Episode 360 - gggrrriverside

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HostsMelissa Ellis Simon Mackley

Roving reportersLyndell Murray Tony O'Connell

Show notes

From the Facebook post

Melissa and Simon battle the technology this week to bring you this episode featuring Karkarook and Redland Bay (opens in a new tab) parkruns.

TOC drops in from Goulburn River Trail (opens in a new tab) and Lyndell chases a frond at, well, Redland Bay (opens in a new tab).

And we have more Collingwood refences for your listening pleasure. Thanks, Rachel

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Melissa & Simon battle the technology this week to bring you this episode featuring Karkarook and Redland Bay (opens in a new tab) parkruns. TOC drops in from Goulburn River Trail (opens in a new tab) and Lyndell chases a frond at, well, Redland Bay (opens in a new tab). And we have more Collingwood refences for your listening pleasure. Thanks Rachel 😊

Roving reports

1Goulburn2Redland Bay

In this episode

• Welcome starts at 0:26

  Simon Mackley on Quandamooka Country and Melissa Ellis on Wurundjeri Country, a couple of weeks on from the Cheetah weekend at Bondi to Manly. Mel corrects last week'sparkrun claim: 124 was the most adventurers logging one, not the Aussie record, which was 159 on 31 January. Simon did his local Redland Bay with a small frond of Roberta Winters and Lyndell Murray; Mel walked Karkarook on Bunurong Country with her Aunty Julie in 48.17, in her budgie-edition Ugly Christmas Singlet, on Chris Ruse's 150th at the event. Then listener feedback from Stephen Walsh in England (stuck on 70 venues), a buy-swap-sell post on the Ugly Christmas Singlet page, and Peter Pohlman and Charlie Pearce prompting a look at long parkrun pauses, from Phoenix Park's 192 weeks and Stones Corner's 109 to Tramore Valley's 338, with Jindabyne relaunching next weekend.

• Roving reports & the Channel 5 News crew starts at 14:33

  Simon hands over to the week's two roving reports, TOC from the four-week-old Goulburn River Trail parkrun at Seymour, Victoria, and Lyndell Murray from Redland Bay parkrun in Queensland. The hosts debrief both, picking up Lyndell's shout-out to the adults who run with junior parkrunners and the acknowledgement of "Schultzy".

• Dazza's starts at 34:24

  Dazza's question of the week for the 46th Saturday of 2023: "How many parkruns have you done so far this year?" The hosts read comments from Natalie Soper (Wrocław, Poland), Richard (Owairaka, Auckland), Helen Patricia (Cambridge NZ), Heather Hunter (the Dhunggaarr Reserve launch), Jackie Hancock (dressed as a butterfly for Pegasus's 350th) and Stephen Cox (Two Rivers Wines), more than 200 comments in all.

• the Obi Award — Stephen Cox starts at 38:30

  The week's Obi goes to Stephen Cox for his photo in the selfie frame with the vines as a backdrop at Two Rivers Wines parkrun, "a brilliant shot there... in front of that fabulous parkrun". The hosts also break the fourth wall here to explain that this episode was recorded across two nights because of Riverside recording problems.

• Club Corner starts at 40:18

  Rachel's contributor slot, opening with a mock history of the Collingwood Football Club before turning to her real topic, junior parkrun, reciting parkrun Global's own description of the 2K junior events, the marshalling and age rules, and the reminder that all non-milestone clubs are unofficial and unsupported by parkrun.

• Emails starts at 43:16

  Two emails: Tanya Bailey sends a photo of Jackie Hancock's airline-safety-style run briefing for Pegasus parkrun's 350th (wings theme), and Eman Vergara writes in from Kirkdale Reserve parkrun in Melbourne, where he met up with local adventurers and Melton City runners, looking ahead to hosting PALM next year.

• Consolidated Club Report starts at 45:10

  For Saturday 18 November 2023: of 509 members, 407 took part across eight countries and 209 locations, 31 UK events, three South Africa, two USA, one each Netherlands, Poland and Singapore; locally 47 in NSW, 43 in Queensland, 33 in Victoria, 13 SA, 11 WA, eight each North Island and Tasmania, four ACT, two South Island, one NT. Adventurer milestones: Sophie Nicholson 10th, Alice Hedges 50th, Rex Gream 100th, and Heidi McGrath, Leah Morley and Kay Anthony 250th. PB to Sheila Sharma, 26:08 at The Entrance.

• the Frond — International: Stuart, Tamsin and Morglin Smith (Southampton). Local: John Graham, Lee Secuzo, Amanda O'Reilly, Xintang Huang, Dano O'Connell, Joe Richards, Joe Stingo, Jackie, TOC, Mel Fletcher and Chantel Hosking (Goulburn River Trail) starts at 45:57

  The week's largest fronds, read out inside the Consolidated Club Report. Internationally, three adventurers at Southampton: Stuart, Tamsin and Morglin Smith. Locally, a frond of 11 at Goulburn River Trail, Seymour, where TOC was reporting from.

• Launches and anniversaries starts at 47:33"Where is the cake?"

  Three launches last weekend: Dhunggaarr Reserve parkrun at Harrington on the Manning River east of Taree, NSW (81 finishers, 18 first-timers, out-and-back along the river); Aronica's Nursery parkrun at Barberton, South Africa, about 360km east of Johannesburg (62 finishers, seven first-timers, two laps of grass, sand and trail); and Zuurfontein parkrun in the Free State, South Africa, about 98km from Bloemfontein (374 finishers, 14 first-timers).

• Sign-off starts at 49:38

  Simon said that might be it for the week and asked Mel, who said a last-minute change of plans had her flying to WA for Newcastle Park parkrun - her '2J' - subject to the flights going ahead and her recovering from the red-eye, catching up with Sarah from the West Side and Matt; Simon said he was heading to Rocks Riverside for the third time to meet the Event Directors and Run Directors of the Brisbane events he looks after as an ambassador. They then compared the event numbers of Redland Bay and Karkarook, about a year apart in launch date, before Mel thanked Simon for joining her, noted he joins on the third Monday of every month and that it had been an interrupted recording, and Simon gave the Facebook and email contacts and closed.