Episode 131 - Abdul-Raouf Mohamed-Isa
2018-09-27
— open the full-size artworkShow artwork, January 2018HostsLyndell Murray Melissa Erbacher Scott Trickett
Roving reportersGrette Wilkinson Steve Marston
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The last days of September and only a few more streaks left.
Über tourist Abdul-Raouf Mohamed-Isa joins us to recount some tales from his adventures.
Plus roving reports from Stebonheath (opens in a new tab) parkrun and Bunyaville (opens in a new tab) parkrun for Lyndell's 100th!
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The parkrun adventurers celebrate milestones and sharpen our navigation tools! West Australian voluntour statesman Abdul-Raouf Mohamed-Isa joins us to recount some tales from his adventures. Roving Reports come in from Bunyaville (opens in a new tab) and Stebonheath (opens in a new tab) parkruns, and we announce the final #levelupchallenges for Streaky BINGOE!
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Abdul-Raouf Mohamed-Isa
Completing every WA event and volunteering at all of them; how he found parkrun via a Facebook photo tag at Claisebrook Cove; riding a 250cc scooter four hours to Albany on a near-empty tank to tail walk at Mount Clarence; a 12-hour round trip to Singapore for East Coast parkrun while on a Malaysia trip; favourite and least-favourite volunteer roles; two occasions he ran in budgie smugglers, swim cap and goggles at themed events (Pioneer and Woodbridge); his top three WA courses (Margaret River, Manjimup, Mount Clarence); and his next goal, the "Ollie Volley", volunteering in every Australian state and territory.
Roving reports
In this episode
Welcome starts at 0:19
Scotty Trickett in Melbourne, midweek before the footy finals public holiday with Collingwood in the grand final, and Mel Erbacher back from Ballina Coast, where she ran with extended family to gather GPX data for her long-running argument with Chris over whether Ballina Coast or Kingscliff is Australia's easternmost parkrun; dolphins were playing at the northern turnaround. Scotty stayed home for Westerfolds milestones for the Burrows family and his mate John, followed by a plant-based cafe breakfast, then tail-walked a cold, quieter juniors on Sunday.
Roving reports & the Channel 5 News crew starts at 36:22
Greta files a self-contained roving report from the Stebonheath parkrun launch in Adelaide (SA), which had a pirate theme. She interviews four people in sequence: Simone (a parkrun tourist from Carisbrook), Alan (first-time volunteer photographer, doing his very first parkrun), Helen Turnbull (Tail Walker, Gawler regular and the person who got Alan involved), and Cheryl, the Event Director. The block ends at the John McVeity Centre over post-parkrun coffee.
Roving reports & the Channel 5 News crew starts at 43:32
Roles reversed: event ambassador Steve Marston interviews the podcast's own Channel 5 roving reporter Lyndell Murray at Bunyaville (their shared home parkrun) on the occasion of her 100th parkrun. Covers how she found parkrun at New Farm, how she became a roving reporter, and her self-set challenge to reach 50 different events before hitting 100 runs (100 runs, 20 at Bunyaville, 50 different Australian events, 2 overseas).
Launches and anniversaries starts at 49:07"Where is the cake?"
Mel calls it "a bit of a skinny calendar this week", one launch and three anniversaries. Launch: Perry Lakes (WA). Anniversaries: Carisbrook (SA, first anniversary), Oki (QLD), and Toowoomba. Prompts a short exchange about whether a first anniversary is the best one.
Hotline starts at 50:10
Listener question segment with its own jingle, Scott jokes about adding a trumpet to the Hotline song, and Mel says it was too subtle to hear. The question, from pseudonymous caller "Dorothy Dix", asks whether the hosts have any other sporting prowess. Scott: school captain, swimming captain and volleyball captain in primary school, later a swim-team member and dabbled in triathlon until a Victorian tri-squad coach found him out on the bike. Mel: third in the 25m breaststroke in Grade 4, and a competitive Irish dancer who placed at eisteddfods.
Streaky September starts at 57:33
Streak check-in and Bingoe card wrap-up. Mel confesses she broke her running streak after a rough run of sick-family washing and lost sleep, but is restarting; Scott's streak is intact, including a 2K run started at 11:59pm on Friday after falling asleep watching the footy. Both discuss remaining bingo items (Scott still owes his Strava art; Mel's go-to is a four-kilometre toilet). Two final #levelupchallenges announced for adventurers who have already completed their Bingoe cards: (1) run two kilometres barefoot, (2) a "run the date" selfie, find or create the number of the day's date on your run and photograph yourself with it.
The Perlustration starts at 1:04:12annual listener survey
Preview only, the annual listener survey goes out in October. Hosts note they have genuinely changed the podcast, and booked guests, off the back of past perlustration feedback. A TomTom watch is again the prize, as last year; full details and the link promised for next week's episode.