Episode 99 - Patrick Tiernan
2018-02-13
— open the full-size artworkShow artwork, January 2018HostsLyndell Murray Melissa Erbacher Scott Trickett
Roving reportersLyndell Murray Melissa Ellis
GuestPatrick Tiernan
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The parkrun adventurers are catching zees and chasing batons. Rio Olympian and Gold Coast Commonwealth Games athlete Patrick Tiernan stops by to give us an insight into the life of an elite athlete. And our roving reporters are on the ground to welcome another community to the parkrun family with the launch of Nhill (opens in a new tab) parkrun and celebrate a fourth anniversary at Golden Beach (opens in a new tab) parkrun.
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Patrick Tiernan
Life as an elite athlete: Commonwealth Games selection trials and A/B qualifying standards, how a sub-15 parkrun compares to track 5000m, his first parkrun at Toowoomba, a typical training week, studying maths and economics at Villanova, leading the field at the 2017 World Championships and the criticism that followed, being based in Philadelphia, and his top three Netflix picks.
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In this episode
Welcome starts at 0:18
Scott Trickett and Melissa Erbacher. Mel missed Golden Beach parkrun's fourth anniversary and its P-party theme after new costumes, a late night and a slept-through alarm, phoning ED Rochelle to apologise; she is off to Kirra's green-and-gold anniversary next week, and her brother's family have now reached their sixth C in most events. Scott ran Albert Park with his sister and then managed to miss the Commonwealth Games baton relay at Lakeside Stadium from both sides of the stadium.
Roving reports & the Channel 5 News crew starts at 41:47
Lyndell Murray reports from the fourth anniversary of Golden Beach parkrun (Sunshine Coast, Qld), which ran a "P" party theme, she is head-to-toe purple with purple zinc. She interviews Ethan and Cherie (punk and princess), Sheila and Lisa (prisoner and police officer), pirates Ian and Daryl, and Event Director Rochelle, who reports around 300+ finishers on the day against a course record of 377.
Roving reports & the Channel 5 News crew starts at 54:39
Melissa Ellis reports from the launch of Nhill parkrun in the Victorian Wimmera, halfway between Melbourne and Adelaide. She interviews Patsy from the Twin Towns Running and Walking Club (Tweed Heads), area ambassador Bruce, and Event Director Bev, 104 runners plus about 12 volunteers, with eggs and bacon laid on afterwards.
Dad joke starts at 59:11
Scott jokes that it would be funny if Nhill parkrun one week had "nil parkrunners"; Mel groans "Oh, God, Scotty... I get your dad joke. Nice work popping that one in there."
Launches and anniversaries starts at 59:57"Where is the cake?"
Cake this week at Dalby (Qld), Darebin (Vic), Kirra (Qld) and Wyndham Vale (Vic); launches at Plantation parkrun in Ayr, far north Queensland, and Rosebud on the Mornington Peninsula (71 at the trial).
Shout-outs starts at 1:02:29
Shout-outs to roving adventurer and Channel 5 News crew member TOC (Tony O'Connell) and Central Lakes parkrun ED Tina Kirwan for the Tarawera Trail Marathon in New Zealand, TOC finished in about 14 hours and placed top three in his age category, and to listener "Pommy Andy", who walks about 20km a day at work and is binge-listening from episode one at three episodes a day.
Sign-off starts at 1:08:13
Scotty looked at the time, said it had been a long episode and they had to go, and thanked Mel again, saying he had thoroughly enjoyed it; she thanked him for joining her for episode 99 and called it a wonderful 99 episodes, and he said he could not wait to crack the ton next week.