Episode 104
2018-03-21
HostsMelissa Erbacher Scott Trickett
Roving reporterLyndell Murray
GuestLiam Adams
Show notes
The parkrun adventurers are counting down the days until the inaugural parkrun adventurers listener meet-up and share our fave road-trip games to get the party started! Olympian, Commonwealth Games athlete and parkrun Australia record holder Liam Adams takes some time out from altitude training to give us an insight into the inner workings of an elite athlete in the lead up to Gold Coast 2018. Plus Channel 5 News Crew member Lyndell is back with a roving report from the launch of Forest Lake parkrun.
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Liam Adams
Altitude training at Falls Creek and the taper into the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games marathon: his parkrun Australia record at Maribyrnong, VO2 max and restricted lung function, weekly mileage and taper strategy, balancing 50-60 hour work weeks with elite training, the lack of funding for home-Games preparation, podium hopes, his childhood asthma and hay fever, and his pre-race routine of leaving a snack beside the bed.
Roving reports
In this episode
Channel 5 News Crew
Lyndell Murray's self-contained roving report from the launch of Forest Lake parkrun in south-west Brisbane on St Patrick's Day. She interviews Bobby (a visiting alphabeteer from Springwood), Schulze (Statesmen update), Sue (celebrating her 100th parkrun in a green tutu) and event directors Rory and Shirley, then wraps with a shout-out to Craig, a run director at Rocks Riverside. 559 finishers on launch day.
Statesmen update
Nested inside Lyndell's roving report — she flags it explicitly: "It's a parkrun launch in Queensland. It's time for a Statesman update." Schulze reports there is currently no statesman in Queensland (he missed Plantation and Cardwell), that Forest Lake is Queensland's 85th event with Cardwell making 86, and that he plans a trip to Mount Isa to close the gap.
Launches and anniversaries ("Where is the cake?")
Scott and Mel run through the week's launches and anniversaries: Forest Lake launched on the weekend, St Lucia launches this weekend in Brisbane, Chipping Norton launches in New South Wales, and a bittersweet anniversary at Mount Barker in South Australia, which Channel 5 News Crew members PK and Greta are attending instead of the listener meet-up.
Run the date my way (challenge check-in)
Scott asks Mel for a progress update on her "Run the date my way" March challenge (running the date in minutes each day). She has completed day 21 without missing a day, has ten days to go, and is not yet halfway through the total minutes. Not clearly a formal show segment — it reads as a recurring check-in on the co-host's personal challenge, named on air by Scott at [00:58:23].