race.
Sally Coyle
Founding the ACT's newest parkrun: discovering parkrun at Gungahlin while supporting Heart Foundation fundraiser Gary Wilmot, getting hooked at Tuggeranong, the federal-versus-territory land problem around Lake Burley Griffin, scouting an out-and-back course with her friend Jen, pitching to Gary and Gareth and to the local government, finding a sponsor, and a record-breaking 435-person launch on a wet Canberra winter morning. Also her own running story, treadmill to a Marines mud run while posted to America with her army husband, a St Louis half and the Army Ten-Miler, plus her parkrun top three (Noosa, Balyang, Tuggeranong) and her admission that she still hasn't done Ginninderra.
In this episode
Welcome starts at 0:11
Scott Trickett introduces episode 38 with Melissa Erbacher; Scotty says he is a bit sore and tender, self-inflicted with no one else to blame, and Mel tells him to suck it up.
parkrun news bulletin starts at 0:32
Scott's "Let's have some news" opens the weekly bulletin, read alternately by both hosts: 143,260 athletes at 793 parkruns across 14 countries; Gareth Saunders' five-year directiversary at Southbank's 200th; Eloise Wellings' gold at the Australian Road Running Championships; widespread stopwatch/scanner upload failures; parkrunners at the Twilight Bay Run, Trails Plus Surf Coast Hell Run, Run Maroondah, the Yurrebilla 56k and the Beach to Brother Marathon; Territory Directors Silpa Palmer and John Storey at the Berlin Marathon; and a marriage proposal at Toowoomba parkrun's third anniversary (James Hogan to Liz Worrell, with a wired tulip for a ring).
Meet the ED starts at 25:36
Melissa Erbacher crosses to the ACT to interview Sally Coyle, Event Director of Burley Griffin parkrun, the territory's newest event. Covers how she found parkrun via a Heart Foundation fundraiser (Gary Wilmot running Perth to Brisbane) at Gungahlin, becoming a regular at Tuggeranong, the land-ownership problem of putting a course on the federally owned side of Lake Burley Griffin, scouting a quieter out-and-back with her friend Jen, pitching to Gary and Gareth, the funding struggle with no local councils, and a launch of 435 on a freezing drizzly Canberra morning that broke the Canberra record while Tuggeranong dropped to 80. Numbers now averaging about 140. Her top three: Noosa, Balyang and Tuggeranong, and she confesses she still hasn't done Ginninderra.
Social Adventurers starts at 40:06
Twitter, Instagram and Facebook round-up: a UK listener surge following last week's Danny Norman interview ("the Danny effect", more UK listeners than Australian this week); Instagram adventurers Runjo Run, Hey TJ, Mama of Hope, Heather's Happy Snaps and Akoos; Nicole's Facebook praise for the new news segment; TOC running alongside Geographe Bay watching dolphins; shares from Devonport and Shepparton parkruns; Catherine Jones' school-holiday freedom-run challenge in the parkrun Tourism group; Melissa Ellis at Victor Harbor for parkrun 99 (and 49 for Paul) ahead of milestones at Berwick Springs; and Vincent Liu's Berlin "double", the inline-skating marathon on Saturday backed up with the running marathon on Sunday.
Launches and anniversaries starts at 43:43"Where is the cake?"
No launches in parkrun Australia this week, but first anniversaries for Champion Lakes (WA), Hamilton Island (QLD) and Petrie (QLD), all three falling on International parkrun Day. Scott also trails coverage from the news crew at Bushy for the anniversary celebrations next week.
Strava Art Competition starts at 45:06
The hosts admit they cannot agree on a winner despite having promised (or "guaranteed") a result this week, so the decision is deferred again, they will submit a top three to "the powers that be" and try to get them on the podcast to announce it. Both praise the unexpected volume and quality of entries and agree to run another one with clearer rules and more creative licence.
Sign-off starts at 48:45
Mel proposed finishing the podcast there, and Scotty gave his word of the week, equanimity, defined as being mentally or emotionally stable under strain, arguing it described him better than lazy and laid back. He said three weeks might be enough for the segment, and they joked about qualifying as a crime podcast instead, with a crime report or a whodunit, before the episode dissolved into banter and Mel's singing.
Word of the week starts at 48:54
Scott's word is "equanimity", being mentally or emotionally stable under tension or strain, calmness, which he offers as a more flattering description of himself than "lazy and laid back". Mel defends laid-back as a Queensland virtue. Scott then floats abandoning the segment and turning the podcast into a true-crime whodunit instead.