Episode 272 - Ercan Boduk

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HostsMelissa Ellis Oliver Spake

Roving reportersPaul Kitching Tony O'Connell

GuestErcan Boduk

Show notes

This week The Adventurers catch up with Ercan Boduk, the Event Director of one of 2022’s new parkruns, Wentworth Common (opens in a new tab). We also hear of sunshine, music and parkrun body art from some of our Channel 5 News Crew, with PK visiting Mawson Lakes (opens in a new tab) and TOC at Lewis Park Reserve (opens in a new tab). Mel and Olly share a few parkrun app and gaming updates from our community, a mysterious visitor appears at Dazza’s, we carry on prepping for palm22 and discuss how to bring our Informant’s back into line.

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In this episode

• Welcome starts at 0:23

  Melissa Ellis on Wurundjeri Country and Ollie Spake on Dharawal Country (cicadas and a chihuahua in the background). Mel did not adventure this week; Ollie RD'd at Shellharbour, where the Farm Cafe has closed and parkrunners had to bring their own coffee. Listener chat: Richard on the 5K app's date bingo now counting volunteer days, Alison on the UK word game parkrundle, and Chris Fraser (Facebook) suggesting Mudgee's A Day on the Green plus parkrun; Ollie explains his new job with Transport for NSW's regional transport group, and the pair look ahead to Palm and an Easter adventure before the interview with Ercan Boduk of the new Wentworth Common parkrun.

• Emails starts at 23:33

  "We've also got mail, Ollie." Melissa Ellis reads an email from Glenn Moore ("long time listener, first time emailer") suggesting a new app challenge called On Every Saturday, to complete all 32 events listed in the book of the same name, which the hosts had previously dubbed the Cookbook Challenge. They point listeners to the in-app link for messaging the 5K app creators.

• Dazza's starts at 26:09

  Abridged Dazza's, opened with "It's too hot for sausage rolls after parkrun in Australia at the moment." Posters read out: Nadine Crawford (all-time PB after nearly seven years, most-liked post), Ingrid Botha (tailwind at Dolls Point), Richard (100th run at San Remo, correcting a mix-up from ep271), Tanya Bailey (Pegasus parkrun, NZ, 5km every day of February), Helen Rutter (50th birthday parkrun at St Helens, first-time poster), Natalie McMullen (pram brake cable snapped, pivoted from North Sydney to St Peters), "Steve's Bike" (an anonymous bicycle poster, 170th parkrun at a mysterious flattish Victorian location, the episode's running mystery), Irene Bumacanti (North Sydney catch-up with the Wagga Bridge Troll), Pippa in the UK (King George V playing fields, green-and-gold tutu, dog Betty) and Lee Caparita (guiding at St Peters).

• the Obi Award — Natalie McMullen starts at 35:49

  Melissa Ellis calls for the envelope, Oliver Spake fetches it "from our intern once again" and announces the winner. Awarded for the quick pivot from one planned adventure to another after the pram brake cable snapped on the way to North Sydney parkrun, and turning it into a good day at St Peters instead: "in mastering those circumstances, turning it into a good day, that deserves an Obi."

• Roving reports & the Channel 5 News crew starts at 37:01

  Oliver Spake throws to the roving block: "what we can have is we can have roving reports and we have a couple of roving reports to listen to. So let's throw to them and our informant." Two reports follow, PK at Mawson Lakes (SA) and TOC at Lewis Park Reserve (Vic), with the hosts recapping both.

• Roving reports & the Channel 5 News crew starts at 44:44

  TOC signs on "Toc [TOC] reporting in for the Channel 5 News crew" from Lewis Park Reserve parkrun, the relocated successor to Fair Park Reserve in Melbourne's outer east, interviewing Event Director Megan about the move and Run Director Tracey about the event's biggest day (about 135 runners). The show notes bracket PK's Mawson Lakes report under the same banner.

• the Informant starts at 49:25

  Stats rundown delivered in character from "Level 2 with a view", opening with a nod to being told off the week before: "I got a bit of a dressing down from Oliver and Co last week, so this week we're all about business, being professional and boring stats." Junior parkrun wristbands, 410 events down under out of 1,689 worldwide, 4,858 PBs, milestone counts, bingo, new statespeople, most-events rankings and Windex movers. Introduces a new sub-segment, "Adventurer Clubs", celebrating new Peel Club, Cow Club and Freyne Club members (six Cow Club 100th-event runners this week). Signs off "my spreadsheet is even bigger than before."

• Consolidated Club Report starts at 56:18

  Seven UK events (St Helens, Southport, Delamere, Cassiobury, Tutankhamen, King George V playing field, Cheltenham, Broadwater), one in New Zealand (Greytown Woodside Trail), one in South Africa (Ebozi) and one in Germany (Hasenheide, where Christine Imbert was touring). Preceded by the weekly Adventurers Club membership tally, up six to 111, against a goal of the 210 members needed to make Australia's biggest-clubs list.

• the Frond starts at 59:35

  Oliver Spake urges listeners to join the Adventurers Club before palm22: "let's see if we can get the biggest frond we can possibly get at Belle Reve [Bellerive] parkrun on the 5th of March in the Consolidated Club Report." Mentioned in passing rather than run as a full segment, the first reference to the Frond in the corpus so far, one episode ahead of its previously recorded first appearance.

• Sign-off starts at 1:03:01

  Winding up the Palm preview, Mel said the anticipation was getting scary and thanked TOC, their party planner, for working hard behind the scenes, floating him as a guest on next week's episode for a debrief, which Ollie welcomed as a warm-up. Ollie then said they had better leave it there, gave the Facebook and parkrunadventurers@gmail.com contacts for those not on Facebook, and signed off with "that's it for another week".