Episode 39 - Simon Kilma
2016-10-06
— open the full-size artworkShow artwork, July 2016HostsMelissa Erbacher Scott Trickett
Roving reporterPaul Kitching
GuestsSimon Klima Simon Porteous
Show notes
The parkrun adventurers hear from our Channel 4 News Crew at Bushy Park (opens in a new tab) on International parkrun Day. We journey to South Australia for a chat about Victor Harbor (opens in a new tab) 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
Surviving the South Australian storm, founding Victor Harbor parkrun after discovering Torrens, the course, the triathlon club that grew from it, and local parkrunner Andrew Bizach's Adelaide-to-Brisbane charity run for DEBRA Australia.
Shane
Same interview: clearing mud off the course after the storm, the Victor Harbor Triathlon Club, sharks and dolphins on the coastal course, and his ultra-trail beard.
Simon Klima
What Strava is, its scale, the Strava/parkrun partnership and profile linking, the forthcoming Strava Clubs for every parkrun, challenges, activity editing, kudos, Flybys, the origin of #StravaProveIt and the newer Strive campaign, and his own parkrun history (Ashton Court, Crane Park, Bushy, and Crissy Field to come).
Tina
How she and Connie plotted the parkrun logo with cones and their kids marking the course, the failed first attempt after the Sydney Marathon, and being announced as competition winners.
Connie
Same segment, the competitive motivation ("motivation was winning") and celebrating the win for Central Lakes.
Roving reports
In this episode
Welcome starts at 0:12
Melissa Erbacher opens episode 39 with co-host Scott Trickett, saying it has been a big weekend in the parkrun world so it will be another big episode, and heads straight to the news.
parkrun news bulletin starts at 0:36
Read alternately by Mel and Scotty. International parkrun Day (Saturday 1 October 2016) and parkrun's 12th birthday, with global cumulative stats; Noah Carter's world-record 15k at Wynnum; Cardiff Half course records and Michael Kallenberg's superhero-costume half-marathon world record; Coast to Kosciuszko 240km invitations going to parkrunners; and a tongue-in-cheek item on kilted parkrunners doubling at Port Macquarie.
Roving reports & the Channel 5 News crew starts at 4:22
Scott crosses to PK, who is on holiday in the UK and reporting from Bushy Park on International parkrun Day. He interviews Sally and Ingrid at the parkrun tree, Dan (met on the train) and finally parkrun founder Paul Sinton-Hewitt, who breaks the news that he plans to spend about six months travelling to every parkrun event in Australia. Scott jokes that "there's only one member of the Channel 4 news crew".
Meet the ED starts at 11:59
Scott and Mel check in on South Australia after the state-wide storm and speak to Victor Harbor parkrun's two Event Directors, Shane and Simon. Course survived with only mud at the turnaround; talk of the Victor Harbor Triathlon Club that grew out of the parkrun, ultra-running, the windiest-parkrun-in-SA claim, Shane's trail beard, and regular parkrunner Andrew Bizach's plan to run Adelaide to Brisbane to raise $1 million for DEBRA Australia.
Strava Art Competition — Tina (Strava Art Competition recipient, ep39) starts at 37:44
Connie and Tina describe plotting the parkrun logo with cones and their kids as course markers, then Scott announces them as the competition winners, judged on accuracy. They pick prize option A (a costume accessory designed by Mel plus one of Scott's certificates) over the mystery-box option P; the hosts realise mid-segment that two winners means two certificates and two costume pieces.
The Perlustration starts at 42:30annual listener survey
Scott and Mel walk through the results of their listener survey: most respondents are Victorian, then Queensland, with more international respondents than Northern Territorians; out-and-back courses edge single loops by 1% and multi-loop courses come last; 53% of listeners have volunteered; iTunes is the dominant listening platform (with exactly one Stitcher listener); 60 minutes is the preferred episode length; guest and ED interviews rated highest; 90% do fancy dress at least sometimes; and 59% found The Princess Bride funny, to Scott's disgust. Scott confirms it will be an annual perlustration.
Launches and anniversaries starts at 50:34"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.
Sign-off starts at 51:18
Scotty wished Mel a wonderful week, she wished him the same, and he closed by saying they would do it all again next week.