Episode 116 - Hannah Oldroyd
2018-06-14
HostsMelissa Erbacher Scott Trickett
Roving reporterDavid Moss
GuestHannah Oldroyd
Show notes
The parkrun adventurers survive another week without parkrun and get our parkrun fixes elsewhere on Sunday. Pegasus parkrun local, sometime marathoner and long-time parkrun adventurer Hannah Oldroyd joins us to share some of her stories. And Channel 5 News Crew member Dave Moss reports in from Lawson parkrun.
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Hannah Oldroyd
Meeting Mel at the Taman Pudu Ulu launch in Malaysia (her 150th different event) as an accidental stopover en route to the London Marathon; her beer-and-biscuits "diet"; starting at Bradford parkrun and reaching 300 parkruns; the Highgate Night of the 10,000m PBs and its Lane 3 Beer and Cheer; skipping a Finland parkrun to fly home and race it; her top three parkrun countries (New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Malaysia) and why Pegasus is the best parkrun in the world; Australian events run (Dawesville, Victor Harbor, Ginninderra) and the Tasmania gap; falling over on the Pegasus boardwalk and then running a sub-17 PB; London, Copenhagen and Christchurch marathons (first female finisher at Christchurch); and her marathon advice for Scott — drink more Guinness.
Roving reports
In this episode
Channel 5 News Crew
David Moss files a roving report from Lawson parkrun in the Blue Mountains, NSW, interviewing Kai Porrett about the all-trail course (creek crossing with stepping stones, the "hill of awesomeness") and the Porrett family's involvement, then Roger, a local with around 75 Lawson runs.
Launches and anniversaries ("Where is the cake?")
Launch at Port Sorell in Tasmania, plus anniversaries at Carine Glades (WA), Dolls Point (NSW), Mernda (VIC), North Shore (QLD), Shellharbour (NSW), one Queensland event whose name the ASR garbles, Wangaratta (VIC) and Yeppoon (QLD), with the usual argument about which one runs first.
Poem Zone
Listener parkrun haiku segment, named by Scott the previous week. Mel explains the 5-7-5 haiku form; Scott reads the first entry, from Chris Timewell, inspired to write his first poem in 20-plus years: "Three laps with a lake / Friends, frost and tunnel of love / Castlemaine parkrun", which leads into an explanation of Castlemaine's tunnel of love for milestone runners. More entries held over for coming weeks.