Episode 238 - Baked Goods
2021-06-10
— open the full-size coverHostsMelissa Ellis Oliver Spake
Roving reportersDavid Moss Paul Kitching Tracey Wood
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From the Facebook post
This week join Mel & Olly as they hero the Sausage Roll and celebrate the birth of the Sausage Roll Club!
Dave
chats with the team at Bourke Racecourse (opens in a new tab) parkrun and catches up with one of the latest runners in The Indigenous Marathon Foundation, Tracey volunteers
at New Farm (opens in a new tab) parkrun and PK and the gang hang out at Charleston (opens in a new tab) parkrun, South Australia for a 100th celebration!
Olly is zooming into Longest run Australia Day while Mel plans her next Nottie and we hear the latest from The Informant.
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This week join Mel & Olly as they hero the Sausage Roll and celebrate the birth of the Sausage Roll Club! Dave chats with the team at Bourke and one of the latest members of the Indigenous Marathon Project, Tracey volunteers at New Farm (opens in a new tab) and PK and the gang hang out at Charleston (opens in a new tab). Olly is zooming into Longest Run Day while Mel plans her next Nottie.
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In this episode
Welcome starts at 0:24
Melissa Ellis hosting with Oliver Spake. Victoria is in its fourth lockdown, so Mel held a baked-goods themed Ellis Palaceparkrun with Daryl dressed up, snot logs and home-made gozleme, with a pride theme picked for next week; Ollie was Volunteer Coordinator at Shellharbour for Em's 21st birthday, where she received a customised apricot tee, then went to Zali's dance concert, the markets for gozleme and a snot block, forgetting National Sausage Roll Day. Mel follows with sausage roll trivia (the 111.11 m record, LadBaby's Christmas number ones) and clears up that Will's Breadtop comment last week was a bakery chain.
Sausage Roll Club starts at 12:24
The episode's headline bit and the birth of a new listener challenge, built around National Sausage Roll Day. Olly reads out the eight bakeries from an escape.com.au "best places to stop for a sausage roll" list and pairs each with its nearest parkrun, Bourke Street Bakery / Centennial, La Petite Souris Alexandra Headland / Kawana, Banjo's La Trobe / Devonport, Johnny Ripe Red Hill / Rosebud, Yatala Pies / Logan River, Denmark Bakery / Mount Clarence, Port Elliot Bakery / Victor Harbor, Heritage Bakery Milton / Huskisson, plus a wildcard "best servo sausage roll" at Freshwater Creek General Store near Torquay, and a UK bonus (St Ives Bakery, Cornwall / Heartlands parkrun). Mel claims four of them and the pair name it the Sausage Roll Club, then ask Peter Pohlman to add it to the spreadsheet.
Roving reports & the Channel 5 News crew starts at 17:33
Three roving reports back to back. David Moss ("Dave") files from Bourke parkrun in far western NSW while in transit, interviewing Co-Event Director Una Taylor about the levee-bank course and the town, and Bonnie, newly selected into the Indigenous Marathon Project and training for the Alice Springs midnight marathon; he also mentions completing parkrun bingo in 361 runs. Tracey Wood volunteers at New Farm parkrun in Brisbane, taking listeners through the first-timers' briefing with ED Vance and RD Mike, then delivering "Tracey's nice numbers to visit New Farm". PK reports from the 100th Charleston parkrun in the Adelaide Hills with ED/RD Kylie Ross, the "mad cows" family and visitors Tracy and Serenity.
Emails starts at 46:54
Listener correspondence: a note from Eman [Vergara], who is chasing his III index, and a long email from Em thanking the hosts for singing happy birthday on last week's pod, describing her 21st at Shellharbour parkrun with her poppy and auntie visiting from Brisbane, the personalised parkrun shirt reading "Em from Shellharbour", and wishing Shellharbour parkrun a happy seventh anniversary.
Dazza's starts at 48:12
The weekly cafe check-in, with Dazza given a costume upgrade, moustache shaved off and dressed in bakery attire for National Sausage Roll Day. Contributors read out include Chantelle Hosking, Greg Garner (Golden Beach), Caro Vos (Woy Woy, driftwood sculptures by artist Pete Rush), Jack Corkill (Sirromet, with Claire Stutchbury), Tracey Wood (New Farm, working on her p-index), Alison King (Tauranga), Melissa Erbacher (registering her son Wes for his first barcode), Neil Taylor (Burley Griffin, minus 3.5 degrees), Bruce Purdy, Tony O'Connell (Inverloch "lockdown naughty"), Adrian Royce, Erica Liotta (Logan River), Janet Reid (The Avenues), Val Warwick (Orford), Rebecca Bailey (Shellharbour), Mandy Oliver (Paul Ralph "The Flash" hitting 250 at Main Beach), Chris Fraser, Irene Bommakanti, Brett Bailey and Tanya Bailey (Pegasus), Ingrid Botha (Dolls Point) and Sam Schroder (Cowpasture Reserve, Camden).
Launches and anniversaries starts at 54:59"Where is the cake?"
Brief launch and anniversary round-up folded into the cafe chat: South Australia's second launch in two weeks, South Para Reservoir parkrun; the 100th event at Charleston parkrun celebrated inside PK's roving report; and Shellharbour parkrun's seventh anniversary coming up next week.
the Informant starts at 1:00:40
Unofficial weekly stats, delivered in character after a two-week absence (the intern had been standing in). 482 events worldwide submitted results, 341 down under, 308 in Australia (still missing Victoria) and 33 in New Zealand, 86 in Russia, 21 USA, 20 South Africa, 11 Japan, 3 UK territories. Launches at South Para Reservoir (SA) and Buzuluk Pashkina (Russia). Australia/NZ attendance up about 2,500 to 34,517 of 41,301 worldwide; 5,130 PBs; 1,242 first-timers; 88 junior 10s, 171 fifties, 91 hundreds (down 20%), 16 two-fifties. 20 people called bingo. New ACT and NT territorians listed, David Brockway finished his New Zealand South Island quest, Errol Poole moved to eighth on the most-events list, Erica Liotta up 11 places to 232, and Jane Colvin doubled her Wilson index from 7 to 14. Signs off "my spreadsheet is bigger than yours."
Sign-off starts at 1:04:13
Mel asked Ollie to tell her what he was doing next week since she had to live through him: it was Shellharbour's birthday, and he was looking forward to taking on the Sydney longest run, a very early start and very late finish with no co-driver found yet, though he might try to talk his mum into it. He also flagged an addition he was getting on board with, the Sydney Country to Coast longest run on the 20th of June, running from Campbelltown through the Southern Highlands, Picton, Cowpasture, Bowral, Shellharbour, North Wollongong and Sandon Point. Mel reported that this year's Victorian longest run events had been postponed to the 11th of July because of restrictions, and said that if she could not leave her 10-kilometre zone she would just run Toolern Creek parkrun seven times with a change of clothes each lap. Ollie pointed people to the Facebook pages for updates, welcomed cafe check-ins at Dazza's, gave the email address, and closed with 'parkrun or naughty, we'll see you next week for more adventures'.