Bruce 'Digger' Hargreaves

Interviewed as a guest

• Episode 132

  Event Director, Tamborine Mountain parkrun; Melbourne Marathon Spartan — one of only six people to have run every Melbourne Marathon since 1978

  Running all 41 Melbourne Marathons since the $2, Frankston-start inaugural event in 1978; his serious illness in June 2018 and fight back to the start line; the six surviving Spartans and the loss of Manny to cancer; discovering parkrun through Bruce and Jill Fordyce, becoming ED at Tamborine Mountain and building a 20-25 strong local running club; why parkrun feeds rather than kills fun running; his Comrades Marathon obsession and green-number chase; and a plea for small country marathons.

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