Tony O'Connell
Co-host, Roving Reporter
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Roving reports (78)
Interviews conducted (11)
Tim Oberg
Sheridan Laws
Sue Mayfield
Johan Duvenhage
Ali Sheppard
Travis Ireland
Mark Connolly
Mark Scarborough
Tom Williams
Em
Rohan Day
Talked to on location (22)
Dan
Peter
Tom — Event Director, Dixon Field parkrun
Dev
Andrew
Richard
Andrea
Ann — event team member, Ziegelwiese parkrun, Halle
Henrik — Amager Fælled parkrun volunteer
Antilla — Run Director, Amager Fælled parkrun
Claudia
Danny Norman
Amanda Murray-Hynde
Claire
Johnny Armstrong
Anne Field
Carl James
Kerry James
Michael
Daniele
Marcello
Lisa Millar
Talked to at their parkrun
Episode 353
Driving nine or ten hours to Batemans Bay to surprise Mel for her 400th parkrun at her 200th location, and putting Strava on silent so she would not work out where he was
Interviewed as a guest
Episode 273
Full preview of the parkrun adventurers podcast listener meetup (Palm) in Hobart: Friday freedom run at Queen's Domain and dinner at the Hope and Anchor Tavern, Saturday at Bellerive parkrun plus the podcast recording at the Hurricanes Cafe, a Saturday-afternoon Montrose Foreshore freedom run, the purple/"P" themed Saturday night party, and a Sunday Risdon Brook freedom run, with repeated pleas for people to tick "going" on the Facebook events.
Episode 222
The palm21 listener-meetup programme on the Sunshine Coast: Friday-night freedom run at Kawana parkrun and dinner at the Kawana Surf Club; Saturday's parkrun at Nambour (7am start, hilly, ugly-singlet theme, hopes of a guest appearance by Fluffy the emu, coffee afterwards with Nambour ED Melissa Taylor); the live podcast recording; a Saturday-afternoon freedom run at Brightwater; the traditional dress-up dinner, with the theme to be crowdsourced from listeners; and a Sunday freedom run. Also a call-out to quiz master Simon Mackley, and reminiscence about earlier Palms at The Beaches, Newcastle and Mount Barker.
Episode 198
Phone check-in from Victoria: doing everything backwards on un-parkrun day, breakfast first, then week two of his home Cape Paterson course run in reverse, a description of the clifftop coastal course, and the Victorian teddy-bears-in-windows movement.
Episode 196
Live on-stage interview in the Channel 5 News Crew round, and the last of them: his third PALM, an airline mishap on the way over, and what he likes most about the crew, walking up to strangers at a parkrun and introducing himself as Channel 5 News. He then calls Em up as a surprise guest, and closes the segment with advice for any listener thinking of filing a report of their own.
Episode 157
State of the Nation update for Victoria ("the Greater State"): from 14 events at the Inverloch launch four or five years ago to 75 plus a junior event today, 19 prospects with about half expected to launch within six to eight months, Mildura averaging 210 a week, prospects in the Goldfields, Woodend, the snowfields and Mallacoota, 7,217 Victorian finishes and 1,320 PBs that week, 18 Victorian statespeople, and gaps still to fill around Frankston/Seaford and Bayside.
Episode 69
The new Gippsland Longest Run, a 6.30am headlamp start at Traralgon, then Churchill, Newborough, Warragul, Pakenham, Berwick Springs, finishing with the Melbourne crew at Frog Hollow, and why the date moved to the 11 June long weekend.
Episode 67
State of the Nation, VIC: roughly 100% growth a year for five years, 47 events with two more launching before the end of May and speculation about which will be number 50, ~1,100 people a week across Gippsland, a long prospects list, the Victorian alphabet challenge (19 letters covered), and his view that parkrun's real value is the coffee and community afterwards.
Episode 11
TOC's parkrun journey from a Christmas holiday discovery at Merimbula to founding Inverloch parkrun; the Inverloch course along Anderson Inlet; the Gippsland events he has helped launch including Bairnsdale's launch that week; his transformation into a runner; his favourite and wish-list parkruns; and what is next for his territory.
3 Obis and 2 other awards
Episode 427 — the Obi Award
Episode 312 — the Obi Award
Episode 299 — the Obi Award
Episode 140 — Christmas park dog selfie competition
Episode 89 — Roving reports & the Channel 5 News crew
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