Event Director interview — Phil Ackland, Mount Gambier

Appears in 1 episodes, first in episode 24.

Every appearance

• Episode 24 - Rochelle Vaisanen

  Scott dubs Phil Ackland "the King of the Mount" (a nickname he invents on the spot and which neither Phil nor Mel will accept). They cover the Mount Gambier course around the Blue Lake, why it's an out-and-back rather than a loop, the lake's seasonal colour change, Phil's ultrarunning (his DNF at UTA, his second attempt at the You Yangs 100-miler, his wife Nikki crewing him at aid stations), the growing habit of measuring ultras in "number of parkruns", and his recent appointment as a parkrun Australia Territory Director for a region that straddles the SA/Victoria border.