Episode 118 - Matty Trent
2018-06-29
— open the full-size coverHostsMelissa Erbacher Scott Trickett
Roving reportersMelissa Ellis Tony O'Connell
GuestMatty Trent
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From the Facebook post
The parkrun adventurers' intern appears to be MIA so Geographe Bay (opens in a new tab) parkrun Event Director, West Australian parkrun Event Ambassador, founder of the wildly popular Pirate Club, and self-proclaimed 'definitely not a hat shop' Matty Trent joins us himself for some fun on episode 118.
And the Channel 5 News Crew are out in force with roving reports coming in from Hastings Foreshore (opens in a new tab) parkrun and Portland (opens in a new tab) parkrun, plus we receive more entries for the Poem Zone!
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The parkrun adventurers have some fun in the sun at the Gold Coast. We head to Geographe Bay (opens in a new tab) and get an update on all things westerly with parkrun Australia Event Ambassador Matty Trent. Roving reports are filed by Channel 5 News Crew members at Hastings Foreshore (opens in a new tab) and Portland (opens in a new tab) parkruns, and the fun continues with the Poem Zone.
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Matty Trent
Western Australia update: the flat out-and-back Geographe Bay beach course near Busselton, recent and upcoming WA launches (Mount Helena, Tamworth Wetlands in Baldivis, Shipwreck parkrun), his origination of the Pirate Club (seven Cs and an R) during a hungover shower, the Derek Zoolander Centre for Kids Who Can't Run Good running club and a mock rivalry with Scott's Westerfoldians, his top three WA courses, the Melbourne Marathon, and his impending move to a small Great Southern town that will end his event directorship.
Roving reports
In this episode
Welcome starts at 0:14
Mel Erbacher (in Queensland) and Scotty Trickett, fresh from a parkrun strategy weekend together on the Gold Coast. Scotty has given up on his marathon for the year and, after bailing out of a Sunday run with the boys, hopped uninvited into Mel's car to get to Southport juniors, where his phone and scanning job were waiting; Mel volunteered as Timekeeper at Main Beach, having emailed Event Director Paul Ralphs back in February, and used the app to time for the first time and airdrop the results to him. Scotty ran Main Beach in tops-off weather, and Mel teases the parkrun World Cup sweepstakes for the end of the show.
Roving reports & the Channel 5 News crew starts at 36:06
Two back-to-back Channel 5 News Crew roving reports, both from Victoria. Melissa Ellis reports from Hastings Foreshore parkrun's fourth birthday (fluoro theme, 119 attendance, bacon-and-egg barbecue) and interviews RD Tim Baldwin. Tony O'Connell (TOC) then reports from Portland parkrun, interviewing first-time Run Director Kay and volunteer scanner Tracy about the lagoon course, koalas, and their soccer commitments. Scott and Mel debrief both reports from the studio.
Launches and anniversaries starts at 43:54"Where is the cake?"
An unusually thin week, one launch only, at Merriwa in New South Wales, and one anniversary, at Logan River. Scott theorises the sparseness is because it is the fifth Saturday in June, and jokes that Sarah Logan wrote a clause reserving the weekend's limelight for Logan River.
Poem Zone starts at 44:54
Listener-submitted parkrun poetry. Scott had asked the previous week for something other than haikus, and the show's "number one fan" (a listener called Melissa, credited on air only as "a hashtag Melissa") sent two: a roses-are-red variant ("a 50 shirt is red, 500 is blue, the fun in between is all up to you") and a limerick about a girl from Kawana who sleeps through her alarm. Hosts ask for more submissions by email or Facebook, or hashtagged #PoemZone.
Sign-off starts at 52:30
Scott moved to wrap it up, saying he was having a quiet one and would toddle off somewhere local, and pressed Mel for her plans; she said that if the teething stopped and she had a decent Friday night the plan was to go home, as she had not been home for a very long time. Scott signed off telling her to enjoy her time at Kawana and to make sure she set that alarm - a callback to the limerick read out earlier - and trailed the following week as a real highlight of their podcast journey so far.