Episode 83 - Kelly Hodges

Episode 83 — open the full-size artworkShow artwork, February 2017

HostsMelissa Erbacher Scott Trickett

Roving reporterLyndell Murray

GuestsJeff Bartlett Kelly Hodges

Show notes

The parkrun adventurers are all parkrunning in Qld! We introduce a new regular to the show, as Kawana parkrunner Kelly Hodges stops by for a natter about nutrition, and Tamworth (opens in a new tab) parkrun Event Director Jeff Bartlett regales us with tales of American parkrun adventures. Plus Channel 5 News Crew member Lyndell Murray is back with a roving report from Toowoomba (opens in a new tab) parkrun.

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Guests

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In this episode

• Welcome starts at 0:15

  Scott Trickett recording on location outdoors in a heat wave near Tweed Heads, with Melissa Erbacher in Queensland. Scott ran Sandgate with daughter Kasia, praising Dean and Vanessa's event and the pier turnaround, is scouting freedom runs to keep his streak, mapping south-east Queensland by parkrun names and eyeing a rumoured Zillmere parkrun; Kasia is about to reach 99 then 100 parkruns after a barcode scare. Mel run-directed solo at home with a full set of tokens and a glitch-free morning; Scott claims to be one clear on the most events list.

• Meet the ED starts at 8:00

  Scott and Mel interview Tamworth parkrun Event Director Jeff Bartlett, Tamworth's country-music identity, the out-and-back course along the Peel River, its flood-cancellation risk, its third anniversary, and how he and his wife Jan got involved six to eight weeks after the event launched on 1 November 2014. The second half is a long travelogue: the couple visited all nine parkrun events then existing in the USA (Fletchers Cove, Roosevelt Island, College Park, Durham, Clermont Waterfront, Livonia, Mansfield, Heritage Harbor Ottawa, Crissy Field), briefly holding the record for having done every US parkrun.

• Nutrition Q&A with Kelly Hodges starts at 29:14

  First appearance of a new semi-regular contributor: dietitian Kelly Hodges (Kelly Hodges Health, Vast Fitness Academy, Caveman Kitchen, locum dietitian at Sunshine Coast University Hospital, founding ED of Kawana parkrun and now a Run Director there). She covers her parkrun story, UK/Ireland parkrun tourism, carb loading versus doughnuts for a 5k, and low-carb/high-fat diets. Mel explicitly frames it as recurring "time to get a new semi-regular guest on the show" and invites listener questions to parkrunadventurers@gmail.com for future instalments.

• Roving reports & the Channel 5 News crew starts at 41:13

  Lyndell Murray reports from Toowoomba parkrun's fourth birthday, coinciding with Toowoomba's Carnival of Flowers, running through Queen's Park. She interviews Event Director Margaret about how she and Tressa Lindenberg brought parkrun to Toowoomba, then two anniversary award winners, Paula (most parkruns at Toowoomba for the year) and junior Jess (awarded "for being awesome", four years of helping her dad set up the truck and chalk). Handed back by Mel: "Roving Report from Toowoomba, love your work."

• Launches and anniversaries starts at 48:23"Where is the cake?"

  Anniversaries this week at Moree (NSW) and Petrie (Qld); launches at Oakey (Qld) and Carrisbrook (SA). Includes the running gag about parkruns starting with unusual letters (O, and the mooted Z parkrun at Zillmere).

• Streaky September starts at 49:22

  Hosts check in on the Streaky September streaking challenge and its bonus "Bingoe card" tasks, the gym jams run, the before-sunrise run, the barefoot run (Scott did his as a barefoot stroll at Main Beach). Both reflect on whether they will keep streaking past 1 October; Scott says Team Trickett will try, Mel plans a looser three-or-four-times-a-week commitment. Scott notes it is intended to become an annual thing.

• Sign-off starts at 56:28

  Scotty said they were rambling and that it was time to wrap up episode 83; Mel said she looked forward to seeing him on the weekend for parkrun Day.