Episode 45
2016-11-16
HostsMelissa Erbacher Scott Trickett
GuestsLavinia Petrie Rachel Allworth Sonya Stacey
Show notes
The parkrun adventurers get the lowdown from Lillydale Lake parkrunner and multiple world record holder, Lavinia Petrie. Event Director Rachel Allworth gives us a glimpse of the mania behind Panania parkrun, and South Bank Tri Club’s Sonya Stacey takes a seat on the Club Corner couch.
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Lavinia Petrie
Her five gold medals at the World Masters Championships in Perth (8k cross country, 5000m, 10,000m, 1500m and half marathon), her training philosophy — ~50km a week, six days, two speed sessions, no long runs — injury management, running since age 16, 25 straight years of the Bright Alpine Climb, doing Lillydale Lake parkrun with her children and grandchildren, and a possible tilt at the World Masters Indoor Championships in Daegu.
Rachel Allworth
The naming of Panania parkrun, the flood and the fence across the course that eventually forced a move to a new park across the road, and her path into parkrun via founding the Rachel's Runners learn-to-run community group.
Sonya Stacey
Club Corner: the South Bank Tri Club's history, membership, how South Bank parkrun fits their training programme, their volunteer takeovers and finish-line culture.
In this episode
parkrun Adventurers News
Weekly news read alternating between the two hosts: 972 events across 14 countries on the last parkrun day and a barcode-length stat; Pan Pacific Masters on the Gold Coast (congratulating Deanna Elliott, Mark Munchenberg, Simon Mackley and Ryan Stoddard); the inaugural Tarawera Trail Marathon and 50k in New Zealand won by Majell Backhausen; and parkrun Australia releasing its annual Christmas compendium of Christmas/New Year's Day events. Cued by Scott's "I thought we were going to pre-empt the news" and Mel's "Here's the news."
Meet the ED
Interview with Panania parkrun (Sydney) Event Director Rachel Allworth about the event's chaotic first year — flooding out over winter, a fence appearing across the course one Saturday morning at 7am, and the recent forced move across the road to a new park — plus how she came to parkrun via her own Rachel's Runners learn-to-run group and territory director Damon. CAVEAT: the segment is not named on air this week; Scott simply crosses to it with "It's time to visit Sydney and an event that I've always been interested in because they launched the same weekend as Studley." Classified as Meet the ED on the strength of the format and the show notes calling her "Event Director Rachel Allworth".
Launches and anniversaries ("Where is the cake?")
Weekend launches and anniversaries round-up: the Warrnambool parkrun launch in Victoria (Scott declines the ~800km round trip); Albert Park's fifth anniversary with a "Flashback 5" theme, which Scott will attend in his TD polo in his last week as a Territory Director; Nambour's anniversary with a jungle/Aussie-animal dress-up theme, where Mel will finally run what she calls the hardest parkrun in Australia as her event number 34. Also notes parkrun Australia is nearing its 200th event, two years after the 100th at Cannonvale, and looks ahead to the 250th and the green shirt. The "where is the cake" catchphrase is NOT spoken this week — matched to the existing segment on format, not wording.
Club Corner
Sonya Stacey of the South Bank Tri Club (Brisbane) on the club's origins in 2010 with three mates after a first attempt at the Mooloolaba Triathlon, its growth to ~310 volunteer-led members, how South Bank parkrun is built into their training (the "parkrun sandwich", brick sessions in the South Bank lagoon, #SBTContour), their club takeovers of all volunteer roles, and the 19-to-75 age range and service-industry make-up of the membership.