Episode 336 - Kagerzoomie

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HostsMelissa Ellis Oliver Spake

Roving reporterTony O'Connell

Show notes

From the Facebook post

It's a Dutch flavoured podcast this week with TOCCY from Inverloccy bringing us all the action from The Netherlands at Zuiderpark (opens in a new tab) parkrun - Den Haag and Kagerzoom (opens in a new tab) parkrun.

Back at home, Mel headed west to Anstey Hill Recreation (opens in a new tab) parkrun and Olly headed north to Centennial (opens in a new tab) Parkrun – but they didn't leave Australia

Meanwhile, the Swather Wars continue …

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It’s a Dutch flavoured podcast this week with TOCCY from Inverloccy bringing us all the action from The Netherlands at Zuiderpark (opens in a new tab) and Kagerzoom (opens in a new tab) parkruns. Back at home, Mel headed west to Anstey Hill Recreation (opens in a new tab) parkrun and Olly headed north to Centennial (opens in a new tab) parkrun – but they didn’t leave Australia ☹ Meanwhile, the Swather Wars continue …

Roving reports

1·2Zuiderpark and Kagerzoom

In this episode

• Welcome starts at 0:24

  Melissa Ellis on Wurundjeri Country and Ollie Spake on Dharawal Country. Ollie spent two nights in Sydney for Vivid, including the ticketed Dark Spectrum tunnel installation at Wynyard, and ran Centennial parkrun on Gadigal land for a course PB among 381 finishers; Mel flew to Adelaide on Kaurna land, explored the CBD and library, and was driven by Brendan Peel to Anstey Hill Recreation parkrun (31 participants, 207m of gain, EARD Anne Fry), followed by the Gumeracha rocking horse, freedom walks at South Para Reservoir and Nantu Wama, and a Richard Gere movie. They note Whit Monday events in the Netherlands and National Reconciliation Week.

• Dazza's starts at 11:02

  National Reconciliation Week edition, adventurers wrote in naming the traditional lands they ran, walked or volunteered on. Mel Fletcher's 250 and partner Stu's 50; Richard and Sally; David Bravos testing his ankle on Wurundjeri/Woiwurrung land; Claire Corkill and Joe McLean; RD Bec Bailey; Andrea Booth; Sonja Pohlman; Bernadette Bennett; Andrew Johnston and Martine Barrot; Jonathan Morgan; Jodie Maisie; Billo; Georgina Devine; Monty Slade. The last word goes to Spencer from Yarrabilba parkrun, who reads his run-brief acknowledgement of the Yugambeh people and explains that Yarrabilba comes from the Bundjalung language for 'a place of song'.

• Roving reports & the Channel 5 News crew starts at 13:25

  Oliver Spake crosses to Tony O'Connell in the Netherlands for the Zuiderpark report, interviews with wheelchair racer Claudia and with Danny Norman in the post-run cafe. Melissa Ellis recaps afterwards with Claudia's 13:36 first-finisher time.

• Emails starts at 19:05

  Two letters. Sarah L achieved her 100th run and 50th volunteer milestone on the same day at Shepparton parkrun and asks whether the Informant knows how common a double milestone is. Brett Bailey writes in about the stats glitch that omitted him and Tanya at Pegasus, and about doing his zoomies right-hand-down because of 40 kilos of dog on his right arm, the hosts apologise for a stats report that had dropped the South Island.

• Roving reports & the Channel 5 News crew starts at 21:14

  Second crossover of the episode, billed as 'late mail', Tony O'Connell's bonus Whit Monday report from Kagerzoom parkrun, with interviews with Amanda Murray-Hynde, Claire from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and a cafe table of Welsh and Lincolnshire tourists.

• Launches and anniversaries starts at 31:00"Where is the cake?"

  The birthday boy's monthly rundown for June 2023: six parkrun days but only four for non-international folk; Denmark's Constitution Day on 5 June and Sweden's National Day on 6 June; first anniversary for Kirkdale Reserve, Victoria in week one and nothing thereafter; 11th anniversary for Newy in Newcastle NSW; 10th birthdays for Canning River WA, Sandon Point NSW, Mitchelton, North Shore, Gladstone and Logan River in Queensland; Thorndon junior parkrun turning three in South Australia; and the usual reminder to check the cancellations page.

• Consolidated Club Report starts at 34:56

  For Saturday 27 May 2023: 429 members, 337 taking part at 173 locations. 25 events in the UK, five in the Netherlands, three in Italy, two each in South Africa, Austria, and one each in the USA, Canada and Germany. Locally 35 events in Victoria, 31 in Queensland, eight in South Australia, seven in WA, four each in the ACT and the North Island, and one each in Tasmania, the Northern Territory and the South Island.

• the Frond — Shellharbour — 10 Passionistas starts at 35:59

  Ten Passionistas at Shellharbour took the biggest frond of the week. Two events tied on fronds of six: Tuggeranong in the ACT (Andrew Johnston, Will Barlow, Martine Barrot, Roberta Winters, Rebecca Gordon and Alistair Buchanan) and Westerfolds in Victoria (Billo, Sally Heppleston, Marg Prowse, Tanya Pollard and Michael Charlton).

• Launches and anniversaries starts at 36:49"Where is the cake?"

  Three Victorian launches over the weekend: Woodlands Historic Park in Greenvale with 171 attending (set to be the closest parkrun to Tullamarine airport), Maroondah Dam parkrun at Healesville with 147, and Kilmore Racecourse Walking Track with 92.

• Sign-off starts at 43:04

  Mel said it was the point in the pod where they check in on Saturday morning, and this week they were meeting: Ollie was coming down to Melbourne to join Mel at the newly launched Woodlands Historic Park parkrun in Greenvale, both collecting a number two, with Mel guessing from the crystal ball that the course would be off-road and undulating. They then wished the Office Lady, Sam, well for the 50 kilometre event at the Simpson Desert Ultra near Birdsville the following weekend, praising the training she had put in, and closed with the Facebook, socials and email contacts.

• the Swather Wars starts at 47:45

  Post-outro comedy sketch. Two characters argue about whether 'swather' is a real word, the younger one insists it means 'many of things' and that the Office Lady is angry about people using it, which is precisely why the older one, Benjamin, adopts it as his new favourite word ('Never liked her. Kept taking my comfy chair').