Episode 53
2017-01-25
HostsMelissa Erbacher Scott Trickett
GuestsMatt Golinski Michael Sharpe
Show notes
The parkrun adventurers get hungry and talk about eating and running. We head to infamous The Beaches parkrun for a chat about all things sandy with Co-Event Director Michael Sharpe. And celebrity chef parkrunner Matt Golinski joins us to share his love of food and fave running spots.
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Read the transcriptGuests
Michael Sharpe
The Beaches parkrun — the only parkrun run entirely on sand: their record 160-runner 100th event, how tide and swell change the course and times, barefoot running, volunteering in the 12-event Newcastle region of runners, and his top three other events.
Matt Golinski
Running and food — how split shifts as a chef in Noosa got him running, the Pomona King of the Mountain race, parkrun touring (Gladstone, Townsville, Darwin, Noosa, Nambour), race nutrition, the Slow Food movement and Terra Madre in Torino, and foraging Australian bush foods like lilly pillies, riberries and bunya nuts.
In this episode
parkrun news bulletin
Mel: "The news is absolutely chockers this week. Let's go straight to it." Two items read over a music bed: 33,520 new parkrunners last weekend and 33,538 PBs across 1,024 events; plus a tongue-in-cheek item about unconfirmed unicorn sightings at an Australian parkrun whose location is withheld "for the protection of the magical beast". Ends with a music sting at [00:01:24] and Scott's "That wasn't as chockers as I thought it was going to be, Mel."
Meet the ED
Interview with Michael Sharpe, Co-Event Director of The Beaches parkrun (Newcastle, NSW) — the only parkrun run entirely on sand. Covers their 100th event record turnout of 160 (previous record 144 at launch), tide forecasting and how high vs low tide changes times by about five minutes, roughly 90% of runners going barefoot, the four-leg out-and-back 1.25km lap format, an ED completing the course pushed in a wheelchair, the slowest first finisher (~32 min male, 48 min female), and his top three other events (Lakeview, The Entrance, Port Macquarie).
Roving Adventurers (roving reporter crossovers)
Scott and Mel throw to "this week's collection of roving reports" — but nothing plays. Scott: "Not what I was hoping for." Mel: "maybe they had trouble with the sound quality this week." It becomes an appeal to listeners: "What he's trying to say is, send us some roving reports. We heart them." No actual roving report in this episode.
Launches and anniversaries ("Where is the cake?")
One launch: Mudgee parkrun (NSW), which Mel claims is the first event in Australia to be near a brewery, prompting a digression about what the brewery equivalent of a "crew" is called. Five anniversaries: Bibra Lake (WA) 2nd, Churchill (VIC) 1st, Cooks River (NSW) 2nd, The Terrace (NSW) 1st, and Tamborine Mountain (QLD) 2nd.