parkrun adventurers time capsulecrystal ball predictions

Appears in 3 episodes, first in episode 215.

Every appearance

• Episode 318 - parkrun, if you’re listening

  Prompted by the Ideas Man's email, Mel and Ollie repack the podcast time capsule to be opened at the end of 2024. Contents: Alice Springs parkrun (carried over); new parkrun countries, Fiji, South Korea (Seoul) and Thailand; Mel's wish for a "senior parkrun" for over-70s on a shorter, flatter, wheelchair-, walking-frame- and dementia-friendly course with mobility assistance volunteers ("parkrun, are you listening?", the source of the episode title); Ollie's wish for free public transport to parkrun on production of a barcode, and for a single app that handles results, photos, incidents, comms and a built-in milestone selfie frame, replacing reliance on WebFMS and Facebook; and a prediction of 625 parkruns in Australia in two years (the previous capsule, packed by Mel and Scott, had predicted 500).

• Episode 316 - InSantagram

  A callback to the time capsule filled by Melissa Erbacher and Scott Trickett in episode 215 ("Bon Bon Voyage"), opened two years on. Predictions reviewed: parkruns in Switzerland, Fiji and the International Space Station (wrong, only Austria has joined, Helbrunn in August 2021); parkrun entering the public psyche; parkrun known as a social movement with a running problem (partly); and 500 Australian events including Alice Springs (436 events, nothing new in the NT). The hosts invite listeners to email predictions for a new capsule.

• Episode 215 - Bon bon voyage

  A segment Scott invents for this episode, riffing on all the segments they started over the years that "petered out", this one, he says, cannot peter out because it will never run again. He asks Mel where parkrun will be in two years: she predicts parkrun Switzerland, parkrun Fiji and parkrun on the International Space Station, and makes a case for not excluding astronauts. Scott predicts around 500 Australian events, an event in Alice Springs, and above all that parkrun will be recognised as a social intervention rather than a physical one, "a social group with a running problem". Mel corrects him that this is a crystal ball rather than a time capsule; they settle on "the parkrun adventurers Crystal Ball" and hand the job of opening it to Mel and Ollie in two years.