Episode 74
2017-07-27
— open the full-size artworkShow artwork, February 2017HostsMelissa Erbacher Scott Trickett
Roving reportersDavid Moss Paul Kitching
GuestsJessica Hay Steve Dinneen
Show notes
The parkrun adventurers go in search of lost mojo this week. We speak to Jessica Hay of The Long Weigh Down with Jess and return to the Couch with Coach Steve Dinneen for further inspiration. Plus the Channel 5 News Crew are out in force with Roving Reports from Cleland (opens in a new tab) and Stanthorpe (opens in a new tab) parkruns.
Listen
Open on Podbean (opens in a new tab) Press any timestamp below to play from that moment.
Enhanced transcript
Speakers named, sound described and segments marked by the editing pass — not yet checked by a person.
Read the transcriptGuests
Jessica Hay
Her running-diary Facebook group and Instagram (2,000 and 19,000 followers), the Runner's World article that went viral, registering for parkrun four to five months before actually turning up, fear of being last, her welcome at Highlands parkrun (20 parkruns done, chasing a sub-60), her upcoming Run Melbourne 10K, and a long-term marathon goal.
Steve Dinneen
How to get your running mojo back and how to keep it, diagnosing why motivation goes, going back to basics, changing focus/course/training partners, ignoring the watch, and his own 800-day run streak with its flat patches.
Roving reports
In this episode
Welcome starts at 0:09
Melissa Erbacher and Scott Trickett, back-to-back weeks. Scott returned to Parkville parkrun in Princes Park, an event he spent months helping set up, and nobody knew him or the Castlemaine ED he bumped into; Mel was RD at Maryborough and says she prefers going unrecognised too. Melbourne's cold has sapped Scott's running mojo, not helped by a fartlek on a dark trail with a dying head torch; listeners texted 'intervals!' to settle last week's terminology muddle, Mel points to a parkrun Tourism Facebook thread on getting mojo back, and she flags an inspirational episode ahead.
On the Couch with Coach Steve starts at 24:52
Coach Steve Dinneen returns "to the couch" to answer the episode's theme question, how to get your running mojo back and how to avoid losing it. Advice: work out WHY it went (overtraining, injury, no goals), go back to basics, stop watching the watch/Strava, change course or training partners, set small goals. He notes he is on an 800-day run streak and has lost his own mojo repeatedly within it, and cites Liam Adams, Mitch Brown and a young athlete Andre Waring as sources of inspiration, plus Scott's own first 3K track race.
Roving reports & the Channel 5 News crew starts at 37:53
Two roving reports in one block. PK (Paul Kitching) covers the Cleland parkrun launch in the Adelaide foothills, South Australia's first trail parkrun, interviewing Run Director/joint ED John Lang, photographer Sputnik, Jane Luke (in a penguin onesie), and quickfire interviews with Esme, Charlie Butler, Julia and three kids; 229 finishers on debut. Then Dave Moss reports from Stanthorpe parkrun's third Christmas in July event. Scott and Mel formally add Dave Moss to the crew ("Welcome to the Channel 5 News crew") and nudge Lyndell Murray for a report. Scott also flags an upcoming trip to meet PK and the South Australian crew, "just over a month" away.
Launches and anniversaries starts at 54:12"Where is the cake?"
A very quiet week: no launches at all in parkrun Australia, and only two anniversaries, Bathurst (NSW) and Christies Beach (SA). Also no cancellations anywhere, which prompts Mel to add "when was the last week with no cancellations?" to the list of questions for Ian Hay.
Sign-off starts at 55:41
Mel said that about did it for the week and checked in with where she was headed: nowhere new, and back to run directing at her home parkrun this coming weekend. Scott approved, teasing that his spies said she needed more practice at run directing, and told her to have fun before saying he would speak to her next week, 'maybe'.