Episode 401 - Adventurers Shine

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HostsSarah Jefferson Simon Mackley

Roving reporterLyndell Murray

Show notes

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Simon and Sarah share their recent parkrun experiences, including Sarah's 70th run at Cottesloe (opens in a new tab) parkrun and Simon's fun at Fodder Forest (opens in a new tab)'s 3rd birthday. They discuss upcoming events like Panorama Punish and celebrate adventurers who completed Chicago marathon, and hear from Lyndell at Sirromet (opens in a new tab) parkrun . Join the community for more adventures, and don't forget to share your stories! What is the next Challenge?

Val and Steve Warwick make an O at Our Park (opens in a new tab) parkrun.

From the podcast feed

Simon and Sarah share their recent parkrun experiences, including Sarah's 70th run at Cottesloe and Simon's fun at Fodder Forest (opens in a new tab)'s 3rd birthday. They discuss upcoming events like Panorama Punish and celebrate adventurers who completed Chicago marathon, and hear from Lyndell at Sirromet (opens in a new tab) parkrun. Join the community for more adventures, and don’t forget to share your stories! What is the next Challenge?

Roving reports

In this episode

• Welcome starts at 0:23

  Simon Mackley on Quandamooka Country and Sarah Jefferson on Noongar Country. Sarah recounts her delayed flight to New Zealand via Christchurch (a lesson for PALM 2025 travel), meeting David Walliams in the Qantas lounge, and park walking her home Cottesloe event 452 before a Cold Chisel concert; Simon went to Fodder Forest's third birthday with the south-east Queensland ambassadors and listeners Lockie and Alan. Budgie is heading to Lithgow with Bec Bailey before the Panorama Punish; adventurers Jo McLean, Eman Vergara and Stuart and Vicky Henderson ran the Chicago Marathon; Simon updates on Aussies in the Backyard Ultra world champs on Herdy's course, and Queenstown parkrun won a Spirit of Wakatipu People's Choice award.

• Roving reports & the Channel 5 News crew starts at 14:29

  Sarah hands over to the roving reports; a single report follows, Lyndell Murray at Sirromet parkrun in South East Queensland interviewing Run Director Liam. Simon returns to note it was the only one this week and had been held over from the previous week, and repeats the standing invitation for listeners to submit reports of five to seven minutes without needing to be a Channel 5 News Crew member.

• Dazza's starts at 22:37

  Sarah reads Dazza's post for New Friends Day: parkrun has brought him many friends he never speaks to outside Saturday morning, a familiar greeting and a polite wave can mean a great deal, and he asks who listeners met that morning, including anyone who spotted a blue adventurers shirt in the wild.

• parkrun adventure challenge starts at 23:27listener challenge

  The listener challenge is to form a letter with your body, with a friend, through the parkrun selfie frame. Entries read out: Rex Gream with Clancy and Samantha Skinner forming a capital H at Horseshoe Bay Reserve; Lockie Miners at Fodder Forest with Simon Mackley, photo by Lachie's wife Nicola; Chloe and Dave Bravos forming a capital A at Aveley; Carolyn McRae with Jan Maines at Euroa; Yvette Turner with seven recruits at Mount Ainslie; Ali from a parkrun in Poland; Chris Horowitz at Montrose Foreshore, his 96th different event; Adrian Luscombe at a very wet Battersea with 1,116 finishers; Heather Patzel first-timing as a volunteer at Mount Gambier. Simon confirms the same challenge carries over to next week.

• the Obi Award — Rex Gream starts at 30:05

  Simon retrieves the Obi post-it note and awards this week's Obi to Rex, Clancy and Sam for their capital H formed with the parkrun selfie frame and their raised outer arms at Horseshoe Bay Reserve parkrun. Sarah calls it one of her favourites; Simon also praises the M from Marriott Waters.

• Club Corner starts at 30:53

  Delivered by Reginald Yardley Pomphrey III from Arrernte Country. He invites listener feedback, disclaims being the final authority, and continues his series on what happens before the 3-2-1-go: Sign Language Support, First Timers Welcome (now a compulsory role, and the briefing is a good place to introduce the parkwalker and Tail Walker), and photographer (make a record of the week, don't be intimidated, just point and shoot; cross your arms if you don't want your photo taken). Closes with his standing line that all non-milestone clubs are unofficial and unsupported by parkrun. The hosts then ask listeners to write in with what they think of Reginald.

• Consolidated Club Report starts at 35:22

  For Saturday 19 October 2024: of 702 members, 513 took part in nine countries across 262 locations, a growth of 12 members in the month, including Danny Norman from With Me Now. Adventurers at 55 UK events, six in South Africa, three in the USA, two in Canada, one each in Italy, Japan and Poland; locally 52 in New South Wales, 47 in Victoria, 41 in Queensland, 16 in South Australia, 15 in Western Australia, nine in Tasmania, five in the ACT, five in the North Island, three in the South Island and none in the Northern Territory.

• the Frond starts at 37:04

  Largest international frond at Benguela Cove, South Africa (Marianne, Johanna, Gerna and Nico); a frond of four at Western Springs, New Zealand (Claire Taylor, Mandy Oliver, Helen Watson and Alison King); no pilgrimages to Bushy at all; largest Australian frond of 12 at Macquarie University, nine at Shellharbour and eight at Old Esk Railway Station (Ryan, Rebecca, Sarah, Samantha, Simone, Belinda, Nicole and Carmel).

• Launches and anniversaries starts at 37:54"Where is the cake?"

  Two launches, three discussed. Katy Trail parkrun, Denison, Texas, three out-and-backs on a flat two-lane paved trail, two finishers and two volunteers, in a town of about 24,000. Spring Rock parkrun, Western Springs, Illinois, three laps of grass and trail, 53 finishers of whom 17 were first-ever parkrunners, 12 volunteers. Macquarie University parkrun, Macquarie Park, Sydney, one lap of campus walkways, 100% sealed and predominantly flat, 373 finishers with 25 first-ever parkrunners and 27 volunteers; the third new Sydney event of the year. Earlier in the show Simon also marks Fodder Forest parkrun's third birthday, with 132 others present.

• Sign-off starts at 40:34

  Simon rolled last week's listener challenge over and asked where they would be: Sarah driving south to Esperance Foreshore parkrun to complete her Western Australian statesman again, in a group including Chris and Karen Gore, Abdul, Matthew Stevens and Andrew Yeatman; Simon skipping parkrun to run leg two of the Bondi to Manly Ultra (Rose Bay to North Sydney), noting he is three short of regaining his Rayfarers and still needs Macquarie University, Parramatta and Australian Botanical Gardens Mount Annan. Sarah announced there would be no pod the following week, that Dazza would still be posting, and gave the Facebook and email contacts before signing off.