Episode 191 - Dynamic Duo
2020-02-01
— open the full-size coverHostMelissa Erbacher
Guest co-hostGerard Corkeron
Roving reportersAlastair Buchanan David Moss Kieran Webb Mark Scarborough Melissa Ellis Tony O'Connell
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In case you missed it, we're here to let you know Episode 191 snuck out on parkrunday morning last week!
We bring in our Special Correspondent Gerard Corkeron (AKA the G-Train) as guest co-host, plus we have both familiar and fresh new voices roving and reporting from Riverbank (opens in a new tab) parkrun, Zillmere (opens in a new tab) parkrun, Kerang Regional (opens in a new tab) parkrun and Wagi Bridge (opens in a new tab) parkrun.
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The parkrun adventurers pay a visit to the near neighbours for a change of scenery. Gerard Corkeron (AKA the G-Train), just back from his Canadian adventures, takes a seat on the co-host couch. Plus we have both familiar and fresh new voices roving and reporting from Riverbank (opens in a new tab), Zillmere (opens in a new tab), Kerang Regional (opens in a new tab) and Wagi Bridge (opens in a new tab) parkruns.
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Gerard Corkeron
Getting-to-know-the-G-Train interview opening the episode: the origin of the G-Train nickname (coined on Strava by his old school mate Professor Tim Stenier and used on his personalised race bibs); why he began filing roving reports from Canada two years ago while visiting his Canadian wife's family near Toronto, and the second Canadian series just completed from Mississauga, including volunteering as RD on New Year's Day; his running and parkrun story - running in the Army, twenty years off with chronic injuries, a first parkrun at Berwick Springs after spotting it from his car, then a two-year gap, then a return partly motivated by wanting to reclaim his neighbourhood after a local shooting in 2015, with his third event on 6 January 2016 as his "real parkrun birth"; and his volunteering at Berwick Waters' 12th event as a first-time marshal, promoting non-running ways to take part.
Roving reports
In this episode
Welcome starts at 0:23
Melissa Erbacher introduces a special guest co-host, G-Train, joining from Victoria after recently reporting in from Canada.
Roving reports & the Channel 5 News crew starts at 15:28
Two roving reports explicitly badged as Channel 5 News Crew this week. Mark files from Riverbank parkrun in Yass, NSW (his first roving report of 2020), interviewing Canberra visitors Susan and Judith and Run Director Kendall about the event's first couple of months, its 300-strong launch that ran out of tokens, the smoke cancellation, and the local businesses (Trader & Co, pharmacist Andrew Douglas) who funded it. TOC then files from Kerang, a childhood pilgrimage town, interviewing a group of brand-new local parkrunners and co-ED/councillor Jodie about the event's strong week-two numbers and its unusually large walking contingent.
Roving reports & the Channel 5 News crew starts at 21:34
The rest of the week's roving block: Dave at Zillmere parkrun (Brisbane) for its second anniversary, in Hawaiian theme, talking to Run Director Tim and to New Farm visitors chasing their alphabet Z; Melissa Ellis at Kerang Regional with co-ED Annette on the wiggly-horseshoe levee course and the shire's support; and a two-hander "guerrilla tourism" report from Wagi Bridge parkrun in the ACT by K-Man and Action Man. The hosts note in the recap that it is unusual to have two reporters (TOC and Melissa) file separately from the same event.
The Compass Club starts at 51:15new tourist club
Follow-up discussion of Lyndell's proposed unofficial "Vert Club", which tracks cumulative elevation across parkruns. Mel admits she didn't do her homework on her own total, and raises the problem that GPS devices report wildly different elevations for the same course (40-44m vs 10m at Kawana); listeners are asked to name a survey-data site that could give accurate course elevations. Peter Pohlman, "keeper of the spreadsheets", is credited with looking up Tenzing Norgay, prompting a suggestion that the club's "Sherpa" level be renamed after him. Gerard adds that Indigenous people would have climbed Mount Kosciuszko long before any European.
PALM starts at 56:42parkrun adventurers Listener Meetup
Reminder that the palm20 parkrun adventurers Listener Meetup countdown is on, with the agenda coming together: Mount Barker parkrun on the Saturday morning plus freedom runs at West Beach (Friday evening), Lochiel (Saturday afternoon) and Cleland (Sunday morning), and the traditional fancy-dress dinner on the Saturday night. Listeners are directed to the Facebook page, spelled out as "parkrun adventurers Podcast Listener Meetup".
Sign-off starts at 1:00:04
G-Train said it had been quite an honour to be with her, that he had had a lot of fun and that it had been interesting sitting on the other side of the speakers, seeing how it all works in the background and getting quality time with her. Mel said it had been great having him on the co-hosting couch and that he was welcome back any time; he joked that he would put her through to his agent so they could talk pricing.