Alison Fraser (King)

Roving Reporter

Also appears as: Alison, Alison Fraser, Alison King

Roving reports (44)

Interviews conducted (3)

• Tom Williams

  Episode 342

• Andy Airey

  Episode 334

• Nigel Dawson

  Episode 333

Interviewed as a guest

• Episode 330

  Roving reporter, Channel 5 News Crew; author of the Runs with a Barcode blog, book and e-zine (New Zealand)

  What inspired Runs with a Barcode (keeping New Zealand stats, then the book idea in January 2020 just before lockdown), when she started listening to the podcast despite being interviewed back around episode 26, and whether there could one day be a palm in New Zealand - she would "welcome that with open arms".

• Episode 218

  Co-Event Director, Puarenga parkrun (Rotorua, New Zealand); creator of the blog "Runs With A Barcode"

  Return guest, last on in episode 26 with Scott Trickett and Melissa Erbacher when Puarenga was newly launched. Covers Puarenga parkrun, the world's only parkrun through an active geothermal area, its fifth birthday and post-lockdown numbers; co-ED Jason Chapman and his UK parkrun history; New Zealand's Adopt-a-Country relaunch, in which Puarenga adopted Germany; her blog and forthcoming guidebook to New Zealand's parkruns, born of wanting to write a book while working as a journalist; her tally of 59 events across four countries including Stratford-upon-Avon, Bushy the day before the London Marathon, and Main Beach, Broadbeach Waters and Centennial in Australia; and New Zealand's lack of a "snazzy" term for having run every event in the country.

• Episode 26

  Event Director, Puarenga parkrun (Rotorua, New Zealand)

  The launch of Puarenga parkrun in Rotorua, the show's first New Zealand guest. The name translates as "sulphur flowers"; the two-lap course follows the Sulphur Trek beside the Puarenga stream through geothermal steam and vents you must not stray near. 128 runners at the inaugural event, beating Anderson parkrun in Napier's 97, with visitors from Lower Hutt, Western Springs, Hamilton Lake and Porirua. She discovered parkrun via the Marathon Talk podcast, put "run a parkrun" on her 2016 goal list and decided to start one as well, having run only Barry Curtis in Auckland herself. She is a UK expat and will run Norwich parkrun on the morning of her sister's wedding in September.

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