Episode 47
2016-12-01
HostsMelissa Erbacher Scott Trickett
GuestsBrenda Gibb Enrique Suana Steve Marston Tim Boyle
Show notes
The parkrun adventurers talk about running with worldwide companions, and catch up with Bunyaville parkrun Event Directors Steve Marston and Brenda Gibb. We skip across the Pacific to have a chat with Tim Boyle, Founder of whoirun4.com, and Enrique Suana stops by for Club Corner to highlight the great work of the Achilles Club.
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Steve Marston
Bunyaville parkrun's third anniversary — trail course and elevation, attendance numbers, falls on trail ("Bunyaville tattoos"), first aid kits for trail events, his parkrun tourism (top three: Nambour, Kawana and Sale) and how his brother got him started at the inaugural Sandgate parkrun.
Brenda Gibb
Bunyaville parkrun's third anniversary — the "amounts of opportunity" view of the hilly trail course, cross-country runners training there over winter, the community's response to falls, and how she found parkrun by googling "free running" and became Event Director three years later.
Tim Boyle
How Who I Run For works — runners log miles for a matched "buddy" who is physically unable to, and post and tag them at least three times a week. Covers his own founding story after quitting smoking and being matched with Michael Wasserman, the matching process run by connection coordinator Carol Dublin, the 2,500-runner waiting list, the sibling, bereavement and military sub-groups, and his first encounter with the concept of parkrun.
Enrique Suana
Club Corner feature on the Achilles Club — pairing people with disabilities, primarily vision impairment, with tethered sighted guides for parkrun, marathons and other events; guide training and the selflessness the role requires; guiding Stephen Green at the Boston Marathon; and how parkrun's walkable format and visually impaired aid volunteer role help people transition from walking to running.
In this episode
parkrun news bulletin
Scott calls "It's time for the news" and the two hosts alternate news items: 17,073 first-timers worldwide on parkrun Day with a country-by-country breakdown, a Tribe Sports Black Friday free-shipping promotion, Achilles Melbourne member and Jells parkrunner Adam Koops running a 3:38 marathon PB with sighted guide Amelia at Run for the Young, the Afterglow Twilight Night Trail Run on Victoria's surf coast, and a joke item about parkrunners being visible from the International Space Station.
Meet the ED
Interview with Bunyaville parkrun (Queensland) Event Directors Steve Marston and Brenda Gibb ahead of their third anniversary: the trail course and its elevation, attendance (record 231, typically 80 in winter and 100-120 in summer), falls on trail ("Bunyaville tattoos"), first aid kit provision for trail events, their own parkrun tourism and how each got into parkrun. Note: the segment is not given a name on air in this episode — it is logged under the established Meet the ED heading because it is the show's standard Event Director interview format.
Launches and anniversaries ("Where is the cake?")
Weekly launch and anniversary round-up: a new Victorian launch at Cohuna (the hosts riff on the pronunciation, "the big Kahuna"), plus anniversaries at Airlie Beach, Bunyaville and Lakeview (third), Mount Gambier (third) and Torrens, the very first South Australian event, celebrating its fourth.
Club Corner
Introduced with a jingle sting. Enrique Suana from the Achilles Club (Sydney chapter) explains how Achilles pairs people with disabilities — primarily vision impairment — with sighted guides for parkrun and longer events, how guides are trained and what the role demands, his own Boston Marathon guiding of Stephen Green, and how parkrun's visually impaired aid volunteer role and walkable format make it a good entry point.