Episode 41 - Noah Carter
2016-10-19
— open the full-size artworkShow artwork, July 2016HostsMelissa Erbacher Scott Trickett
Roving reportersPaul Kitching Zara Curtis
GuestsKate Lilley Noah Carter
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The parkrun adventurers share the Melbourne Marathon experience and eat some cake. We chat with Wynnum (opens in a new tab) parkrun junior Noah Carter about past running achievements and future goals, and hear from Kate Lilley, Brightwater (opens in a new tab) parkrun’s most avid junior volunteer. And our Channel 4 News Reporter Paul Kitching checks in from Bath Skyline (opens in a new tab) parkrun in the UK.
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Noah Carter
His 15km record run (only his third go at the distance, in negative 5k splits), what would be needed for official recognition, his single weekly sprint session, his 148 parkruns across 11 different events, his favourites (Minnippi, Stones Corner, Wishart), wanting to run Bushy and to be an Olympian over 5 or 10K, and why he volunteers. His father joins in partway to explain why they are not chasing a formally accredited course.
Kate Lilley
Volunteering 26 times and not yet ordering the purple shirt, why photographer is her favourite role, the feedback she gets, what she would say to someone who has never volunteered, her teachers, and dressing as a cat for a fancy-dress parkrun while also being that day's photographer.
Roving reports
In this episode
Welcome starts at 0:11
Kasia hosting with Melissa Erbacher, noting the show has reached episode 41.
parkrun news bulletin starts at 0:30
Melissa hands the bulletin to the junior newsreaders "Are you ready to read the news?" Items: the 39th Medibank Melbourne Marathon Festival (32,000 runners; parkrunners winning the marathon and, with Eloise Wellings and Brett Robinson, the half); 23,363 junior parkrunners and 1,708 junior volunteers worldwide on the last parkrun day; a University of Aberdeen study on exercising with friends; and Danny Norman's 500th parkrun. Read entirely by children this week, which is unusual enough to be worth noting.
Roving reports & the Channel 5 News crew starts at 21:03
Scott crosses to junior roving reporter Zara Curtis, who covered the You Yangs parkrun launch in Victoria and interviewed two Berwick Springs parkrun tourists, Michaela and Vanessa, about the course and their overseas parkrun tourism (including a Russian event with a palace). Scott frames it as part of a junior-reporter push: "like all good Junior Roving Adventurers reporters do, she got us some audio."
Launches and anniversaries starts at 23:52"Where is the cake?"
Scott declares it "the biggest weekend of the year for anniversaries in parkrun Australia". Orange (NSW) launches; Highfields turns one; five events turn three, Mosman (NSW), Bunbury (WA, "commonly known as Funbury"), Darwin (NT), Mudgeeraba (QLD) and Westerfolds (VIC); and Kawana turns four. Melissa will bake two cakes for Kawana's barcode party (a Martha Stewart golden sheet cake plus a possible gluten-free chocolate one); Scott confesses he is "not a big cake person".
Sign-off starts at 28:11
After the anniversaries, in which Mel said she would be baking two cakes for Kawana's fourth anniversary barcode party and Scotty told her to have fun and that he could not wait to hear about it next week, he thanked her and handed off to close the show with underscore PK's roving report.