Episode 75
2017-08-03
— open the full-size artworkShow artwork, February 2017HostsMelissa Erbacher Scott Trickett
Roving reporterTim Oberg
GuestsSean Southerland-Kirby Tanya Rong
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Winter is here and it's time to get excited. Canons Park (opens in a new tab) parkrun Run Director Sean Southerland-Kirby stops by to give us a wheelchair athlete’s perspective on parkrunning. Tanya Rong warms up our parkrun appetite for a trip around Traralgon (opens in a new tab) parkrun and we receive a Roving Report from Airlie Beach (opens in a new tab) parkrun.
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Sean Southerland-Kirby
A wheelchair athlete's perspective on parkrun: he was volunteered into volunteering by his husband Andrew via Chris (a fellow Aussie who set up Canons Park), volunteered for months before completing his first parkrun in his new 8kg wheelchair in 45:09 on the day after the anniversary of his motorbike accident; spina bifida and functional neurological disorder; how pushing a course compares to running it; the diverse Canons Park community (Eid run, backwards April Fools run, autistic and partially sighted runners); and his upcoming Parallel London 5K for Headway East London.
Tanya Rong
Traralgon parkrun: 4-degree frosty winter mornings still drawing ~100 participants, the flat two-lap out-and-back PB course starting at the footbridge by the netball and tennis courts, its crossover with the Traralgon Harriers and triathlon club, how she came up through Run Director to co-ED (sharing the role with Paul Rowlandon) after founder "Sarge" moved to Brisbane, managing course congestion and safety around a wheelchair participant, and the post-parkrun cafe Foodco on Franklin.
Roving reports
In this episode
Welcome starts at 0:11
Scott Trickett and Melissa Erbacher. Scott is crashing without chocolate after Kasia found the stash he hid from himself, while Mel is still working through her last ten blocks of tropical pineapple. Mel is excited about parkrun Australia's first Territory Directors conference in a couple of weeks and the Barossa trip next month; Scott is excited about a proper haircut, the NFL season and defending his fantasy title, which leads into a Seahawks-versus-direwolves Game of Thrones tangent before they steer back to parkrun.
Roving reports & the Channel 5 News crew starts at 43:04
Scott crosses to "a new roving reporter... by the name of Timothy", Tim Oberg, unsolicited, reporting from Airlie Beach parkrun, where he interviews Nicole Sanday about her 100th parkrun (50 at home, 50 away) and her alphabet-tourism quest. Melissa follows up asking listeners, including international ones, to send in their own unsolicited roving reports.
Launches and anniversaries starts at 45:31"Where is the cake?"
Melissa cues it verbatim "Now, where is the cake this week, Scotty?" Anniversaries: Blackbutt (Region of Runners, back after a month of cancellations), Chelsea Bicentennial in Victoria (first anniversary), Claisebrook Cove in WA, and Victor Harbor in SA. Launch: Greenbank in Brisbane this weekend. Rolls into a short discussion of events cancelled for lack of volunteers.
Sign-off starts at 47:19
Scott called 'that's a wrap' on three weeks of podcasts in a row and, reversing what he had said the week before, put on record that there would be a podcast next week, with a week off possibly after that. They then swapped what they were excited about: Mel had bought fabric for Wes's first ever costume for the Sunshine Coast Marathon 2K family fun run, matching costumes of a famous family that she was trying to talk Adam into joining, she asked listeners to message him, while Scott was back at Westerfolds on Saturday with his girls volunteering, before heading to the Gold Coast for three days of talking parkrun at the conference.