Episode 39 - Simon Kilma
2016-10-06
HostsMelissa Erbacher Scott Trickett
Roving reporterPaul Kitching
GuestsConnie — Strava art contest winner Shane — Victor Harbor parkrun Event Director (surname not given) Simon Klima Simon Porteous — Victor Harbor parkrun Event Director Tina — Strava art contest winner
Show notes
The parkrun adventurers hear from our Channel 4 News Crew at Bushy Park on International parkrun Day. We journey to South Australia for a chat about Victor Harbor parkrun with Shane and Simon Porteous. We talk partnerships and future plans for Strava and parkrun with Strava’s Director of Local Marketing, Simon Klima. And the winners of our Strava Art competition are announced!
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Simon Porteous
How he discovered parkrun at Torrens and brought it to Victor Harbor, the flat windy coastal out-and-back course, and local parkrunner Andrew Bizach's planned Adelaide-to-Brisbane run raising $1 million for DEBRA Australia.
Shane
Clearing storm mud off the course after the South Australian storms, the Victor Harbor Triathlon Club that grew out of the parkrun, dolphins/seals/sharks on the course, and his ultra-trail beard.
Simon Klima
What Strava is, its scale (tens of millions of members, ~8 million activities a week), the two-year parkrun/Strava partnership and profile linking, an upcoming rollout of Strava Clubs as a community home for every parkrun, challenges and flybys, the origin of #StravaProveIt and the newer Strive campaign, and his own parkrun history (Ashton Court, Crane Park, Bushy, and Crissy Field next).
Tina
How she and Connie planned and ran their parkrun-logo Strava art route with their kids placing cones, her earlier failed attempt after the Sydney Marathon, and being announced as contest winner for accuracy.
Connie
Joined Tina for the winning Strava art run; supplies the motivation ("Well, motivation was winning") and the "Go Central Lakes" celebration on hearing they won.
Roving reports
In this episode
parkrun news bulletin
Scripted news items read alternately by both hosts, cued at [00:00:12] "maybe we should just go straight to the news": International parkrun Day worldwide stats (12 years, 120,005 events, 214,866 volunteers), Noah Carter's 15k age-group world record, Michael Kallenberg's superhero-costume half marathon world record at Cardiff, Coast to Kosciuszko 240km invitations, and kilted parkrunners at Port Macquarie.
Channel 5 News Crew
Paul Kitching ("PK underscore PK") reports on location from Bushy Park in the UK on International parkrun Day / parkrun's 12th birthday. He interviews Sally and Ingrid (Kingston upon Thames parkrunners, Ingrid on her 300th), Dan (met on the train from London), and finishes with parkrun founder Paul Sinton-Hewitt, who reveals he plans to spend about six months travelling Australia visiting every parkrun event.
Meet the ED
Both hosts interview Victor Harbor parkrun's two Event Directors, Shane and Simon, in South Australia: clearing storm mud off the course, how Simon discovered parkrun at Torrens, the Victor Harbor Triathlon Club that grew out of the event, dolphins and seals (and sharks) on the coastal out-and-back course, the "windiest parkrun in South Australia", Shane's ultra-trail beard, and local parkrunner Andrew Bizach's plan to run Adelaide to Brisbane raising $1 million for DEBRA Australia.
Strava art contest — Tina and Connie
Listener challenge results. Tina and Connie join the pod to describe how they mapped and ran a parkrun-logo Strava art route with their kids placing cones, then are announced as the winners, chosen for accuracy. Prizes: a costume accessory designed by Mel, a certificate designed by Scott, DVDs and a polo shirt; the hosts have to improvise two of each because there are two winners.
The Perlustration (annual listener survey)
The hosts walk through the results of the listener survey run a few weeks earlier: Victoria then Queensland the top listener states (more international listeners than Northern Territory), out-and-back the narrowly favoured course type over single loops, 53% of listeners have volunteered, iTunes the dominant listening platform (with exactly one Stitcher listener), 60 minutes the preferred episode length, guest and ED interviews the best-rated segments, 90% do fancy dress at least sometimes, and 59% find The Princess Bride funny — settling a running Mel-vs-Scott argument.
Launches and anniversaries ("Where is the cake?")
One launch this week: Galston, New South Wales. Anniversaries: Berwick Springs (Victoria) third, Hamilton (Victoria) first, and Kalgoorlie-Boulder (WA) third. Cued by Scott's set question at [00:50:55] "Do we have any anniversaries and where's the cake going to be?"