Episode 53
2017-01-25
— open the full-size artworkShow artwork, November 2016HostsMelissa 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 (opens in a new tab) 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
Welcome starts at 0:07
Scott Trickett and Mel Erbacher open episode 53, the number they have long joked about; they have changed the theme for their episode pictures but agree to make one final exception for this one.
parkrun news bulletin starts at 0:49
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 and Scott's "That wasn't as chockers as I thought it was going to be, Mel."
Meet the ED starts at 5:53
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).
The Channel 5 News crew starts at 35:33
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 starts at 36:33"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.
Sign-off starts at 38:12
Mel broke with tradition and asked Scott his weekend plans: he was taking the family on a road trip to Renmark in South Australia, a new event for him, and would report from it next week; Mel was at Kawana for the final week of the summer beach course before reverting to the normal course. Scott warned they would be recording and reporting on the road, so next week's episode might not appear until Saturday, and thanked Mel for the week.