Episode 90

Episode 90 — open the full-size artworkShow artwork, February 2017

HostsMelissa Erbacher Scott Trickett

GuestsCourtney White Kelly Hodges

Show notes

The parkrun adventurers are pram running and vying for victory! Nutrition guru Kelly Hodges is back to answer your questions and Event Director Courtney White pops by for a chat ahead of Warrnambool (opens in a new tab) parkrun’s first anniversary. Plus we reveal the rundown of the 2017 pa perlustration results, and announce the winner of our TomTom Adventurer giveaway!

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In this episode

• Welcome starts at 0:15

  Episode 90 with Melissa Erbacher in Queensland and Scott Trickett in Victoria, Scott over his lurgy. Scott returned to run directing at Westerfolds without a hitch, then on Sunday the Westerfoldians took the team title at the local fun run for the third time and daughter Kasia won her category in the 6K; his own run was poor, ribs still sore from his fall two months ago. Mel took a wrong turn and arrived as Kawana-style start was under way, ran with Wes in the pram to catch the Tail Walker, and asks listeners for pram-running technique tips, with Coach Dinneen and perhaps Gavin Matheson proposed for next week.

• Nutrition Q&A with Kelly Hodges starts at 10:23

  Returning nutritionist Kelly Hodges answers listener questions: whether coconut oil's saturated fat is bad for you (a debunk of Ancel Keys' Seven Countries Study), serving vs portion, eating before a run, and whether runners trying to lose weight should avoid carbs. Scott adds a question of his own about measuring portion sizes.

• Meet the ED starts at 27:56

  Interview with Courtney White, Event Director of Warrnambool parkrun (Lake Pertobe, south-west Victoria), ahead of the event's first anniversary - the course, the sibling rivalry with her sister at Inverloch that led her to start the event, community highlights, and windy Warrnambool weather. The segment is not named on air in this episode but it is the standard ED-of-the-week slot.

• Launches and anniversaries starts at 33:57"Where is the cake?"

  Anniversaries at Warrnambool, Albert Melbourne and Karkarook (Vic), Calamvale and Nambour (Qld), with the hosts scoring it as a Victoria-vs-Queensland contest; launches at Whitfords Nodes (WA) and Lota (Qld).

• Word of the week starts at 34:59

  Prompted by "Whitfords Nodes", Mel nominates "node" as a possible word of the week and reports back that last week's word turned out to be "space hopper", which Scott still refuses to accept.

• The Perlustration starts at 36:12annual listener survey

  Full rundown of the 2017 listener survey (double last year's response): Q1 where listeners parkrun (Vic 1st, Qld 2nd, NSW 4th behind SA); Q2 how they listen (mostly iTunes, zero on Stitcher); Q3 events visited (21-50 most common, 25% have done an international event); Q4 preferred guest type (regular parkrunners doing irregular things, ahead of EDs/RDs); Q6/Q7 merchandise (61% want to see it, 66% would buy); Q8 who reaches 50 Aussie parkruns first (46% say a tie, 32% Scotty, 21% Mel); Q9 Game of Thrones vs NFL; Q10 favourite frog (Kermit 41%, Jeremiah 26%, golden mantella under 1%); Q11 should they return in 2018 (yes - they commit to reaching 100 episodes). Q5, held to the end, was who they would most like interviewed: Rob de Castella clear first, Paul Sinton-Hewitt second, Steve Moneghetti and Mo Farah tied third; deceased nominations led by Cliff Young, then Ron Clarke and Elvis.

• TomTom Adventurer giveaway draw — Elle Fisher starts at 57:18

  Renee Gimbert is brought back on as an independent spinner of the "big wheel" of entrants' names for the TomTom Adventurer Extravaganza giveaway. The winner drawn is Elle Fisher - Scott jokes she is "not to be confused with Mel".

• Sign-off starts at 59:08

  Mel said that about wrapped it up for episode 90, they were out of the 80s and into the 90s, then flagged Naked November and the International Day of Running Naked on 18 November and asked whether Scotty would be running naked that weekend. He said he would give it a shot, joking it was tough on Elle, who had just won the watch and was now being told she could not wear it, and they wrapped up episode 90 agreeing to meet again for another chat next week.

• Naked November / International Day of Running Naked starts at 59:20

  Sign-off plug for the seasonal theme: the International Day of Running Naked (running without a watch) falls on 18 November, and Scott says he will give it a shot - with a joke that it is rough on giveaway winner Elle, who has just won a watch she cannot wear.