Episode 112 - junior parkrun
2018-05-25
HostsMelissa Erbacher Scott Trickett
Roving reportersDavid Moss Greta — roving reporter (surname not stated) Lyndell Murray Paul Kitching
GuestsRenee Gimbert Tim Oberg
Show notes
The parkrun adventurers are getting over lurgies and heading for the hills. Scotty is about to embark on launching the first junior parkrun in Victoria and to get him prepared we speak to Southport juniors Event Director, parkrun Australia COO, and all-round good gal Renee Gimbert, as well as the Event Director of the soon-to-launch Cannonvale junior parkrun, parkrun Australia Head Honcho, and inaugural junior parkrun warm-up lead Tim Oberg. Plus the Channel 5 News Crew go all out with Roving Reports from launches in Queensland and South Australia.
Enhanced transcript
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Read the transcriptGuests
Renee Gimbert
Launching Australia's first junior parkrun at Southport on the Gold Coast — the trial, the 202-child launch morning, week-to-week numbers, working-with-children checks, the 12-month three-event pilot, and what the event director workload actually looks like.
Tim Oberg
Preparing to launch Cannonvale junior parkrun in the small Whitsundays community, why parkrun is going beyond the legal minimum on child safeguarding and working-with-children checks, the 12-month pilot's purpose, and the junior parkrun warm-up leader role.
Roving reports
In this episode
Channel 5 News Crew
A bumper roving-report block, trailed by Mel at [00:07:59] as "some roving reports from our Channel 5 News crew this week" and named again by Lyndell at [00:51:50] "it's Lyndell reporting in for the Channel 5 News crew". Contains three reporters at the Jubilee Way parkrun launch in Wynn Vale, South Australia — Paul Kitching (PK) from [00:33:32], then a novelty three-way on-site chat between PK, Greta and David Moss from [00:41:35], then Greta's and David Moss's own interviews — followed by Lyndell Murray at the Woodford parkrun launch in Queensland from [00:51:50]. Scott at [00:08:21]: "We put the challenge to them, and my God, did they deliver."
Launches and anniversaries ("Where is the cake?")
Two weeks' worth of the calendar, run by the hosts after the roving reports. Launches acknowledged: Woodford (Qld), Jubilee Way (SA), Cobar (NSW), Euroa (Vic), and North Sydney launching that coming weekend. Anniversaries: Ballina Coast (NSW), Castlemaine (Vic), Devonport (Tas), Highlands (Vic), Mawson Lakes (SA), Mount Beauty (Vic), Mount Penang (NSW), Penrith Lakes (NSW) and The Ponds (NSW).