Dazza's

Appears in 224 episodes, first in episode 225.

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• Episode 460 - Across The Ditch

  Better Breakfast Day (26 September): Victoria Knight Phillips at Huddersfield with Jill and Paul from Victoria (Rokeby Rail Trail team); Ian and Suzanne Brown at Jeune Park; Ian and Lidia Knox at Casula Parklands with Tracey Wood and Ingrid and Paris; Val and Steve Warwick's frond at Bells Parade with Amanda Lake; Tara Behrmann Wakefield at Warwick with Abi Archer from Warwick Racecourse UK; Bill Barker and Leanne at Goulburn recruiting romance novelist Kim McGillion. Buy British Day (3 October): Heather Hunter at Yodogawa kasenkoen Hirakata chiku in Japan (bumping into TOC's neighbours Bill and Louisa); Brett Bailey's wet one at Pegasus; Adrian Luscombe's Irish breakfast at Strokestown; Anne Fry's 111th location at Broken Hill Racecourse; Monty Slade at Severn Bridge with Earl Grey and a crumpet.

• Episode 459 - What is your Colour?

  Five comments from each of the last two Dazza's posts. From International Encouragement Day on 12 September: Jackie Hancock at Waitangi, Jay Grimsley at Gainsborough Parklands, Yvette Turner at Coombs in the ACT, Sam Schroder at Mundy Regional a week after her ultra, and Andrew Blanda at Farfalle parkrun in Italy, where he met Sam and Clancy from Armidale who spotted his adventurers buff. From International Talk Like a Pirate Day on 19 September: Heather Hunter tail walking at Taree, Stephen Walsh at Rotherham, Chris Gore at the new Old Golf Course parkrun in Narrogin, Lyndell Murray at Elliott Heads Beach before a world-record strawberry pick at Bundaberg, and Elissa Shea and Ryan Stoddart in full pirate dress at Christies Beach.

• Episode 458 - The Unicorn

  Two weeks of Dazza's posts. 29 August (International Cosplay Day): Heather Hunter timekeeping at Foster in an inflatable unicorn; Calum Burrell in a party hat and lei for Alderford Lake's 7th birthday; Adrian Luscombe at Worcester Pitchcroft; Tanya Bailey and Brett as Smurfette and Papa Smurf and Jackie Hancock in a Starry Night dress at Pegasus's 500th; Ria Eris's WWE 'The Demon' cosplay. 5 September (International Bacon Day): Lucille Pead at Claisebrook Cove with Michael and Annika Little; Greg Garner and Brendan Peel at Wes Mitchell Park; Peter Pohlman retrieving a surfboard at The Beaches; Johan Duvenhage's zoomies at Dorothy Nyembe (South Africa), signing up Susan Conradery; Joanne Holt and David Hodjo at Redcliffe; Cheryl Bickle's country number 10 at Vingis, Lithuania. Dazza asks for landscape-orientation photos.

• Episode 457 - Legs Eleven

  Simon: "I think it's time that we head over to Dazza's." Five comments from each of the last two Dazza's posts. 15 August was International Geocaching Day (128 comments from 961 members, ~13% engagement): Chris Gore at Applecross, Mark Hubbard at Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan (parkrun 427 / geocache 18,452, on the day of the Office Lady's 60th birthday and her 60km run), Roberta Winters at Inis Meáin in Ireland, Ryan Stoddart at Greenheart Robina Parklands, Ali Sheppard at Oaklands College (protected great crested newts rerouting the course). 22 August was tutu day (118 comments): Joanne Holt at Samford Parklands, Eva/Iga Blanda at Panania, Cheryl Bickle at Nidda (Germany, country number eight), Mitzi Middleton at South Bank (second "S"), Joanne Blackbird at Warringal Parklands.

• Episode 456 - The hype team

  Five comments picked from each of the last two Dazza's posts, 1 August was homemade pie day (126 comments), 8 August was International Cat Day. Contributors read out: Rex Gream (Wauchope, NSW, a dot-point saga of hitting a roo en route to his NENDY), David Westaway, Carolyn McRae and Jan Matters (Werribee Park Mansion), Chloe Bravos (Shipwreck, WA), Claire with Helen Patricia, Lucille Pead and Andrew Rutter (Zegerplas, Netherlands), Barbara (Kewarra Beach), Sonja Pohlman (The Beaches), Adrian Luscombe (The Old Showfield, Frome), Veronica Lightfoot (Redcliffe), David Messenger with Christine Brown (Bibra Lake), and Val Warwick with Steve (Bells Parade 50s-themed fourth birthday).

• Episode 455 - Tantrums, Tears and Tribulations

  Five comments chosen from each of two Dazza's posts. 18 July was "Celebrate Dazza Day" (101 comments): Wendella at Fort William (Scotland), Ingrid at Cowpasture Reserve, Camden, Dan O'Connell at Beaufort Lake (Vic), Gareth Arnold at Kalgoorlie-Boulder (WA), Amanda Lake at Kerang Regional (Vic). 25 July was "International Red Shoe Day" (143 comments): Alison Fraser at Māngere Bridge (NZ), Lee Cabarita at Weipa (Qld), Maz Strong at Maribyrnong (Vic) with an adaptive indoor rowing world record, Rodney Glossop at the Murdoch University launch (WA), Adrian Luscombe at Lullingstone (UK). Christmas-in-July ugly singlets feature throughout.

• Episode 454 - Old and New

  Comments picked from two Dazza's posts. 4 July was "Hopper Park Day" (102 comments): Yvette Turner at Mount Ainslie, Sonja Pohlman at The Beaches (whales and dolphins hopping out of the ocean from her marshal spot), Ian Brown at East Coast Park Singapore (with Susan Brown, identified by the "research department"), Dan Joe at Karamu Stream (70th NZ venue), Joe McLean at Port Hedland, and Pippa White at Birkenhead with Phil Corker. 11 July was "International Skinny Dip Day": Mark Hibbard (sub-30 "nude", i.e. no headphones), Brett Bailey at Pegasus after a Matariki weekend sea swim, Val Warwick at Hoblers Bridge Reserve (who posted a garlic dip instead), Penny Simpson at Presint 18 in Putrajaya, and Stephen Cox tail walking at Maitland with Heather Morgan on her 200 tourist streak.

• Episode 453 - Half Way There

  Five comments from each of the last two Dazza's posts. 20 June was vanilla milkshake day (126 comments): Chris Gore at Sunrise Beach, Onslow WA regaining his WA statesmanship; Yvette Turner at Katherine Hot Springs NT; Jackie Hancock at Halswell Quarry NZ; Ian Brown at Queen's, Glasgow completing a third alphabet; Maria Wicks at St Albans. 27 June was international pineapple day (147 comments), with the Office Lady's pizza debate: Alison Fraser at Puarenga's 10th birthday, Lee Cabarita at Moree, David O'Brien at Kingscliff, Nick Graney at Brooklyn Bridge, Karen Strong RD-ing at Nightcliff. The hosts tallied the thread at 28 for pineapple and 12 against, 70% pro.

• Episode 452 - The Away Game

  Two weeks of listener posts. 6 June was Queensland Day (Dazza marks the 1859 letters patent separating Queensland from NSW) with sunshine-themed snacks: Greg Garner at SS Koopa Trail, Stephen Warwick tail walking at Bells Parade, Chris Gore's 500th at Long Point in Port Kennedy, Michael Blain and five other Queenslanders at Constellations of the South (Uralla), Ian and Lydia Knox at Wynnum with Tracey Wood, and Natalie Soper at Nightcliff. 13 June was World Gin Day: Yvette and Bill Turner at Palmerston, Tanya Bailey at Pegasus (location tracked down by the "research department"), Bernadette Bennett at Cooks River, Nick Graney at Spanish Banks Beach in Vancouver in a Socceroos shirt, and Katie Clues with the Point Vernon Foreshore Reserve team holding inflatable 1,000,000 numbers. Several posts include thanks to Melissa Ellis.

• Episode 451 - Let those pies fly high

  Five comments from each of two Dazza's posts. 23 May, National Volunteer Week, "what's your favourite volunteer role at parkrun?": Ryan Stoddart (overnight coach from Adelaide to Westerfolds), Michael Sharp (Port Jackson shark rescued at The Beaches), Melissa Ellis (730km drive to Waikerie Wetlands), Dan O'Connell (pilgrimage at Bushy) and Helen Patricia (Woodlands, Scarborough). 30 May, International Potato Day: Sheree Martin at Meadowbrook with granddaughter Freya, Renata Koch at Fingal Bay, Veronica Lightfoot tail walking at West Coast Park Singapore, Helen Rubin at Jindabyne, and Ian Brown completing an eight-parkrun May across Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany. Hosts close with their own favourite potato preparations - Simon's potato waffles, Sarah's hot chips and wedges.

• Episode 450 - Celebrations and pronunciations

  Five comments from each of the two Dazza's posts (9 May, Mother's Day, 101 comments; 16 May, Love a Tree Day, 144 comments). Featured: Heather Hunter at University of Western Australia; Audrey Boswell at Ecco Ripley; Cheryl Lerves-Raymond tail walking her 243rd volunteer at Wauchope; Jan Yates at Hasenheide, Berlin; Sarah Jefferson at Urayasushi sogo koen on her birthday; Jacqui O'Connell at parkrun Vingis, Lithuania; Pippa White at Amager Faelled with a self-invented "Birthday Squared" challenge; Sherry Martin at East Richmond; David Messenger at Nightcliff completing Barra Volley and Olly Volley status; and David O'Brien at Risdon Brook for his 100th volunteer.

• Episode 449 - Is it your first time?

  Comments from the two most recent Dazza's posts. Anzac Day (25 April): Yvette Turner at Umbagong District, Barb Luther at South Toowoomba, Gemma Kiyuski at Gatton (laying flowers for a brother lost in Vietnam in 1966), Ray Baldock Taylor at Kirra, Carolyn McRae at Nightcliff, and Latina Troig at Wentworth Common who played the last post; plus a milestone shout-out to Sally Hepleston for her 500th at Westerfolds. Join Hands Day (2 May): Val Warwick at Bells Parade (250 runs and 250 volunteers), M. Nico at Kirra, Carmel E. Roll at Capestone Lake, Rex Gream at Bongil Bongil, Ian and Lydia Knox at Kewarra Beach, and Ali Sheppard at University of Galway.

• Episode 448 - Surrounded by clowns

  Two weeks of the cafe. 11 April was Cheese Fondue Day: Yvette Turner's 300th at Burley Griffin, David Bravos and Chloe completing their alphabets at Frog Hollow, Gareth Arnold reaching Bibra Lake by public transport, and Jan Yates finding a cheese-wheel token bin at Amsterdamse Bos. 18 April was World Circus Day (the source of the episode title): Sarah Jefferson's first barefoot parkrun at The Beaches, Leanne Evans at Kate Reed in Tasmania, Roberta Winters "surrounded by these clowns" for her 250th at Wagi Bridge, Ali Sheppard denying that event 69 at Cockermouth Greenway was for the Rude Challenge, Gemma Kajewski's rhyming report from Gatton for a 500th/100th volunteer/200th venue treble, and RD Katie Clues' sunrise at Burrum Heads Beach.

• Episode 447 - You raise me up

  Five comments chosen from each of the last two Dazza's posts. From 28 March (Weed Appreciation Day): Tanya Bailey at Pegasus, NZ; Rodney Glossop, who escaped Perth and Cyclone Narelle to finish his alphabet at Inverloch and ran into Tony O'Connell; Rex Gream's 50th volunteer at Armidale, acknowledged by fellow adventurer and RD Clancy Skinner; Dan Baldwin's Territorian tick at Alice Springs Telegraph Station (297 locations, half of Australia); and Calum Burrell's "we EDs / we RDs" weeds gag at Clitheroe Castle. From 4 April (International Carrot Day): Audrey Boswell at Point Vernon Foreshore; Karen Hurrell's 175th different event at Middleton Woods; Mia Ross's birthday parkrun at Berwick Waters; Rebecca Bailey's 250th at Whitemark Wharf, Flinders Island; and Jo McLean at Port Lincoln.

• Episode 446 - Show us your weed

  Listener submissions segment, this week themed on World Poetry Day - every entry a poem. Read out: Sherry Eccles (Bill Rose Sports Complex NSW, 250th event), Mandy Oliver (Surfers Paradise Parkfront QLD, 500th), Michael Lyttle (Copper Trail SA), Sonja Pohlman (the Beaches NSW - the seaweed photo that gives the episode its title), Ellie Shepherd (Durham UK), Gareth Arnold (WA, assumed), Val Warwick (Ilarah Riparian Parklands NSW), and a long one from Matthew Billington (Rokeby) referred to rather than read.

• Episode 445 - Rainbows, Recordings and the Riesling Trail

  Lyndell: "we would normally go to our Dazza's section but Dazza is on holidays this week", so the live audience supplies it instead, with three volunteers describing their parkrun morning: Helen (Yackandandah Rail Trail), Bianca (Parramatta, PB at Clare Valley today) and David from Newy. TOC then adds an unscheduled fourth: Andrew Blanda (home parkrun Cooks River, Sydney), who ran his 250th at Clare Valley and deliberately shifted the milestone a week so friends at Palm could be there.

• Episode 444 - Addicted to Love

  Listener Facebook comment round-up, five comments from each of the last two Dazza's posts. 14 February (Valentine's, "Roses are red, violets are blue..."): David Messenger at Frog Hollow with Christine Brown completing her alphabet, Lee Cabarita at Huskisson, Helen Patricia at Dalby Forest, Ingrid Paris at Zillmere, Maria Wicks at Greenwich Peninsula. 21 February (World Pangolin Day): Jagdeep Singh at Aura Riparian Parklands, Thomas Martin at Tallangatta Station, Veronica Lightfoot at Sandgate, David Ryan at Coal Creek Trail parkrun in Utah, and Sunil/Samir at Sence Valley Forest Park.

• Episode 443 - Gelato in Milano

  "And now let's head over to Dazza's." The hosts pick five comments from each of the last two weeks of Dazza's Facebook post. 31 Jan was Eat Brussels Sprouts Day (Cherie Martin at Belle Domaine, Nick Graney at Studley achieving his Cowell Club 100th different event, Ian Thompson at Holyrood, Wendy Glen at Phar Lap Track on her 150th different course, Johan at Brandkop South Africa with Levi and Sarnet Bester). 7 Feb was Ice Cream for Breakfast Day (Debbie Jessop at Phar Lap Track, Carolyn McRae at Koonwarra, Patrick "Patty" at Milano Nord with lemon gelato, Kelly Timms at Bowen, Office Lady Sam Schroder at Greenway, and Ingrid).

• Episode 442 - A Lil Bit of Hope

  Five listener comments from each of the last two Dazza's posts (17 and 24 January): Cathy Mudge (Terrace) completing stopwatch bingo, Rodney Glossop (Kadena Trail) run directing at his eighth different event, Michael Lyttle (Coombs) starting a cross-country parkrun adventure, Lee Cabarita (Parramatta) and her "Beat the TOC" game, Sonja Pohlman (the beaches) returning from injury as Tail Walker, then David Westerway (Westerfolds), Michael Sharp (San Remo, barefoot), Glenn Chalmers (Nairn Links), Xavier E. Sanchez (Barclay) and Jo McLean (Whalan Reserve).

• Episode 441 - All Aboard 2026

  Melissa Ellis explains the segment from scratch for new listeners, the weekly Saturday Facebook post and "virtual cafe", with Dazza being her concrete Buddha statue. Posts read out: Sam Schroder at Shellharbour for Oliver Spake's 250th; Johan Duvenhage RD-ing at Heidedal, South Africa for his 350th volunteer credit; Jo McLean at Rouse Hill for Gus Garbers' 250th; Xavier Sanchez at Bishan, Singapore; Jagdeep Singh volunteering at Elara Riparian Parklands; Dan Joe at Trentham Memorial; Alana Truig at Dietenbach, Freiburg; and Andy Poole at Bulltofta, Malmö.

• Episode 440 - Stop The Clock

  Five listener comments read from each of the last two weeks' Dazza's posts. Week of 29 November (theme: electronic greetings, ~130 comments): Fiona Hinchliffe at Cronulla, Heather Hunter at Park Nadnyski in Poland, Sheridan Davis joining the Cow Club with her 100th location at Main Beach, Gareth Arnold timekeeping at Kadinga Trail, and Janet Llewellyn-Reed run directing Lochiel's 500th. Week of 6 December: Calum Burrell and his father David at Burnage, Paul Whelan 'the Viking' tail walking at Dolls Point, Belinda Rachel at Gainsborough Parklands in her Ugly Christmas Singlets, Eva Blanda at Kamay, and Tony Reeves at Ferry Meadows. Closes with a request for landscape rather than portrait photos.

• Episode 439 - Legendary Intern

  Five listener comments from each of two Dazza's posts - Steve Irwin day (15 Nov) and 2-2 (tutu) day (22 Nov). Contributors include Billo at Ovens River Trail, Val Warwick and Janet Llewellyn Reid at Reynella East, Andy Airey at Yamba, a crocodile-sign story from Kewarra Beach, Ali Sheppard at Morden (UK), Andrew Blanda at Benalla Botanical Gardens, Wendy Glen at Churchill (who lost her whole tutu collection in a car accident), Sarah Jefferson at Lota, Kate Kremen-Rose at Zillmere, Faye at Ginninderra and Tonya Gollard at Brisbane Valley Rail Trail.

• Episode 438 - Lota Love to Give

  Two fortnights of Dazza's posts, five comments each. 1 November (World Vegan Day): Alison Fraser at Te Awa in a pumpkin suit; Paul Whelan at Rex Jackson Oval (Viking milestone plus 150th volunteer); Rodney Glossop at Faludparken [Faelledparken] in Copenhagen, a new country and the letter F; Sam Esmore at Moriah Creek Reserve [Maria Creek Reserve] walking with his mum; Yvette Turner at Tuggeranong doing her first first-timers briefing after 68 volunteer credits. 8 November (International Cappuccino Day): Maria Wicks at Shibamata koen kadan, Tokyo; David Bravos at Altona Beach wearing his wife's Adventurers shirt by mistake; Chloe Bravos at Woodbridge Riverside enjoying the extra room in hers; Fiona Mullen collecting the V at Varsity Lakes; Rebecca Gordon at Presint 18, Putrajaya for its seventh birthday.

• Episode 437 - Woe is a crowd

  Five listener comments read from each of the last two Dazza's posts. Week of 18 October ("adventure day" etymology prompt): Cassie Lee, Monty Slade, Brett Bailey, Michael Lyttle, Andy Poole. Week of 25 October ("world pasta day", bacon and egg gnocchi): Claire Corkill, Sam Schroder, Sarah Jefferson, Gareth Arnold, Ryan Stoddart, plus Rodney Glossop.

• Episode 436 - The Vote That Counts

  Five comments chosen from each of the last two weeks of Dazza's posts. 4 October ("Guess Who's Back"): Rodney Glossop at Canning River, Ryan Stoddart at Charleston, Mark Walls at Queen Elizabeth, Casino, David Bravos at Saigawa ryokuchi koen in Japan, Andy Airey at Prießnitzgrund in Germany. 11 October (bookshop day): Chris Gore at Perth, Scotland, Wendy Glen at Gardiners Creek and Lewis Park Reserve, Martine Barrot at Nightcliff, Claire Corkill at Jells, Heather Hunter at North Sydney.

• Episode 435 - The Restructure

  Five comments chosen from each of the last two Dazza posts. From the 20 September World Wellness Weekend post: Val Warwick (WA) and Chloe at Sir James Mitchell; Yvette Turner from Singapore with a 200 milestone; Ali Sheppard from Mura di Lucca parkrun in Tuscany, celebrating the end of her chemo; Sharon Lark, who travelled from Newcastle NSW to Esperance; and Sarah, whose Redland Bay entry is a full poem that prompts Melissa to say "I think it's time to bring the Poem Zone back". From the 27 September railway post (200 years of the Stockton and Darlington Railway): Debbie Jessup at Red Hill Rail Trail, Andy Poole at Kettering with a Golden Kaspathia, Gareth Arnold at Kadina Trail, Simon Mackley at Nambour, and Johan Duvenhage, who went to Tzaneen in South Africa after Hoedspruit was cancelled.

• Episode 434 - It’s Upside Down

  Five comments chosen from each of the last two weeks' Dazza's posts. From 6 September (procrastination day): Lance and Robin Plain at Pirrama, Rhianna Wick Gamble doing parkrun at sea on the Crown Princess, Jonathan Morgan at Parkville, Johan Duvenhage at Sasolburg Stadium in South Africa, and Ian Thompson's 250th volunteer at Basingstoke Juniors. From 13 September (Positive Thinking Day): Sam Schroder's 250th parkrun at Pioneer Dairy, Tony Everingham at Stones Corner, Steven Warwick at Merredin Peak, Chris Gore at Battersea, and Rex on his first time run directing at Walker parkrun.

• Episode 433 - Ready, Set, Streak...

  Ten listener posts read out across two weeks' prompts ("cheap flight day" on 23 August and "literacy and numeracy week" on 30 August): Ingrid Botha (250th at Mt Penang), Michael Lyttle (100th volunteer at St Lucia), Aileen Gallivan (four flights to Gordon Carmichael Reserve), Olive King (Railway Park), Ruth Perkins (100th volunteer at Lee-on-the-Solent), Lyndell Murray (Scribbly Gums Conservation), Natalie Soper (Cobram, stopwatch bingo after 266 parkruns), Sue Keane (151st volunteer at Shellharbour), Adrian Luscombe (Stevenage) and Dan O'Connell (Wimmera River, Horsham).

• Episode 432 - Amazing Grace

  Five comments read from each of the last two Dazza's posts (9 August, International Golf Month; 16 August, National Science Week): Carmel Roll at Brisbane Valley Rail Trail Blackbutt, Ivan Neville at Curl Curl, Mitzi Middleton at Ingrebourne Hill, Val Warwick at Hampton Oval, Lee Cabarita at Alice Springs Telegraph Station, then Janet Reid at Shiraz Trail, Karen McKeon at Belvedere, Charles Gregory at Windsor Precinct, Carolyn McRae at Lake Mary Ann Tingkkarli and Tricia Brown at Portobello.

• Episode 431 - Start Spreading the News

  TOC: 'I think we should move into Dazza's.' Five comments from each of the last two weeks. Week one (Ugly Christmas in July): Pippa White at Northala Fields, Helen Reeves and four generations at Traralgon, Ali Sheppard at Kingston, Johan Duvenhage at Rooi Point Farm in South Africa with his dog Levi, and Rex Gream at Armidale. Week two (International Clown Week): Cathy Crispin at Panania, Lee/Leigh Cabarita, 'Sandy the scrubber' filing her first parkrun, and Mark Hibbard at Broken Hill Racecourse. The hosts also pass on condolences to Johan for the loss of his dog Jack.

• Episode 430 - Cleaner Wanted!

  Two weeks of Dazza's comments, five from each week. Week one's theme was "new conversations day": Belinda from NSW (Malt and Honey Cafe, Horseshoe Bay Reserve), Joe Trimby tail walking at Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan, Yvette Turner from Corner Brook Stream Trail in Newfoundland, Sarah at Capestone Lake celebrating her 500th, and Chris Gore at Yeldulknie Weir Trail in South Australia. Week two's theme was "stick out your tongue day": Ali Sheppard at Richmond parkrun in the UK, Stephen Cox at Panania for Paul "the Viking" Whelan's 250th, Andy Poole and Wendela's fifth parkrun alphabet at Ziegelwiese parkrun in Halle, Germany, Alison Fraser at Tauranga, and Melissa (497/248) at Patawalonga River.

• Episode 429 - It's Question Time

  Two weeks of Dazza's posts, five comments chosen from each. Week one (Pet Appreciation theme): Leanne Evans at Kate Reed with Disco; Felicity Castellan at Koonwarra with Eggie; Sue Keane at North Sydney and a bush turkey; Brett Bailey with Tanya and Brunner at Riverlution; Dan Baldwin at West Coast Park, Singapore. Week two (park-hopping theme): Ingrid Botha at Kamay; Katie Guthrie at Devonport; Lee Cabarita at Jakes Point; Heather Hunter with Fiona Mullen at Taree, back after the floods; Monty Slade at Ross-on-Wye.

• Episode 428 - Evolution

  Split across the two Facebook posts missed during the break. From the World Blood Donor Day post and the winter-solstice post the hosts read ten comments: Barbara Luther at Bushy, Dublin; Midzi Middleton at Bendigo Botanic Gardens; Sherry Cottle at Pioneer Dairy (becoming Waratah Wanderers); Lee at Kangaroo Island; Helen Rutter at Bower Park; Dave and Chloe Bravos at Aveley for their daughter Lucy's fifth birthday; Andy Airey at Rothay Park (V-index of 12); Annabelle Johnson at Uditore, Palermo; Monty Slade at Ross-on-Wye; and Andrew Yeatman's solstice nudie swim crew at Pembroke in Tasmania. Closes with congratulations to Kev Green on his 250th at Wyndham Vale and to the Office Lady on a second consecutive all-time PB.

• Episode 427 - Onions Have Layers

  Listener posts for National Trails Day, with the week's challenge being to work a butterfly into your parkrun. Contributors read out: Lee Cabarita (Goolwa, after Kangaroo Island and Victor Harbor both fell through), Val Warwick (Airlie Beach, guard of honour for Steve's unofficial 300th), Gareth Arnold (Bibra Lake, Marshal Mario), Carolyn McRae (Sonsbeek, Netherlands), Calum Burrell (Lyme Park, Ruth Perkins's 40th birthday parkrun), Rodney Glossop (Homestead, a local's 500th), Karen Hurrell (Talkin Tarn Country Park, one of the ten South Beach boomerangs), Alana (Bedok Reservoir, Singapore), Eric Banner (Newborough with Andrew Johnston) and Ian/Ivan Neville (Volksgarten, Dusseldorf).

• Episode 426 - Lost Property

  Simon opens with Dazza's theme for the week, May is Share a Story Month. Posts read out from TOC in the ACT (Ginninderra with Jackie, Claire, Jack and Amelia), Sam Schroder in NSW (daughter Evie's Junior 10 at Macquarie University parkrun), Jo McLean (the Ponds parkrun's 10th birthday, 847 participants), Wendy Pallant (jet setter club, Skatås and Billdalsparken in Sweden), Leanne Evans in Tasmania (Kate Reed), Johan Duvenhage in South Africa (Plaatbos Nature Reserve), Ruth Perkins in Finland, Renata Koch in Norway (Tøyen), Margie Lewis in WA (Kununurra), Maz Strong (100th at Karkarook) and Brett Bailey in New Zealand (Lost Lagoon, Westport).

• Episode 425 - Tracky Dacky Doo Dah Day

  Tony O'Connell reads Dazza's prompt for Aviation Maintenance Technician Day, then the hosts work through listener posts answering the week's challenge to name their parkrun in emojis: Geoff Glaab (USA, White Lick Creek), Gareth Arnold (Kadina Trail), Jason Andrews and son Ollie (Bannockburn Bush), Helen Rudder (Elder Park, Scotland), Bill/"Billo" (Grand Ridge Rail Trail), Andrea Booth (Gardiners Creek), Kelly Timms and Belinda (Old Thomson River Road), Maria Weeks (Tokoinranta, Finland), Graham Wilkinson (Scotland) and Johan Duvenhage (Sun City, South Africa). Melissa Ellis breaks off to thank David "Dave" Bravos, described as the show's "equal opportunity employee", as the author of this week's Dazza's post.

• Episode 424 - Reaching a Rec-Ord

  Simon reads the week's Dazza's prompt - World Telecommunication Day, "come into Dazza's and let us know how it went". Posts read out: Claire Corkill at Capestone Lake (QLD); Heather Hunter at Taree's 10th birthday; Lynette Anne at Bright (VIC); Yvette Turner at Point Hut Pond (ACT); David Messenger at Galup Reserve (WA); Debbie Jessop at Studley (VIC), whose friend Hayden was walked round by "a nice lady named Lyndell" - confirmed on air as "Lyndell the Legendary from the Channel 5 news group"; Carolyn McRae at Queen's, Belfast; Val Warwick at Burrum Heads Beach (QLD); Brett Bailey at Neale Park (Nelson, NZ); and Andrea Booth at Darwin (NT).

• Episode 423 - The Hope Song

  Simon: "Shall we pop over to Dazza's?" Dazza's theme this week is "trust your intuition day", with the listener challenge to add hashtag DORB to the post. Posts read out from Tracey Leeper (Ashgrove), Yvette Turner (Bega), Lynette Anne (Woodlands Historic Park), Renata Koch (Parramatta's new course, with Sam Schroder and Luke Schroder), Chris Gore (Lake Claremont), Jo McLean (Queens Domain), Alison King (Puarenga, NZ), Maria Wicks (Pymmes, UK), Monty Slade (Ross-on-Wye) and Martine Barrot (Osaka, Japan).

• Episode 422 - Potato, Potarto

  Dazza's prompt was Wordsmith Day, combined with the listener challenge to feature an adventurers buff. Comments read out from Ingrid Botha (Cooks River, NSW, a rhyme), Simon Mackley (Redland Bay, Qld), Yvette Turner (Gungahlin, ACT, her 250th), Sunil Tamun (Stormont, Northern Ireland), David Messenger (Bibra Lake, WA), Adrian Luscombe (Bracknell, UK), Eric Banner (Yodogawa kasenkoen Hirakata chiku, Japan, a haiku), Andy Paul (Oriam, Edinburgh) and Johan Duvenhage (South Africa).

• Episode 421 - There's No Place Like Home

  Alien Day theme ("Doing a new parkrun can feel a bit alien"), running alongside the previous week's listener challenge from Sarah and Simon to mark Anzac Day. Posts read out: Budgie from Waitangi via Yvette, Chris and Karen Gore; Johan from Cape Town and Caledon Golf Course; Natalie Sopa at Hanmer Forest (barcode scanned by Mark Inglis), which leads into an explanation of New Zealand's core-flute selfie frames funded by Queenstown co-ED Chris Seymour; Sherry Brandtman at Dhunggaarr Reserve; Chloe Bravos at Tamworth Wetlands; Helen Rudder with Stanley the Dachshund at Pymmes; Sarah Maas at Kingscliff; Andrew Turner at Mount Clarence, Albany; Val Warwick at Broken Hill Racecourse; Ali Sheppard park walking at Watermeadows (with a Towcester pronunciation challenge); and Maz Strong at Aintree, whose link prompts Melissa to read out parkrun's frame runner guidance.

• Episode 420 - No Indeed. Indeed, No

  Sylvester the Cat's birthday themed prompt (chasing something you never quite catch). Posts read out: Chris Gore (NZ) on Karen finally landing position bingo 111 at University of Waikato parkrun's yellow-themed 200th; Yvette Turner taking Budgie to Umbagong District parkrun, ACT; Leanne Evans (Tas) and Disco the greyhound back at Kate Reed after a course check for the Hoblers Bridge Reserve team; Bernadette Bennett at Sky River Path parkrun, Coonabarabran; Andrew Turner (WA) completing the Peel Club at Centennial Park, Dunsborough in 17:46; Debbie Jessop's 250th at Studley; David Bravos at Ocean View with an F-heavy alphabet joke; Samantha Roberts at Hattori Ryokuchi parkrun, Japan.

• Episode 418 - Yeah Nah

  TOC crosses to Dazza; the theme is Tutu Day / "as young as you feel" day. Posts read out from Bill Lodwig (Cyril Curtain Reserve), Lee (Parramatta, Michelle's 100th), Nick Graney (Huskisson, numerals 1-10 hidden in the post), Janet (Narooma Wetlands' 100th, 122 finishers), Pippa White (UK), Caro Vos (Grahamstown Aquatic Centre), Ian Thompson (Itchen Valley Country), Nicola Wright (a freedom run aboard the MV Acadia), Maria Wicks (Dulwich), Colette Goldthorpe (Middleton Woods), Rodney Glossop (Homestead, WA) and Dorothy Schmidt (Tallangatta Station's 100th cake). The hosts note that they went over their usual ten mentions.

• Episode 417 - Baby Brain is Real

  World Speech Day theme, with the hosts asking who gave the event brief or First Timers Welcome; the week's prompt was wind emojis. Comments read out: Jo McLean at East Richmond (NSW); Tim Robbins park-faffing at Chermside (QLD), with Tracy the troll and Spider Abdul, the travelling soft toy taken from University of WA parkrun by Rory Marriott; Gareth Arnold at Tamworth Wetlands with the toy Chutney and a Noongar "Kaya" greeting; Leanne Evans at Hoblers Bridge Reserve (TAS); Eric Banner at Shiraz Trail (SA) with Andrew Johnston, Martine Barrot and Roberta Winters; Andy Airey on a 720km round trip from Chipping Sodbury to Barmouth for Y Promenâd; and Jonathan Morgan volunteering at Delta parkrun in South Africa en route to Kenya.

• Episode 416 - Falicitating Fun

  TOC opens "But, Mel, enough of France. Let's go on to Dazza's [Dazza's]." This week's prompt is International Women's Day plus the buff listener challenge. Posts read out from Ingrid, Greg Garner (Wes Mitchell Park), Michael Sharp (The Beaches), Pippa White (Leamington), Maria Wicks (Oaklands College), Tanya Bailey and Brett Bailey (NZ), Rodney Glossop (Pioneer, WA, source of the "felicitator" joke and the episode title), Bernadette Bennett (Mount Gambier), Sam Schroder (Launceston) and Mel Ellis (Bungendore Common).

• Episode 415 - Pow Wow to PALM

  World Compliment Day (and National Barista Day) theme. Posts read out from Sarah Maas (Ocean View parkrun, Queensland), Dan O'Connell (Emerald Lake Park, with fellow Kirkdale Reserve RD Isaac), Janet Reid (left the mothership Lochiel and drove to Nantu Wama with Caro Vos and Cheryl Van Stratton-Smith), Adrian Hillyer (NSW, with Kevin and the parkrun alphabet flag), Yvette Turner (Timekeeper at Coombs, ACT), former host Scotty Trickett (Kirkdale Reserve with Fletcher the Wonder Dog), Peter Thomson (Bedok Reservoir, Singapore) and Ruth Perkins (Black Combe parkrun at HMP Haverigg, the first prison parkrun).

• Episode 414 - Wombling Free

  Dazza's Tutu Day / Run the World Day call-out "22nd of the 2nd ... come on in and tell Dazza how your parkrun the World Day was." Contributors read out: Kathy Crispin (Panania, NSW, 9th anniversary tutus), Maria Weeks and Branca (Walthamstow, London, the "wombling free" line the episode is titled for), David Messenger (Zeehan Golf Club, Tasmania, 202nd different parkrun, second Z), Felicity Castellan (Victoria, RD at event 321), Brendan Scholarly (Shellharbour, NSW), Sarah Jefferson (South Beach Recreation Reserve, WA), Ian Thompson (Oaklands College, UK) and Dean Warrick (Gainsborough Parklands, Qld). 168 comments this week.

• Episode 413 - Transport & Tryouts

  Valentine's Day theme, who or where your love was this parkrun day. Posts from Stephen Cox (Australian Standing Stones, second birthday and 98th event), M. Nico at Kirra (250 volunteers and cake, Kirra's 13th birthday), Ingrid at Dolls Point (new Token Sorting board), Margie Lewis at Port Macquarie (a parrot in a pram), Mark Hibbard at Grahamstown Aquatic Centre, Medowie (28th wedding anniversary), Sue Davies at George Town, Andrea Booth at Batemans Bay (meeting Brendan and Em from Shellharbour), Gareth Arnold at Zegerplas in the Netherlands, and Rodney Glossop at Edinburgh Oval dressed as Freddie Mercury.

• Episode 412 - Another One Bites the Dust

  Listener milestone shout-outs read by both hosts, opening "it's storytelling week". Posts from Monty Slade (100 Marathon Club), Bernadette Bennett (Broken Hill Racecourse), Andy Poole (Templemore, international alphabet), Catherine Pirotta (Rouse Hill), Sheridan Davis (Seaview), Chris Gore (Sir James Mitchell, regaining WA statesman status), Andy Airey (Cieszyn, Poland), Ali Sheppard (Neckarufer), Nana Vicky Smith (Torrens), Nick Graney (Warringal) and Johan Duvenhage (Inibos, South Africa, v300 and v-index 17). An off-script aside congratulates "Dave", the Equal Opportunity employee, on graduating from university.

• Episode 411 - GPS fails

  Mel: "In any case, Simon, it's time for [Dazza's]." This week's prompt is Change Your Password Day, "Passwords are like parkruns. Some are very simple. Some are really quite complex. And some demand a lot." Contributors: Claire Corkill (ACT, Barcode Scanner at Tuggeranong, five weeks of volunteering and expecting a baby); Wendy Pallant (UK, first ever Sign Language Support volunteer at Bramhall Park); Andrew Blanda (NSW, Timekeeper at Cooks River's 10th birthday with unofficial baker and cake-support roles); Tracy Leaper (three-hour drive to Tin Can Bay and a car/phone Bluetooth argument); Charles Gregory-Hicks (Tasmania, Whitemark Wharf to complete his Tassie statesmanship); Chris Roos (record attendance of 642, trialling the Number Checker role); Billo (NSW, completed the parkrun adventurers Challenge at Rex Jackson Oval); and Helen Rutter ("Herbie birthday" 53 at Old Railway Trail, Llangollen).

• Episode 410 - Aussie Aussie Aussie

  Weekly listener posts, this week on the theme 'Observe the Weather Day'. Posts from Rex Gream (Coburg), Janet Reid (South Australia, celebrating her V250 after being surprised mid-run-brief as RD), Yvette Turner (Darwin), Stephen Cox (Avondale University College, with Paris Lawrence), Billo (Beaufort Lake), Dean Warrick (Gainsborough Greens), Leanne Evans (Pembroke, Tasmania), Gareth Arnold (Galup Reserve, WA), Ian Thompson (Broadwater, UK) and Sheridan Davis (Cardwell).

• Episode 409 - Give us a hug

  Dazza's post marks National Gourmet Coffee Day and invites coffee-themed weekend reports. Contributions read out: Vicky Smith (volunteering at Launceston, new record of 507 participants); Laura Amos (Amos family touristing to Launceston); Yvette Turner (she and husband Bill volunteered at Gungahlin, Bill's 50th volunteer as Run Director, and they hugged a volunteer); Rex Gream (meeting Amelia Griffo again at Birdsland Reserve after first meeting her at Rock Creek Trail parkrun, Portland Oregon); Ali Sheppard (timekeeping with her friend at Ingrebourne Hill, hugging each other); Adrian Luscombe (London's newest and 65th event, Ingrebourne Hill). Several posts respond to last week's listener challenge to hug a volunteer, which is where the episode title comes from.

• Episode 407 - Highlights and Hopes

  Sarah and Simon read the week's Dazza's posts. Dazza's prompt was World Volunteer Day; the listener challenge was to work "ugly" into the post, and 104 comments came in. Posts read: Billo at Campaspe parkrun (drove the Hume in an ugly, breakfast at Woodend); Joe McLean, NSW (100th volunteer credit coinciding with her 250th parkrun); Mark Walsh at Wynnum (course check after the work Christmas party, ugly emu tee, Bushy Park pilgrimage in two weeks); David Bravos at Aveley (300th parkrun, recreating a scene from the film 300 with Lucy, Chloe as RD); Yvette Turner at Point Hut Pond, ACT; Stephen Noble at Montrose Foreshore, Tasmania (stopwatch bingo after 10 years); Eric Banner at Reynella East, SA; Andy Airey from Wroclaw, Poland (a gingerbread-man Tail Walker, 45 tourists); and Ruth Perkins at Wetherby, UK.

• Episode 406 - White-marks the spot

  This week's Dazza's prompt was National Tree Week; the listener challenge was to add a Mo for Movember to the post, and 98 comments came in. Read out: Martine Barrot (Flinders Island, Whitemark Wharf, using Budgie as her moustache, and a new Tassie Statesman with Andrew); Johan (Green Point and Century City parkruns, Cape Town, using the whole selfie frame as a moustache); Chris Gore (Port Augusta parkrun, three days out of Perth, cardboard moustaches with Karen); Carolyn McRae (Queanbeyan parkrun, a Movember air freshener found in an Uber); David Johnston (Mount Beauty, sticks as moustaches with Dermot); Tyson Flynn (Point Hut Pond, 50th volunteer day of the year, a real Movember mo); TOC himself (Whitemark Wharf, adventurers' buffs as moustaches with Sarah and Matthew); Alison King (Whitemark Wharf, a barcode moustache, with Heather Morgan); and Yvette Turner (a photo in Umbagong's selfie frame).

• Episode 405 - B4s Return

  This week's Dazza's theme was National Espresso Day with a listener challenge to work in the poo emoji. Posts read out from Nick Grady (North Wollongong, 150th), Janet (aboard the mothership Lochiel, koala photo), Alison King (Inverloch with TOC and Jackie), Yvette Turner (ACT), Calum Burrell (Manchester, meeting Stephen Walsh), Mark Hibbard (Ovens River Trail), Monty Slade (Hereford), Catherine O'Connor (The Beaches 10th birthday, 60 parkwalkers), Gareth Arnold (son Austin's 10th volunteer at Kadina Trail) and Carolyn McRae (Eastern Gardens). Special mention for Catherine and Ian Greenstreet completing the 14,000km Run Down Under.

• Episode 404 - Boomerang

  Theme is "dear Santa letter week". Posts read out: Ingrid Botha (50th birthday celebrated at Dolls Point), Andy Airey (ninth alphabet completed with a Y in Wales at Y Promenâd), Helen Davis (200th different event at Emerald Lake), Dave Bravos (Lake Joondalup with Lucy), Janet Reid (aboard the mothership Lochiel with her grandchildren), Johan Duvenhage (Big Bay, one million participants), Vicky Smith (Ginninderra), Neil Clayton (first parkrun for two silkie chickens at Sandgate), Alison Fraser (King) (Southern Path launch in Auckland) and Bernadette Bennett (Launceston).

• Episode 403 - In the Poo

  World Freedom Day post plus this week's listener challenge - work Melbourne Cup horse names into your post. Contributions from Jo McLean (NSW), Calum Burrell at Macclesfield, Yvette Turner at Casula Parklands, Abdul at Mundy Regional in a giant turd costume, Tracy Jensen at Portland, Ruth Perkins pacing Harrogate's 600th, Fiona Mullen at Ecco Ripley and Mark Walls at Central Lakes.

• Episode 402 - With Mispronunciations Now

  Listener colour/dress-up posts read out: Sue Keane (Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan, 50th location), Em Nico (Kirra, gave the first-timers briefing in police uniform), Gareth Arnold (Rockingham, WA), Martin Barrett with Andrew Johnston and Eric Banner (Goulburn River Trail, Seymour), Kristy Hill (Tuggeranong, ACT), Ian Thompson (Upton Court, UK), Ruth Perkins (Meijo koen, Nagoya, Japan), Rory Merritt (UK, V1000 hoodie) and Johan Duvenhage (Pine Forest, Free State, South Africa). The carried-over body-letter challenge drew no entries. Closes with a happy birthday to Channel 5 News Crew member Alison King.

• Episode 401 - Adventurers Shine

  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.

• Episode 400 - Thank you for the Music

  Listener posts read out, on Universal Music Day and the week's challenge to work a salute into your post: Pauline Taylor at Albert Melbourne, Rex Gream at Armidale, Johan Duvenhage with Levi at St George's parkrun in Gqeberha, Sunil at Leicester in Victoria (UK), Adrian Luscombe's 400th parkrun coinciding with the 400th episode, Heather Hunter at Taree, Steve Warwick singing his way round Bells Parade, Nick Graney at Highbury Fields and Calum Burrell at Cheadle Hulme. 130 comments this week.

• Episode 399 - Das Ist Gut

  International parkrun Day / parkrun's 20th birthday edition. Posts read from Gareth Arnold (WA, Woodbridge Riverside and a robot-themed cafe), Josh Button (NSW, Chipping Norton's 50th), Nick Graney (Moussette, Quebec), Joanne Blackbird (Victoria, Funnel Manager at Albert Park with 985 finishers), Peter LaRue (South Africa, Homestead Lake with the 9th Benoni Scout Group), Brett Bailey (New Zealand), Helen Rutter (Wales, diverted from Tremorfa to Trelai Park), Mark Walls (Queensland, Chermside), Janet Reid (South Australia, 'aboard the mothership Lochiel', all in apricot) and TOC (Tasmania, O'Connors Beach with a doctored selfie frame reading O'Connell's Beach).

• Episode 398 - Planes, Trains and Automobiles

  Friendship-month edition. Posts read out from David O'Brien at Zeehan Golf Club parkrun, Tasmania (event 33; ran into TOC and Jackie on a bush path the day before, took the win ahead of TOC and Steve Warwick, regained his Tassie statesmanship); Mark Prowse on a friendship formed volunteering, at Darebin parkrun, Victoria; Ellie Shepherd parkwalking a friend's 50th at Salcey Forest, Northamptonshire; Belinda Cafe at Futakotamagawa parkrun, Japan, walked to the start by ED Tim; Johan Duvenhage's 150th Southern African event at Bredasdorp, South Africa, with Levi; Sarah Jefferson on reaching Invercargill after a missed flight and a diversion; Martine Barrot at Port Lincoln for a friend's Frond during Save the Koala Month; and Claire Vinicic completing a double A-Z in the UK.

• Episode 397 - The Grate Return

  World Gratitude Day theme, "I am grateful for a park to run, walk or volunteer in, a community to adventure with and a coffee afterwards." Posts read from Mark Walls (Albert Melbourne), Dean (Gainsborough Greens event 300, green theme, with son Asher), Eric Banner (North Wollongong, final Compass Club location for Martine and Andrew), Nick Graney (Singapore, Bay East Garden), Vicky Smith (Claisebrook Cove, WA), Hendo Stew (all 81 parkruns in the south-west of England, finishing at Three Brooks) and Alison Fraser-King (Puringa parkrun, New Zealand).

• Episode 396 - Oh What a Feeling!

  Listener posts on the Friday-the-13th theme: Chloe Bravos travelling from Perth to Inverloch with Dave and Lucy; Sonja Pohlman park-faffing at Dubbo with Miriam Morris; Dan Baldwin at Mount Barker; Ryan Stoddart on Flinders Island; Janice and Keegan at Mundy Regional in WA; Lyndell Murray in Munich; and Gareth Arnold at Roundhay in Leeds.

• Revisits and Backflips

  Dazza's prompt this week was International Bacon Day and post-parkrun cafe habits. Contributions read out from Andrew Blanda (Wangaratta, synchronised double zoomie photo), Chantelle Hosking (Kingscliff, completing the Australian compass), Ian Thompson (Wakehurst, UK), Charmaine Grobler (volunteer photographer at Victory Heights Gympie), Hannah Newton and James (Dunedin, NZ), Chris Gore and Karen (Ridley Place Foreshore, WA) and Helen Rutter (Zuiderpark, the Hague).

• Episode 394 - Dangling the carrot

  Listener comments on Dazza's Facebook post, this week themed on Pluto losing planetary status 18 years ago, with the carried-over challenge word "Paris". Comments from Dave Bravos (250 shirt, adventurers buff, dog Lucy), Joe McLean (The Ponds cancelled, tourist to East Richmond), Andrew Turner (10 years of Maribyrnong), Erica Liotta (became a Queensland Stateswoman at Capestone Lake, cape and banana crown made by Tracy Lupia), Belinda Taylor (Katherine Hot Springs, NT, with Johnny and Fink Dog), Gareth Arnold (Penistone, in rhyme), Helen Rutter (a small frond at Epworth Equestrian), Peter (hand-painted route map at Atlasville, South Africa), Monty Slade (Chippenham Playing Fields, Monmouth, and boomerang number six from South Beach Recreation Reserve) and Ian Thompson (first Norwegian parkrun at Stavanger, registering a Brazilian first-timer).

• Episode 393 - Onwards and Upwards

  Dazza's prompt this week was International Geocaching Day, "getting outdoors, going to new places and getting souvenirs. Sounds familiar?" 103 comments. Posts read out: Val Warwick from Tasmania at Lake Wallace; Belinda Taylor at Coober Pedy after an eight-hour drive each way; Jodie Macy of Victoria, visiting WA, at Lake Claremont for her 99th; Bec Bailey back at Shellharbour; Andrew Yeatman at Woodbridge Riverside; Tanya Bailey at Invercargill with an 8-out-of-10 cheese scone at the Cheeky Llama Cafe; and Gareth Arnold from the UK on his granny's bird-spotting.

• Episode 392 - Bolting towards Septmeber

  The Saturday social post, themed on "the bolt". Dazza's prompt ties in National Science Week. Posts read out from Johan Duvenhage at Kambaku Golf Club parkrun, Komatipoort (South Africa); Calum Burrell at Lancaster with Pippa White, Kit Kat White and Lindsay Burrell; Rex at Central Burnaby (Canada); Helen Patricia at Donaupark, Vienna; Tanya Bailey at Pegasus (NZ); Cathy Mudge at Yamba; Heather Hunter at Maitland; Jan Yates with Mark Hibbard at Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan; Andrew Yeatman at Dawesville; and Eric Banner at East Coast Park, Singapore.

• Episode 391 - The Rookie

  The week's Dazza's challenge was to work the word 'jumpy' into a post, on an International Clown Week theme. Posts read out from Rex Gream (Renton, USA), Andy Airey (Medina, Isle of Wight, by hovercraft), Adrian Homburg (Birdsland Reserve), Chloe Bravos (Jarrahdale Heritage), Eric Banner (Kate Reed, Tasmania), Sherry Brandtman (Panania, for Abby Brantman's v100), Ian Thompson (Salisbury), Ali Sheppard (Orpington, completing stopwatch bingo on her 238th parkrun), TOC (Trebeck Reserve) and Calum Burrell (Lyme Park).

• Episode 390 - Jumpy

  Posts from the virtual cafe, with this week's challenge being to include an Olympic-themed emoji. Read out: Ingrid Botha (Jubilee, Tenterfield, with Paris and a frond with Tracey Wood and the Queensland crew); Tracy Leiper (Ecco Ripley, boxing-kangaroo photo in a kangaroo onesie and Ugly Christmas Singlet); Rex Gream (Rock Creek Trail, USA, meeting past interviewee Amelia Griffo); Bec Bailey (Amsterdamse Bos, Netherlands); Chloe Bravos (Aveley, WA); Mark Hibbard (Lawson); Geoff Glaab (USA); Ian Thompson (Richmond Park, UK); Sue Keane (The Ponds); Calum Burrell (UK). Yvette Turner's post is read earlier. In the post-outro tag Ollie remembers to give next week's Dazza's word: "jumpy", the episode's title.

• Episode 389 - What's a Melidex?

  Dazza's moon-landing-themed prompt (55 years since the first steps on the moon). Posts read out: Ellie Shepherd at Swansea Bay, Wales (a land train on course); Maggie Lewis and her mum at S.S. Koopa Trail, Bribie Island; Pippa White and the TAME Volunteer at Muncaster Castle; Sonja Pohlman's whale-breaching video at The Beaches, NSW; Pauline Taylor from Kedron, Brisbane, where adventurers gathered to celebrate Shortsy's life; Rex Gream's first international parkrun at Byxbee, USA, with 20 American family members; Dan O'Connell's 50th volunteer and 17th run-director stint at Kirkdale Reserve; Ian and Lydia Knox completing Capitalist status at a very wet Tuggeranong; Rhianna Witt Gamble's 150th different event at Maria Creek Reserve, SA; Charles Gregory and an enormous puddle at Launceston; and Stuart Brandwood at Princes, Liverpool, whose post about visitors Bill and Yvette Turner leads to Yvette writing in as a brand-new listener.

• Episode 388 - When 3 becomes 5

  Dazza's NAIDOC Week post asks listeners whose country they ran on. Sarah and Simon read back responses to TOC's photo challenge (posing with an event's selfie frame, upside down or from above): Tracey Leeper in South Australia, Greg Garner at Victory Heights Trail (200th event, 200 balloons upside down), Heather Hunter at ABGMA, Alana Troring at University of Western Australia, Mel Ellis at Balclutha in New Zealand, and Yvette Turner at Bushy Park.

• Episode 387 - Founders and Fashion

  Announced as omitted this week: "in the interest of brevity, we are omitting the Dazza's posts" because the two monologues had made the episode long. Mel still reads out one comment, from Eric Banner, for a "frankly fabulous frond for me at Nagambie Lake today" packed with currency puns answering last week's challenge (the comment is signed "Andrew").

• Episode 386 - Fly High

  National Camera Day prompt, "Were you snapped on a run, walk or volunteer this morning?" Posts read out from Peter Thomson (Mount Ainslie, ACT, photographed with Australian of the Year Richard Scolyer), Ian Thompson (Brooklands, UK), Chloe Bravos (Woodbridge Riverside, WA, daughter Lucy's first parkrun), Jason Andrew (Frog Hollow, meeting Tony O'Connell), Heather Hunter (Dhunggaarr Reserve, NSW), Greg Garner (Ipswich QLD), Charles Gregory (Montrose Foreshore, Tasmania), Pauline Taylor (North Harbour) and Maria Wicks (Southall, UK). The secret challenge was to slip in an ice-cube or frozen-face emoji; next week's word is a currency, dollar, pound, euro or rand, to mark the new Australian financial year.

• Episode 385 - Ice Ice Baby

  World Rainforest Day prompt. Posts read out from Calum Burrell (Rendlesham Forest, celebrating Rory's V1000), Christine Imbert (Tail Walker at Zegerplas in the Netherlands, her fifth Z), Johan Duvenhage (Terra Nova parkrun near Trichardt, Mpumalanga, with Gillian Findlay's 250th southern African event), Andrea Booth (Jells parkrun's ninth birthday in tutus), Heather Mulgan (Durlston Country Park, Dorset), Sherry Brandtman and Abby (Goulburn), Mark Walls (Jeune Park), Franz Carroll (Edinburgh Oval) and Monty Slade (Y Promenâd, thumbs-ups arranged in the shape of a Y). About 150 comments in total. TOC also flags that a secret phrase, "lions and hippos in the zoo", had been snuck into the show notes.

• Episode 384 - Indeed

  This week's Dazza's prompt was National Blood Donor Week 2024 (12-18 June): 'Are you a donor? Come on in and share your parkrun adventures and PG blood stories with us.' Posts read out: Adrian Homburg back home at Birdsland Reserve after hiking down the prom; Laura Amos, unable to donate on medication, enjoying the muddy community spirit at Rouse Hill; Tracey Wood at Capalaba, breakfasting with members of the deaf community; Phil Olson at Lowestoft for Cowfest East; Monty Slade park-walking Ross-on-Wye after a night marathon; Tanya Bailey at Pegasus (NZ) for its eighth birthday, with a PB and a dog called Brunner; Chloe Bravos away at Teachers Union State Council, donating plasma fortnightly; and Steve Warwick from Tasmania, leaving Bells Parade for O'Connors Beach to volunteer. Selections were drawn from listeners who used the hidden challenge word 'community'.

• Episode 383 - Big Kahunas

  World Oceans Day edition, theme "Awaken New Depths", with the hosts reading listener Facebook posts: Tracy Leiper (Queensland), Catherine O'Connor at Frog Hollow's 10th birthday, Josh Button at Whalan Reserve, Claire and Jack Corkill at Katherine Hot Springs, Heather Morgan at Jubilee (Newcastle upon Tyne), Charles Gregory in Tasmania, Maria Wicks at Harrow, Helen Rudder at Fulwell Quarry, Sarah at Edinburgh Oval and Laura Amos at Zillmere. Nearly every post carries the ear emoji the hosts had challenged listeners to include the week before.

• Episode 382 - What's in a name?

  Dinosaur-themed week with about 120 comments. Posts read out from Jamie Humphreys (Løvstien, Bergen), Andy and Deb Airey (Deb finishing her periodic table at Reading), Dave Tozer (Cwmbran), Claire Winozik (Darren Peet's 300th at Valley), Joe McLean (Surfers Paradise, with swim-streak banter aimed at Sarah Jefferson in WA), Garth Dowling (Fibonacci sequence completed at Trebeck Reserve with Bill Lodwick) and Andrew Yeatman (Edinburgh Oval).

• Episode 381 - Ah-sigh-ee

  Nine listener posts read from 134 comments: Val Warwick at O'Connors Beach with Ryan Stoddard; Jacqui O'Connell at the stump; The Office Lady (Sam Schroder) joining the Cow Club at Mosman and completing her stopwatch bingo; Alison Fraser-King in a frond at Zuiderpark Den Haag; Andrea Booth at Roma Pineto; Martine Barrot, Andrew Johnston and Eric Banner at Puarenga in New Zealand; Maria Wicks at Canons Park; Lance and Robin Plan at Canning River; Karina Campbell at Wynnum; and Jonathan Morgan regaining both South Australian statesman badges at Whyalla Foreshore.

• Episode 380 - In a twist

  Mother's Day themed prompt, "Did you parkrun with a mum today?" Contributions read out from Johan (Duvenhage) tail-walking with Levi at Inibos parkrun in South Africa, Ryan Stoddard reaching Tasmania, Andrea Booth at Milano Nord in Italy, Fiona Mullen at Jubilee (Tenterfield) NSW with Rex Gream and the Skinners, Helen Rutter at Puolarmaari in Finland, Georgina Devine in the rain at The Beaches, Christine Imbert at Vejen in Denmark, Bec Bailey surprising her mum at Pegasus parkrun in New Zealand, David Bravos at Cottesloe with Lucy and Raja, Andy Airey at Squerryes Winery, and Jan Yates at Eden Project.

• Episode 379 - R2-RD

  A May the 4th Star Wars-themed run through 177 Facebook comments: Gemma Kajewski's 400th at Nightcliff (completing the Peel, Oberg and Compass clubs), Chris Gore in Jedi costume at Bibra Lake, Anne Frye's Tatooine Suns jersey at Mount Barker's 500th, Heather Morgan at Queen Elizabeth in Hampshire, Ryan Stoddart at Jeune Park and on Channel 7 News, Johan at Swakopmund, Tim Robbins at Byxbee, Dawn Branton's second alphabet at Zuiderpark Den Haag, Renata Koch's stopwatch bingo at Werrington Lakes Reserve, Marg Prowse at Trebeck Reserve, Vicky Smith at Wyndham Vale, Jackie Hancock as 'R2-RD' in New Zealand, and Linda Coombes at Launceston.

• Episode 378 - Run the World

  Ollie hands back to Dazza's with the week's prompt ("On Thursday we commemorated the Anzac legacy. Today we walked, ran, volunteered or cheered at parkrun. How was your morning?"). Posts read out from Pauline and Russell Taylor (tail walking at Queenstown, NZ, in an adventurers buff), Mark Walls (first pacing attempt at Wynnum, a palindromic 32:23), Sherry Brandman (ACT frond, Paul Whelan "the Viking" reaching Capitalist status and Michelle Wheatley 200 runs at 50 locations), Rex Gream (Armidale, visited by Brendan Peel), Renata Koch (20+ World Tourists at Launceston), Andrew Yeatman (Maylands Peninsula, WA, recruiting adventurers), Billow (Coburg, beside the old Pentridge Prison), Anne Fry (Wimmera River, Horsham - her third state in three weeks), Adrian Homburg (Bushy Park "parkrun Mecca"), Heather Morgan (Ifield Mill Pond), Andrea Booth (Somerdale Pavilion, running the Curly Whirly to the Benny Hill theme), Sunil Chimund (Wollaton Hall, "Wayne Manor") and Jake Dubit (South Africa). Hosts note an unusually large crop this week because of the World Tourists' travels.

• Episode 377 - Purple Patches

  Listener posts read out from the week's ~160 comments: Sam Schroder at The Terrace completing the avenues/beaches/entrance/ponds/terrace challenge; Ingrid at Dolls Point in her new adventurers buff; Chris Gore at Ipswich QLD completing the Old MacDonald Challenge; Martine Barrot at Katherine Hot Springs; Laura Amos at Bellerive for her 40th different event; Sarah Jefferson at Cottesloe's ninth birthday; Alana Turi at Yodogawa in Japan; Mark Scarborough at Gunnersbury; Calum Burrell at Treviso in Italy; and Pippa White at Abbey Park.

• Episode 375 - Outback parkruns

  153 listener posts this week on the Easter long weekend theme. Read out: Amanda Murray-Hoyne (UK), Mark Hibbard at Point Hut Pond in the ACT, Sarah Jefferson at Coober Pedy Oval, Val Warwick at Zeehan Golf Club (Tasmania), Sam Schroder and Luke marshalling at Shellharbour, Jackie Hancock RD in New Zealand, Ian Thompson at Five Arches (Radstock, Somerset), Wendy Glen at the new Trebeck Reserve, Alison King at Rotorua, and Johan Duvenhage delivering his own entry as audio from Mogol parkrun, Lephalale, South Africa.

• Episode 374 - details, details

  Dazza's question of the week: "How early did you get up for parkrun day today? And where did you go?", drawing 133 comments. Responses read out from Rory Marriott (4.45am, timekeeping at Gainsborough Greens), Joanne Blackbird ($10 V/Line fares to Cohuna via a bus from Koondrook), Lyndell Murray (finally running Devonport on her fifth visit), Ian Thompson (first-time contributor, Ashton Court in Bristol), Renata Koch (University of Western Australia, 200th parkrun), Jonathan Morgan (The Avenues, SA), Cherie Cottle (Panboola Wetlands 100th event) and Greg Garner (Ginninderra, his first ACT parkrun, run in honour of Stephen).

• Episode 373 - Geographical Inaccuracy

  175 comments this week on the prompt "Did you go north, south, east or west this parkrun day?" Read out: Jo Richards (Karkarook), Michael Blain (Queensland statesman status at Hamilton), Ian and Lydia Knox (Coober Pedy Oval, photographed with firefighters in full turnout gear), Dawn Branton (University of Waikato, completing every Australian state and territory plus both New Zealand islands), Heather Hunter (Forster), Chris Gore (Rockingham), Ryan Stoddart (Ginninderra), Tamsin Smith (run directing Southampton, 1,049 participants), Mary Botto (Kensington, USA), Phil Olson (wife Julie's 250th different venue at Abbey Park, first woman to do so), Johan Duvenhage (Aviators Paradise, South Africa) and Jason Andrews (Westerfolds). Later posts from Billo (Inverloch) and Andrew Yeatman (Canning River) are read outside the segment proper.

• Episode 372 - Don't follow Mel!

  This week's Dazza's question was about parkrun community at home and away. Comments read out: Tanya Bailey at Pegasus (NZ) in a Punisher shirt; Ingrid at Dolls Point, who ran with Catherine O'Connor and wore her adventurers shirt in memory of Stephen; Linda Sharnock at Burley Griffin with the Females in Training rookies; Kitty Hicks at Torrens, where a 500th volunteer (Marilyn McMillan, V495244) was celebrated and five adventurers were present; Johan Duvenhage timekeeping at Heidedal for his V250, with the Afrikaans phrase "riem onder die hart"; Rory Marriott's 1,000th parkrun in the UK; Helen Rudder at Rutland Water; and Andrea Booth at Darebin, where a hot air balloon landed mid-event.

• Episode 371 - Out & Moving

  Listener posts read out: Georgia Divine soaked at The Beaches, Sonja Pohlman volunteering in the same weather, Eva Blanda's frond of geocachers at Wagga Wagga, Alison King at Gordon Spratt Reserve with son Axel on tokens, Chris Ruse celebrating Nathan's wedding morning at Karkarook, Felicity Castellan's Run the World shirts at Koonwarra, Adrian Luscombe at Templemore, Tamsin Smith's birthday at Southampton, Janice Whittle's first international parkrun at Weedon Island Preserve, Chloe Bravos at Aveley, and Val Warwick's alphabet-finishing Z at Zeehan Golf Club.

• Episode 370 - What's in the Box?

  Random Acts of Kindness Day theme, "Dazza's Random Act of Kindness is giving you all a free parkrun and a delicious virtual treat." Posts read out: Brendan Scholarly (Batemans Bay, missed a course PB by four seconds); Anne Fry from South Australia (Maria Creek Reserve parkrun's first birthday, course and yearly PB); Andy Airey from the Netherlands, 39 of the "Airey Airways posse" at the new Z event, an 800km drive each way, five completing their first alphabet; Monty Slade in the UK (Hereford, collecting old trainers to recycle); Andrew Yeatman from WA (Moora parkrun's seventh birthday, on paparazzi duty in flip-flops); Calum Burrell (three of a Frond of five volunteering at Clarence, Lindsay Burrell and Pippa White scanning, Phil Corker Token Sorting for his 50th volunteer occasion); Tracy Leiper (Robelle Domain cancelled for wet weather, housework instead); and Heather Patzel from Victoria (touristing Wimmera River at Horsham with husband Daryl, adventurer Kirsty Ganji also there); plus Ryan Stoddart in NSW completing the Dizzy Heights Challenge at Australian Standing Stones, Armidale and Walcha, and Johan Duvenhage tail walking with Gillian Findlay at Toboshane Valley Estate in South Africa.

• Episode 369 - When Paris met Harry

  'It's umbrella day. Did you need one?' Posts read out from Ingrid Botha at Dolls Point (Paris and Harry the Hover Dog), Ian and Lydia Knox at Kirkdale Reserve's second Pride parkrun, David Bravos at UWA in Perth (daughter Lucy in hospital), Peter Leroux at Boksburg in South Africa, Tamsin Smith at Seaton in the UK, Michael Blain at Weipa, Johan Duvenhage at Fig Tree parkrun near Durban, Val Warwick at Bells Parade in Tasmania, Janet Reid aboard 'the mothership' Lochiel, and Graham Wilkinson at Livonia in the USA (11th country, and an engagement).

• Episode 368 - Gooey buttercake flavoured goodness

  Ice cream for breakfast day. Around 150 listener comments; those read out include Heather Hunter marshalling at Forster, Alison Fraser (King) and Vicky Bruin's five-stop, nine-scoop ice cream crawl around Hamilton NZ (the 'gooey butter cake' flavour that gives the episode its title), Anne Fry RDing at Anstey, Cathy Crispin back home at Panania, Jonathan Morgan at South Para Reservoir, Rebecca Bailey's unplanned frond at Jindabyne, Sam Schroder's busload at Two Rivers Wines, Billo at Maribyrnong, Tracy May's 100th volunteer at Irchester Country, Phil Olson's 250 venues at Dinton Pastures, and Susan Rodak's 100th at San Remo.

• Episode 367 - YMMV

  Ollie hands over after noting there are no roving reports this week. Dazza's prompt was chocolate cake day. Posts read: Roberta Winters (Queensland) at Ocean View parkrun's 250th; Tracy Kavanagh celebrating her own 250th at Seacliff Esplanade parkrun's 250th event; Dave Allmark (WA) and the "old farts" at Whitfords Nodes, with a robot waiter at breakfast; Cathy Crispin touristing at Cowra parkrun (NSW); Brett Bailey at Pegasus parkrun (NZ) before marshalling at a muscle car show; Chantelle Hosking at Whangarei (NZ) making the most-events list; Chloe Bravos at Wanneroo parkrun (WA) and the dropped Zooper Dooper; Andrew Blanda at Benalla Botanical Gardens, whose "YMMV" line gives the episode its title; and Mark Hibbard at Taree parkrun (NSW).

• Episode 366 - Euphony

  Ollie opens it with "we've had no emails, so I think it's time to switch across to Dazza's", noting Dazza has made it take-a-walk-outdoors day. Posts read out: Natalie Sopa wrapping up a seven-stop New Zealand tour with a PB at Foster; Ian's first first-timers briefing at Lake Mac in front of 463 finishers with an Auslan interpreter, his 222nd parkrun; Martine Barrot from Tasmania walking Windsor Precinct with Andrew and Eric and meeting a regular called Gary (a snake); Jonathan Morgan tail-walking The Avenues for his 250th volunteer milestone with a volunteer photo collage; Chris Gore from WA whose great-nephew ran his first parkrun at Bibra Lake aged four; Maria Wicks on an icy Panshanger in the UK chasing her 100th there; Adrian Luscombe at a bitterly cold Quakers Walk; and Irene, off to volunteer at Zillmere's seventh anniversary dressed as a zookeeper.

• Episode 365 - Tick Tocky

  Dazza is "back in the kitchen ready to take your order" after the break, asking how listeners' parkrun mornings went. Read out: Lee at Wentworth Common's second birthday with Sally, Bianca and Alana; Andrea Booth's first time joining the Run Director team at Jells parkrun; Ryan Stoddart completing his final eight Queensland events (Old Thomson River Road, Cloncurry, Mount Isa, Emerald, Charters Towers Airport, Atherton, Cardwell and Palm Creek) to become a Queensland statesman after quitting his job and driving 6,800km in six weeks; Karina Campbell splashing through puddles at Lota; Sherry Brandtman at Mount Gambier's Blue Lake; Andrew Yeatman at Claisebrook Cove with the "old farts" and John Story's 500th; and Helen Rutter from the UK at Lindsay's milestone event at Pavilion Gardens, Buxton.

• Episode 364 - Bumping Uglies

  Mel and TOC read the week's Dazza's post ("you are ugly, so ugly. Did you get your ugly on? Dazza and the elves have whipped up some ugly snacks and crappuccinos... hashtag in our budgies") and its comments: Alison King at Northern Pathway, Auckland; Sonja Pohlman with Peter at the beach in New South Wales; Michael Sharp at The Beaches; Andrew Johnston's "would that be considered bumping uglies?"; Andy Airey and wife Deb at Quinns Rocks, WA; Adrian Holmberg matching a PB of 28:11 at Rosebud; Tracy ("Tutu Tracy") at Main Beach; Calum Burrell and Lindsay at Burnage, UK; Geoff Glaab at Joe Creason, USA; Janet Reid photographing at "the mothership" Lochiel; and Tamsin Smith with Stuart and Moglin at Southampton.

• Episode 363 - Old Farts and Old Ducks

  Volunteer-themed edition, prompted by International Volunteer Day on the Tuesday. Posts read out from Greg Garner (first overseas parkrun at Queenstown, New Zealand), Ian and Lydia Knox (ugly koala at Kirra), Brendan Scholarly (volunteering in Queensland, park walking with his dad from Minnippi), Val Warwick (bumping into Jackie and TOC at Studley, breakfast at the Studley Boathouse), Georgina Devine (Zooper Dooper duty at The Beaches), Bernadette Bennett (mud at Thorp Perrow, North Yorkshire), Cathy Mudge (a Junior 10 milestone shirt for her dog Harley), David O'Brien (a freedom run on Deck 7 of the Pacific Explorer at sea), Jonathan Morgan (junior parkrun volunteering in South Australia) and Andrew Yeatman (the self-styled "old farts"). Andrew's post gives the episode its title when Melissa coins "Old farts and old ducks".

• Episode 362 - West is best

  Listener milestone and weekend shout-outs, themed on Britney Spears' birthday. Posts from Maz Strong (Timekeeper at Parkville for International Day of People with Disability), Simon Mackley (Ecco Ripley), Heather Patzel (10 years of Mount Gambier), Jo McLean and Natalie Wilson (Rouse Hill's fifth birthday), Martine Barrot (Wynyard Foreshore), Dave Bravos in WA (Mt Clarence, with daughter Lucy), Mark Scarborough (forgot to scan in at Gungahlin), Natalie Soper (a snowbound Westpark parkrun in Munich), Peter Leroux (Yzerfontein, South Africa), Monty Slade (minus six at Ross-on-Wye) and Sarah J in the USA (Delaware and Raritan Canal).

• Episode 361 - TOC’s budgies

  Melissa hands straight over after confirming there are no roving reports this week. Dazza's prompt was International Fairy Bread Day, "come on in, tell us about your morning, place your order and accept that whatever you ask for, it will be sprinkled". Comments read out: Fiona Mullin with Rex Gream (50/50, 50 runs and 50 volunteers on the same day, at Fingal Bay); Cherie Cottle (return visit to Blue Gum Hills, photo on a white-painted tractor tyre course marker); Sheridan Davis (Tail Walker at Surfers Paradise event 377, also its eighth anniversary); David O'Brien (Our Park on Tasmania's east coast, with a Collingwood theme-song joke answered by the Office Lady); Johan (Zuurfontein parkrun, South Africa, 193 finishers against an inaugural 374, close to OR Tambo airport, "the Z was the big attraction"); Andrew Yeatman (Newcastle Park, Men's Mental Health and Movember run, volunteering in vest, blue hat and tutu); Bill Barker (a family frond hundreds of kilometres apart, daughters at Ballina Coast and Menai, Bill at San Remo, on his birthday); Andy Airey (19 of the "Airey Airways" posse flew to Scotland and drove to Thurso for Jenny McBain's 250th unique event); and Pippa White (first time as a VI Guide at Yarborough Leisure Centre, fastest parkrun in ages).

• Episode 360 - gggrrriverside

  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.

• Episode 359 - Rrrrriverside

  Ollie opens with Dazza's Remembrance Day 2023 welcome. Posts read out: Cass Castleton (eighth alphabet completed at Queenstown parkrun); Wendy Glen at Birdsland Reserve for her friend Jo's 250th; Barbara Luther and Belinda Taylor at Hamilton Island; Gemma Holly and friends dressed as pirates for the seventh anniversary of Nepean River parkrun; Val Warwick on park walking at Nantu Wama with Steve, Janet and Jeff; Andrew Yeatman on finish tokens at Lake Claremont and his first week as a parkrun photography and video ambassador; Sonja Pohlman's fairy bread birthday cake from Georgina Devine; Johan Duvenhage completing all 22 South African regions at Umfolozi; Calum Burrell at Bolton parkrun; and Andy Airey with 60 of the Airey Airways posse at Victoria Dock.

• Episode 358 - Log a Nottie

  Listener shout-outs from 174 comments on the week's Dazza's post (themed as mega loaded fries). Featured: Brett Bailey at Pegasus with Nathan's 100th; Andrew Turner's 250th at Maribyrnong; Helen Patricia completing the Compass Challenge at East Coast Park, Singapore; M Nico RD-ing at Kirra; Helen Davis at Yowie with Cass Castleton's seventh alphabet; Tim Robbins at Hamilton Lake, New Zealand; Catherine Pirotta in an adventurers T-shirt at East Richmond; Jane Hassel's 250th at Lochiel; and Natalie Soper at Zamek w Malborku in Poland.

• Episode 357 - Stop watch

  Explicitly skipped for time - 'we won't be ducking into Dazza's this week' - but Ollie still gives it a brief mention, flagging Lyndell's Count von Count socks picture (the Legs 11 theme for Kawana's 11th birthday) and congratulating the Halloween dress-ups.

• Episode 356 - All power to the editor

  International Sloth Day themed edition, with Dazza working at sloth pace. Posts from Craig Ryan (Roundhay after Fountains Abbey was cancelled, meeting Christine Imbert), Graham Wilkinson (Jersey parkrun completing a UK regions challenge), Natalie Soper (Farfalle parkrun in Italy after 16 weeks without parkrun), Chris Gore (Bibra Lake with Karen, nephew Trent and his son; Team Gore backing Phil at the Backyard world championships), Simon Mackley (Kirra, with Roberta, Schultzy and Em), Chloe Bravos (daughter Lucy in her new adventurer's shirt at Aveley), Sam Schroder (skipped parkrun to hand out bibs for the Punish crew, then a freedom run of the Bathurst course), Brett Bailey (RD at Pegasus, NZ, for a V50 on a pink breast-cancer-awareness theme) and Errol Poole (250th unique event at Scribbly Gums with his daughter).

• Episode 355 - Mimosas and Jell shots

  Dazza's prompt was Adventure Day, Dessert Day, Chess Day and Universal Music Day, drawing 173 comments. Read out: Helen Rutter (WI13 at Ashington Community Woodland parkrun, completing the North East England region, 71% age grade, fastest post-pandemic run); Craig Ryan (pilgrimage to Bushy parkrun with Rebecca, who finished 1,200th of 1,328); Adrian Royce (proposed to Lynette at Wishart parkrun on his 500th, with video), corroborated by Michael Lyttle who also flagged John White's 250th; Mark Scarborough (Wöhrder See parkrun, Nuremberg, his 50th different parkrun course, with Amanda the Riverbank ED there); Heather Hunter (Albert Melbourne parkrun with almost 700 others, 55 first-timers, photo with Albert the Black Swan; adventurer Thomas Martin first finisher); Sue Smith (mini Frond at Chipping Norton's 200th, plus Andrew in his new adventurers singlet); Claire Corkill (cupcakes for Jack Corkill's 250th at Mt Penang).

• Episode 354 - It’sa Mario

  Skipped this week. Ollie: "We'll keep it a bit light this week because I haven't done my homework. And it's a busy week. So we will skip Dazza's [Dazza's]. My apologies, Dazza, and to everyone that did attend."

• Episode 353 - Mel’s a dot

  Grand-final-themed listener posts read out by Mel and TOC: Errol Poole at White Rock, Holly Pleasance and six others in tartan at Warwick, Renata Koch at Parramatta's 500th, Margie Lewis and Katie Young tail walking, Carmel Rowe at Mitchelton, Cheryl Loves Raymond back four weeks after a hip replacement for her 150th at Port Macquarie, Chris Gore on the Team Gore send-off at Shipwreck, Joanne Blackbird at Tallangatta Station, and Calum Burrell at Lister Park, Bradford. Winner announced off TOC's post-it note.

• Episode 352 - Black and White Army

  Listener check-ins read out by both hosts, themed around National Week of Deaf People and the International Day of Sign Languages: Rex Gream at Walcha, Ian and Lydia Knox at Braidwood Showground, Gail Roderick completing the unofficial Old MacDonald Challenge at Inverell, Helen Rubin's 300th at The Ponds, Sherry Brandtman at Casula Parklands, Roberta Winters at East Coast Park, Catherine Pirotta at Nulkaba, Paul Whelan (the Viking and the Panther), Hannah Newton and Cathy Crispin.

• Episode 351 - Missing Magpies

  Guacamole Day prompt drew in excess of 162 comments. Posts read out: Holly Pleasance and the encouraging ducks at Warwick parkrun; Lee Cabrita scanning at Parramatta with Sally and Bianca (the Office Lady, Luke and the Ideas Man were there too); Mary DeLuna and the Wagi Bridge Troll at Bishan parkrun, Singapore, with the Scarborough family on their first overseas parkrun and otters crossing the course; Vicky Smith tail walking Maroondah Dam in 72 minutes; Catherine Greenstreet at Picnic Point Parklands during the Toowoomba carnival of flowers; Darren Pead and Lucille completing their third alphabet at Quinns Rocks in Perth; Tracy May at Casnewydd (Newport) in Wales; Belinda Rachel Caffey at Clermont Waterfront parkrun, Florida; and Roberta Winters taking a friend to Scribbly Gums for her third parkrun.

• Episode 349 - Big Swoop

  International Bacon Day week, roughly 180 comments. Read out: Paul Whelan as the Viking at Umbagong District (tourist number 77); Greg Garner finally running Wes Mitchell Park at event six as its ED; Sonja Pohlman back at Warwick parkrun for its 10th anniversary with a re-created back-to-back heel-tap photo with Peter Pohlman eight years apart; Jonathan Morgan park walking at Claisebrook Cove and joining both the Peel Club and the Olly Volley Club; Dan Baldwin at Yodogawa kasenkoen Hirakata chiku parkrun in Japan; and Maria Wicks marshalling at Jersey Farm. TOC opens the envelope from Ollie's desk and draws the winner.

• Episode 348 - Cat Amongst the Magpies

  International Dog Day edition, "We have treats for all the good doggos today." Posts read out from Tracy Leiper (a frond at Dubbo with a cow cape), Ingrid Botha (Paris as Run Director at Dolls Point while Jazz scanned barcodes), Kathy Crispin (breakfast after Dubbo parkrun with Jan Yates finishing her Rundown Under lap of Australia), Pauline Taylor at Kununurra, Cathy Mudge at The Entrance with her dog Harley, David Bravos (daughter Lucy chasing a pack-down volunteer credit), Joyce Adams at Roosevelt Island DC, and Christine Imbert at Rushmere for her 400th parkrun and 250th volunteer.

• Episode 347 - What Windmill?

  World Photography Day edition. Posts read out from Billo (Matthew Billington), with Roberta standing alone under the RD; Brett Bailey at Pegasus in New Zealand, 98 parkrunners in a daffodil theme for a Cancer Society fundraiser on his 150th; Greg Garner timekeeping at Wes Mitchell Park with Tin Can Bay behind; the Office Lady Sam Schroder's plan-E trip to Panania with Luke, Asher and Evie, where Brendan Peel made it after a cancelled flight; Helen Davis's 250th at Frank Keenan; Andrew at Kadina Trail for Dave Allmark's 100th volunteer; Geoff Glaab's 100th volunteer as Tail Walker at Joe Creason in the US; Booz Dayton at Hamsterley Forest with the Gruffalo and Pooh Sticks Bridge; Chris and Karen Gore completing their self-invented Nor'wester Challenge at Hampton Oval; and Andrew Turner's first South African parkrun at Zandvlei. Extra mentions for Joyce Adams posting from Roosevelt Island and Andy Airey's wife's sixth alphabet.

• Episode 346 - Wonder Woman

  This week's Dazza's prompt was Rail Safety Week, theme "Expect the Unexpected", crazy transport adventures to get to a parkrun. Contributors: Graham Wilkinson at Agnew parkrun in the UK (a miniature railway in the park, and Paul St John Hewitt turning up unannounced to volunteer at his junior parkrun); Quizmaster Simon Mackley on a flying trip to Sydney for Dorota's 250th; Kathy Mudge driving to Cobar parkrun en route to the Mundi Mundi Bash near Broken Hill; Andrew Turner at Southsea parkrun in Hampshire; Calum Burrell doing his 99th different location at Fountains Abbey while Lindsay did her 300th volunteering occasion; Johan Duvenhage on Wilna van Eminis going green at Paarl parkrun in South Africa; Greg Moore's son Ruben with a Matildas flag at Phillip Island parkrun; Fiona Hinchliff tail walking at Maitland parkrun; David Ryan's three flights and lost baggage to reach Presint 18 parkrun in Malaysia; and Samantha Roberts's first parkrun in four months without a walking stick, at Yarrabilba.

• Episode 345 - Level 2 with hygge

  The virtual cafe, read by TOC and Mel, with about 190 comments this week. Posts from Bec Bailey (back at parkrun after six weeks, touristing to Studley by tram and bus), Jo McLean (Mt Penang with friends, cake for Natalie Wilson's 100th plus birthdays), Susan Rodak (San Remo, park walking with her VI son Fred while Dexter scanned barcodes), Joyce Adams (first Australian parkrun at Studley), Andrew Yateman (Kadina Trail with Alan Raven and Dave Allmark), Janet Reid (fifth birthday at Pakapakanthi with fellow EAs Alicia and Kate and RA Greta, plus Alicia's puppy Mitch completing his first 5K), Sherry Brandtman (RD with the volunteer crew) and Cherie Martin (Run Director debut at Wynnum in an L-plate).

• Episode 344 - Guess Who?

  155 comments this week. The hosts read a selection: Sonja Pohlman (a Frond packed into a car for park faffing at Newy, Peter, Sonja and Oscar Pohlman, Sam and Luke Schroder, Melissa and Caro Vos); Martine Barrot at Umbagong District with Andrew Johnston, Stephen and Val Warwick; Roberta Winters at Zillmere with Cherie, the Viking Paul, Coppo and Tony; Helen Davis at Nolen's Park; Margie Lewis at her parkrun; "Booze Dayton" completing her 200th and her partner's 50th at Allerpark parkrun, Wolfsburg, Germany; Jackie Hancock at Pegasus parkrun, New Zealand, for a midwinter Christmas; Alison King in a one-degree frost; and Johan Duvenhage from South Africa, with one of his ethereal photos.

• Episode 343 - Favourite Things

  A selection of posts from the Saturday-morning Dazza's Facebook thread, this week coinciding with Tutu Day and Christmas in July. Erica Leota wore her Ugly Christmas Singlet for Weipa's seventh birthday; Belinda Taylor reported adventurers turning out for Jill Gardiner's 500th at Zillmere; Lee Cabarita went to Wentworth Common with Sally, Bianca and Dave; Marg Prowse marked her 200th parkrun and 50th volunteer tail walking at Wallaby Track; Janice Whittle had frost and minus two at Inverell (with her dog Keegan in a red tutu); TOC combined the Ugly Christmas Shirt and a red tutu and was RD at Inverloch after his European trip; Samantha Roberts was at Ecco Ripley for their second birthday; Jo McLean had RD duties at The Ponds with a snow machine; Barbara Doby wore two tutus at Wentworth Common between FIFA WWC volunteering shifts; Karen Hurrell celebrated her sixth parkrun birthday tail walking at Haigh Woodland in north-west England; Maria Wicks toured to Canons Park; Geoff Glaab tail walked with his family (and Pepper the dog) at Joe Creason in the USA; and Janet Reid posted from "the mothership" Lochiel.

• Episode 340 - Homework

  The Office Lady's weekly recap of what adventurers posted in the Dazza's group, milestones (Sue Smith's 100th at Chipping Norton, Lee Cabarita's 100th Parramatta parkrun, Carmel Roll's 250th, Chris Gore's 350th and number-one token at Shipwreck), a course record for Thomas Martin at Mernda, Chris Fraser's PB on the new Shellharbour course, Heather Morgan's Compass Challenge at Westerfolds, Alison King completing the final North Island event at Waitangi, plus volunteering and travel shout-outs from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa and the UK. Closes with a welcome to first-time poster Jason Andrews.

• Episode 339 - West Side Story

  Sam Schroder ("the Office Lady") stands in for Melissa Ellis and delivers the weekly milestone/attendance round-up in parkrun alphabetical order, covering 20 of the 25 available letters, and sets the listener challenge to get to a parkrun starting with A, E, J, I or U.

• Episode 338 - Hitch ’em up

  Melissa Ellis's second run at the weekly Dazza's shout-out recap, reading roughly 60 listener posts from parkrun day, Australia (Parramatta, Casula Parklands, Wentworth Common, Coombs, Westerfolds, Airlie Beach, Edinburgh Oval, BVRT, Shellharbour's ninth birthday, Mudgee, Marriott Waters, Picnic Point Parklands, Woy Woy, Cairns, Redcliffe, Yarrabilba, Penrith Lakes, Campbelltown, Narooma Wetlands, Picton, Mildura Weir, Forster, Wagga, Newy, Woodlands Historic Park, Churchill, Henry Kendall Reserve, Kilmore Racecourse Walking Track, Southern Highlands, Dawesville, Dixon Field, East Richmond, Sunbury, Stockton, Nightcliff, Surfers Paradise, Bishan), New Zealand (Pegasus, Puarenga) and further afield (East Coast, Durban Point, Durham, Hafan Pwllheli, Burnage, Zandvlei, Świnoujście, Thousand Hills, Ekebergsletta), closing with the week's volunteers.

• Episode 337 - Interference

  Mel's written recap of the week's posts, themed around World Bicycle Day: Linda Coombes nottying at Birdsville with Warwick friends, the Office Lady and Luke also in the outback town, David Bravos on the Merri Creek Trail with Lucy at Coburg, Claire Corkill at Blue Gum Hills, Sherry Martin at Minnippi, Billo and Roberta Winters fronding at Yass, Erica Leota at Glenoma, the Quizmaster at Fodder Forest, Chris Fraser regaining his statesmanship, Sherry Bradman at Wentworth Common, Chloe Bravos at Shelley, Martine Barrot and Andrew Johnston plane-watching at Woodlands Historic Park, Bec Bailey at Sandon Point, Carmel Roll at West Beach, Patricia Smith at Scribbly Gums Conservation, Ingrid at Mossman, Caveman Cam, Karen Campbell at Central Lakes, Lyndell leading the frond at Fodder Forest, Jo McLean at Broadbeach Waters, Anne Fry at Pakapakanthi, Holly Pleasance at Warwick, Cherie Cottle at Newy, Felicity Castellan at Inverloch; then New Zealand (Alison, Axel at Tauranga, Tanya at Pegasus, Brett), and further afield TOC at Ziegelwiese, Natalie Soper at Richmond Olympic and Calum Burrell at Somerdale Pavilion. Weekly volunteers named, and the broadcast closes with the recurring 'Steve's bike' mystery post, "I love a day named after me", teasing a Victorian parkrun with a large wall that Ollie can't place and TOC solved.

• Episode 336 - Kagerzoomie

  National Reconciliation Week edition, adventurers wrote in naming the traditional lands they ran, walked or volunteered on. Mel Fletcher's 250 and partner Stu's 50; Richard and Sally; David Bravos testing his ankle on Wurundjeri/Woiwurrung land; Claire Corkill and Joe McLean; RD Bec Bailey; Andrea Booth; Sonja Pohlman; Bernadette Bennett; Andrew Johnston and Martine Barrot; Jonathan Morgan; Jodie Maisie; Billo; Georgina Devine; Monty Slade. The last word goes to Spencer from Yarrabilba parkrun, who reads his run-brief acknowledgement of the Yugambeh people and explains that Yarrabilba comes from the Bundjalung language for 'a place of song'.

• Episode 335 - Soldier’s Five

  The Office Lady (Sam Schroder) delivers the week's Dazza's rundown as a "Soldier's Five", a short five-point brief, which is where the episode title comes from. Highlights: Anne Fry back RDing after appendix surgery; Dawn Branton and Parth Bommakanti meeting Fluffy at Nambour; a frond of six at Picnic Point Parklands; Caro Vos and Cherie Cottle becoming Greater Newcastle regionaires; Chantelle Hosking and Christine Imbert meeting at Tokoinranta in Finland; Heidedal parkrun's sixth birthday; a run of "zoomies" photos and TOC's question about left-arm-up zoomies in the Northern Hemisphere; and the week's most-reacted post, her own, about Vicky finishing Rundown Under at Picton.

• Episode 334 - parkrun Voyager

  A cut-down "Dazza's lite" of listener milestone shout-outs: Cherie Cottle at UWA photographing the koi pond, Paul Whelan's 71st location at Karoola Park with two events left for the region of runners, Claire Winozik missing stopwatch bingo by two seconds at Winnard Woodland, Calum Burrell completing his compass challenge at Henley Wood parkrun in Oswestry, and get-well wishes to Anne Fry, who coordinated volunteers from behind the scenes after an emergency appendectomy.

• Episode 333 - Corgi Butt Buns

  No full Dazza's this week, only notable mentions pulled out by Simon: Catherine Green Street catching the bridge raised at Whangarei; Susan Roddick with four or five parkrunners in adventurers shirts; Tanya Bailey, who dressed Brunner as a corgi; Jackie Hancock at Pegasus, where a Star Wars Day / tutu / coronation triple-up saw her hand out tokens as R2-D2; and Holly Pleasance with the Corgi Butt Buns from the Corgi Cafe near Ashgrove in Brisbane, the item that gives the episode its title.

• Episode 332 - Severn Swather

  The segment itself is skipped for the second week running ("Once again, we're going to skip over Dazza's. Sorry, Dazza"), but the hosts pull out two items from it: the 500th event at Pakapakanthi parkrun in South Australia, where Medibank's travelling lounge event made breakfast television and the nightly news; and Dan Baldwin, a West Australian, completing the Baywatch Challenge (nine Australian events with "bay" in the name, Batemans Bay, Cormorant Bay, Fingal Bay, Geographe Bay, Hervey Bay, Horseshoe Bay, Jurien Bay Foreshore, Largs Bay and Redland Bay), which the hosts turn into a challenge for themselves.

• Episode 329 - Winter Waffle

  Mel hands over with "we're going to move straight on now to Dazza's". Appropriately for International Waffle Day, Dazza asks whether listeners are dessert-breakfast or savoury fans. Visitors: Jack Corkill (first-timers' briefing at a wet Maitland parkrun); Claire Corkill (region of Runners tick-off at Maitland plus stopwatch bingo after 269 runs); Sarah Jefferson (stopwatch bingo after 258 runs, pancakes at home); Samantha Roberts (returned to Coomera parkrun after nearly three years); Georgina Devine (Avondale University College parkrun's second birthday, her 10th location, first single-lap course, finished on a slip and slide); Greg Garner (a knotty, the 12km trail run at the Yandina 5.0); Roberta Winters (Nutella waffles after her first international parkrun at Bushy, her 100th parkrun with 1,155 others); Lynette from Cobram (volunteering at Eynesbury Heritage Trail junior parkrun with Sarah, Al and three grandsons); and Anne Fry (Robin's 25th volunteer and 100th on course at Shiraz Trail parkrun).

• Episode 328 - Sterkte

  Sleep-themed week for Sleep Awareness Week. Posts read out: Joss Fussell at Lancefield with a homemade artwork from friends celebrating parkrun and new baby Molly; Chris and Karen Gore finishing their UK holiday at Bushy parkrun in the rain; Catherine Pirotta volunteering at Werrington Lakes Reserve; Chantal Hosking at Singleton nominating the largest sundial in the Southern Hemisphere as a big thing; Christine Imbert at Etna parkrun in Sicily with its trekking/trail/MTB-shaped selfie frame; Martine Barrot at the return of Lancefield parkrun after a five-month pause, with Andrew Johnston riding a Diprotodon; and Tim Robbins at East End parkrun in New Plymouth after the WOMAD Festival.

• Episode 327 - Off Script

  Ollie opens "it's time for Dazza's. It's back after a week's break", the week's prompt was International Women's Day (theme #CrackTheCode). Contributors read out: Holly Pleasance (broken-down car, aparkrun instead), Greg Garner, Alison King from New Zealand at Puarenga, Jodie Maisie at Darwin, Val Warwick on a Hobart frond with Richard and Sally, Gary Holland on the Brightwater tunnel of love, Dave Allmark with a quokka on Rottnest, Linda Brown at Inverloch, Carolyn McRae in the snow in Norway, Helen Rotter at Stockley Country in the UK, Johan Duvenhage at Grey Goose, and Lee at Parramatta parkrun's 10th birthday.

• Episode 326 - Song sung blue?

  Declared on hiatus for the week- because the episode was overflowing with contributed content, but one post was still covered at the end: Bill Ellis commented on the Dazza's post in lyrics, and Ollie, having identified the tune with the help of GPT, sings his version about Jerrabomberra Mountain ("I ran up Jerrabomberra Mountain where the little breezes blow ... all for a J and a prime"). This is the source of the episode title "Song sung blue?".

• Episode 325 - Wake up, Jodi!

  International Sword Swallowing Day edition. Contributions from Jodi Maisie (50th volunteer at Kirkdale Reserve, with Brendan Peel), Cameron Drake at Bibra Lake, Andrew Turner chasing TOC's lead bike at Maribyrnong on a Fibonacci attendance of 377, Jacqui O'Connell at Inverloch, Janet Reid at Moana, Jo McLean at Warrington Lakes Reserve, Tamsin Smith RD-ing at Southampton, Geoff Glaab at Joe Creason (daughter Charlotte's 50th volunteer), and a late entry from Michael Blain pacing Mitchelton and RD-ing Des Connor junior parkrun. Prompts a discussion of the lead bike role being removed from the volunteer roster.

• Episode 324 - Radio prA

  Cafe to the Stars listener check-ins: Val Warwick marshalling at Bells Parade with an aurora over the river in Tasmania; Sam Schroder's Pride frond squadron zoomie at Husky; David Bravos touristing at Mangemup parkrun in WA with daughter Lucy while wife Chloe slept in; Caro Vos at the big sundial, Singleton; Lee Cabarita and Sally closing in on the Rayfarers Challenge at East Richmond; Jan Yates's first zoomie at the Terrace; Lynne Ann on the big strawberry at Koonoomoo; Johan Duvenhage from Clarens parkrun in South Africa on a new route climbing to 1,912m (the year the town was founded); Claire from the UK at Maryport Prom after her New Zealand cruise was cancelled; and Stephen Jackson on a record 511-finisher Bathurst parkrun driven by the World Cross Country championships.

• Episode 323 - Big Things

  Latte day at Dazza's, and the segment is "at capacity" - so many posts the hosts had to cut it short. Contributions from Brett Bailey (Pegasus, NZ, Valentine's run), Yvette Turner (100th event attended at Gungahlin, event 444), Holly Pleasance (Toowoomba event 222), Natalie Soper (Balyang Sanctuary, finishing a 50-parkrun tourist streak), Joe McLean (RD at The Ponds for 592 parkrunners), Carmel Roll (Central Lakes event 333), Val Warwick (George Town), Bill Ellis (Shellharbour, hunting for Ollie who wasn't there), Karen Hurrell (Rendlesham Forest, UFO country), Chris Gore (Itchen Valley Country, completing the namely challenge) and Helen Davis (Weymouth, Dorset, with Christine Imbert).

• Episode 322 - Rise of the Machines

  Ollie: "But, Mel, I think it's time for Dazza's [Dazza's]". This week's prompt was ice cream for breakfast day, check in with your parkrun morning and your favourite ice cream flavour. Posts read out from Martine Barrot (Euroa parkrun back after its flood pause, with Andrew Crouch), Richard (Michael Gentle's half-cow at Avondale University College), Thomas Martin (Western Wanderers challenge at Altona Beach), Karen Hamilton (capitalist status at Umbagong District parkrun, with John Graham, Will Barlow, Brendan Peel and Jodie Maisie), Bill from Goulburn (capitalist at Tuggeranong), Heather Hunter (aparkrun up Diamond Head Crater, Hawaii), Michael Sharp (The Beaches, prompting a callback to Peter Pohlman's "3, 2, 1, parkrun" start call), Christine Imbert (snow and Zumba in Krakow, Poland), Helen Rutter (a Bailey celebration in North Wales), Dennis Peden (the Tough Dadders at The Ponds for Jeff Robinson's 250), Graham Wilkinson (Strathclyde and Stirling junior) and Stephen Jackson (Wentworth Common with the Sydney Striders).

• Episode 321 - GO!

  Ollie: "Well, Mel, I think it's time to catch up at Dazza's." The week's prompt is International Lego Day, "Can you click together a block of a story filled with the colour of a parkrun day?" Contributors read out: Catherine Pirotta (volunteering, new red vest), Mark Scarborough (most likes; James's 100th with the Wagyu [Wagga] Bridge Troll), Sue Keane (Southern Highlands Botanic Gardens), Sarah Jefferson (Oaklands Estate Reserve first birthday, alphabet completed), Julie Doolin (tail walking at Broken Hill Racecourse with Charlie), Johan Duvenhage (from South Africa, with Bruce and Gill Fordyce visiting), Graeme Wilkinson (Springburn, Glasgow), William "Bill" Ellis (Newy's 500th) and Jonathan Morgan (Precinct 18 parkrun Putrajaya, Malaysia).

• Episode 320 - Summer Holidays

  Listener check-ins read by both hosts: Phil Olson at Wanaka (the #ThatWanakaTree photo), Richard touristing at Curl Curl with Chloe and David Bravos also there, Ingrid Botha barcode scanning at Dolls Point, Helen Davis at Calembeen (Creswick) event 2 with her new "Pooper Scooper" event-number-two challenge, Heather Hunter's 60th different event, Rebecca Bailey's volunteer trifecta at Shellharbour, Josephine Moon's 250th at Ashgrove, Michael Sharp run directing, Cherie Cottle at Henry Kendall Reserve, Susie Hempsel at Kelvin Grove, Johan Duvenhage in South Africa, Lynette Ann at Bushy in minus three degrees, and Damiano Le Negro's PB at Calembeen. Hosts note a lot of first-time posters ticking off challenge cards.

• Episode 319 - Alphabet Ears

  This week's Dazza's question: "Hey, Rachel, where's the best park faff this weekend?" Contributions read out from Jack Corkill (Puarenga parkrun, NZ - "the Smelly parkrun" - meeting Alison who was run directing), Barbara Luther (Rockhampton, celebrating sister Dot's 250th at 75), Sam Schroder (Picton parkrun with Luke, who tried barcode scanning for the first time), Sarah Jefferson (250 events at University of WA in the 250 regalia), Karen Hamilton (boss's vest and megaphone at Shellharbour with Darwin), Erica Liotta (Bargara, eight hours' driving and a flat tyre, arriving seven minutes late), Helen Rutter (Lordship Recreation Ground, London - 150th different event), Johan (Living Colour), Chris Gore (Shelley parkrun, WA) and an emailed entry from Sarah Langley (Shepparton's ninth birthday, then Aintree Juniors' second birthday).

• Episode 318 - parkrun, if you’re listening

  Listener check-ins read out by both hosts: Phil Olson (first Southern Hemisphere parkrun, Hamilton Lake NZ), Daryl Smith (daughter Charlotte's milestone, the travelling Smith family at Queanbeyan), Samantha Roberts (Greenbank's event number 200 and her own "hundreds challenge"), Jack Corkill and Claire (Burley Griffin, the morning after their wedding, where they had their first date), a pre-recorded message from Janet at Lochiel, Chloe Bravos (South Beach Recreation Reserve), Louise Tilia (Centennial), Johan Duvenhage (Akkerendam Nature Reserve, Northern Cape, plus a VM50-54 age category record), Tracy May (Cosmeston Lakes, Wales), Juliet Colville (100th parkrun and 50th volunteer at Cheadle Hulme) and Josephine Moon (Elliott Heads Beach).

• Episode 317 - The Office Lady Option

  Sam runs the Dazza's read solo. She notes Dazza opened at special times over the festive season (Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Boxing Day for two adventurers in Poland, New Year's Eve and New Year's Day) and that the Monday-night Facebook albums return on 9 January. Posts read out: the Bailey family in New Zealand (Brett, Tanya and Bec, Bec at Broad Park and then Pegasus on Christmas Day); "M", who wore blue at Kirra parkrun for two police colleagues killed on duty before Christmas, with the show adding its own thanks to serving officers; Claire Stutchbury and Jack Corkhill's 2.45am start for Queen Elizabeth parkrun at Casino then Lismore; the hosts themselves (Ollie RD at Shellharbour on Christmas Eve, Mel at Lake Wallace and Toolern Creek); Carmel Roll (Bargara, then the southbound tilt train from Bundaberg); Andrea Booth (Ovens River Trail at Myrtleford, Rosebud, photographer at Dawson Recreation Reserve); Jackie (Shiraz Trail and Torrens in SA); TOC (two events in SA with Jackie and Mel, plus post-parkrun faff at the Lochiel Park "mothership" with Janet); and Michael Sharp's handstand-in-a-wave photo from The Beaches.

• Episode 316 - InSantagram

  Christmas edition, themed "show us your uglies, welcome to Dazza's where ugly is the new black". Posts from Bec Bailey (Pegasus parkrun 300th, NZ, most likes), Jo McLean volunteering at The Ponds, Tracy Jensen's 50th volunteer and a PB at Portland, Belinda Taylor at St Lucia celebrating Janice's Queensland States lady status, Lisa Atkinson at Fodder Forest, Johan Duvenhage on his Beskutfontein trail run, Jen Arney at Bathurst where the Tail Walkers were married straight after parkrun, Lynette Anne at Castlemaine, Tamsin Smith at Weymouth (UK), Geoff Glaab at Joe Creason (USA), and Parth Bommakanti at Des Connor junior parkrun.

• Episode 315 - Honey Stud

  Let's Hug Day theme ("a 20-second hug releases happy endorphins"). Posts from Steve's Bike (cryptic Harry Potter clue = Voldemort = Shellharbour), Graeme Wilkinson (three and a half hours to Elgin), Richard and Sally (50th location and 50th parkrun at Albert Melbourne), Susan Roddick (son Baxter's PB at San Remo), Chris Rooney (RD at Karkarook in a new ugly visor), Bruce Purdy "the ideas man" (scout takeover at Wallaby Track, 92 participants), Greg Garner (Billy Joel at the G), Brett Bailey (Pegasus number 299, new male course record), Leigh Cabarita (Sally and the ugly gingerbread singlets), Stephen Warwick (RD at Bell's Parade) and Calum Burrell (frond group hug in the snow at Burnage).

• Episode 314 - Records & Legends

  All-abilities themed edition tied to the International Day of People with Disability. Posts read out from Matthew "Billo" Billington (300km drive to Highlands parkrun, 12th straight tourist streaking event), Oliver Spake (most-liked post, Hannah's 50th at Hamilton Island parkrun, and Ollie's shaved beard), Bec Bailey (completed the alphabet at Orange), Caro Vos (VI guiding at Woy Woy), Tracy Leiper (555 at Main Beach), Renee Jackson (Gardiners Creek family trip), Ian Shaw (gingerbread ugly at Jindabyne, ASD sensory walks at Wagga Bridge), Leigh (Parramatta, then axe throwing), Andrew Turner (guiding), Michael Blain (Domain parkrun), Louise Minty (Homestead, WA), Helen Rutter (Pontypridd, UK) and Anne Fry.

• Episode 313 - #getyourfeetwet

  Peanut butter lovers month, crunchy versus smooth. Contributors read out: Carmel Roll (Yowie, Kilcoy), Sonja Pohlman (The Beaches parkrun's eighth birthday, "it takes a lot of little nuts to make a jar of peanut butter"), Errol Poole (Shiraz Trail with his son), Richard in New Zealand (fourth country / world tourist at Western Springs), Claire Stutchbury (250th plus name badge at Umbagong District), Kristy Hill (first go guiding at Jerrabomberra), Heather Hunter (timekeeping as an inflatable unicorn at Forster's sixth birthday), Chloe Bravos (Overlea), Helen Jane Davies (Queen Bee challenge at Burley Griffin), Val Warwick (a frond of four at Bells Parade), Sarah Jefferson (Bunbury, WA), Johan (Melkbosstrand), Karen Hurrell (199th at Haigh Woodland, UK) and Booz Dayton (Wentworth Common, Boobs on the Run).

• Episode 312 - parkrun party

  Oliver Spake: "we should also thank Dazza because it's time to catch up on our good company from Dazza's." The week's theme is International Men's Day. Posts read out from Darren DeGroote (Foster parkrun in the pouring rain after Broad Park was cancelled), first-timers Ian and Lydia Knox (Campbelltown, Lydia's 29th Sydney location), Tony O'Connell ("150 different event today on my 300th run"), Roberta Winters (Jitindira [Ginninderra] parkrun's 500th event), Jack Corkill (Roma, plus a Zoomie Day date suggestion), Paddy Oshimo (marshalling at Shellharbour), Michael Gentle (Tuggeranong, completing all eight ACT events), Liz Currie (first aiders performing CPR at Goulburn parkrun), Graeme Wilkinson (inaugural Erskine Waterfront parkrun in Scotland, Fibonacci Challenge), Christine Imbert (Toyen parkrun, Oslo), Johan Duvenhage (an all-male Loxton parkrun in South Africa after Priska [Prieska] was cancelled) and Tracy May (a muddy Welsh parkrun). Followed by a milestones round-up: Gordon Turner's bingo after 361 runs, Michael Gentle's ACT Territorian, Minky Lee's Peel Club, Monty Slade's V350 and Tracey Wood's V300 at junior parkrun.

• Episode 311 - Green Eggs & Snoods

  Dazza turns the cafe green for Ollie's 250th volunteer occasion. Posts from Kath Atkin (Western Springs, NZ), Natalie Sopa (Hobsonville Point), Bec Bailey (Shellharbour, green tutu and zoomies), Heather Morgan (Coonawarra, joined the Adventurers Club), Sonja Pohlman (mini frond at The Beaches), Bruce Purdy the Ideas Man (Wallaby Track's return after flooding, most-liked post), Joe McLean (marshalling at The Ponds), Michael Schultz (PB at Scribbly Gums Conservation), Chris Gore (great nephew Christian's 50th), Johan Duvenhage (Innibos, South Africa), Helen Rutter (250th at Goole, UK), Calum Burrell (stopwatch bingo at Goole) and Geoff Glaab (Amsterdamse Bos, Netherlands).

• Episode 310 - Cheers

  Opened on this week's "Cheers" theme, "welcome to Dazza's where everybody knows your name and they're always glad you came" (Ollie declines to sing it). Contributions read out from Sonja Pohlman (marshalling at The Beaches, eight sandcastles for their eighth birthday), Paddy Oshimo (100th parkrun tail walking at Shellharbour alongside Luke Schroder), Helen Reeves (three generations in the selfie frame), Richard and Sally (Whalan Reserve, plus a photo from the Cheers Bar in Boston), Johan Duvenhage from South Africa, Pauline Taylor (Goondiwindi), Irene (Chermside with Tracey in a tutu and Chris Fraser), Matthew "Billo" Billington (Ginninderra), Carmel (Bundaberg), Karen McKeon (Frank Keenan Reserve), Helen Rutter (Dalby Forest, UK) and Marg Prowse (100th run at Ballarat).

• Episode 309 - Bruce & Gill Fordyce

  This week's Dazza's prompt was "Zoomies". Posts read out: Claire Stutchbury (volunteering at Mansfield, Queensland in the new purple shirt); Bruce Purdy, most likes, zooming through the finish flags at Nhill; Chantelle Hosking (crossed to Mount Gambier, interviewed by ABC South Australia, completed run around UK and Ireland); Wendy Glen (volunteer 100 and hubby Ross's 50 at Gardiners Creek); Kirstie Ganji (course PB and jump shot at Goldfields Reservoir's third birthday); Kylie Ritchie (Toolern Creek after Ballarat cancelled); Yvette Turner (a squadron of pre-start zoomies at Goulburn); Christine Imbert (Tail Walker at Swakopmund, Namibia, with flamingos overhead); and Ian Shaw's long saga chasing event number 31 for his Wilson index. Catch-up posts from the previous week: Chris Fraser (regaining NSW statesman at Jindabyne Sport and Recreation), TOC (most liked, congratulating Bruce Purdy on Gippslander), Michael Blain (The Beaches after Inverell flooded) and Booze Dayton (first RD briefing at Whalan Reserve).

• Episode 307 - Cops & Robbers

  Dazza's cops-and-robbers-themed prompt: "are you more of a law-abiding citizen or do you have the potential to be a criminal? Would you look as good as Dazza in prison garb?" Responses read out from Calum Burrell (Dazza dressed as a barcode), Claire Stutchbury at Kingscliff, Alison King in New Zealand (son Axel dropped the finish tokens), Bec Bailey at Shellharbour (most likes), Jason Green, Gemma Kajasky and Neil at Mount Isa after a 21-hour Inlander train trip, Chris Fraser at Jerrabomberra, Johan at Brandkop in South Africa, Graham Wilkinson in the UK, Cass Castleton at Tidworth, Peter Pohlman touristing in Melbourne, and Val's leaving-certificate photo look-alike.

• Episode 306 - King Gizzard

  Universal Music Day theme - Dazza asks whether listeners listen to music while running or walking at parkrun. Check-ins from Geoff Glaab (King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, which gives the episode its title), Ingrid Botha at Dolls Point, TOC, Tanya Bailey, Heather Hunter at Coombs, Gemma Kajasky at Centenary parkrun in Clermont, Craig Ryan at Cyril Curtin Reserve, Val Warwick at Tasmania's new Tynwald Park, Joe McLean at Airlie Beach, Belinda Taylor at Waterloo Plains, Chris Gore at Mundy Regional and Helen Rutter from the UK.

• Episode 305 - You’ve Got Mail!

  Listener posts read out under a happy-18th-birthday/park-walk-party theme: Roberta Winters (mini frond at Geeveston), volley Catherine Greenstreet (parkwalker at Robelle Domain), Tony O'Connell/TOC (jump-shot photo, first finisher and an age-category record), Sarah Jefferson (frond, meeting Tracey Wood at Zillmere), Sam Ilsley (50th parkrun), Janet Reid (RD "aboard the mothership" Lochiel, hastily sewn capes in lieu of the missing blue vests), Graeme Wilkinson (Poland, his fourth country), Andrew Reynolds (Bushy with son James, met Paul Sinton-Hewitt), Richard (Sally's 50th at River Oaks, Oakville, Canada), Brett Bailey (Pegasus, NZ), Natalie Soper ("doing a naughty", finishing the Cape to Cape walk in WA) and Jonathan Morgan (Nelson T-shirt at Lochiel event 333).

• Episode 304 - Let Us Entertain You

  AFL Grand Final-themed edition; Dazza's prompt asks for pre-footy parkrun fun and notes the Office Lady is a one-eyed Swans supporter. Contributions read from Ollie (Bula from Fiji, ugly singlet by the pool, top of the ledger for likes), Tim Robbins (NZ), Lee Cabarita (Parramatta), Roberta Winters (Echuca Moama), Chris Gore (wife Karen's 250th), Jo McLean (Whalan Reserve), Caro Vos (Durban Point, South Africa), Richard (Frederick Back, Montreal), Helen Rutter (Roosevelt Island, DC), Joanne Blackbird (Portland) and Christine Imbert (Rimini, Italy).

• Episode 303 - Home on the range

  Country Music Day theme, Dazza's joke is that country music played backwards gives you your dog, truck and wife back. Posts read out: Claire Stutchbury (Eminem "guess who's back"), Jack Corkill back after a four-and-a-half-month hiatus at Stones Corner, first-timer Craig Ryan at Gardiners Creek, NZ 250th milestones for Chantelle Hosking (Owairaka) and Tim Robbins (Greytown Woodside Trail), Patty Shymitzek at Shellharbour, Jacqui O'Connell with naughty number 817 at Inverloch, Bruce Purdy ("the ideas man") on cow punk, Emma Nico at Kirra, Johan from South Africa with a "Home on the Range" parody, most-liked post from Sam Schroder at Curl Curl, Michael Sharp with a John Denver riff and an upside-down flag photo from The Beaches, Caro Vos at Somerset West, Helen Rutter at Delaware and Raritan Canal, Christine Imbert completing stopwatch bingo at University Parks Oxford after 341 parkruns, and Louise Minty at Rock Creek Trail, Portland.

• Episode 302 - Lined Up

  Share Ideas Day theme. Contributions from Adrian Hillyer, Bruce Purdy (the "ideas man", proposing a Bunnings parkrun with barcode scanning at the checkout and a post-parkrun snag), Melissa Ellis herself (most likes, for a Yowie parkrun photo with Ron Grant), Renee Jackson and daughter Abby at Wyndham Vale, the Office Lady Sam Schroder from Picton PB week, Ian Shaw at Jerrabomberra Mountain Reserve, Steve's bike (200th parkrun, and hinting at retirement), Mark Scarborough as RD at Wagga Bridge, Tony O'Connell dressed as the Flash with Jacqui O'Connell as Robin, Calum Burrell's 250th run alongside Lindsay Burrell's 250th volunteer at Burnage, Christine Imbert at Church Mead, Graham Wilkinson at Albert (two-minute silence for Queen Elizabeth II before the Great North Run), and Michael Scott at Avondale University College.

• Episode 301 - Thumbs Up

  Listener check-ins read out: Claire Stutchbury (241st run at Minnippi), Em Nico (RD at Kirra in the rain), Bruce the ideas man (Wentworth Common with Donna), Tim Robbins (Kiwi debut at Porirua), Luke Schroder (Goulburn at Marsden Weir Park), Samantha O'Connor (Lake Mac in the pouring rain), Helen Reeves (a friend's 250th), Bernadette Bennett (granddaughter's 100th cake at Stockton), Helen Rutter (pacing 35 at Cannons Park, UK), Richard (Duffin's Trail, Pickering, Ontario), Monty Slade (Chippenham Fields, Monmouth) and Steve's Bike.

• Episode 300 - Tricentennial

  International Banana Day prompt, "did you include bananas in your pre or post parkrun morning?" Contributions from Nathan Castle, Isaac Hill (PB at The Entrance parkrun), Alison King in New Zealand (marshalling with son Axel), Steve Spike (Chelsea/bicentennial pun), Johan at Bronberrik parkrun in South Africa, Val Warwick (first time RD-ing), Chris Fraser (a home 5k of 250 hallway laps while isolating with COVID), Richard in Oakville Ontario, Geoff Glaab at Joe Creason with dog Pepper, Christine Imbert tail walking at Malahide parkrun in Dublin, and Paris Lawrence walking with friend Leanne. Melissa Ellis also reports spotting a car with a personalised DAZZA number plate on the Hume Freeway.

• Episode 299 - Buzz Buzz

  Opened "at Dazza's [Dazza's] this week" with the prompt "It's World Honeybee Day. Did Honey make an appearance in your pre- or post-parkrun breakfast?" Contributors: Tony O'Connell (most likes, from the conference), Sarah Dee (rainbow at Port Arlington), Alison King (tail walking at Kingscliff with Janet Reid), Roberta Winters (alphabet U at Umbagong, regained ACT statespersonship), Steve ("beezy doing an ollie"), Heather Hunter (finally got to Zillmere on the sixth attempt, completing her alphabet), newbie Margaret Love (Forster NSW), Greg Garner (first parkrun in three months at Stones Corner), Kelly Smale (family volunteer morning at Stebonheath), Helen Rutter (UK, son's 50th at Flatts Lane), newbie Yvette Turner (quarter cow at Umbagong) and Andrew Turner (Upton Court with views of Windsor Castle).

• Episode 298 - Not Flat

  Theme: International Left-Handers Day. Check-ins from Joe Richards ("bow down to the left handers of the world"), Richard from Sippo Lake in Ohio celebrating becoming an international parkrunner, Brett Bailey at a frosty minus-two Pegasus in New Zealand with his "Lady Di moment" see-through tutu photo, Peter Pohlman with a left-handed wave from the volunteer crew at The Beaches parkrun, Steve's bike with a cryptic ("the broth was spoiled"), first-timer Helen Rubin who met Mel and Ollie at Cooks River, Chloe Bravos at Abbey parkrun with Lucy and the Noongar seasons, Michael Gentle's all-left-turns account of touristing at Umbagong District parkrun, a post from Umbagong District parkrun itself, Val Warwick's frond report from Bell's Parade parkrun in Tasmania, Sue Keane getting her NENDY at Southern Highlands Botanic Gardens parkrun ahead of her 250, first-timer Catherine Green Street volunteering at Highfields, and Helen Rutter at Whitley Bay in the UK with an "ultra parkrun" of 3.26 miles and brekkie in a waltzer.

• Episode 297 - The one when Mel sings

  Themed "It's Wiggle Your Toes Day". Posts read out from Claire Stutchbury (25th volunteer milestone at St Lucia), Tracy Leiper (Nightcliff, northernmost Australian parkrun and first in the NT), Matthew Billington (RD at Albury Wodonga, flagging Fibonacci event-number dates), Samantha Roberts (Varsity Lakes, swans), Chloe Bravos (Lake Joondalup, matching shirts - prompting Mel's research aside on the six Noongar seasons), Barbara Luther (Lota - Roger's 350th parkrun and 100th Australian event), Jodie Maisie (50th parkrun at Kirkdale, which Mel attended), Chris and Karen Gore (Claisebrook Cove 10th anniversary, first parkrun in WA) and Graham Wilkinson (Stormont, Northern Ireland, with a dad joke).

• Episode 296 - Hot and Gold

  Prompted by Stephen Jackson's email, Melissa Ellis first explains the segment's origin: Dazza is a concrete Buddha statue at her front door whose real name is Daryl, which she dressed in a themed costume for a weekly selfie during lockdown Not parkruns, and who became the face of the show's virtual cafe. The week's theme is International Friendship Day, with posts from Brett and Tanya Bailey (and dog Brunner) at Pegasus, Sonja Pohlman at Varsity Lakes, Paris Lawrence at Fingal Bay with Roberta Winters, Joanne Blackbird at Willow, Julie Turner and Liz at Shellharbour, Karina Campbell at Ashgrove, Johan in South Africa, Michael Scott at Southern Highlands Botanic Gardens, Helen Rutter at Crane Park, Alison King at Stratford-upon-Avon and Tim Robbins at Eden Project.

• Episode 295 - Aidan Hobbs

  Ugly Christmas in July edition. Posts from Andrew Johnston and Martine Barrot at Aurora parkrun; Rebecca (Bec) Bailey, who drove 1,000 km, got her eye and added Victoria to her Peel list at Inverloch then marshalled at her first junior event; Tanya Bailey filling in as Timekeeper at Pegasus, NZ; Brendan and Em timing at the parkrun that cannot be named; Mary Geluna at the Ponds; Johan Duvenhage at Innibos, South Africa, with new rescue dog Jason as Tail Walker; Tim Robbins at Lovstien parkrun in Bergen, Norway; Will Barlow returning a lost trolley to Aldi in ugly shirt and buff; and Nadine Crawford at Daventry parkrun, hosted by Derek Munro with the Australian national anthem at the brief and Waltzing Matilda at the 1K mark.

• Episode 294 - the new U

  Returns after being cut from last week's episode. This week's prompt: "Dazza double dares you to do good deeds today" - share your most angelic, kind-hearted, fine-avoiding moves at parkrun. Contributions read out from Rebecca (Bec) Bailey (PB and first female), Sonja Pohlman (kept home by a migraine, sent a photo of her cat Neville Longbottom), Michael Sharp at The Beaches, Samantha O'Connor (RD at Avondale, with a Photoshopped koala), Carol Pryle (250th at Hamilton with cake and cupcakes), Johan Duvenhage (RD in South Africa), Tim Robbins (Irish debut at Malahide), Chloe Bravos (Applecross, WA), Helen Davis (Bushy Park), Kath Atkins (Marlborough Common, UK), Christine Imbert (her Freyne at Rendlesham Forest), Graeme Wilkinson (Fort William) and Bernadette Bennett (staying home post-isolation).

• Episode 293 - Hackers

  Ollie sets it up- with the week's Dazza's prompt: "It's wet and cold at Dazza's [Dazza's] today. How's the weather at your place? And did it have an impact on your parkrun fun? Come on in and tell us all about it", and notes "a lot of people joined us once again". The read-out is then hijacked by The Informant, who imposes "a work band [ban] on Dazza's": "for this week, your Dazza's report will be a self-driven read of the Facebook page. You'll see every post and every photo. The productivity improvement." No individual contributors are named on air as a result.

• Episode 292 - Floods, Cows & Milkshakes

  NAIDOC-themed edition: "Come on in and tell us where did you show up today?" Contributors include Steve's Bike (home in bed with flu, Ollie correctly guessing the clue), Bruce Purdy (most likes - North Sydney, ticking off the north for the compass, and the surprise meeting with Ollie), Geoff Glaab (Canada Day at Victoria Park parkrun Kitchener plus a second Canadian event with Pepper), Michael Gentle (too wet and cold), Sonja Pohlman (volunteering at The Beaches, flag last seen heading for New Zealand - plus a photo of Peter with a backwards flag, earning a fine), Roberta Winters (Ginninderra parkrun), Dawn Brampton (Jurassic parkrun, PB by five minutes), Chris Aruz, first-timer Felicity Castellan (Varsity Lakes), Tanya Bailey (New Zealand, cars and gin), Johan (Namibia) and Graham Wilkinson (Crathes Castle, Scotland).

• Episode 291 - Because

  Global Beatles Day themed edition, with Ollie singing several of the entries. Contributions from Janet Reid, Claire Stutchbury (Beringa), Sam Schroder (Catherine Pirotta's 250th at Penrith Lakes), Mel Erbacher volunteering at Kawana, Sonja Pohlman and Peter Pohlman, first-timer Tara Wakefield, Andrew Johnston, Tracey Wood (frond of five at New Farm), Steve's bike, Christine Imbert (Greater London 59/59) and Cass Castleton (VI guiding Lynn Davies to a five-minute PB at Hove Prom).

• Episode 290 - 98, 99, 100!

  This week's Dazza's theme is parkrun friendships: "one of Dazza's favourite things on Saturday is hearing about all the friendships that you have made thanks to parkrun". Posts read out from Steve Spike (cryptic clue for his arbitrary 50th different parkrun), Ingrid Botha (missing Dolls Point's fifth birthday on day three of isolation), Sam Schroder (on her friendship with Mel, at Southern Highlands Botanic Gardens), Brett Bailey (100th parkrun at Pegasus), Michael Gentle (encore frond at Shellharbour with Chris Fraser handing out free finish tokens), Jacqui O'Connell (Dolls Point fifth anniversary), Paris Lawrence (200th at Avondale University College), Johan (a Kaapse draai detour to Langebaan parkrun in South Africa en route to Namibia), Renee Jackson (birthday volunteering at Werribee Mansion with daughters Abigail and Hannah), Tracy May (NENDY at Huntington) and Helen Davis (meeting Christine at Hastings, UK). Melissa closes by coining "FINMIs", friends I've not met yet.

• Episode 289 - Lorikeets are Metal

  A big week for Dazza's, themed on National Sausage Roll Day (5 June). Contributors: Steve Spike (parkrun near a former PM's home, Teletubbies turnaround), Karen Hamilton (marshalling with Darwin the rainbow lorikeet at Shellharbour's 80s birthday, playing Iron Maiden, 'lorikeets are metal'), Michael Charlton (NSW Statesman completed at Newy, with partner Tanya), Barbara Luther (sister Gemma's 300th at Gatton), Jeff (Bixby parkrun, Palo Alto, with wife Sarah), Bernadette Bennett (Newy's 10th), Val Warwick (Port Sorell, Super Steve's volunteer 100, Leonie Butler tree-climbing), Natalie (Karkarook, push-up challenge, first-time poster), Johan (Kleinplaas/South Africa with Bruce Fordyce and Gill Fordyce), Karen Hurrell (Roberts Park, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire scoundrel), Graham Wilkinson (Rising Sun, Fibonacci challenge), Sarah Jefferson (Jarrahdale Heritage, WA), Vicky Smith 'Nana' (Port Fairy, first-time poster) and Helen Davis (Zuiderpark, Netherlands).

• Episode 288 - Travel Tips

  Pride Month edition, Dazza asks "Where did you parkrun today?" Contributors: Steve Spike (a cryptic Neil Diamond clue Ollie can't crack); Greg Garner at Golden Beach with a sunrise photo; Irene Bommakanti reporting Parth's 100th volunteer at Lewis Reserve; Chloe Bravos on Fibonacci 34 at Homestead; Richard tail walking at Galston for his 34th; Hannah Newton and James skipping parkrun for Vivid in Sydney; Leanne Reynolds at Seacliff Esplanade (a first-timer, fined $1 for a backwards flag); Helen Davis in Denmark with Danny Norman and the world tourist teddy bear; Chris Seymour at a frosty Queenstown; Luke Schroder's pirate-speak report on becoming pirates with Sam and Patrick; Helen Rutty at Amsterdamse Bos; and Calum Burrell at Jubilee parkrun in the UK for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.

• Episode 287 - Rhubarb Lemonade

  National Reconciliation Week 2022 edition, "be brave, make change", with Dazza asking contributors which country they parkran on. Posts from Michael Gentle (Southern Highlands Botanical Gardens, backwards-flag photo with Paddy), Steve Spike, Chris Ruse (Mount Ainslie), Barbara Luther (husband Roger joins the Cow Club at Stones Corner), Val Warwick (Devonport's seventh birthday), Lee Cabarita (Cronulla), Carol Pryle (Shiraz Trail), Peter Leroux (50th venue at Poznań, ordering a rhubarb lemonade and a St Martin's croissant, the episode's title), Anne Fry (first appearance), Graham Wilkinson (The Pastures, Alnwick Castle) and Hendo Stew (13th country, Netherlands). Janet Reid's order arrives as an audio file, prompting Mel to invite audio Dazza's submissions.

• Episode 286 - 99 Apfelsine Blätter

  Dazza's election-day prompt: "it's election day in Australia. Did your parkrun adventurer include a side trip for a democracy sausage?" Nine check-ins: Michael Gentle at the new Southern Highlands Botanical Gardens event (jokingly "outer Shellharbour" - three fines for Ollie, plus one for Michael's backwards flag); Dave Allmark, Fibonacci number 377, with an autumn-leaves photo; Brendan Schollery volunteering in Victoria, tracked down by the hosts to Wangaratta parkrun from the photo; Melanie McGregor in New Zealand, four of them travelling from Greytown Woodside Trail to Russell Park parkrun for her Wilson Index number seven; Adrian Hillyer, late start and no coffee; Tony O'Connell (Channel 5 News Crew) regaining statespeople with Jack at Werribee Mansion, thanking John Fox for holding the flag the right way round; Chris Gore and Karen Gore, touristing streak number five at Renmark parkrun, Chris's fastest time of the year, another R for Karen's namely challenge; Cass Castleton, sixth alphabet at Yamba after Yowie was cancelled by flooding, joined by Tony Jennings; Johan Duvenhage in South Africa at his home event's fifth anniversary, complete with sausage sizzle; Calum Burrell in the UK marshalling at Duck Poo Corner at Bramhall parkrun with Christine Imbert, fined for a backwards sign; and Renee Jackson at juniors, reporting Abigail's RD debut.

• Episode 285 - Better together

  Ollie "Some people we also need to thank are our visitors to Dazza's [Dazza's], where Dazza this week was all about volunteering." Dazza's prompt is read out in full, tied to National Volunteer Week and the Better Together theme. Visitors: Andrew Johnston (with Martin/Martine Barrot) at Toolern Creek's Festival of Mel; Alison King, tail walking at Paringa with Chrissie for her first parkrun since a January ankle injury, 67 minutes and token 67; Michael Charlton, volunteer number 50 at Nathalia Showgrounds parkrun as Tail Walker, backing up as a Marshal at juniors the next day; Carrow Voss walking guide dog Ebony at Woi Woi [Woy Woy] parkrun; Sonja Pohlman RDing at The Beaches with a sunrise beach-flag photo (plus a nod to Michael Sharp's beach flag shots); Judith Baibo, a first-time poster, tail walking at Batemans Bay for her 100th volunteer occasion; Ingrid Botha, at an inaugural with cows, a preteen and dog Paris; Melanie McGregor with Dion at Otaki River parkrun in New Zealand; Johan Duvenhage at Sasselberg [Sasolburg] parkrun in South Africa; Claire Winojic at Bramley Cowfest in the UK; and Belinda Taylor, a soggy walk at Southbank parkrun in Brisbane and junior volunteering the next day.

• Episode 284 - The Very Very Best Day

  Full segment, 00:21:57-00:30:20. This week's Dazza prompt: "it's naked gardening day. We don't make the rules. Were there nice gardens at your parkrun today?" Posts read out: Brett Bailey (RD at Pegasus, New Zealand - duck shooting season, Star Wars costumes for May the 4th, Darth Vader and Luke Tail Walker); Chris Roos (khaki pacing, a first perfect :00 finish time, one number left for bingo, a reverse flag in the photo); Alison King (parkrun New Zealand's 10th birthday cake baked by RD Megan and decorated by her husband Russell, meeting Rochelle from Willow parkrun); Barbara Luther (350th parkrun and 106th location at Sirame [Sirromet] parkrun, with husband Roger, Pauline Taylor and Russell Taylor - and, Melissa notes, her first time posting in Dazza's, prompting a call for a "first time poster" jingle); Jodie Maisie (Cleveland parkrun with Brendan Peel, new Goodr sunglasses); Sonja Pohlman (volunteering at the fourth birthday of a muddy Nogba/Nalkaba parkrun, visited by Wendy and Ross); Cass Castleton (Yarrabilba for her fifth alphabet, with Simon Mackley in attendance); Johan (post-COVID relaunch of Langenhoven parkrun at a new venue, South Africa); Karen Hurrell and Juliet Colville (both at Cheadle Hulme, UK); Steve's bike (a cryptic clue near a former Olympic site); Pippa White (250th parkrun and 250th volunteer at Trentham Gardens - "The very, very best day"). A closing shout-out to Monty Slade at Fellfoot parkrun with the UK pop-up sign and his adventurers buff.

• Episode 283 - Eman Vergara

  International Honesty Day theme. Posts read out from Maria Tams (met parkrun founder Paul Sinton-Hewitt at Bushy parkrun), Renee Jackson (most likes, Benalla Botanic Gardens after playing footy), Tim Robbins (Ginninderra's 10th birthday), Emniko (child's "emancipation" parkrun at 11), Paddy Shimo (first volunteer role at Picton, got lost as turnaround marshal), Leah Skye (milestone of the week - son Nathan's 25th parkrun and 25th volunteer), Peter Leroux from South Africa (Bapsfontein Hotel with his 18-month-old daughter), Tony Everington (Redland Bay), Steve Spike (cryptic tourism clue aimed at Ollie) and Graham Wilkinson from the UK (Bower Park, Aspatria).

• Episode 282 - Cass Castleton

  Anzac Day edition of the listener milestone shout-outs. Posts from Brett Bailey (Pegasus, NZ, with Brunner the dog), Sonja Pohlman (Roads/Rhodes in Sydney, four Ps together), Rebecca "Bec" Bailey (Shellharbour, fastest time this year, housemate Lance Zelt's PB), Bernadette Bennett (300th parkrun at Muswellbrook, regained Hunter Regionaire), Bruce Purdy (alphabet V at Goolwa, dawn service at Victor Harbor), Steve Warwick (isolating with COVID; Luke and Sam streaked for him), Heather Morgan (Cascades on Clyde), Adrian Homburg (Aurora, PB by 45 seconds), Phil Olson (150th event at Brundle, UK), Geoff Glaab (Joe Creason, USA, 4th birthday and his 50th), and the mystery "Steve's bike" acrostic poem hinting he is heading north.

• Episode 281 - Hoppy Easter

  Easter edition of the cafe bit: Dazza offers spicy apple, cinnamon doughnut, triple choc and sausage roll flavoured hot cross buns instead of "daggy old fruit-filled" ones. Posts read out from Steve's Bike (lead bike, another W and a cow club sighting), Tim Robbins (alphabeteer at Ipswich in a bunny onesie), Claire Stutchbury (Albert Melbourne), Martine Barrot (Hamilton, koala photo), Tanya Bailey (Wanaka, NZ), Greg Garner (30th different event as Tail Walker at Ocean View), Val Warwick (three generations at Geeveston), Janet Reid (Easter Bunny at Lochiel Park), Melissa herself (Paul back at parkrun at Werribee Park Mansion), Helen Runner (Ballincollig, Ireland) and Chris Ruse (RD at Karkarook), who finally settles the pronunciation of his surname.

• Episode 280 - Breakout

  Facebook post round-up. Dazza's prompt was about the relentless New South Wales rain and cancellations. Contributions read out: Steve's bike ("doubting whether West is actually best"); most likes went to Chris Fraser with a then-and-now shot of one parkrun in October 2019 versus April 2022; Chris Royce at Frog Hollow; frond entries from Ingrid Botha (St Peter's, with a 'walk like an Egyptian' chalk drawing) and Andrew Turner (meeting Melissa Ellis at Werribee Park Mansion, doubling his Wilson index); tourist and achiever Karen Hamilton (Mount Ainslie, completing ACT Territorian status); Heather Hunter at Foster; Matthew Billington volunteering as Timekeeper; Brett Bailey at Pegasus, New Zealand; Johan Duvenhage's 7th 'Sea Dunn' pirate achievement at Century City, Cape Town; Helen Rutter at Chopwell Wood in the UK; and Dawn Branton's eight-hour road trip to Cowra.

• Episode 279 - Phil Gore

  April Fool's-themed listener check-ins to Dazza. Contributors: Tanya Bailey (NZ, first-timers briefing and brunch cooked by Brett), Tim Robbins (a "Tracy the Troll" stowaway selfie with Stephen and Jen at Willoughby), Alison King (volunteer 100 as Timekeeper at Puarenga, 100 cupcakes for 55 finishers, a box donated to ICU staff), Bruce Purdy (the hashtag-Ballarat-renamed-to-Victoria-Park April Fool's prank and pacing in a propeller hat), Bec Bailey (Windang clan touristing to Greenway), Isaac Hill (volunteering at the Karoola Park inaugural), Juliet Colville (UK tourist, 25th different event, at a windy Ballarat), Steve Spike (a cryptic "tip of the iceberg"/possum clue) and Christine Imbert (Donau Park parkrun in Vienna).

• Episode 278 - Goldilocks

  Theme, tied to National Ride to School Day: how did you get to parkrun this morning? Contributors include Michael Charlton (drove to Grafton), Brett Bailey from New Zealand (five drove 10km to Pegasus, back after a two-month break), Simon Mackley (800m walk to Main Beach for his COVID-delayed 250th), Chris Fraser (flew in to witness the Quizmaster's 250th, zero stars for an ant bite), Joanne Blackbird (three connecting trains to Williamstown, became a pirate), Andrew Turner (ran 4km to Maribyrnong, 5k PB plus 50th volunteer occasion, reverse flag photo), Carol Pryle (taxi to Hamilton for her last stopwatch bingo number after 234 runs), Steve's Bike's cryptic clue, Lyndell Murray (drove an hour, shuttle bus, ended up at a brewery trail run with no parkrun in sight), Renee Jackson aka Abby's mum (Wyndham Vale, first sub-30 in two years) and Christine Imbert (carpooled to Woodhouse Moor, now nine of the first ten parkruns).

• Episode 277 - Stumped

  Mel and Ollie read the week's Dazza's cafe posts, themed on a few-days-late St Patrick's Day (Guinness chocolate puddings, soda bread, Irish stew with colcannon). Contributors: Bernadette Bennett at Northparkes Oval parkrun; Chris Fraser (private chauffeur to "the sunniest parkrun", two four-star sausage rolls, photo on the stump); Alison King walking 130 metres unaided at her NZ event after her cast came off; Val Warwick from north-west Tasmania, who forgot to film Steve's first RD briefing; Michael Scott volunteering at Lakeview, Newcastle, marking Pete Bartlett's 100th; Greg Garner tail-walking at Noosa with Brendan Peel; Geoff Glaab driving 280 miles to Mansfield, Ohio with dog Pepper; "naughties" from Lee Cabarita (two cancelled events in a row) and Brett Bailey (St Patrick's Day freedom run at Pegasus, then Timaru); Bruce Purdy at Mullum Mullum; Helen Rudder at Ancholme Valley Way, Brigg (prompting a digression on what a Quorn sausage butty is); and Patryk ("Paddy"/"Shimo") reporting from home with 48 parkrunners and celebrity tourists Sam and Luke Schroder. Also a running gag about the art department's poor shamrock artwork. Earlier in the episode Ollie also reads Bec Bailey's and Sam Schroder's Dazza's posts from a very wet Shellharbour.

• Episode 276 - Mooving On

  Dazza's Cafe opened late this week, "management would like to apologise for the late opening of Dazza's Cafe. It would seem all the excitement in Tassie last week has upset our routines." Posts read out: Tanya Bailey at Woodend Beach, NZ; Richard at San Remo parkrun (Sally's 25th milestone, his P-index to six, Moo Moo and Milkshake's first parkrun together); Tim Robbins joining the Compass Club at West Beach with Barbara; Bec Bailey at Sandon Point's 400th; "Steve's bike"; Irene Bombacanti at Broadbeach Waters; Sphinxie; Sonja Pohlman (Peter's 100th volunteer at The Beaches); Chris at Karkarook; Dennis Peden's 500 consecutive days of 5km; and UK tourist Karen Hurrell at Harleston Magpies. Also referenced earlier as having appeared in person at Palm.

• Episode 274 - Johan Duvenhage

  Acknowledged but deliberately not run this week because of the abridged "tempo run pod" format. Ollie thanks everyone who popped into Dazza's and mentions adventurers proudly showing their Adventurers Club membership there, then says "Dazza is being left in Facebook land this week".

• Episode 273 - Falling for You

  "Dazza's love shack" Valentine's Day edition. Posts read out from: Steve's Bike, the mystery adventurer, dropping a third round of cryptic clues (with the sting "if you look for a Steve, you are heading up the wrong path"); Ingrid Botha (most likes) meeting the Wagga Bridge Troll at Menai; Greta Wilkinson on a Mount Barker district athletics takeover day; tourist Helen Davis at Sale; Bec Bailey on organising the Menai frond and tail-walking with Sam; Alison in New Zealand, out of hospital and timekeeping under red settings; Christine Imbert cold and windy at Land's End; Janet Reid celebrating Lochiel's 300th event and first pacer event as RD, with 46 new PBs and no voice left; Phil Olson completing Stopwatch Bingo at Beckenham Place in 260 runs; and Sonja Pohlman's retro Valentine's post.

• Episode 272 - Ercan Boduk

  Abridged Dazza's, opened with "It's too hot for sausage rolls after parkrun in Australia at the moment." Posters read out: Nadine Crawford (all-time PB after nearly seven years, most-liked post), Ingrid Botha (tailwind at Dolls Point), Richard (100th run at San Remo, correcting a mix-up from ep271), Tanya Bailey (Pegasus parkrun, NZ, 5km every day of February), Helen Rutter (50th birthday parkrun at St Helens, first-time poster), Natalie McMullen (pram brake cable snapped, pivoted from North Sydney to St Peters), "Steve's Bike" (an anonymous bicycle poster, 170th parkrun at a mysterious flattish Victorian location, the episode's running mystery), Irene Bumacanti (North Sydney catch-up with the Wagga Bridge Troll), Pippa in the UK (King George V playing fields, green-and-gold tutu, dog Betty) and Lee Caparita (guiding at St Peters).

• Episode 271 - Arise

  Format change week. After a record 32 comments last week made the segment run long, Dazza asks the hosts to bring "the best of the best, the highlights", and Mel gets credit for having called it. The new "abbreviated Dazza's" runs with the hosts taking turns: Greta Wilkinson (third green shirt at Mount Barker), Alison King (Taupo, plus get-well wishes for her broken ankle and helicopter rescue on the Tongariro Crossing), Abigail's mum, Richard (San Remo, chasing his century at Pioneer Dairy), Sam Schroder (Picton), Phil Olson (Henlow Bridge Lakes, UK), Bernadette Bennett (Mount Ainslie), Michael Scott (Wentworth Common), Heather Morgan (first female and fourth overall at Aurora) and Matthew Probst (Sydney complete).

• Episode 270 - The only way is up

  "Welcome to Dazza's geography lesson. Today, we are learning our compass points." A very long directional-themed round of listener check-ins, Bruce Purdy, Chris Fraser, Michael Gentle, Chantal Hosking, Val and Steve Warwick, Richard, Brett/Tanya/Bec Bailey, Bernadette Bennett, Joe Richards, Greta Wilkinson, Mandy Oliver, Simon Mackley (marking 10 years since his first parkrun), Greg Garner, Alison King, Sam Schroder, Tony O'Connell, Lyndell Murray, Tracy Wood, Jack Corkill, Pippa White, Shirley Dell, Nadine Crawford, Ingrid Botha, Janet Reid (flooded out of Yeldulknie at Cleve), Lynette Ann and Phil Olson. Running gag: an implausible number of entries mention Shellharbour, which Mel calls "a conspiracy".

• Episode 269 - Criminal Intent

  Cricket-themed Summer Series edition, pegged to the fifth Ashes test at Bellerive. Contributors read out: Richard (The Entrance, palindrome 6446), Tracy Wood (Kedron, 319 not out), Alison King (RD at Puarenga, parkrun birthday), Phil Olson (UK), Mark Porritt, Abigail's mum (The Entrance, first toilet selfie), Bruce Purdy, Ingrid Botha (99th at Dolls Point), Sam Schroder, Val Warwick, Sonja Pohlman (Beaches run 300, RD Tricia's double ton), Tanya Bailey, Bec Bailey, Brett Bailey, Claire Stachbury, Joe Richards, Helen Jane Davis, Steve Warwick, Greta Wilkinson, Janet Reid, Chantelle Hosking, Andrew Turner (111 "Nelson"), Tamsin Smith and Pippa White. Next week's theme announced as tennis.

• Episode 268 - Geoff Glaab

  A condensed "summer series" edition covering two weeks of listener Facebook posts, with Ollie and Mel each picking a top five and running a sustained cricket metaphor ("the reduced overs of Dazza's", "the big bash version", "five overs", "second innings", "the last ball", "a six off the final ball", "finishing with a century"). Ollie's five: Chris Fraser (the pod's artistic director, back in the Statesman Club after finding an event he lost on 6 February); Isaac Hill (six-hour round trip with his dad to run the original Shellharbour course); Val Warwick (2022 outfit on a hot Devonport morning); Abigail's mum from Deniliquin (ribbing Mel for locking herself in the loo at McLean Beach); Janet Reid (250 milestone with cape, tiara, cupcakes and pizza). Mel's five: Ingrid Botha (RD at Dolls Point); Pippa White (Newbury parkrun on Greenham Common); Sam Schroder (tail walking at The Beaches with the Pohlmans, with Luke running); Roberta Winters (newcomer to Dazza's, Lota parkrun); Mark Scarborough, and Nick and Nicole leading the procession across Wagga Bridge.

• Episode 267 - parkrun spirit

  The Christmas Day edition of the cafe. Melissa Ellis had posted a video herself "rocking the black shades" going for "the rock star Ollie look". Visitors read out include Danny Norman ("Dano", With Me Now), Phil Olson from the UK, Mark Scarborough (marshalling at Wagga Bridge with Angus the dog), Richard (San Remo), Bruce Purdy, Peter Pohlman (P1 and P2 at "Flaccid Balloon" / Main Beach parkrun, first parkrun in 20 weeks), Andrew Turner (RD at Maribyrnong), Claire Stutchbury (Bargara), Suzanne Crane (Kelvin Grove), Val Warwick and Stephen Warwick (both marshalling at Devonport), Alison King (Puarenga, 53 parkrunners and 12 volunteers), Chris Fraser (last run on the Shellharbour OG course), Abigail's mum (RD at Wyndham Vale), Nadine Crawford (Meadowbrook), Bernadette Bennett (Newy, 204 parkrunners), Brett Bailey and Rebecca Bailey, Christine Imbert (Tilgate) and Pippa White (Evesham). Oliver Spake notes it is Dazza's last outing before the break.

• Episode 266 - Tinsel Time

  A long, busy Dazza's on a Monopoly theme carried over from last week, opening with Val's check-in from Devonport describing the sombre parkrun held in memory of Addison after the Tasmanian jumping-castle tragedy. Then a large run of milestone and ugly-shirt check-ins celebrating the return of parkrun to New South Wales, including CJ Gotham, Grette Wilkinson, Tracey Wood, Linda Meredith, Lyndell Murray, Nadine Crawford, Simon Mackley, Bernadette Bennett, Chris Fraser, Heather Hunter, Ingrid Botha, Joanne Ward, Margie Lewis, Matthew Billington, Patrick Shymitzek, Sam Schroder, the Bailey shot (Brett, Bec, Tanya and honorary Bailey Alison King), Claire Stutchbury, Jodie Maisie, Phil Olson, Greg Garner, Bruce Purdy, Chantelle Hosking, Pippa White, Janet Reid from "the mothership" Lochiel, and Melissa Erbacher at Kawana.

• Episode 265 - Advance to Go

  Dazza's message is about self-care at a busy time of year ("you can't pour from an empty cup"). Check-ins read out from Richard (Ginninderra), Michael Scott (Coombs, Fibonacci 144), Alison King, Patrick Shymitzek (Port Kembla), Bernadette Bennett (a Monopoly run around Newcastle), Simon Mackley (Manly and the Mosman course), Sam Schroder, Ingrid Botha, Chris Fraser, Mark Scarborough (birthday), Claire Stutchbury and Jack Corkill (52 events in a row), Abigail's mum, Val and Stephen Warwick (Windsor Precinct, Tasmania), Tracy Wood (Kedron), Janet Reid (Lochiel), Rebecca Scott (Mount Gambier), Brett and Tanya Bailey, Lynette (Euroa), Greta Wilkinson (Mount Barker), Nadine Crawford (Grand Ridge Rail Trail), Jeff Whiffen (Torquay), Jodie Maisie (25th parkrun at Nathalia), Joe Richards, Bruce Purdy (Peppertree), Pippa White, Natasha Littler and Melissa Taylor.

• Episode 264 - Home & Away

  Dazza is tired and yearns for a quiet corner to marshal under a tree near the ocean. Check-ins read out from Richard, Sonja Pohlman, Tanya Bailey, Brett Bailey, Rebecca Bailey, Alison King (100th notty in a row), Sam Schroder, Tracy Wood, Claire Stutchbury, Cameron Drake, Greg Garner, Michael Schultz, Jodie Maisie, Parth Bommakanti, Jeff Whiffen, Chris Hood, Michael Scott, Lynette Anne, and Stephen and Val Warwick, plus milestone celebrations from Greta Wilkinson, Sally Heppleston, Nadine Crawford (250th), Jane Luke, Janet Reid and last week's Obi winner Pippa White.

• Episode 263 - Obi - 100

  Weekly read-through of listener check-ins at the Dazza's cafe thread, themed this week on sausage rolls to match the official Great Aussie Pie and Sausage Roll competition. Contributors read out include Sally Heppleston (Westerfolds), Bruce Purdy (Wallaby Track PB), Jodie Maisie (Hamilton, Brendan Peel's 50th volunteer), Irene Bommakanti, Andrew Turner (Ocean Grove), Lynette Anne (Mansfield Botanic), Helen Reeves (Berwick Waters), Nadine Crawford (You Yangs relaunch), TOC, Chris Fraser (a four-star sausage-roll review), Sam Schroder (Burley Griffin), Claire Stutchbury, Mandy Oliver, Chris Hood, Pippa White, Rebecca and Brett Bailey, Richard, Peter Pohlman, Alison King, Patrick Schimitzek, Val Warwick, Tracy Wood, Greta, Lyndell and Janet Reid.

• Episode 262 - All the good things

  The hosts work through the week's Dazza's Cafe Facebook posts. Contributors read out: Marg Prowse (Wallaby Track), Alison King, Bernadette Bennett (Carrington/Newy), Ingrid Botha (gluten-free doughnut kiosk), Lynette Ann (Castlemaine freedom run), Jodie Mosey (Peppertree), Chris Fraser (North Wollongong), Sally Heppleston (Westerfolds), Patrick Sch(m)itzek (Toolern Creek), Val Warwick and Stephen Warwick (Devonport), Janet Llewellyn-Reed (kids-in-charge at Lochiel), Ruth Denton (Renmark), Mandy Oliver, Tony Everingham (first visit to the cafe), Greta Wilkinson (Copper Trail), Sam Schroder, Jack Corkill (Hervey Bay), Claire Stutchbury, Greg Garner (met Ron Grant at Yowie), Tracy Wood (Bargara), Nadine Crawford and Bruce Purdy (both at Ginninderra), Chantelle Hosking (Burley Griffin), Christine Imbert (parkrun Tampere, Finland), Tanya Bailey and Bec Bailey, and Louise Minty (inaugural South Beach Recreation Reserve, Fremantle). Pippa is given a shout-out for being absent.

• Episode 261 - Back in the ACT

  Dazza stayed home this week and asked for ice cream flavours. Check-ins from Alison King (Paringa, New Zealand's 13th week without parkrun), Tracy Wood (tail walking at Zillmere), Greta Wilkinson (Avenues), Ingrid Botha (Toolern Creek), Sam and Luke Schroder (Tuggeranong), Christine, Janet Reid (Jeff's 250th at Lochiel), the Bailey shop, Rebecca, Tanya and Brett, Claire Stutchbury, Will Barlow, Mandy Oliver (a double-double-double ton at Surfers Paradise), Bruce Purdy, Nadine Crawford (first ACT parkrun and best time in five years at Tuggeranong), Val Warwick, Chris Fraser, Greg Garner (50 volunteers and 50 runs at a third birthday), Bernadette Bennett, Jodie Maisie, Tony O'Connell, Parth Canty, Pippa White (who met Paul Sinton-Hewitt) and Lyndell Murray, whose parkrun was cancelled for wet weather.

• Episode 260 - The Wild Card

  Themed 'Dazza was feeling left out because Mel had taken not parkrun on tour, show him some love'. Check-ins read out from Tracey Wood, Claire Stutchbury, Jess McDougall, Val Warwick, Pippa White (Netherlands alphabet finish plus an age-category record), Janet Reid, Mandy Oliver, Dennis Peden, Rebecca Bailey, Brett Bailey, Alison King, Bernadette Bennett, Peter Pohlman, Nadine Crawford, Lynette Anne, Jodie Mosey, Michelle Carlos, Ingrid Botha, Lee Cabarita, Sam Schroder, Parth Bommakanti and Jacqui O'Connell.

• Epsiode 259 - Hailing TOC

  The Z-themed edition of the cafe check-in. Dazza's own prompt strings together ZZ Top, Ziggy Stardust, Zoolander and Xanadu references, which Melissa decodes for Ollie. Check-ins from Jenny Reidman (23rd at Zillmere as a first timer), Val Warwick (Railton's fourth birthday, twice), Greg Garner (Railway Park's fifth event), Tracy Wood (Highfields), Janet (Lochiel), Chris Fraser, Ingrid Botha, Alison King (locked down in New Zealand, naughty for Wanaka, three to go), Richard (Pioneer Dairy), Peter Pohlman (Lambton and/or Edith), Peter LaRue (a real parkrun in South Africa after 18 months), Rebecca Bailey, Tanya Bailey, Simon Mackley (a marathon to "Manhattan"), Tony O'Connell, Joe Richards, Chantal Hosking, Sam Schroder, Pippa, Bernadette Bennett (finishing her naughty alphabet at Woolgoolga), Bruce Purdy and Nadine. Donna is credited for the Nadine/Bruce gif.

• Episode 258 - Richard McChesney

  Waterfall-themed week at the cafe. Posts read from Mandy Oliver (Surfers Paradise), Greg Garner (100 parkruns at Victory Heights Trail), Louise Minty (Homestead), Cameron Drake, Tracy Wood (Kedron), Pippa White (Henley-on-Thames), Val Warwick (Devonport), Phil Olson, Claire Stutchbury (Mudgeeraba's eighth birthday), Will Barlow, Rebecca Bailey, Brett and Tanya Bailey (Queenstown), Alison King, Ingrid Botha, Bernadette Bennett, Sonja Pohlman, Peter Pohlman (with an explainer on sticker-slapping street art), Andrew Turner (Footscray), Simon Mackley (Greenway), Abigail's mum, Sam Schroder, Tony O'Connell, and a Septober update from Michael Scott.

• Episode 257 - Cottesloe Consults

  City to Surf themed week at Dazza's. Contributions read out from Trent Flesser (Mudgeeraba), Claire Stutchbury (200th run at New Farm), Lyndell Murray (Ecco Ripley), Janet Reid (with Alicia Hopper and Jeff, and the "partners in wine" shirts), Mandy Oliver, Phil Olson, Pippa White, Tracy Wood (South Bank, with the visiting Wagga Bridge Troll), Tanya, Brett and Rebecca Bailey (the week's "Bailey shot"), Chris Fraser, Val Warwick (Devonport lockdown), Melissa Ellis (budgerigars), Peter Pohlman (Wickham suburb sign and a sticker-slapper treasure hunt), Jacqui O'Connell, Bernadette Bennett, Ingrid Botha, Abigail's mum (day 46, Werribee River), Nadine Crawford (Seacliff Esplanade) and Michael Scott (Septober list plus a 773km virtual Camino). Includes a fun fact that Steve Moneghetti holds the City to Surf course record of 40:03 from 1991.

• Episode 256 - X Factor

  The week's Dazza's post ran a 007 theme, with Dazza's run brief written as a string of Bond titles ("parkrun, where you never forget your barcode twice… a downhill means a license to kill your PB… but doctor, no barcode, no results"). Contributors read out include Peter Pohlman, Bruce Purdy (Bond theme-song top three), Adrian Royce, Bernadette Bennett, Mandy Oliver, Linda Robertus, Val Warwick, Janet Reid (and her 1957 Dodge truck "Bert"), Linda Coombes, Pippa White, Erica Leota, Tracy Wood, Claire and Jack, the Bailey family, Alison King, Lynette Anne, Sonja Pohlman, Chris Fraser, Sam Schroder, Chantelle Hosking, Ingrid Botha, Abigail's mum, Sally Heppleston, TOC, Suze Arnett, Mark Scarborough and Michael Scott. Earlier in the episode the hosts also celebrate Claire and Jack's Cowell Club milestone and surprise engagement at Ocean View parkrun, first spotted in the Dazza's comments.

• Episode 255 - Nottie Time to Die

  The weekly listener shout-outs, unusually busy because it fell on parkrun's 17th birthday. Contributions read from Alison King, Val Warwick (100th day of volunteering), Claire Stutchbury and Jack Corkill, Jane Luke, Mark Scarborough, Chris Fraser, Tracy Wood, Nadine Crawford, Ingrid Botha, Rebecca Bailey, Peter Pohlman, Bruce Purdy (RD in a suit as Sean Connery at Ballarat's third anniversary), Melanie McGregor, Cameron Drake, Sonja Pohlman, Erica Leota, Margie Lewis, Abigail's mum, Chris Wood, Melissa Taylor, Liesl Marie McElwraith, Greg Garner, Phil Olson, Tanya Bailey, Brett Bailey, Janet Reid, Lyndell Murray (back at an actual parkrun), Sam Schroder, Anne Fry and Pippa White.

• Episode 254 - Ev’ry heart beats true

  The weekly listener check-in cafe, opened early this week to catch runners who had already done theirparkruns. Video contributors: Bernadette Bennett, Val Warwick, William Barlow, Sonja Pohlman, Mark Scarborough and Sam Schroder. Written posts read out from Christine Imbert (Maidstone in Kent), Pippa White, Janet Reid (lost phone at Lochiel Park), Greg Garner (Rocks Riverside), Louise Minty (Claisebrook Cove, Matt's 50th), Val Warwick (Devonport), Tracy Wood (Logan River red bridge), Caveman Cam, Richard, Peter Pohlman (Broadmeadows Street), Lynette Ann, Lynn from Cobram, Tony O'Connell (virtual Rockhampton), Karen Hamilton, Alison King (Rotorua, NZ), Chantal Hosking, Abigail's mum, and Ingrid Botha (zombie run).

• Episode 253 - Runner 5(00)

  Established regular. Round-up of the week's Facebook posts, with an extended video-clip experiment: video contributions came in from Caro Vos, TOC, "Hills with Will", Val Warwick, Bruce's backyard not parkrun, Donna's rainbow cake, Tracy Wood, Mark Connolly (Palmerston 5th anniversary), Janet Reid, Marvellous Mark, Bec Bailey, Neil Taylor and Sam Schroder, plus Mel and Ollie's own not parkrun glimpses. Written reports read out from Tanya Bailey (Wellington waterfront), Bernadette Bennett, Newcastle, "the not the wedding venue, Jack Corkill (Toowoomba, 98th location), Peter Pohlman (Hamilton suburb street signs), Michael "Schultzy" Schultz (New Farm's 10th birthday, event 469), Shirley and Greg Dell (Lakes Entrance), Sonja Pohlman ("not toured to not Italy"), Lisa Spencer, Brett Bailey, Nadine Crawford (Rosebud), Phil Olson (Burgess Park) and Ingrid Botha. The hosts extend the video request for another week.

• Episode 252 - Jenny Blow

  Listener check-ins read out by both hosts. Contributors this week: Ingrid Botha, walking the dog, Peter Pohlman ("completed our suburb name in street signs", one photo, of Waratah Street), Janet Reid (from the mothership Lochiel; Jeff's first parkrun back after surgery, under 45 minutes), Tracy Wood (guiding a VI athlete with one hand and signing to a deaf friend with the other, at Kedron), Bernadette Bennett (a "not wedding" series of not parkruns after four postponements), Nadine Crawford (best time in four years at Rosebud, plus not parkrun tourism at Wallaby Track), Richard (Downsview parkrun, Toronto), Sam Schroder (Picton, later made it to Inverloch), Tanya Bailey and Brett Bailey (Woodend Beach, NZ), Rebecca Bailey (Banksia Avenue, met the Troll), Val Warwick (twice, Devonport tokens, and the Melbourne Football Club scanner blanket), Claire Statchbury (event 97 at Central Lakes), Jack Corkill (0001 token), Linda Coombes and Bella Dog (Warwick), Chris Hood (Forest Lake), Pippa White (200th day volunteering and 250th volunteer role at Riverside Juniors). Ollie confesses he has not yet ticked "coffee at Dazza's" off the Bingoe card.

• Episode 251 - Tokyo Tales

  A busy week at the cafe, which the hosts put down to the Streaky September Bingoe card. Posts read out from Pippa White (Harrington Country parkrun), Jenny Reedman (250th parkrun), Linda Coombes (Warwick parkrun's eighth anniversary), Val Warwick and Stephen Warwick (volunteering at Port Sorell, Tasmania), Mandy Oliver (Surfers Paradise), Errol Poole (South Australian statesmanship), Greg Garner (Baringa), Janet Reid (Lochiel Park's sixth birthday), Melanie McGregor, Helen Davis, Vicky Thompson, Richard, Ingrid Botha, Brett/Tanya/Rebecca Bailey (marking 11 years since the first Canterbury earthquake), Bruce Purdy, Chris Fraser, Sam Schroder, Will Barlow, Margie Lewis, Adrian Hillyer, Bernadette Bennett (a "suburban pirate" 5K loop of the seven C-named streets, which inspired Mel's own walk) and Lynette Ann. Channel 5 News Crew check-ins from Cameron Drake (Dawesville), Mark Scarborough (Kununurra), Tony O'Connell (Eagle's Nest), Alison King (Lynmore, NZ) and Tracy Wood.

• Episode 250 - The Story So Far

  The Saturday-morning Facebook check-in read out. parkrunners: Claire Stutchbury at Ecco Ripley, Val at Warwick volunteering on the last parkrun of winter, Linda Coombes at Warwick with Bella the dog, Pip taking 19:15 off her Warwick Racecourse time, Janet Reid and the record coffee-cup tower at Lochiel Park. Not parkrunners: Caro Vos along the Woy Woy path, Alison King baking after a wet walk, Bernadette Bennett singing about 13 pubs with no beer, Ingrid Botha's virtual Joey Hoppet ski race, Chris Fraser, Sonja Pohlman, Abigail's mum at Wyndham Vale, Tony O'Connell, Richard, Sam Schroder's week nine of the Love Shack not parkrun, and Jodie with Brendan Peel. The Bailey shots from Tanya, Brett and Rebecca Bailey, and Rebecca Scott's newborn Teddy (Edward Peter Scott), born 21 August. Ollie also explains the segment for new listeners.

• Episode 248 - Bird is the Word

  Weekly round-up of listener posts, split between scanned-in parkrunners and not-parkrunners in lockdown. Includes Cameron Drake (3 years at Tamworth Wetlands, green theme, cake), Pippa White (Daventry), Helen Reeves, Linda Coombes (Warwick), Chris Gallivan, Val Warwick (Devonport), the Bailey family at Pegasus, Tracy Wood (Kedron), Bruce Purdy (Cohuna), Bernadette Bennett, Claire Stutsbury (Augustine Heights), Mandy Oliver, Mark Scarborough (Exmouth), Sally Heppleston, Faye Morgan, Ingrid Botha, Sam Schroder (birthday) and Melissa Ellis's own Ellis Palace 80s-themed not parkrun.

• Episode 247 - Caitlin Adams & David Crook

  Listener check-ins read by both hosts, split this week into a "Team Lockdown" not-parkrun half and a "Team actual parkrun" half, a faster new format the hosts note worked well ("we managed to whip around Dazza's ... in less time than Caitlin took to complete Lochiel parkrun"). Watching the Olympic Women's Marathon was the running theme (Peter Pohlman, Jodie Macy with Brendan Peel, Adelina Trott, Bernadette Bennett). Not-parkruns from Mandy Oliver, Jeff Whiffen, Tracy Wood, Tony O'Connell, Sam Schroder, Ingrid Botha, Tina Johnston, Simon Mackley and Abigail's mum; real parkruns from Greg Garner, Val Warwick, Pippa White, Penny Simpson (100th volunteer), the Bailey family, and Alison King. Closed with a long post from Janet Reid at Lochiel recounting the record-breaking morning there.

• Episode 246 - Faster, Higher, Stronger, within reason

  Round-up of listener cafe posts on an Olympic theme, framed as a contest between Ellis Palace not parkrun and Bass Point not parkrun. Contributions read from Tanya Bailey and Brett Bailey (Pegasus midwinter Christmas), Val Warwick (Devonport), Tracy Wood (New Farm), Ingrid Botha, Melanie McGregor (Trentham Memorial Park), Sonja Pohlman (The Beaches rainbow unicorn cake), Chris Fraser (twice, including a 4.9-star pie the hosts declare a "DR, a Dazza's record"), Mandy Oliver, Alison, Mark Scarborough, Janet Reid (100th volunteer), Erica Leota, Sam Schroder, Claire Stutchbury, Jack Corkill, Irene, Helen Davis, Pippa White and Tamsin ("Fat Girl to Iron Man").

• Episode 245 - Dan Buckley

  A long listener photo/comment round-up dominated by Ugly Christmas in July and the return of parkrun in England. Contributors read out include Sonja Pohlman (The Beaches), Bernadette Bennett, Janet Reid, Brett Bailey, Tamsin Smith (Southampton - 561 runners and 56 volunteers), Penny Simpson (Mount Clarence), Linda Coombes (Warwick), Irene, Rebecca Bailey, Alison King (RD at Puranga), Mandy Oliver (Hervey Bay), Chantelle Hosking and her daily park-bench photo streak, Val Warwick (Devonport), Ingrid Botha, Tracy Wood (Kedron), Mark Scarborough (Mount Clarence), Sam Schroder, Claire Stutchbury, Tanya Bailey (Pegasus), Dan Buckley, Stuart Brandwood, Caro Vos, Melanie McGregor, Melissa Erbacher, Monty Slade, Pippa White (PB on England's return), Neil Taylor and William Barlow.

• Episode 244 - Sarah Hudson

  Ollie and Mel read out the week's listener posts from the Dazza's cafe thread. Contributors include Tanya, Brett, Bronwyn and Rebecca Bailey, M Scholarly, Sonja Pohlman (from The Beaches), Linda Coombes (250th at Warwick in her Jumpers and Jazz ugly jumper), Claire Stutchbury, Ingrid Botha, Tracy Wood (300th at New Farm), Val Warwick, Belinda Taylor, Tony O'Connell, Mark Scarborough (Peel Club at Cottesloe), Jack Corkill, Peter Leroux (South Africa), Alison King (Taupo), Bernadette Bennett (Newy), Janet Reid (Lochiel Park), Pippa White and Sam Schroder. Sonja's post sends Mel on a Wikipedia dive into Bienenstich (German bee sting cake), fitting the week's German theme.

• Episode 243 - Weekend Work

  The listener-post cafe segment,-. Posts read from Val Warwick (Devonport), Mark Scarborough, Rebecca Bailey, Bernadette Bennett (Newy), Alison King (Puarenga, NZ), Ingrid Botha, Brett Bailey, Janet Reid (The Avenues), Melanie McGregor (Greytown Woodside Rail Trail), Jordan Groobie (Torrens), Sam Schroder, Faye Morgan (Coomera), Nadine Crawford (Cairns), Mandy Oliver, Tanya Bailey, Tracy Wood (Kedron), Jack Corkill (Cormorant Bay 100th event), Greg Garner, Julie Young, Chris Fraser, and a late entry from Pippa White.

• Episode 242 - Dog Assisted

  A French-themed week of listener posts, prompted by parkrun France's return. Contributions read out from Adelina Trott, Sally Heppleston (Warrnambool), Andrew Turner (RD at Maribyrnong), Tanya Bailey (Pegasus, minus three), Bruce Purdy (Churchill parkrun and Churchill's Cigar), Tracy Leiper, Sam Schroder (Love Shack not parkrun), Rebecca Bailey (Warilla Bakery, 2/10 sausage roll), Val Warwick (Devonport, with a Marie Antoinette seagull story), Mandy Oliver (Surfers), Ingrid Botha, Gail Weston (Bendigo), Vicki Thompson, Mark Scarborough, Alison King, Kate Dull (sub-30 PB at Warringal Parklands), Chris Fraser, Cameron Drake, Jacqui O'Connell, Claire Stutchbury (Gatton), Brett Bailey, Tony O'Connell, Tracey Wood, Faye Morgan, Simon Mackley, Cathy Lambert, Karen Hamilton, Errol Poole, Marg Prowse and Riccardo Rambini. Both hosts butcher assorted French phrases throughout.

• Episode 241 - Toolern Creek

  Long run through listener cafe posts, opened by Mel "we've got a plethora of reports coming in from Dazza's Cafe this week". Contributors read out include Ingrid Botha (Dolls Point cancelled, run 96), Claire Statchbury (88th event at Nambour), Alison King, Brett Bailey and Tanya Bailey (Pegasus 250th and fifth birthday), Bernadette Bennett (Taree), Bruce Purdy (a Mary MacKillop 5k musing), Tracy Wood (Kedron), Chris Fraser (coining the "sausage roll mile"), Rebecca Bailey and Hannah Newton (Shellharbour), Melissa Ellis herself (Happy Hill), Chantelle Hosking and Judy Franklin (Laylaw), Greg Garner (Wondai), Annie Holmert (Highlands), Sam Schroder, Val Warwick (Launceston, in fog), Adelina Trott's 250th and Sally Heppleston at Westerfolds, Sonja Pohlman (forgotten barcode on 248 runs), Mark Scarborough (Wagga Bridge) and Janet Reid (South Australia). Includes a correction to Tony O'Connell's barcode number read out last week.

• Episode 240 - Raw & Uncut

  Listener comments and milestone shout-outs, framed around the relaunch of parkrun in Denmark ("we failed to elicit any Danish references or Danish listeners, sadly, this week"). Contributors read out include Tony "TOC" O'Connell (250th at Wagga Bridge), Neil Taylor (Burley Griffin parkrun's 5th birthday), Ingrid Botha (Dolls Point's 4th), Sam Schroder, Bernadette Bennett, Mandy Oliver, Dawn Branton, Karo Vos, Val Warwick, Mark Scarborough, Brett Bailey, Sally Heppleston, Rebecca Bailey, Tracy Wood, Alison King, Nadine Crawford, Tanya Bailey ("that completes our Bailey shot for this week"), Janet Reid, Chris Fraser, Sonja Pohlman and Karen Hamilton.

• Episode 239 - Quack Quack

  Long run of listener Facebook posts read out by both hosts, on the week's baked-goods theme (Poland's return prompting research into the karpatka, the "Polish vanilla slice", versus sausage rolls and Cornish pasties). Contributors read out include Alison King, Tracey Wood, Brett Bailey, Bruce Purdy, Tanya Bailey (and Brunner the bark runner), Claire Stutchbury, Rebecca Bailey, Chris Fraser, Ingrid Botha, Mark Scarborough, Val Warwick, Sam Schroder, Bernadette Bennett, Em from Shellharbour, Michelle Zaluka, Janet Reid, Tamsin Smith and Lee Cabarita.

• Episode 238 - Baked Goods

  The weekly cafe check-in, with Dazza given a costume upgrade, moustache shaved off and dressed in bakery attire for National Sausage Roll Day. Contributors read out include Chantelle Hosking, Greg Garner (Golden Beach), Caro Vos (Woy Woy, driftwood sculptures by artist Pete Rush), Jack Corkill (Sirromet, with Claire Stutchbury), Tracey Wood (New Farm, working on her p-index), Alison King (Tauranga), Melissa Erbacher (registering her son Wes for his first barcode), Neil Taylor (Burley Griffin, minus 3.5 degrees), Bruce Purdy, Tony O'Connell (Inverloch "lockdown naughty"), Adrian Royce, Erica Liotta (Logan River), Janet Reid (The Avenues), Val Warwick (Orford), Rebecca Bailey (Shellharbour), Mandy Oliver (Paul Ralph "The Flash" hitting 250 at Main Beach), Chris Fraser, Irene Bommakanti, Brett Bailey and Tanya Bailey (Pegasus), Ingrid Botha (Dolls Point) and Sam Schroder (Cowpasture Reserve, Camden).

• Episode 237 - Emma Keer

  The weekly read-through of listener Facebook comments about post-parkrun food and coffee, closed by Mel with 'that is it for the cafe'. Contributors this week include Sam Schroder (Chipping Norton and gozleme at the Liverpool Growers and Foodies Market), Cameron Drake, Val Warwick (snowy kunanyi / Mount Wellington, half cow), Belinda Taylor, Mandy Oliver, Helen Davis, Janet Reid (the Meadows launch, South Australia's first 5km-loop event), Rebecca Bailey, Alison King, Caro Vos, Bernadette Bennett, Ingrid Botha, Mark Scarborough (Wagga Bridge), Andrew Turner, Lee Caparita, William Barlow, Yvonne Cohen, Claire Stutchbury, Tracy Wood, Brett and Tanya Bailey and Chris Fraser. Running gags: snot logs vs snot blocks (vanilla slices) and a sausage dog in a Christmas jumper.

• Episode 236 - Snot Logs & A-Listers

  The weekly cafe round-up of listener Facebook posts, this week themed on Tutu Day (22 May) and National Volunteer Week. Contributors read out include Sam Schroder, Jodie and Brendan Peel, Dawn Branton, Val Warwick, Tony O'Connell, Janet Reid, Mandy Oliver, Caro Vos, Irene Bommakanti, Mark Scarborough, Cameron Drake, Sally Heppleston, Brett Bailey, Tara Wakefield, Tanya Bailey, Tracey Wood, Aaron Hardy, Lyndell Murray, Bruce Purdy, Ingrid Botha, Jack Corkill, Rebecca Bailey, Pippa White, Chantelle Hosking and Chris Fraser. Jack Corkill's "snot log for Brekkie" prompts an explanation of the vanilla slice / snot block for overseas listeners, the source of the episode title, along with Chris Fraser's "met up with an A-list celebrity in a tutu at Dolls Point".

• Episode 235 - Hi-Vis Heroes

  Listener post-parkrun coffee-and-cake round-up. Contributions read out from Mark Scarborough (support crew for ED Ian Shaw doing the UTA 100k), Rebecca Bailey, Greg Garner, Alison King, Jackie Hancock, Tracy Wood, Bernadette Bennett, Karen Hamilton, Claire Stutchbury, Mandy Oliver, Bruce Purdy (birthday and milestone), Brendan and Em at Shellharbour, Chris Fraser (a zero-star sausage roll), Sam Schroder, Ingrid Botha, Tracy Leiper, Tony O'Connell, Cameron Drake, Louise Minty, Janet Reid, Val Warwick, Stephen Warwick and Parth Bomber Candy.

• Episode 234 - Mothers Day

  Dazza's Cafe: the hosts work through the week's listener comments and photos over coffee. Contributors read out include Bruce Purdy (planes, trains and automobiles to Mossman, in cheetah ears), Danella Taylor (ran 6.8km from home then a lift back in the classic car 'Dolly'), Tracy Wood (nearly trampled while photographing at Bunyaville), Ingrid Botha (Dolls Point, with Paris the dog), Alison King (Barry Curtis then morning tea at Ōwairaka), Rebecca Bailey (puddle-jumping at Shellharbour), Caro Vos (Pioneer Dairy and the cows), Mark (back run directing at Wagga Bridge), Val and Stephen Warwick (volunteering at Kate Reed, Tasmania), Birgit Rainbird (South Bank), Sam Schroder (Picton, Luke's 50th), Bernadette Bennett (Newy), Cameron Drake (flat battery, GPS chaos), Janet Reid (a tall tale about parachuting into the car park at Lochiel Park), Mandy Oliver (Paradise Point/Surfers), Dawn Branton (flew to Kirra) and Vicky Thompson (accommodation distance to the start line). Includes a substantial digression in which Ollie explains the Killalea park development protest and what it could mean for the future of Shellharbour parkrun.

• Episode 233 - Autumnal Adventures

  Listener cafe check-ins, opened with "What we do have, though, Mel, is a lot of company once again. Dazza's was cracking." This week's question was "being that we are by name all adventurers, what is your parkrun MO? Are you a Windexer, chasing pirates, that is bingo numbers, or an Alphabeteer?" Contributors read out include Adrian Hillyer, Greg Garner, Errol Poole, Tracy Wood, Alison King (whose unofficial parkrun guide to New Zealand the hosts plug), Claire Stutchbury, Caro Vos, Bec Bailey, Bernadette Bennett, Chris Fraser, Ingrid Botha, Erica Liotta, Andrew Turner, Val Warwick, Bruce Purdy, Sam Schroder, Cameron Drake, Tony O'Connell, Sally Heppleston, Melanie Rabi, Janet Llewellyn-Reed, Path Bomber Canty, Dawn Branton and Robin Shallard.

• Episode 232 - Celebrating first’s

  The cafe segment, Mel and Olly read out the week's listener check-ins. Contributors: Alison King (Kapiti Coast, stopwatch bingo), Neil Taylor (Ginninderra's ninth birthday), Tracy Wood (Chermside), Chris Fraser (Whalan Reserve), Claire Stutchbury (Rocks Riverside, 80th different event), Belinda Taylor (Sirromet, wallaby on course), Bruce Purdy (Nightcliff and the Parap markets), Ingrid Botha, Erica Liotta (Zillmere), Sam Schroder (Bowral, volunteering with a broken knee), Bec Bailey (Lake Mac), Joanne Ward (Maitland), Carolyn Leighton, Sally Heppleston (Warragul), Caro Vos (Woy Woy), Parth Bommakanti (Fair Park Reserve), Louise Minty (Point Walter not-parkrun), Cameron Drake, Val Warwick (Devonport), Daphne Day, Andrew Turner (Karkarook, Achilles group), Peter Dunn (Coburg), Adelina Trott (Bright), Tony O'Connell (Leighton launch) and Chantelle Hosking (Warringal). Olly and Mel describe it as "standing room only this week at the cafe".

• Episode 230 - Stepping up

  The weekly cafe shout-outs, described by the hosts as "jam-packed" again. Contributors read out include Tracy Wood (49th at Kedron), Erica Leota (E at Emerald, becoming an alphabeteer), Mandy Oliver (Paradise Point), Alison King (100th parkrun in New Zealand at Puarenga, with berry crumble custard pie), Mark Scarborough (Our Park, Wattle Banks Cafe), Chris Fraser (backup Timekeeper, no sausage roll report), Simon Mackley (Chipping Norton, and volunteer shortages), Tony O'Connell (watching Jack's first RD gig, coffee at Paul the Pie Man's), Bernadette Bennett (Avondale University College), Sally Heppleston (Diamond Creek), Rebecca Bailey (Z at Zillmere), Claire Stutchbury and Jack Corkill (alphabets finished at Yarrabilba), Tammy Taylor (New Farm), Janet Llewellyn-Reed (SA event ambassadors take over Aldinga Beach, with Greta spotted), Bruce Purdy (Pirate Club Day at Cascades), Ingrid Botha (Albury), Andrew Turner (RD debut at Maribyrnong), Helen Davis (Birdsland's second birthday) and Irene Heather (Parramatta). Prompts a long side discussion on parkruns struggling to fill volunteer rosters post-pandemic.

• Episode 229 - King & Queen of the mountain

  The listener cafe. Ollie and Mel read out around twenty listener posts from the parkrun Australia 10th anniversary weekend, including Jack Corkill (10th place at Main Beach on the 10th birthday), Bruce Purdy at Newborough, Jenny Reedman, Alison King, Penny Simpson, Neil Taylor (Skywhalepapa over Lake Burley Griffin), Chantelle Hosking at Queanbeyan, Chris Fraser, Caro Vos at Woy Woy, Mark Scarborough, TOC, Erica Liotta at Goondiwindi, Greg Garner, Val Warwick, Tracy Wood, Mandy Oliver, Rebecca Bailey, Lyndell Murray, Shannon Aspinall, Irene at Meningie, Cameron Drake, Josie Kidman, Dawn Branton, Adelina Trott, Lee Hargraves, Rio Montalaba Lambino and Ingrid Botha.

• Episode 228 - Bookrun

  Mel and Ollie read out the week's post-parkrun cafe posts from listeners, Helen Jane Davies (St Peter's/Greenway), Mark Scarborough (Lalor), Andrew Turner (Maribyrnong, with a Scott Trickett sighting), Alison King (Tauranga), Kirsten Louise Russell (Riverside), Jenny Reedman (Wilson Index level-up), Jacqui O'Connell (Peppertree, Victorian statesman), Amanda O'Reilly (Westerfolds), Bill Eldridge (Mawson Lakes), Val Warwick (Devonport), Cameron Drake, Ingrid Botha, Tony O'Connell, Janet Lewin-Reed (Lochiel Park), Bruce Purdy (Hamilton), Jodie Maisie/Brendan Peel (Avondale University College launch), Heather Patzel (Mount Gambier), Adelina Trott (Cascades on Clyde), Dawn Brandt (Parkville, prompting a digression about Melbourne's 'UU' sheep sculptures), Shell Sparkles (Rockingham), Tracy Wood (Bunyaville), Steve Batesta (Cairns), Errol Poole (Pallara).

• Episode 227 - Smorgasbord

  Round-up of listener posts and photos from "Dazza's Cafe" - Mark's gumboots at Braidwood (prompting a debate about whether anyone has ever run a parkrun in gumboots), Chris Fraser at Sandon Point and the Black Diamond bakery at Bulli, Simon Mackley's "biblical ark run" at Mosman, Bruce Purdy at Goldfields Reservoir, TOC ordering a large latte, Alison King's New Zealand haul, Irene at Dandenong, Andrew Turner's unnamed Olympian at Karkarook, Janet Reid celebrating a new grandson, and Geoff Wiffen at Laylaw. Melissa Ellis and Ollie split the comments by state after Ollie mangles "Bulli".

• Episode 226 - Crackerjack

  The hosts read out the week's listener comments and coffee photos from the show's Facebook thread, which they call "Dazza's Cafe" here ("it was wonderful to get to share Dazza's Cafe with everyone"). Contributions from Janet Reid (kids in charge at Lochiel Park, 18 juniors), Mark (course PB at Burley Griffin, fastest 2021 time), Tammy Taylor (4th parkrun anniversary at Sandgate), Lyndell (volunteering at home), Oliver Spake, Bruce (bowling balls at Dandenong, "a cracker morning... even better described as a crackerjack", the episode title), Tony O'Connell/TOC (Shirley Dell finishing Run Down Under at Inverloch, Casey Hyde visiting, 100th runs for Joe Taylor and Trish Nicholson), Alison (course PB at University of Waikato), Aaron Hardy (Parramatta), Michael Charlton (Narromine Wetlands), Erica Liotta (Geeveston), Casey Hyde, Chris Fraser and Peter Pohlman.

• Episode 225 - Who let the dogs out?

  Launch of the show's Saturday morning online cafe post, fronted by Daryl, "Dazza", a moustachioed, pinstriped hipster-barista character who became popular during Melissa's not-parkruns in the parkrun pause. Listeners post their parkrun or not-parkrun photos and coffee orders so people who cannot get to a real post-parkrun cafe can still join in. This week's haul included a dozen or so parkruns, the Puarenga not-parkrun photo, the Beaches cancellation (a boat beached mid-course, shared by Peter Pohlman) and Chris Fraser's Pioneer Dairy report with the customary bakery review.