Roving reports & the Channel 5 News crew

Appears in 392 episodes, first in episode 2.

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• Episode 460 - Across The Ditch

  Four reports: Eman Vergara at Moussette parkrun in Canada with Dominique (co-ED and Quebec territory manager) on parkrun Canada's 10th anniversary; Lyndell Murray at Gloucester District parkrun, NSW, with Run Director Tracey, who PB'd; Eva Blanda at Farfalle parkrun in Italy with Event Director Andrea; and Johan Duvenhage at Dorothy Nyembe parkrun in Soweto with first finisher Tebogo, Gill Fordyce on her 600th, and parkrun founder Paul Sinton-Hewitt. TOC and Alison then share tips for submitting a roving report (phone voice memo, one take, done is better than perfect).

• Episode 459 - What is your Colour?

  Three reports. Phil Corker and Calum Burrell from Bushy Park, where Phil drove from 4.20am and paced Calum to a Bushy PB of 28:50 in a dust-bowl field of 1,599 on event 1102. Eman Vergara from Kanata parkrun in Ottawa, tail walking with Juno and talking to Run Director Steve about the event's 2018 founding, the "two peaks" diversion and the other Ottawa-region events. Ali Sheppard from Inch Beach parkrun in County Kerry, on the hard-sand beach course, with co-founder Elizabeth on building the event with Barry and recruiting school volunteers, and with Rory on the Dingle Peninsula, running barefoot and why Kerry is called the kingdom, closing with a challenge to TOC to come to an event that never cancels.

• Episode 458 - The Unicorn

  Three reports: Greg at Sale parkrun (Victoria) with RD Trevor, event 520, the course around Lake Guyatt and Lake Guthridge, the RAAF base clientele, ten RDs under ED Kat, coffee at Wild Honey; Eman Vergara at Mamquam Spawning Trail parkrun's first anniversary in Squamish, Canada, with co-ED Ben (origins, salmon, black bears, a resident skunk, Okanagan and Ambleside recommendations) and RD Mel (ex-Whistler RD, the core team, attendance record beaten by one); Calum Burrell at Kingsway Park, Urmston (event 13) with Sunil Chamond completing his Explorer 100 / Cowell and Ruth Perkins completing a full Bailey, 250 different venues in her first 250 parkruns, the 19th person to do it. Afterwards the hosts issue a challenge to listeners to record their own roving reports, with practical tips (iPhone voice memos, start with the RD, a few good questions).

• Episode 457 - Legs Eleven

  Sarah hands over: "I think it's time we give our voices a rest, and we are going to throw to some rugby [roving] reports." Three reports run back-to-back, Alison at Mandeville (NZ), Eman Vergara at Richmond Olympic (Vancouver, two interviews), Ali Sheppard at Irchester Country (UK), with Simon recapping all three. A fourth report, Eman at Spanish Banks Beach, is held back as a post-outro bonus.

• Episode 456 - The hype team

  Three self-contained roving reports, handed over "That's probably enough from us for a bit. Let's hear from others and let's hear our roving reports." Alison Fraser from Motueka Beach Reserve parkrun in New Zealand with co-ED Eileen; David Bravos from Town Beach parkrun in Broome, WA with Run Director Bruce; Eman Vergara from Ambleside parkrun in Vancouver with Johnny. TOC wraps all three up.

• Episode 455 - Tantrums, Tears and Tribulations

  Sarah hands over "I think I'm going to give my voice a rest and we might throw to some roving reports". Three reports run back to back: Ingrid at Chipping Norton (NSW) with Paul Power of Sanctuary Runners Australia; Alison Fraser at the Warkworth Showgrounds launch (NZ) with ED/RD Michael Jenkinson; and Eman Vergara at The Ponds (NSW) with co-ED Rio. Simon recaps all three.

• Episode 454 - Old and New

  Three roving reports: Johan Duvenhage from the launch of Plantation Forest parkrun on St Helena (interviews with Health Minister Martin Henry and ED Stephen Thwaites); Alison Fraser from Ōpaheke Park parkrun in South Auckland (interview with the ED/RD); and Greg Moore from Jells parkrun in Melbourne (interviews with Run Director Catherine and blind parkrunner Adam Koops). TOC and Lyndell recap the reports, noting Johan hand-carried the island's defibrillator over so the launch could go ahead.

• Episode 453 - Half Way There

  A three-report European block thrown to: Ali at Toyen parkrun in Oslo with Event Director Trude Sundian (record 362 finishers on Ascension Day, the "stupid hill", Norway's Constitution Day); TOC from Inverloch, still touring Poland with Jack, at parkrun Zamek w Malborku talking to UK tourist Sue Page of the Sowerby Bridge Snails; and Ruth Perkins with a TOC cameo at Oosterhout parkrun in the Netherlands on Whit Monday, interviewing both Event Directors about switching the run briefing from English to Dutch. Separately, earlier in the episode, Eman Vergara filed field audio from Shellharbour parkrun interviewing outgoing ED Oliver Spake. Simon notes that a backlog of European reports is still to come.

• Episode 452 - The Away Game

  Three reports. Alison Fraser from Urayasushi Sogo Koen parkrun in Tokyo with Tail Walker James, an Englishman 25 years in Japan who came via the JET programme, on the waterside course, the Tokyo Disneyland location and the high proportion of tourists. Ruth Perkins from Billdalsparken outside Gothenburg, Sweden, with RD Stuart Bailey and ED Janne Losman, on the 200-year-old garden, the old gardener's-house cafe, cinnamon buns, the free apple orchard and never cancelling (Stuart shovels snow midweek). Lyndell Murray from Greenheart Robina Parklands, the Gold Coast's newest event, with ED Mark on building a "large parkrun with a small parkrun attitude", gateway volunteering, walking culture and the local birdlife. TOC and Lyndell top-and-tail the block and invite listeners to send reports from anywhere, including their home event.

• Episode 451 - Let those pies fly high

  Three international reports and no Australian ones this fortnight. Alison at the Japanese Heijo Kyuseki Rishiki Koen event on Greenery Day, interviewing volunteer and Run Director Takio Kawano and then parkrun adventurer Matt; Johan Duvenhage from West Coast Fossil Park parkrun in the Western Cape, with co-founder Leonie Vorster and palaeontologist Pippa Haarhoff of the West Coast Fossil Park Trust; and TOC from Pokkinen parkrun in Oulu, Finland - billed as the northernmost parkrun in the world - with Run Director Katarina, covering floating saunas, the Oulujoki river course and Oulu's year as European Capital of Culture.

• Episode 450 - Celebrations and pronunciations

  Three reports. Sarah Jefferson at Sunshine Beach parkrun near Kyoto, interviewing Event Director Shuichi Sakata (who has volunteered over 206 times and has never run the course). Alison Fraser at Futakotamagawa parkrun in Tokyo, interviewing Run Director Roger about parkrun Japan's 2019 launch and his three favourite events. Greg Moore at Mansfield Botanic parkrun in Victoria, where visiting students from Lauriston's Howqua campus lifted the field from a usual 60-70 to 215.

• Episode 449 - Is it your first time?

  Lyndell throws to the roving reporters. Two reports: TOC from University of Galway parkrun in Ireland - the first stop of his and Jackie's European trip - interviewing Run Director and Co-Event Director Claire about the out-and-back course along the River Corrib past Menlo Castle; and Lyndell herself from Jubilee Tenterfield parkrun in northern NSW, interviewing Chrissy on the event's 101st running, its two-lap mixed path-and-grass course around the cricket field, and the difficulty of starting a parkrun in a small town.

• Episode 448 - Surrounded by clowns

  Two field reports. Lyndell Murray at Parklakes Wetlands parkrun, Bli Bli, six weeks old, talking to founder Michael about the fourteen-month slog to launch, a rejected first course, $7,500 to raise, a mid-summer boot camp that brought in $2,500, and local backers Cameron Hackenberg and Mark Cowie. Then Ali Sheppard at East Holmes Field parkrun, Ilkley, with Amanda Murray-Hynde and the silent, apricot-costumed parkrun Weather Fairy: Amanda is one of twelve chosen from 12,000 applicants to run the London Marathon for parkrun Global and is fundraising via QR codes carried round parkruns in the UK and Germany.

• Episode 447 - You raise me up

  Three roving reports back to back, thrown to by Simon and recapped by the hosts. Alison Fraser at Lost Lagoon parkrun, Westport on New Zealand's West Coast, interviewing ED/RD Mary Rose (41st event, built and maintained by community volunteers, three laps of the lagoon). Ruth Perkins at Vingis parkrun, Vilnius, on Lithuanian Independence Restoration Day, interviewing RD and sole Lithuanian ambassador Andreas, Nordic skiers overtaking parkrunners, a fourth Lithuanian event launching next month. Jo McLean's first-ever roving report, from Edithburgh parkrun on South Australia's Yorke Peninsula, interviewing ED Danielle (eight years, launched straight onto the app, new Vietnam War memorial on course).

• Episode 446 - Show us your weed

  Four back-to-back roving reports, thrown to and recapped by Tony as "reports from four different places, four different countries": Calum Burrell at Queens, Glasgow (Scotland) with ED/RD Laura; Ruth Perkins at Flint Castle (Wales) with ED Lucy Douglas and ambassador Jill Jones; Lyndell Murray at Gayndah Riverwalk (Queensland) for its fifth birthday with ED Dale; Ali Sheppard at Zalew Leg (Poland) with parkrunner Kuba.

• Episode 444 - Addicted to Love

  Thrown to "I think it's time we throw to our roving reports". Three self-contained reports: PK at Meningie parkrun, SA (interviewing co-ED Kimberley); Ali at Yarborough Leisure Centre parkrun, Lincoln, UK (interviewing event ambassador Brian Thompson); Ruth Perkins at Lousberg parkrun, Aachen, Germany (interviewing co-EDs Daniel and Katie). Sarah and Simon recap all three.

• Episode 443 - Gelato in Milano

  Lyndell throws to the roving reports "And now it's time to hear our roving reports." Three reports run back to back, Calum at Pollock (Scotland), Tracy in a tutu at University of Western Australia, and TOC at De Soza, followed by a hosts' debrief.

• Episode 442 - A Lil Bit of Hope

  Two roving reports back to back, Calum Burrell at Brierley Forest parkrun (Nottinghamshire) with co-ED Michael Woods, and Ali Sheppard at Brooklands parkrun (Weybridge, Surrey) with co-ED Timo Thornton, followed by the hosts' recap. Thrown to. Simon appeals for more submissions: only four reports left in the backlog.

• Episode 441 - All Aboard 2026

  TOC hands over to two roving reports: Ali Sheppard from Tapijn parkrun in Maastricht, Netherlands (interviewing ED Remco and Australian tourist Heather Hunter), and Lyndell Murray from Queen Elizabeth parkrun in Casino, NSW (interviewing RD Michelle, plus a follow-up on UK alphabet-chaser Mark Pinney).

• Episode 440 - Stop The Clock

  Two back-to-back roving reports introduced by Simon 'I think it is time to throw across to our roving report': Tracey Wood at Golden Beach parkrun (Caloundra, Qld) interviewing RD Dowdy, and Calum Burrell at Brierley Forest parkrun (Nottinghamshire) talking to Louise Ayling. TOC recaps both.

• Episode 439 - Legendary Intern

  Three reports back to back: Tracey in a Tutu at Dalby (QLD) with co-ED Brittany, Ruth Perkins at Moussette (Quebec, Canada) with Event Director Dominique, and Yvette Turner at Lithgow (NSW) with RD/ED Paul. TOC recaps all three and notes a couple more reports still in the backlog.

• Episode 438 - Lota Love to Give

  Simon hands over "Why don't we throw to Raving [Roving] Reports?" Three reports run back to back with no studio link between them: Tracey Wood at Bowen (QLD) with Michael, Lyndell Murray at Wynnum (QLD) with Michelle, and Alison Fraser (King) at Parrs Park (West Auckland, NZ) with co-ED David. The hosts return and recap all three, with Sarah adding an explanation of Maori land tenure prompted by the marae beside the Parrs Park start.

• Episode 437 - Woe is a crowd

  TOC hands over "Let's throw across to our roving reporters." Three reports back to back: Calum Burrell at Haigh Woodland (UK), Ruth Perkins at Wöhrder See (Nuremberg, Germany) and PK at Renmark (South Australia). Melissa Ellis recaps all three.

• Episode 436 - The Vote That Counts

  Simon hands over "let's throw to our roving reports". Three reports follow: Alison at Neale Park (Nelson, NZ) with co-ED Ruth Rogers; Calum Burrell at Abbey Park, Leicester, for Cowfest East with Jo Yarnall and organiser Nicky Tarrant; Tracey Wood at the new Coolum Eco parkrun with directors Donella and Gerry, Tail Walker Coppo, and Stephen Buckley through interpreter Cherie. Sarah recaps all three.

• Episode 436 - The Vote That Counts

  Bonus post-outro report: Alison at Henley Lake parkrun in Masterton, at the bottom of the North Island, interviewing Event Director Katie at only the third event - 132 finishers, 31 of them first-ever parkruns, and eight members of the 500 club including Martin on his 100th different event.

• Episode 435 - The Restructure

  Melissa hands over - "I think, Tony, it might be time to listen to some of our roving reports" - for three back-to-back reports: Ali Sheppard with the two co-EDs of East Brighton parkrun in the UK (including the air ambulance that lands on the course), Lyndell Murray with Brian the RD/ED at Pallara parkrun in Brisbane, and David from Western Australia at Merredin Peak parkrun, where he interviews Run Director Sue, turnaround marshal Grant, Tail Walker Sarah and visiting caravanner Sue from Geraldton. TOC and Melissa come back and recap all three.

• Episode 434 - It’s Upside Down

  Simon hands over "I think it might be time we threw to roving reports." Three reports run back to back: Lyndell Murray at Scribbly Gums Conservation parkrun (Redland Bay, QLD) with ED Kylan; TOC at Point Hut Pond parkrun (ACT) with RD/ED Anya; and Alison Fraser (King) at Caroline Bay parkrun (Timaru, NZ) with ED Colin McPherson. Sarah recaps all three.

• Episode 433 - Ready, Set, Streak...

  Melissa hands over "So I think we better throw over to our roving reports". Three reports run back to back: Alison at Halswell Quarry (New Zealand), Dave at Aveley (WA) and Ali at Wimpole Estate (UK). TOC and Melissa recap all three.

• Episode 432 - Amazing Grace

  Simon throws to the roving reports: Yvette Turner at Central Burnaby parkrun (Vancouver), Calum Burrell at Coronation Park parkrun (Swadlincote, UK) and Tracey Wood at Workman's Beach parkrun (Agnes Water, QLD). Hosts recap all three.

• Episode 431 - Start Spreading the News

  TOC: 'How about we throw to somebody else?' Three reports back to back - Yvette Turner at Downsview parkrun in Toronto, Calum Burrell at Trentham Gardens in Staffordshire for Nicola Forward's 250th different parkrun, and Ali Sheppard at Billericay parkrun in Essex for its eighth birthday. Mel and TOC recap all three.

• Episode 430 - Cleaner Wanted!

  TOC hands over, "Righto, Mel, I think it's time for us to listen to a couple of other people talk for a while. So let's go across and listen to some roving reports." Three reports run back to back: Alison Fraser at the Te Awa parkrun launch in New Zealand, Lyndell Murray at Central Lakes parkrun in Caboolture, and Calum Burrell at Burnage parkrun in the UK. Mel notes that the reports are from previous weeks because the show has gone fortnightly and has a backlog, and TOC jokes that the roving-report backlog is now growing faster than parkrun launches.

• Episode 429 - It's Question Time

  Sarah hands over, "this week we have three roving reports for you to enjoy", to Lyndell at Hamilton Island, Johan at Windhoek and Calum at Dolgellau. Coming back Simon says seven roving reports arrived by email over the fortnight and the other four are being held over.

• Episode 428 - Evolution

  Melissa hands over "we might throw you over to listen to this week's roving reports". Three reports follow: Pippa White from Stadspark, Sittard in the Netherlands; Sarah Jefferson from Palmerston parkrun in the Northern Territory; and Ruth Perkins from Malmö Ribersborg parkrun in Sweden. The hosts recap all three.

• Episode 427 - Onions Have Layers

  Three roving reports played back to back: Sarah Jefferson at Katherine Hot Springs (NT) with RD Salty, Yvette Turner at Gungahlin (ACT) with visitor Kristine Vergara and RD Ben Clancy, and Tracey Wood at Burrum Heads Beach (QLD) with RD/ED Doug. TOC recaps all three.

• Episode 426 - Lost Property

  Melissa hands over, "this week we've heard from one of our roving reporters, so let's go and have a listen and see what she's got to tell us". Ruth Perkins reports from Puolarmaari parkrun in Espoo, near Helsinki, Finland: she interviews long-time listener Matthew Wateridge (found the pod at episode two, 475 different events, home run Basingstoke from 2010, favourites Queenstown NZ and Sherwood Pines) and Run Director Mark Davis, who helped set the event up in 2021 with American Scott Pritchard and describes the forest course through the seasons. Simon wraps it with Matthew's full stats.

• Episode 425 - Tracky Dacky Doo Dah Day

  Tony O'Connell hands over "Righto, Mel, let's keep moving along... I'm a bit excited about some of this week's roving reports. Let's go and have a listen." Three reports follow back to back: Yvette Turner at Leeton Sport and Recreation Precinct (event 199, interviewing RD Chris Thompson), Lyndell Murray at Hidden Vale west of Brisbane (event three, interviewing founder Morgan), and Alison Fraser (King) at East Otago High School in Palmerston, New Zealand (interviewing ED Chris Wells). The hosts recap all three.

• Episode 424 - Reaching a Rec-Ord

  Simon hands over "I think it's time we throw over to our roving reports", and three back-to-back reports run without studio interruption: Lyndell Murray at Highfields parkrun (Toowoomba, QLD) with local tourists Sally and Dick; Ruth Perkins at Pont y Bala parkrun in north Wales with Run Director Gerald Cooper; and Heather Hunter at Taree parkrun's 10th birthday (NSW) with local parkrunner Rebecca. The hosts recap all three, including Sarah's research on the gwyniad, the whitefish endemic to Lake Bala.

• Episode 423 - The Hope Song

  Mel hands over "it's time to throw to our roving reports". Two UK reports, both marking a 250 milestone: Calum Burrell at Lyme Park with Pippa White (250th different event, on her 410th parkrun) and Ali Sheppard at Potternewton with Poppy Forward (250th parkrun and 150th different venue). The hosts debrief, including Mel's research into the Forwards' six Australasian parkruns and a request that Calum put his phone on airplane mode while recording.

• Episode 422 - Potato, Potarto

  One report this week: Alison Fraser (King) from Hagley parkrun in Christchurch, New Zealand, where a parkrun wedding was held on the shores of the lake. Mel adds context on the hand-back, it was a pretend ceremony with the RD as fake celebrant, the real wedding was that afternoon, and Hagley's "fun director" Lisa organised the confetti.

• Episode 421 - There's No Place Like Home

  Melissa Ellis hands over "Now let's throw to our roving reporters for intermission." Three reports run back to back: Calum Burrell with Hugh at Market Bosworth Country Park (UK), Ingrid with RD Andrew and Judy at Australian Standing Stones (Glen Innes, NSW), and PK at Port Broughton (SA) with volunteers Alex and Tracy. TOC and Melissa debrief all three.

• Episode 420 - No Indeed. Indeed, No

  Sarah hands over to the week's roving reports: Lyndell Murray at Warrandyte River Reserve parkrun (Melbourne) with RD David McKay; Ruth Perkins walking Shrewsbury parkrun with Tail Walkers Bob Turner, Debbie Armstrong and Gary Jones; and Calum at parkrun founder Paul Sinton-Hewitt's book launch. Simon recaps all three.

• Episode 418 - Yeah Nah

  TOC hands over- ("How about we hear from a few other people and some roving reports?"). Three reports this week: Melissa Ellis at Drage Reserve (Adelaide) interviewing Steve, head coach of the NDAC Jets, on the club's team-parkrun day and its 17 South Australian statesmen; David Moss at Surat Memorial Park (western Queensland) with co-EDs Karen and Paul; and Johan Duvenhage at Letsatsi Lodge (Vanrhynsdorp, Western Cape) with volunteer Polly and the ED/RD pair Ingo and Mia. Mel recaps all three.

• Episode 417 - Baby Brain is Real

  Sarah throws to the week's single roving report, from the UK. Ruth Perkins reports from Penrith parkrun in Cumbria on a crisp one-degree morning, describing the playing-fields course, the River Eamont, the Lake District fells and the Pennines, and interviews Andrew Richardson, who has delivered the First Timers Welcome there for about ten and a half years and has never run another parkrun (Ruth dubs him a "passionista"). He talks about the call-and-response briefing, the site's history and next week's Motor Neurone Disease Association charity event, noting that Rob Burrow's last ever public event was at Penrith. Simon adds on the return that Andrew has 15 parkruns and 439 volunteer credits.

• Episode 416 - Falicitating Fun

  Melissa Ellis hands over "So we've got some roving reports for you. They're not from this week, guys. They are varied." Three reports follow back to back: Lyndell Murray at Toowoomba, David at University of Western Australia, and Ingrid Botha at Bois de Boulogne in Paris. TOC recaps all three.

• Episode 415 - Pow Wow to PALM

  Simon hands over "it might be time to throw to our roving reports". Three reports follow: a joint Black Rocks parkrun (Derbyshire) crossover with Ali Sheppard, Calum Burrell and With Me Now podcast hosts Nicola Forward and Danny Norman for the official handover of Budgie the toy plane; Calum Burrell's own Black Rocks report interviewing parkrun ambassador Monty Slade; and Alison's South End Reserve parkrun report from Pauanui, New Zealand with founding Event Director Neil.

• Episode 414 - Wombling Free

  TOC hands over "But people that did get out and about, Mel, let's have a listen to a couple of roving reports." Three reports follow back to back: Calum Burrell at Holyrood (Edinburgh), PK at the new Drage Reserve (South Australia) and Lyndell Murray at Golden Beach parkrun's 11th birthday (Queensland). Mel and TOC recap all three from the studio.

• Episode 413 - Transport & Tryouts

  Two junior parkrun roving reports played back to back: Tracey Wood from Des Connor Park junior parkrun in Ashgrove, where 438 juniors set what the show believes is a world junior-parkrun attendance record; and Daryl Smith from the Eynesbury Heritage Trail junior parkrun in Victoria, interviewing Melissa Ellis on her final stint as Run Director there.

• Episode 412 - Another One Bites the Dust

  Melissa Ellis hands over: "Something else we're keeping our eye on, though, is our roving reporters. And we've got three for you now." Three back-to-back reports follow, Ruth Perkins at St Albans (UK), Lyndell Murray at Emerald Lake (Vic) and Ali Sheppard at Neckarufer (Germany), with TOC recapping all three.

• Episode 411 - GPS fails

  Mel hands over "Well Simon we've got some roving reports for you so we're still playing catch up so this is this week's selection." Three back-to-back reports follow: Alison at Gordon Carmichael Reserve (Tauranga, NZ), Ruth Perkins at Belvoir Castle (UK) and Lyndell at Tamborine Mountain (QLD). Simon recaps all three.

• Episode 410 - Aussie Aussie Aussie

  TOC hands over - 'Let's crack on with a couple of roving reports.' Three reports follow back to back: Calum at Beverley Westwood (UK), Alison at Hanmer Forest (NZ) and Lyndell at Birtinya Island (QLD). Mel recaps all three.

• Episode 409 - Give us a hug

  Melissa Ellis throws to the week's roving reports "we have some more roving reports to bring you this week. So let's throw to those now." Three back-to-back reports follow: Alison at Ashburton Domain parkrun (New Zealand) with ED Brendan Adams; Lyndell Murray at North Harbour parkrun (Queensland) with RD Charmaine; and PK at Queens Domain parkrun (Hobart, Tasmania) with ED Nick. The hosts recap all three.

• Episode 408 - Back to the Office

  Melissa hands over "Time, I think, for us now to listen to some of our roving reports." Three reports run back to back: Ali Sheppard from Hellbrunn parkrun in Salzburg (with an exclusive on a fifth Austrian event coming at Klagenfurt), Ali Sheppard from the Bushy Pilgrimage on Christmas Day, and Lyndell Murray from Gainsborough Greens south of Brisbane (which announces its relocation to Gainsborough Parklands). TOC wraps them up and notes a backlog of reports still to come.

• Episode 406 - White-marks the spot

  Simon hands over 'I think it's about time we threw to the roving reports. What do you reckon, TOC?' Three reports follow: Calum at Wendover Woods parkrun in the UK for its annual St Andrew's Day tartan event (event 254, interviewing RD Stuart Eakins); Lyndell at Underwood Park parkrun in Brisbane (interviewing RD/ED Steve about the 'U' parkrun, the course and backyard ultras); and Em at Whitemark Wharf parkrun on Flinders Island (interviewing ED Lynne about island life, access and the Flinders Island Running Festival). TOC wraps all three.

• Episode 405 - B4s Return

  Mel hands over to three roving reports: Alison Fraser (King) from the Southern Path parkrun launch in south Auckland with ED/RD Joyce; Tracey Wood from Old Esk Railway Station parkrun in Queensland with first-time RD Catherine Wilkes and adventurer Janice Whittle; and Sarah Jefferson from South Beach Recreation Reserve parkrun in WA with Ali O'Rourke as boomerang B4 comes home. TOC recaps all three.

• Episode 404 - Boomerang

  Sarah hands over: "So we might head over and check out some of the roving reports." Three reports follow, Lyndell Murray at Meadowbrook (interviewing Dan the Motivator), Ruth Perkins at Harrogate's 600th event (interviewing ED Ted Welton), and Johan Duvenhage at Big Bay, Cape Town, on parkrun South Africa's one millionth participant (interviewing Vitality Centurions Brian and Donald Scott). Simon and Sarah recap all three.

• Episode 403 - In the Poo

  Melissa Ellis throws to the roving reporters. Three reports: Tracey Wood and Lyndell Murray both at Samford Parklands parkrun on the same morning, and Ruth Perkins at Meijo Koen parkrun in Nagoya. TOC and Mel recap them.

• Episode 402 - With Mispronunciations Now

  Melissa throws to the roving reporters and Simon recaps them. Three reports run back to back, Lyndell Murray at Coomera (interviewing RD Megan), Sarah Jefferson at Esperance Foreshore (interviewing RD Tanya), Ali Sheppard at Baysgarth Park (interviewing RD Phil Kirkham). All three are framed as Channel 5 News Crew work, as the show notes also state, and the hosts say more reports are being held over to next week.

• Episode 401 - Adventurers Shine

  Sarah hands over to the roving reports; a single report follows, Lyndell Murray at Sirromet parkrun in South East Queensland interviewing Run Director Liam. Simon returns to note it was the only one this week and had been held over from the previous week, and repeats the standing invitation for listeners to submit reports of five to seven minutes without needing to be a Channel 5 News Crew member.

• Episode 400 - Thank you for the Music

  TOC hands over to the roving reporters: four reports this week - Ali Sheppard at Rosensteinpark parkrun in Stuttgart on German Unity Day (with Run Director James), Tracey Wood at Lawson parkrun in the Blue Mountains (with marshal Louise and RD Lindsay), PK at Mount Barker for parkrun's 20th birthday (with co-ED Paul Butler and Heidi from The Athlete's Foot), and TOC himself at O'Connors Beach parkrun at St Helens, Tasmania (with founding ED Ash). TOC recaps all four.

• Episode 399 - Das Ist Gut

  Three roving reports back to back: Calum Burrell at Epworth Equestrian in North Lincolnshire (third-last event before the landowner withdraws permission, course record 373 with 333 first-timers, interviews with ED Ade, RD Janice, visitors Annette and Lorraine and Barcode Scanner Lindsay); Tracey Wood at Point Hut Pond in Gordon ACT (co-founder Tyson, marshal Luke, RD Em); and Sarah Jefferson at Otago Central Rail Trail parkrun Alexandra in New Zealand (founder Sally). Melissa Ellis wraps all three and adds a researched aside on the Alexandra hillside clock.

• Episode 398 - Planes, Trains and Automobiles

  Three roving reports played back to back: Ruth Perkins from Sonsbeek parkrun in Arnhem, the Netherlands (Run Director Hans, plus tourists Harry and Dave Mitchell); Val and Steve Warwick with Ryan Stoddart on his last night in Tasmania after running all 22 Tasmanian events; and Sarah Jefferson from Invercargill parkrun in New Zealand with Event Director Liz and her verse run briefing. Ollie flags that there are more in the bank than will fit, and Mel says the rest will run next week.

• Episode 397 - The Grate Return

  Sarah hands over, "before we get cut off the air, Simon, and Mel edits this right back, I think we should throw to some roving reports", into three back-to-back reports: Lyndell Murray at Riemer parkrun in Munich, Alison at Ōrākei Bay parkrun in Auckland, and Janet at Yeldulknie Weir Trail parkrun at Cleve, South Australia. Simon recaps all three and notes two were held over from last week.

• Episode 396 - Oh What a Feeling!

  Three roving reports, all recorded the previous week: Tracey Wood at Warner Lakes, Calum Burrell at Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, and Tanya Bailey at the inaugural Hanmer Forest parkrun in New Zealand. TOC and Mel recap all three.

• Revisits and Backflips

  Mel hands over to a backlog of three roving reports played back to back: Ruth Perkins at Sewerby (Yorkshire), Janet Reid at Lochiel (Adelaide) with visiting Wildflower co-ED Andrea Doney, and Ali Sheppard at Dolls Point (Sydney) with two local parkrunners. TOC and Mel recap all three.

• Episode 394 - Dangling the carrot

  Mel hands over "But anyway, now let's throw to our roving reports." Two reports back to back: Alison Fraser (King) at the Morrinsville Recreation Ground parkrun launch in New Zealand with Event Director Heather, and Ali Sheppard tail-walking at Pirrama parkrun in Sydney with Co-Event Director Craig. TOC crosses back with "a pair of Alisons".

• Episode 393 - Onwards and Upwards

  Simon hands over "I think we should throw across to our roving reports". Two reports run back to back: Tracey Wood from Mitchelton parkrun in Brisbane (tail walking with Melissa, marshal James, RD Denise) and Johan Duvenhage from Hilton parkrun in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands (Thandi Zilewe on 538 parkruns, and Wilna van Eminus on her 99th event). The hosts come back, noting Tracey's report had been "lost in the ether for a week or two", and praising Johan for rephrasing the standard top-three question as "where have you gone that you will never forget?"

• Episode 392 - Bolting towards Septmeber

  Melissa Ellis crosses to four field pieces: Janet's Singapore double (Bill and Yvette Turner at Bishan, the Bishan co-Run Directors, and Carrie-Anne at East Coast Park) and Calum Burrell at Lancaster with Harriet White, "the TV". Tony O'Connell recaps all four.

• Episode 391 - The Rookie

  Two UK roving reports back to back: Ruth Perkins at Rotherham parkrun (with an interview with co-founder Kim Phillips) and Ali Sheppard at Thames Path parkrun, Woolwich (with an interview with Run Director Lawrence Wong). On the return Simon notes Ruth has run 143 parkruns at 143 different locations and volunteered 75 times at 74 different locations.

• Episode 390 - Jumpy

  Ollie hands over: "Mel, I think it's time to hand over to the... The Roving Reports. So we've got a couple for you this week." Two reports: Ingrid Botha at Jubilee parkrun, Tenterfield with ED Chrissie, and Alison at Moana Point Reserve parkrun, Whangamata NZ with ED Karen. Mel notes the coincidence that both events were at event number 15. Ollie riffs afterwards on Whangamata being "another potential fung... Cousin Fung".

• Episode 388 - When 3 becomes 5

  Simon throws to "a very famous person on the pod" and Sarah Jefferson's pre-recorded report from Jakes Point parkrun at Kalbarri, WA plays, six and a half hours north of Perth, event 43, including her interview with Event Director / Run Director Melissa Finlay. Sarah back-announces that this was the only roving report of the week.

• Episode 387 - Founders and Fashion

  Mel hands over to the week's roving reports after the two long monologues: Lyndell Murray at Logan River parkrun (QLD), Alison at Queen's parkrun in Belfast, and first-timer Ruth Perkins at Gunpowder parkrun in Essex. TOC and Mel recap all three, including that this was Alison's last running parkrun of her trip (she volunteers at Stratford-upon-Avon next week) and that Ruth's is a debut report.

• Episode 386 - Fly High

  Four roving reports played back to back: Calum Burrell at Rendlesham Forest parkrun in Suffolk (held-over audio, with Gold Coast tourist Vicky); Sarah Jefferson at West Coast Park parkrun in Singapore with Run Director Charlotte; Lyndell Murray at Petrie parkrun north of Brisbane with Run Director Brad and fundraiser Rhys; and Alison Fraser at Jubilee parkrun in Spennymoor, County Durham with Run Director Jack, collecting the J to finish her second alphabet. The hosts debrief all four.

• Episode 385 - Ice Ice Baby

  Mel hands over, "Time now for us to have a listen to some familiar voices", to two pre-recorded contributions: Calum Burrell's report and interview with Rory Marriott from Rendlesham Forest parkrun in Suffolk, and Pippa's UK check-in. TOC picks both up afterwards.

• Episode 384 - Indeed

  Melissa throws to this week's roving reports: Janet Reid from Anstey Hill in South Australia, with an interview with SA Regional Ambassador Kate Corner, and Alison from the newly launched Y Promenâd parkrun in Brecon, Wales, with an interview with Run Director Martin.

• Episode 383 - Big Kahunas

  TOC hands over to the roving block: three reports back to back, PK at Nuriootpa in the Barossa Valley, Lyndell Murray at South Bank in Brisbane, and Johan Duvenhage at the newly launched Emerald Resort parkrun in South Africa. Mel closes the block thanking the roving reporters and noting two of the three had been held over a week because of the skipped episode.

• Episode 382 - What's in a name?

  Simon hands over with "Well, to give you a bit of a break, how about we throw to the roving reports?" Four reports follow back to back: Tracey Wood at Jeune Park (Beaudesert, QLD), Janet at Whyalla Foreshore (SA), Calum Burrell at Clarence (Bury, UK) and Alison at Pokkinen (Oulu, Finland). Melissa runs the roll-call.

• Episode 381 - Ah-sigh-ee

  Four reports in a row: Lyndell Murray at Glass House Mountains Conservation parkrun (QLD) on its fifth birthday; Alison Fraser (King) at Tokoinranta parkrun in Helsinki for the Nordic Ascension Day; David Messenger at the new Ridley Place Foreshore parkrun at Australind (WA); and Melissa Ellis at Armidale parkrun (NSW). Simon and Sarah recap all four.

• Episode 380 - In a twist

  Mel hands over to the week's two roving reports: Lyndell Murray at Cleveland parkrun's May the 4th themed 11th birthday (Redlands, Queensland), and Calum Burrell co-run directing Burnage parkrun on the River Mersey on Eurovision day. Mel notes that the show is sitting on a backlog and staggering reports, and that Calum is "a new voice to bring some UK flavour to our ears".

• Episode 379 - R2-RD

  Melissa hands over to three held-over roving reports: Alison Fraser (King) volunteering at Victoria Junior parkrun in Glasgow on the 10th anniversary of junior parkrun in Scotland; Johan Duvenhage hosting the parkrun World Tourist Group's Africa meetup at Walvis Bay, Namibia; and Tracey Wood at Warwick, Queensland. Simon and Melissa recap all three, including a fact-check that the Murray, not the Condamine, is Australia's longest river.

• Episode 377 - Purple Patches

  Four roving reports run back to back: Lyndell Murray at Oakey (a "rebel tour" away from the South Toowoomba listener meetup), Johan Duvenhage at Piggly Wiggly in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, Lyndell again at the newly launched Capestone Lake, and Mark Scarborough at Gunnersbury in London on marathon weekend. Mel and TOC recap all four. Lyndell and Mark both sign off "for the Channel 5 News Crew".

• Episode 376 - palm24

  Ollie calls the Channel 5 News Crew members who are physically at palm24 up to the microphone and each gives a thank-you: Sarah Jefferson ("Sarah from the West Side") thanks the 34 volunteers and the photographer who travelled from Western Australia; Tracey Wood ("Tracey in a tutu") thanks Robbie and Margie for South Toowoomba hosting and leads three cheers for the event's birthday; Lyndell Murray thanks the travelling visitors (from as far as Tasmania and WA), the other contributors and the listeners. Mel returns to the crew to name the full roster, the three present plus Marvellous Mark in the ACT, PK and Greta in South Australia, Dave Moss, and international contributors Johan and Alison.

• Episode 375 - Outback parkruns

  TOC hands over to a longer-than-usual run of crossovers because the show skipped a week: Lyndell Murray at Harris Avenue, Sarah Jefferson at Centennial Park in Dunsborough, and Tracey Wood at Mackay, followed by the Local Weather Expert.

• Episode 374 - details, details

  Three roving reports played back to back: Melissa Ellis from Launceston parkrun in Tasmania (interviewing grey nomads Nigel and Leslie), Tracey Wood from Des Connor Park junior parkrun on its record 358-child day (interviewing UK visitors Rory and Hilary Marriott), and PK from South Para Reservoir parkrun in South Australia (interviewing Debbie and a Tracey completing her Radelaidean). Simon recaps all three.

• Episode 373 - Geographical Inaccuracy

  TOC crosses to the week's roving report: Tracey in a tutu at Underwood Park parkrun on the south side of Brisbane, admitting she has no particular reason to be there ("unimportant, underwhelming and uninteresting"). She interviews local Sandy on the course profile, walks with local Angela, and finishes with Mark, the Run Director of the day. Melissa closes the crossover.

• Episode 372 - Don't follow Mel!

  Only one report this week and it is Melissa Ellis's own, so she hands over to herself: a recorded piece from the Hug Mug cafe after Cyril Curtain Reserve parkrun, in which she interviews Eman Vergara about his morning and about the PALM weekend he is hosting at South Toowoomba.

• Episode 371 - Out & Moving

  Two roving reports, both on Run Down Under / parkrun the World Day: Tracey Wood chasing her NENDY at Broadbeach Waters parkrun on the Gold Coast (with P2, Run Down Under member Danielle and Run Director Nigel), and Alison Fraser at Gordon Spratt Reserve parkrun in Papamoa, New Zealand (with founding co-ED Helen Bischel, Tasmanian visitor Leanne, and token volunteer Axel).

• Episode 369 - When Paris met Harry

  Lyndell Murray reports from Ipswich, Queensland parkrun's 10th birthday at Limestone Park, with a costume theme of 'dress like you're 10', interviewing tourist Bridget, 350-milestone birthday girl Mavis and founding Event Director Rochelle.

• Episode 368 - Gooey buttercake flavoured goodness

  Mel throws to three roving reports: PK from Kangaroo Island parkrun, Sarah from Western Australia with round-the-world runner Tim Franklin, and Lyndell from Newy parkrun with Run Director Simon. TOC and Mel debrief all three.

• Episode 366 - Euphony

  Mel throws to the block "it is time for us to move swiftly forward to listen to some roving reports this week. We are going to hear from Alistair Actionman at St Peters, PK at Belair National Park, and we've got Johan from a South African event." Three self-contained reports run back to back: Alistair Buchanan's Guerrilla Tourism piece from St Peters parkrun in Sydney (interviewing that day's RD, James, on a record ~610 turnout), Paul Kitching from the new Belair National Park parkrun in South Australia (vox-pops with Tracy and Deb of Mount Barker, and barcode-scanning stalwart Marilyn), and Johan Duvenhage from the returning Voortrekker Monument parkrun in Pretoria. Ollie closes the block and the hosts then debrief at length, St Peters' 12th birthday and 682 finishers the following week, its January 2012 launch with 122 people, its 24,354 individual runners and 161,402 finishes, ED Paul as Australia's longest-serving ED, and the unofficial 24-parkruns-in-24-hours attempt starting at Belair.

• Episode 365 - Tick Tocky

  Three roving reports played back to back after the summer break: PK from West Beach parkrun (SA), Tracey in a Tutu from Bellevue Park Junior parkrun (Gold Coast) and Lyndell from Paradise Point parkrun (Gold Coast). Mel and Simon wrap it with "great to hear from our Channel 5 News crew again" and a welcome back to Tracey.

• Episode 363 - Old Farts and Old Ducks

  Oliver Spake crosses to Melissa Ellis's recorded field audio from Campbelltown parkrun in New South Wales, where she interviews Billy on his 250th milestone. Only one report this week; Ollie notes that he recorded none during his Tasmania trip.

• Episode 360 - gggrrriverside

  Simon hands over to the week's two roving reports, TOC from the four-week-old Goulburn River Trail parkrun at Seymour, Victoria, and Lyndell Murray from Redland Bay parkrun in Queensland. The hosts debrief both, picking up Lyndell's shout-out to the adults who run with junior parkrunners and the acknowledgement of "Schultzy".

• Episode 359 - Rrrrriverside

  Ollie crosses over to Alison Fraser (King) in New Zealand for a report from the launch of Northern Pathway parkrun in Auckland, New Zealand's first event starting with N, Auckland's eighth and the country's 43rd. Alison signs on for the Channel 5 News crew and interviews Anna (chair of the Upper Harbour Local Board) and Scott (the Event Director) before signing off. Mel and Ollie debrief afterwards, noting New Zealand has no silent-launch restriction (only the UK, Ireland and Australia do).

• Episode 357 - Stop watch

  Ollie crosses to Lyndell Murray at Kawana parkrun on the Sunshine Coast for the event's 11th birthday. She has cake, then interviews two original Kawana parkrunners (Graham and Kelly), followed by Event Director Ian and the day's Run Director Rebecca, who reports the birthday statistics: 82,583 finishes by 15,233 people and 11,120 PBs since 2012. She signs off for the Channel 5 News Crew.

• Episode 356 - All power to the editor

  Two roving reports played back to back: Sarah Jefferson at Our Park parkrun in Orford, Tasmania (event 153), interviewing Run Director Kendall; and Lyndell Murray at North Lakes parkrun's heroes-and-villains-themed 11th birthday, dressed as Batman, interviewing 500-milestoner Damien, Co-Event Director Alistair and 400-milestoner Gwen. Introduced by Melissa Ellis and thanked by Ollie.

• Episode 354 - It’sa Mario

  Melissa Ellis crosses to the week's single roving report: Caveman Cam at Mensola parkrun in Florence, Italy, where he interviews Run Director Riccardo, founder Susie, and a group of visiting Australians. Ollie thanks him in Italian on the way back to the studio.

• Episode 353 - Mel’s a dot

  Bec Bailey's field audio from Batemans Bay parkrun, capturing the surprise gathering for Melissa Ellis's 400th parkrun at her 200th different event. She interviews TOC and Jackie, Sam and Luke Schroder, Sarah and Matt, Andrew and Martine, and finally Mel herself.

• Episode 352 - Black and White Army

  Melissa hands over to three roving reports, TOC at Dixon Field parkrun (Gisborne, Victoria), David Messenger at Kalgoorlie-Boulder parkrun (WA) and Johan Duvenhage at Jock Trail parkrun (Graskop, South Africa). Olly thanks all three.

• Episode 352 - Black and White Army

  TOC files his Dixon Field report with the crew's standard sign-on, "TOC reporting in for the Channel 5 News crew". Mark Scarborough is also greeted in the studio chat as "Channel 5 News crew's own marvellous Mark" for finishing the Berlin Marathon in 4:26:13.

• Episode 351 - Missing Magpies

  Melissa crosses to Lyndell Murray's audio from Wes Mitchell Park parkrun at Tin Can Bay (Tuncanbar), Queensland, where she interviews Event Director Greg Garner and Run Director Gordon on event number eight, the foreshore course, council funding and the anniversary cake to come.

• Episode 350 - Black and White

  Oliver Spake hands over to "an absolute plethora" of roving reports, four this week, from Palmerston parkrun in the Northern Territory, Wilson Inlet Heritage Trail at Denmark WA, Harmony Boulevard on the Sunshine Coast and Cobram in Victoria. Melissa Ellis closes the block, welcoming Wilson Inlet Heritage Trail and Harmony Boulevard to the parkrun family and wishing Palmerston a happy seventh birthday.

• Episode 349 - Big Swoop

  Mel hands over with "Let's go to the roving reports". Two reports follow back to back: Mel's own recording from Ballina Coast parkrun with RD Teddy, and Billo's report from Yackandandah Rail Trail parkrun featuring deaf parkrunners Ian and Lydia with Auslan interpreter Naomi. The hosts pick both up afterwards.

• Episode 348 - Cat Amongst the Magpies

  Ollie hands over to the roving block, which runs uninterrupted from 00:16:50 to 00:34:19 and carries three reports: Melissa Ellis at Parkindula Reserve (South Australia) interviewing tourists Megan and Alex on International Dog Day, TOC at Tallangatta Station on the Victoria/NSW border interviewing founding team members Dev and Andrew, and Johan Duvenhage at Cape Agulhas, the southernmost parkrun in Africa, interviewing Run Director Jeremy Mann and Bruce Fordyce. Melissa and Ollie debrief it at 00:34:28.

• Episode 347 - What Windmill?

  One report this week: Action Man (Alistair) at Wentworth Common parkrun in Sydney Olympic Park, interviewing local parkrunner Clara about the course, her top three events and why visitors should come. Simon adds that he loved Wentworth Common when he visited a couple of months ago, and that his former Mossman co-ED Mary is now one of the Run Directors at Galston.

• Episode 346 - Wonder Woman

  Melissa Ellis throws to two roving reports: Sarah Jefferson at Patawalonga River parkrun in South Australia (event 108, second birthday) and Lyndell Murray at Wishart parkrun in Brisbane (ninth anniversary). Oliver Spake closes the slot thanking both and congratulating Sharon on her volunteering milestone.

• Episode 345 - Level 2 with hygge

  The hosts' own weekend parkrun round-up. Mel returned to Studley parkrun (her fifth visit, 207 finishers) to catch up with Bec Bailey, back from a six-country South American trip, and spotted the apricot-clad international tourist she later interviewed. TOC went back to Koonwarra in Gippsland (his seventh visit, Jack's fifth, and a new p-index of five for Jack), caught up with Bernie and Ray Larson from Sale, and talked about the sense of hygge that founding ED Ebony Knox described at the Koonwarra launch.

• Episode 345 - Level 2 with hygge

  Two reports this week: Melissa Ellis from Studley parkrun in Melbourne interviewing visiting American Joyce Adams, and Lyndell Murray from Greenbank parkrun south of Brisbane interviewing Run Director Wayne on the event's sixth anniversary.

• Episode 342 - 26

  Ollie: "Yes, that's right. We do have some roving reports as promised to catch up... picking up from our last podcast, episode 341 from Sarah from the West Side over in Malaysia, and then a swather of roving reports to follow. So let's have a listen." Four reports run back to back, Sarah Jefferson at Presint 18 (Malaysia, interviewing Helen and Steve Davis and local host Harry), Sarah at Ome Kyuryo (Japan, interviewing Tony Jennings), Alison Fraser (King) at Lake2Lake Trail (Te Anau, NZ, interviewing parkrun COO Tom Williams) and Sarah at Baxter (Carnarvon, WA, interviewing RD Renee Williamson). Mel recaps the whole block: "what a great lot of roving reports featuring Sarah, Sarah, Sarah and Alison."

• Episode 341 - On the buses

  Mel crosses to the first half of Sarah Jefferson's roving report from Presint 18 parkrun, Putrajaya, Malaysia - interviews with Run Director Hema and with Washington, an Australian tourist from Brisbane. Mel flags on air that she has split the report in half and only part one runs this week.

• Episode 340 - Homework

  Sarah hands over "we might throw to some roving reports". One report this week: TOC at Bushy Park parkrun in London, interviewing Run Director Richard, plus a follow-up audio insert answering Mel's question about how Bushy manages its finish funnel with 1,200+ finishers.

• Episode 339 - West Side Story

  Sarah Jefferson hands over, "on that note, we might throw to some roving reports, Mel", to two back-to-back reports: PK from the brand-new Parkindula Reserve parkrun at Mount Barker, SA, and TOC from Malahide Castle Junior parkrun in Ireland. Mel and Sarah pick the thread back up.

• Episode 338 - Hitch ’em up

  Ollie hands over to the roving reporters for two reports back to back: Sarah Jefferson from Bishan parkrun in Singapore (with four interviews), and Johan Duvenhage from South Africa weighing Mundy Regional against Sterkfontein and Thousand Hills for the title of world's most difficult parkrun. The hosts pick both up again with "What a top stellar pair of roving reports they were."

• Episode 338 - Hitch ’em up

  Sarah Jefferson signs on for the crew, "It's Sarah here from the West Side checking in for the Channel 5 News crew", before her Bishan report. The crew branding appears only as this sign-on this week; no other reporter uses it.

• Episode 337 - Interference

  Mel hands over, "Now it's probably a good time to throw to our roving reports", to four reports: her own from Woodlands Historic Park with ED Jorge, PK from Oaklands Estate Reserve with a visually impaired Run Director and his guide, and TOC's European double from Ziegelwiese (Halle, Germany) and Amager Fælled (Copenhagen). Ollie closes the block thanking PK, TOC and Mel.

• Episode 337 - Interference

  TOC signs on for the crew from Europe, "TOC from Inverloch reporting in for the Channel 5 News crew", covering both the Ziegelwiese and Amager Fælled reports on his European Grand Tour.

• Episode 336 - Kagerzoomie

  Oliver Spake crosses to Tony O'Connell in the Netherlands for the Zuiderpark report, interviews with wheelchair racer Claudia and with Danny Norman in the post-run cafe. Melissa Ellis recaps afterwards with Claudia's 13:36 first-finisher time.

• Episode 336 - Kagerzoomie

  Second crossover of the episode, billed as 'late mail', Tony O'Connell's bonus Whit Monday report from Kagerzoom parkrun, with interviews with Amanda Murray-Hynde, Claire from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and a cafe table of Welsh and Lincolnshire tourists.

• Episode 335 - Soldier’s Five

  Melissa hands over to the week's roving reporters: TOC from Donaupark parkrun in Vienna, PK from the new Narooma Wetlands parkrun near Murray Bridge, and Lyndell from Robelle Domain at Springfield. Ollie thanks all three.

• Episode 335 - Soldier’s Five

  Sarah Jefferson reports from "my office without a view" on the parkrun head office Insights and Q&A nights held in Perth. Covers the five-year plan to rebalance parkrun across APAC, the Americas, the UK and EMEA; landowner problems in Malaysia; the carbon-footprint question (only 5% of parkrunners tourist); Australian attendance back to about 68,000 a week; HQ's guarded support for the Challenger/5K/Running Achievement apps and the risk of challenges overwhelming small teams (the Nelson 777 example); the dogs-on-harnesses rule change; junior parkrun expansion on hold pending working-with-children legislation; a plea for RDs to keep logging incidents; and a Victorian government partnership to create 20 new events in two years.

• Episode 334 - parkrun Voyager

  Mel throws to the roving reports and Ollie hands over: "we have a swather of roving reports for us to catch up on". Four reports follow back to back, TOC at Caffarella parkrun in Rome, Lyndell Murray at Brisbane Valley Rail Trail parkrun in Blackbutt, an unnamed reporter ("Dashcam") with Christine and Myrtle the Turtle at an unstated event, and Alison at Wolford Wood parkrun in the UK for Andy Airey's Freyne. Mel and Ollie recap all four and note they are still playing catch-up on a backlog.

• Episode 333 - Corgi Butt Buns

  Melissa hands over to three banked roving reports as the show continues clearing its backlog: Lyndell at Naracoorte Lake, Alison at Ekebergsletta in Oslo, and PK at Edithburgh. Simon and Melissa recap all three, correcting Norway's "course record" to an attendance record set on Ascension Day.

• Episode 332 - Severn Swather

  Four banked roving reports played back to back to clear a backlog from the show's break, Mark Scarborough at Yackandandah Rail Trail, PK at Shiraz Trail, Action Man at Altona Beach and Johan Duvenhage at Coober Pedy. Ollie coins "a swather of roving reports" for the collection, which becomes the episode title.

• Episode 331 - Quokka Quest

  Mel hands over "so now, after that very long intro, we are going to throw to the roving reports that we're bringing you this week, so let's have a listen". Three reports run back to back with no studio break: Lyndell at Western Springs (Auckland, NZ) on April Fool's Day, Sarah Jefferson at Margaret River (WA), and Cam at Claisebrook Cove (Perth). Ollie closes the block "thank you very much to our roving reporters from, well, parkrun Day just gone, but also our earlier April parkrun Days" and names all three. The hosts explain that they are catching up on a backlog built during the two-week podcast pause for palm23, and that "at least a handful of roving reports" are still held over for episode 332.

• Episode 330 - palm23

  Official Press Pass presentation to roving reporters who had not yet received their badge and microphone, with a short Q&A for each: Cameron Drake, Alison King, Sarah Jefferson and Johan Duvenhage, inducted by the hosts with TOC helping. Closes with a group photo of the crew.

• Episode 328 - Sterkte

  Mel crosses to Johan Duvenhage at the parkrun South Africa 2023 conference in Muldersdrift, the country's first conference in four years. Johan files four interviews: parkrun Global CEO Russ Jefferys on the new five-year strategy, Bruce and Gill at the gala dinner, Gillian Findlay on event sustainability, and Heidi Williams-Sutton on organising the conference.

• Episode 327 - Off Script

  Melissa Ellis throws to the week's roving reports "let's throw to this week's roving reports", and Ollie closes the block thanking "Sarah at Durian [Jurien] Bay, Tracy at Suramay [Sirromet] and Johan from Grey Goose". Three self-contained reports run back to back: Sarah Jefferson from Jurien Bay parkrun in WA, Tracey Wood from Sirromet parkrun in the Redlands, and Johan Duvenhage from Grey Goose parkrun near Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal.

• Episode 327 - Off Script

  Sarah Jefferson signs on with the crew tag "It's Sarah here on the West Side checking in for the Channel 5 News crew", reporting from event number 18 at Jurien Bay parkrun, 220km north of Perth. She interviews Run Director and founder Carolyn Ashby about the event's start-up and its name change from Dobbin Park, then course-record setter John Penzey, and closes with a plug for the sea lion tours and "less than five weeks to Palm".

• Episode 326 - Song sung blue?

  Two roving reports back to back. Lyndell Murray files from Brightwater parkrun on the Sunshine Coast (held over from the previous week), interviewing birthday girl Ruby on her 10th parkrun, Co-Event Director Gary on his 150th volunteer occasion, Run Director Claire and Co-Event Director Andrew about Brightwater's "tunnel of love" milestone tradition. David Messenger then reports from Western Australia at the brand-new Newcastle Park parkrun in Toodyay (pronounced "too-jay"), the 50th parkrun in WA, one week after launch, explaining the Newcastle/Toodyay name history, describing the two-lap Avon River course, and interviewing Tony, a local on his second-ever parkrun. Ollie thanks both.

• Episode 326 - Song sung blue?

  Lyndell Murray files her Brightwater report explicitly "for the Channel 5 News crew", and Ollie introduces her Kedron piece as coming from "one of the Channel 5 News crew, Lyndell the Legendary". The crew banner is used for both of her contributions this week.

• Episode 325 - Wake up, Jodi!

  A big week for roving reports, three played back to back, with Lyndell Murray's held over to next week. Tracey Wood from Ecco Ripley parkrun (Queensland), David from Wanneroo parkrun (Western Australia), and Alison Fraser from Hamilton Lake parkrun (New Zealand).

• Episode 324 - Radio prA

  Two roving reports back to back, both branded to the news crew. Paul Kitching (PK) from Stebonheath parkrun, Davoren Park, north of Adelaide SA, a course he hadn't done, an out-and-back around a lake with noisy cockatoos, his first sub-30 for the year; he interviews volunteer Tammy (25+ volunteers, came to parkrun on her doctor's suggestion for her mental health and has missed only one week since), young Finn celebrating his third parkrun, and Stebonheath ED Nicky, who is also Finn's mum. Then Lyndell Murray from Railway Park parkrun in Proston, regional Queensland, on Wakka Wakka land, interviewing RD/ED Anita and local Fiona.

• Episode 324 - Radio prA

  Host debrief after the two roving reports, Ollie reflects that he hasn't done many rural parkruns and would like to, Mel notes she likes a good long country drive, and Ollie says Finn's third-parkrun milestone is the inspiration to get his own daughter Ava along after she barcode-scanned at Shellharbour.

• Episode 323 - Big Things

  Two roving reports played back to back. Tracey Wood ("Tracey in a Tutu") from Centennial Park parkrun, Sydney, with Nicole - interviewing David the horse marshal (Centennial has equestrian centres nearby and parkrun must be stopped to let horses cross) and first-time Run Director Jeremy; course notes on the McKay Sports Ground start and the unusual 7am NSW start time. Then David Messenger's debut report from Garvey Park parkrun east of Perth, WA - course description, a bee sting at the 1km mark, and interviews with Matthias (50 parkruns after years out with a foot injury), Cale (husband of the RD) and Noel (45th tail walk of 77 volunteers).

• Episode 322 - Rise of the Machines

  Mel throws to the roving reports "Time to throw to our roving reports. So let's have a listen to Alison." Alison Fraser reports from Russell Park parkrun, Waipukurau, Central Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, a NENDY she had been saving since April. She interviews Run Director Florrie Kerr (a Scot, originally from near Loch Leven, who came to parkrun in 2018 after a marriage breakup) and UK tourist David Capel of Ashton Court parkrun, Bristol, on an 11-week trip and approaching 450 parkruns. She signs off from the car with an amendment: Florrie meant Lochore Meadows, not Loch Leven. 53 finishers on the day. Hosts thank her.

• Episode 321 - GO!

  Ollie crosses to the roving reports, "let's have a listen to Sarah and also Lyndell with some roving reports now". Two reports run back to back: Sarah Jefferson from Oaklands Estate Reserve parkrun's first birthday in South Australia (00:12:49-00:19:57) and Lyndell Murray from Kirra parkrun on the Gold Coast (00:20:00-00:25:57). The hosts debrief both.

• Episode 321 - GO!

  Lyndell signs off her Kirra report with the crew's standing sign-on: "that is it from me, Lyndell. I am reporting in from Kira [Kirra] parkrun for the Channel 5 News crew." A companion "Channel 2 News crew" is name-checked in Mark Scarborough's Dazza's post about James's 100th parkrun.

• Episode 320 - Summer Holidays

  Tracey Wood's roving report from Scribbly Gums Conservation parkrun, east of Brisbane. She asks local Brad about the scribbly gum trees, interviews visiting volunteer Peter (Timekeeper, home event Robelle Domain) about why the volunteers wear red vests, tail walks with Caroline who describes the hilly hard-packed trail course, and interviews Event Director Blair at event 14 about setting the event up, his Wilson and p-Index chases and his top three parkruns. Signs off with course notes: not pram friendly, no toilets, bring insect repellent.

• Episode 319 - Alphabet Ears

  Three international roving reports back to back, set up by Ollie ("we're fortunate to have a few roving reports to take us around the globe") and closed by Mel thanking "Alison, Johan and Jeff". Alison Fraser reports from Perry Hall parkrun, Birmingham UK, interviewing Emma, the event's ED of seven years, on the course redesign from two muddy laps to three path-based laps and her top three courses (Somerdale Pavilion, Severn Bridge, Loch Leven). Johan Duvenhage reports from Living Colour parkrun near Darling, Western Cape, with the Malik family - two parents and ten children, over 3,000 parkruns between them, parkrunning since the inaugural Green Point event in July 2013. Jeff, the US correspondent, drives five hours to Huron, Ohio for the 25th edition of Osborn Metropark parkrun, interviewing Timekeeper Denise Parker and Event Director Martin with co-ED and Run Director Morgan.

• Episode 318 - parkrun, if you’re listening

  Three roving reports run back to back after Ollie hands over ("we've got a couple of roving reports. In fact, so many that we aren't bringing you all of them this week"): PK at Lochiel on Christmas Eve, TOC mid-run at Torrens on New Year's Day, and Alison Fraser at Warwick Racecourse (UK) on Christmas Eve. Melissa Ellis closes the block with "Thank you very much to our Channel 5 News crew. We always appreciate your efforts."

• Episode 317 - The Office Lady Option

  Sam invites the news crew to record their 2023 parkrun resolutions, and the montage runs 00:19:53-00:27:10. Alison Fraser: complete Couch to 5k and run a whole parkrun again, lift her p-index from five to seven, and finish the "university challenge" of all four parkruns starting with "university" at PALM. Tracey Wood: no goals at all beyond turning up every week and enjoying it. Lyndell Murray: 250 events, 50 volunteers, the Cowell Club, p-index to 10, and volunteering at least once at each of her p-index events. Tony O'Connell: a parkrun every week, and ten new countries on a planned big trip. Paul Kitching: more parkruns now Saturday sport is over, sub-28 average, and more roving reports. David: an event every weekend, the Date Bingo Challenge, and staying "a dot" on Charlie Pierce's chart. Mark Scarborough: sub-25 at Wagga Bridge, 250 parkruns, overseas events, and finishing the Compass Challenge, complicated by the westernmost parkrun having changed. An unidentified South African contributor: hold a complete set in Namibia, Eswatini, the Free State, the Northern Cape and the Eastern Cape, land an elusive Q, cover the last four of 22 South African regions, and complete both compass challenges. Sarah Jefferson: alphabeteer status (only O to go), interviews at parkruns A to Z, stopwatch bingo, three new countries, and showing off the West Coast at PALM.

• Episode 316 - InSantagram

  Two roving reports back to back. Sarah Jefferson at Dawesville parkrun (WA), interviewing Run Director Jamie about the event, the estuary course, its full volunteer roster and the Mandurah Giants, plus a bonbon joke and a follow-up piece on the Lake Clifton thrombolytes. Then Mark Scarborough at Mount Ainslie parkrun in Canberra, the only trail parkrun in the ACT, where he meets Lyndell Murray in person for the first time and walks her through her newly completed Peel Club (a parkrun in every Australian state and territory).

• Episode 315 - Honey Stud

  Melissa Ellis's own pre-recorded roving report from Goulburn parkrun (Wiradjuri Country), NSW. She interviews Bill, a local with 98 Goulburn runs who tips her off about the NSW Police Academy the course runs behind, then Melissa "Liss" Currie over brunch at the Paragon Cafe, covering the out-and-back riverside course with its uphill finish, parking, playground, toilets and the usual post-parkrun cafes (Gales, K&G's, Green Grocer).

• Episode 315 - Honey Stud

  Tracey Wood ("Tracey in a tutu") reports from Victory Heights Trail parkrun in Queensland, about an hour and a half from North Brisbane, in company with a second tutu-wearing Tracy, Tracy Leiper, for whom it is a Queensland NENDY by 100 metres. She interviews Lindy, a very new parkrunner on her third visit, and Susan the Run Director, covering the single-track and fire-trail course, the fairy wrens, leeches and mozzies, and the event's reopening three or four weeks earlier after months of flood damage.

• Episode 314 - Records & Legends

  Tracey Wood ("Tracey in a tutu") reports from Surfers Paradise parkrun on the Gold Coast, thrown to by Simon Mackley. She sets the scene at the Home of the Arts (HOTA) precinct, notes most locals are at Main Beach for their 555 or at Kirra for the Gold Coast 50 Run Festival, then interviews volunteer Natalie (barcode scanning, 270 parkruns, event's 7th anniversary the previous week), Liam on course (third visit, working back towards a sub-30), and Run Director Davina, who founded the event seven years ago and has ~160 volunteer credits and ~350 participations. Signs off with Nick and his "parkrun Puff of the Week" chat group.

• Episode 314 - Records & Legends

  Alison Fraser reports from Hamilton Park parkrun, which, she stresses, is in the South Island town of Gore, not Hamilton, and is not to be confused with Hamilton Lake, Hamilton Island or Hamilton parkrun. She tail walks, then interviews Event Director and Run Director Bridget McLeod on the two-year path to launch (2020 floods, COVID lockdowns, launch February 2022), the "boutique" field of 12-30, what to do in Gore (MLT centre, art gallery, whiskey-history museum, the country music festival) and the double-lollipop riverside course with its lupins. Alison stayed with Invercargill ED Liz Henry.

• Episode 313 - #getyourfeetwet

  Two roving reports thrown to together "let's have a listen now to TOC [TOC] and Johan", and back-announced "thank you very much to our Channel 5 News crew members there for the roving reports." TOC reports from week two of Prince of Wales parkrun in Ballarat, interviewing ED/RD Kylie about the event's relocation from Ballarat parkrun after seven and a half years. Johan Duvenhage tail-walks at Melkbosstrand, Cape Town, interviewing touring couple Hoppy and Yvonne Hopkinson, 250-milestone runner Chris Reeler, and South African not-parkrun stats keeper Wilna van Eminens.

• Episode 312 - parkrun party

  "Ladies Day" in the crew, as the show notes put it. Oliver Spake crosses over, "I'll tell you who else isn't stepping down as roving reporters. Gracie [Tracey] and Lyndell". Tracey Wood reports from Albert Melbourne parkrun's rainbow-themed 11th anniversary, guiding Casey around the course and interviewing Monica the lead bike volunteer, the Eukanuba team (Gemma and Holly) handing out dog goodie bags, and Event Director Joanne Watkins. Lyndell Murray then reports from Mudjimba Beach parkrun on the Sunshine Coast, the replacement event for the closed Town of Seaside parkrun, interviewing first-time solo Run Director Jo and Co-Event Director Vibka. Hosts recap both reports from 00:34:05.

• Episode 311 - Green Eggs & Snoods

  Two roving reports crossed to back-to-back: Tracey Wood from Robelle Domain parkrun in Springfield, Queensland (chasing her NENDY, interviewing local parkrunner Mika, tourist Lauren, and the ED/RD pair Darren and Janine), then Sarah Jefferson from Whitfords Nodes in Perth for event 222, interviewing Buddy Up Australia volunteer Jane Ingalls and first finisher Stu Anthony.

• Episode 310 - Cheers

  Ollie crosses to the week's single roving report, "We have one roving report this week ... from Alison over at ... event number five at Broad Park." Alison King files a three-part report from Broad Park parkrun, New Zealand's newest event, in Christchurch: an airport intro, on-site interviews with local voluntourists Big Dan and Lisa at the finish, and a wrap-up describing the lollipop course through Bottle Lake Forest, the cafe, and the New Brighton Hot Pools afterwards. It is week five for Broad Park and the first time they have used their official course. Hosts debrief it.

• Episode 309 - Bruce & Gill Fordyce

  Crossover to submitted audio from Phil and Gemma Gore, Event Directors at Shipwreck parkrun (WA), recorded straight after Phil won the Backyard Satellite World Championships - 76 hours, 76 x 6.7km loops, over 500km, beating Harvey Lewis by one loop. They trace it all back to parkrun: Gemma on being talked into her first parkrun and going on to 70 run-director shifts, Phil on "5K leads into 10K and then a half marathon, and if you don't stop, you just end up doing back[yard] ultras."

• Episode 309 - Bruce & Gill Fordyce

  The episode's teased "big announcement". Ollie reveals the hosts had set Johan a secret challenge - "so secret that Johan didn't know either" - to interview not just Bruce but also Gill. Melissa Ellis then announces "our latest Channel 5 News Crew member, no other than Johan Duvenhage", with Ollie clapping ("I'm taking a fine for that") and both thanking him for reports from South Africa and Eswatini.

• Episode 308 - Top 3

  Two reports. Johan Duvenhage from Delta parkrun, South Africa, for its 500th event, the first South African event to reach the milestone, interviewing Dieter Meyer (his own 500th, present at event 1 in November 2011), Elton Clothier-Huberts (original event-1 participant, now splitting time between South Africa and the Netherlands) and Jabulani Mkhize (252 different South African events, 24-week volunteer streak). Johan closes with Delta's stats: 700 participants, 45 volunteers, 42,000 different participants and 1.8 million km since launch. Then Tracey Wood from St Lucia parkrun at the University of Queensland for its event 201, jacarandas in bloom, park-walking and chatting to first-time volunteer Suzanne and to Charlotte, walking with three children doing their first barcoded parkrun.

• Episode 307 - Cops & Robbers

  Ollie crosses to Lyndell's self-contained roving report from Mansfield Queensland parkrun's Cops & Robbers Day, run with the Queensland Police as a fundraiser for the Blue Hope charity. She interviews officer in charge Senior Sergeant Michael Moria on the event's origins, constable Daniel who covered the 5K in full uniform, and founding Run Director Neville on the event's history and the ~300 turnout; she also records the police pipers on course and shouts out Erica and Ryan, who won best dressed carrying a TV set the whole way ("they ran like they stole it").

• Episode 306 - King Gizzard

  Four roving reports in two batches. First batch: Sam Schroder (the Office Lady) from Bathurst parkrun with co-EDs Jen Arney and Stephen Jackson, ahead of the Mount Panorama Punish; Cameron Drake from Applecross parkrun in WA asking parkrunners how motivating milestone shirts are. Second batch: Tracey Wood chasing her NENDY at White Rock parkrun in Queensland; Paul Kitching at Pakapakanthi in Adelaide on its restored full course.

• Episode 305 - You’ve Got Mail!

  Ollie hands over to "a couple of our roving reporters, Ingrid and Sarah this week, who will recap what was the first park walk day". Two back-to-back reports: Ingrid at Armidale parkrun (NSW) interviewing first-timer Margaret, second-timer Chris, and regulars Amanda and Ian; then Sarah at Zillmere (QLD) interviewing Damon and Maria Newman, volunteer Jill Gardiner, and parkwalkers Terry and Dylan. Hosts recap both.

• Episode 304 - Let Us Entertain You

  Two roving reports this week, introduced by Mel "time to throw to our two roving reporters this week. We have got Toc and Janet." TOC reports from Frank Keenan Reserve parkrun, Yarrawonga (new attendance record, 103); Janet reports from the launch of Memorial Park parkrun, Port Pirie, SA.

• Episode 303 - Home on the range

  A single roving report this week. Mel throws to it "Simon, time now to throw to our roving reports. We've got one this week"; Sarah reports for the Channel 5 News Crew from Geeveston parkrun in Tasmania, and Simon recaps it afterwards.

• Episode 302 - Lined Up

  Ollie hands over "We have three roving reports this week": Ingrid at Umbagong District parkrun (ACT) interviewing volunteer Graeme; Harry at Taman Pudu Ulu parkrun in Malaysia interviewing his brother Jasneesh Bular; and US correspondent Geoff at Charleston parkrun, West Virginia, interviewing Dee, the couple John and Jennifer, RD Jamie and UK tourist Gary. Mel and Ollie thank all three.

• Episode 302 - Lined Up

  Mel announces a brand new member of the crew: Sarah Jefferson, "the fabulous Sarah from the West Side", who completed the initiation challenge, interview someone on a beach in a pirate costume with a parrot in the background, tell a joke and make them laugh, and sent in a video. Ollie thanks her for her contributions to the pod and notes she is also on the PALM planning committee.

• Episode 301 - Thumbs Up

  Four roving reports back to back: Paul Kitching at the new Nantu Wama parkrun in North Adelaide, Melissa Ellis at the brand-new Beaufort Lake parkrun in Victoria, Tracey Wood at Mudjimba Beach parkrun's fourth birthday in the rain, and Alison Fraser at the launch of Whakatane Gardens parkrun in New Zealand. Oliver Spake follows up afterwards with PK's homework on the meaning of Nantu Wama and of "bridleway".

• Episode 300 - Tricentennial

  Tracey Wood ("Tracey on the Travels") reports from Fodder Forest parkrun at Victoria Point in the Redlands, Queensland, chasing her NENDY. She interviews Event Director and parkrun Australia outreach ambassador Shirley about the not-yet- event, and then Simon Mackley, "the quiz master himself", for whom Fodder Forest is now his home parkrun.

• Episode 299 - Buzz Buzz

  Mel throws to the week's roving reports "that goes to me now to throw to our roving report. So we've got a couple of roving reports, three, in fact, from Saturday Just Gone." Three reports follow back to back, TOC from the APAC ambassadors conference at Kingscliff, David Bravos from Byxbee parkrun in Palo Alto, and Lyndell from Stanthorpe, with Ollie thanking all three in the crossover back.

• Episode 299 - Buzz Buzz

  Both the first and third roving reports are filed explicitly under the Channel 5 News Crew banner: TOC opens "Toc [TOC] reporting in for the Channel 5 News crew" and Lyndell closes "Lyndell checking out Stanthorpe parkrun for the Channel 5 News crew on the parkrun adventurers."

• Episode 298 - Not Flat

  Three roving reports back to back. Tracey Wood at Atherton parkrun on the Atherton Tablelands, far north Queensland, interviews regular and first-timers briefer Carolyn, a group of caravanning tourists (Jen from Penrith, Lynn from Adelaide, Brad from Melbourne, Rochelle from the Central Coast) and RD Michael, who explains the rail-trail course and his Kuranda-to-Port-Douglas ultra. Richard's debut report from Sippo Lake parkrun in Canton, Ohio, USA, interviewing Run Director Donna about the woodland course, Sippo Mountain and the event's upcoming 100th. Abigail's debut junior roving report from Werribee Mansion parkrun, interviewing Event Director Loretta Fraser about the mansion, vineyard, golf course and the flying foxes runners must not wake.

• Episode 297 - The one when Mel sings

  Mel throws to the roving reporters and Ollie wraps them with "thank you very much to all of our roving reporters this week... Cam over at Lake Claremont, Johan in Eswatini, Pippa and Alison, both in Stratford-upon-Avon and Lyndell up at Darwin." Five reports in an unusually international block: Manzini (Eswatini), Lake Claremont (WA), Stratford-upon-Avon Juniors (UK, twice) and Darwin (NT).

• Episode 296 - Hot and Gold

  Two roving reports back to back. Ingrid Botha reports from The Ponds parkrun (NSW), course description, painted rocks in the underpass, dogs on course, and interviews Barcode Scanner Janisha and Run Director Sukhwan Singh about the event's volunteer culture and post-COVID numbers. Then Alison King reports from Stratford-upon-Avon parkrun in the UK, her old home event, interviewing Co-Event Director Simon Teal about the three-lap riverside course opposite the Shakespeare theatre, its flatness, and his top three (Vogrie, Leamington and Bushy).

• Episode 295 - Aidan Hobbs

  Two roving reports thrown to back to back: Sarah Jefferson at Willoughby parkrun (NSW) and Alison Fraser at Cambridge NZ parkrun, followed by the Informant. Ollie and Mel take the crossover back.

• Episode 294 - the new U

  Four back-to-back roving reports run uninterrupted from 00:15:30 to 00:39:48, then back-announced by the hosts "Heaps of roving reports this week, Scott": Mark Scarborough at the Umbagong District parkrun trial (Canberra), Lyndell Murray at New Farm (Brisbane), Pippa at Rendlesham Forest (Suffolk, UK) and PK at Glenoma (Cairns).

• Episode 293 - Hackers

  Ollie throws to the crew block "our Channel 5 News crew, our adventurer community have been busy on our behalf doing what they do best". Four self-contained reports run back to back to: TOC from Kirkdale Reserve parkrun, Brunswick East (interviews Ashnee of Coburg, and Harry visiting from Malaysia); Sarah Jefferson from Kununurra parkrun, WA, completing her Western Australia statesman/states lady status and interviewing fellow finisher Matthew Stevens; PK from Cairns parkrun completing his pirate challenge (interviews ED Steve, Canadian tourist Lawton, and Welsh tourists Rachel and Andy); and Sam Schroder from Darwin parkrun, interviewing founder and NT Event Ambassador Mark Connolly. The hosts recap all four-.

• Episode 292 - Floods, Cows & Milkshakes

  Melissa Ellis crosses to Johan Duvenhage, who files a self-contained report from event 201 at Swakopmund parkrun in Namibia - the town's German colonial history, the recently changed out-and-back course along the seafront, the week's gale-force east wind and dust storms, and the fog that covers the town roughly 300 days a year. He interviews first-time Run Director Emily James, who set up a WhatsApp group in January to solve the event's volunteer shortage, and long-serving volunteer Alan Beck, who mans the turnaround point ("Alan's Corner") with his dogs despite never having run the event, with 140+ volunteer credits.

• Episode 291 - Because

  Ollie: "we've got three roving reports for you this week". Eman from Railway Park parkrun (Proston, South Burnett QLD) interviewing James Rees on his Cow Club 100th different event; PK from Copper Trail parkrun near Wallaroo SA, chasing his sixth C for the Pirate Challenge and chatting to Run Director Trevor, co-ED Jerry, co-ED Nicole and travelling companion Tracey on Global Beatles Day; and Melissa Ellis from Eynesbury Heritage Trail junior parkrun hosting an Event Director meet-up with Bec Bullock (Aurora), Adrian Hillyer (Peppertree) and Natalie Harrison (Sunbury).

• Episode 290 - 98, 99, 100!

  Melissa crosses over "now we've got some roving reports this week. We have three roving reports coming to us from some events that we have already mentioned, but some voices that we haven't heard for a while." Three self-contained reports follow: TOC and Tracey Wood at Dolls Point (NSW), Sarah Jefferson at Cottesloe (WA), and Tania at Pegasus (NZ). The hosts recap all three.

• Episode 290 - 98, 99, 100!

  TOC's Dolls Point report, opening "Howdy, parkrunners. Toc reporting in for the Channel 5 News crew." Repeatedly derailed by Tracey Wood interrupting him on a sugar high, then settles into interviews with Barcode Scanner Sharon and run Report Writer Ali, plus a joint sign-off with Tracey.

• Episode 289 - Lorikeets are Metal

  Mel and Ollie finally issue Sarah Jefferson her long-promised challenge to join the Channel 5 News Crew: prompted by her Dazza's mention of treasure hunts, she must file a roving report (or two) dressed as a pirate, with the instructions to be sent to her as a message in a bottle. Mel also recalls at 00:15:15 being knocked back for the Channel 5 News Crew by Scott and Mel after interviewing Brendan Peel, Margie Olsen and Cathy Ray, and being set her own challenge instead.

• Episode 289 - Lorikeets are Metal

  The week's only roving report: Adrian at Peppertree parkrun, hosting visitors Greg and Shirley from Inverloch parkrun who are on the last leg of a motorhome trip home to Wonthaggi via South Australia, including a long detour to Yeldulknie parkrun at Cleve so Shirley could get her Y. Peppertree's fairy garden and its non-appearing platypus feature.

• Episode 288 - Travel Tips

  Two roving reports this week. First, Melissa Ellis from Jindabyne Sport & Recreation parkrun (NSW), recorded at the Park Cafe with ED/RD Rosalie and volunteer Erin, the two-lap trail course, the "hill of death", the "coat room", the old course still emerging from a swollen Lake Jindabyne, and the confusion over which anniversary they are celebrating. Second, Matthew "Billo" Billington from Leeton Sport and Recreation Precinct parkrun (NSW), interviewing ED/RD Andrew Watson, Timekeeper Rachel, and locals Marie and Sylvia over post-run coffee.

• Episode 287 - Rhubarb Lemonade

  Three back-to-back filed reports introduced by Ollie as "this 11 Rand roving report and the rest of our roving reports": Johan Duvenhage from Heidedal parkrun's fifth anniversary in the Free State, South Africa (interviews with founding ED Edwin, first finisher, volunteer Abby, Timekeeper Cyril and RD Rudolf Hofmann); Tracey Wood from Tamborine Mountain; and Cameron Drake from Jarrahdale Heritage. Melissa Ellis's own Mount Ainslie audio ran earlier.

• Episode 287 - Rhubarb Lemonade

  Tracey Wood's report from Tamborine Mountain parkrun (first-timer Louise, who refers cardiac-rehab patients to parkrun; RD Paul) followed by Cameron Drake's from a freezing Jarrahdale Heritage parkrun in WA (RD Carly). The show notes attribute both to the Ch 5 News crew; the crew is not named aloud in the episode itself.

• Episode 286 - 99 Apfelsine Blätter

  Three reports this week plus a post-outro clip. (1) Sam Schroder, 00:12:37-00:13:52, timekeeping at Shellharbour parkrun in National Volunteer Week and needling Ollie by naming the event eight times, which earns eight fines. (2) Melissa Ellis herself, 00:18:15-00:23:05, at the very new Panboola Wetlands parkrun near Pambula NSW, interviewing ED/RD Peter and visiting tourist Alan - thrown to "might be a good time for us to throw to our roving reports." (3) Tracey Wood, 00:23:08-00:27:54, at Elliott Heads Beach parkrun in 24-25km/h wind and rain, interviewing ED Barb and Tail Walker Brian. (4) A post-outro clip from junior RD Abigail at 00:56:15. Ollie closes the block "And thank you to our roving reports from, well, you, Mel. And Tracy [Tracey] at Elliott Heads Beach."

• Episode 284 - The Very Very Best Day

  Ollie crosses over "We do have a couple of fairly brief roving reports this week from Around the Traps, so I think it's time we pause and have a listen." Two reports back to back: Sarah Jefferson from Nightcliff parkrun in the Northern Territory (00:17:04-00:18:03) and Ingrid from Dolls Point (00:18:08-00:18:59). Melissa recaps both "a big thank you to Sarah and Ingrid for bringing us those two roving reports."

• Episode 283 - Eman Vergara

  Three roving reports back to back: Lyndell Murray at Bunyaville (Brisbane) interviewing Event Director Bruce Willis about the two-month flood hiatus and the repair effort; Pippa on the beach in Wales at Hafan Pwllheli with Run Director Louise; and Johan Duvenhage at Hartenbos Village parkrun in South Africa for the Freedom Day midweek event, with interviews of Niels and Estelle Rath, Event Director Roland Dix and Volunteer Coordinator Ita Janse van Rensburg.

• Episode 282 - Cass Castleton

  A strongly Western Australian week. Cam reports from Mundy Regional parkrun in the Perth Hills, arguing it is Australia's toughest parkrun on vertical gain and picking a bone with the name of the gardens where it starts; he interviews Tail Walker Cassie, Shellharbour visitor Bradley Holland and Run Director Ian. Sarah reports from Lake Claremont parkrun, interviewing Cameron Storey on his 400th parkrun and Terence Chia on his 25th volunteer. The hosts debrief both afterwards and concede Cam's toughest-parkrun claim.

• Episode 281 - Hoppy Easter

  Lyndell Murray reports from the long-awaited relaunch of Stones Corner parkrun in Brisbane (Turrbal and Jagera Country), restarting at event number 293 after 757 days off for COVID and a full redevelopment of Hanlon Park. She interviews a group of regulars (Isabel, Belinda, Michael and David) about touristing during the hiatus, Jim and his cult-hero cattle dog Banjo, and the new Co-Event Directors Lisa and Jim, who thank outgoing EDs Ian and Cass.

• Episode 281 - Hoppy Easter

  Two back-to-back roving reports: Johan Duvenhage from tiny Loxton parkrun in the South African Karoo (about ten participants, event 119, a rerouted course now that the drought has broken and the dam has filled, the endangered Karoo riverine rabbit, and a lekker breakfast at Loxton Lekker), including an interview with Event Director Marnie Esterhuizen; then Sarah Jefferson from Homestead parkrun in Western Australia, event 27, interviewing Royce about working towards his white 10 t-shirt.

• Episode 280 - Breakout

  Ollie crosses over "We have a couple of roving reports. So why don't we have a listen to them now?", two self-contained reports follow (Tracey Wood from Chermside and Des Connor Park juniors, Sarah Jefferson from West Beach parkrun, SA), with the hosts debriefing both from 00:22:54.

• Episode 280 - Breakout

  Tracey Wood's report is explicitly framed as her Channel 5 News crew initiation challenge, "this is a special challenge given to me by the Channel 5 News crew in order to prove my worth to become an official Channel 5 News crew member", the goal being to interview a person doing every volunteer role. She ticks off three (pacer, Funnel Manager and 'the other role'). At 00:24:27 the hosts decide Sarah Jefferson has proven her worth too and start planning a challenge to bring her into the crew.

• Episode 278 - Goldilocks

  The week's single roving report: Tracey Wood ("Tracey in a Tutu") at Noosa parkrun, Tewantin, where she is volunteering as Barcode Scanner rather than running because she has the 30km Noosa Ultra Trail that afternoon. She interviews Tony, an injured volunteer who started parkrun in the UK in 2011 and co-founded Southwick Country Park parkrun in Trowbridge before moving to the Sunshine Coast, and Sarah, the day's Run Director, on the Noosa course and community.

• Episode 277 - Stumped

  Mel crosses to Cam (Cameron Drake) for a roving report from Applecross parkrun in WA, held over a week because it arrived too late for the previous episode. Cam describes the riverside course with views of the city, then interviews Peter (celebrating his 25th run), a group of women in pink llama shirts who call themselves the No Drama Llamas ("coffee drinkers with a running problem", visiting from Rockingham parkrun), and Run Director / Event Director Paul on the event's five-year history, its lack of shade, the 1K spur past the start line, ~130 attendance, and the return of international tourists. Ollie thanks him and notes Applecross has only 12 metres of elevation change.

• Episode 276 - Mooving On

  Ollie crosses over "We've got some roving reports, Mel... Let's switch our focus and have a listen to those." Four reports run back to back: Sarah Jefferson tail walking at Mount Clarence, Albany (WA), interviewing WA tourist David; Johan Duvenhage from Weavers Country Estate parkrun, Wakkerstroom, Mpumalanga, South Africa, interviewing Carmen Jacobs and 100-different-events Cowell Club joiner Ridwan Fakir; Tracy Wood at Queens Domain, Hobart, capturing the run briefing delivered in rhyme; and Lyndell Murray at Stockton parkrun, Newcastle, interviewing Wooters club member Rod and first-time Run Director Alicia. Hosts recap all four.

• Episode 275 - palm22

  Thanks to the Channel 5 News Crew, and the palm tradition of presenting attending crew members with their press passes. Two new crew members were inducted this year: Alison, who could not attend and is in New Zealand, and Tracy, who is presented with a microphone and press pass in the room.

• Episode 274 - Johan Duvenhage

  Sam Schroder reports from Huskisson parkrun on the NSW South Coast with her husband Luke - their fourth visit but the third version of the course, its two relocations for crowding and COVID social distancing, an out-and-back with ocean views and a navy boat on the bay, and matching finish times of 44:44 and 44:45. Huskisson is where they first said I love you and where they honeymooned.

• Episode 274 - Johan Duvenhage

  Tony O'Connell reports from the brand-new Cyril Curtain Reserve parkrun in Williamstown, Victoria (event number three, 90 finishers), interviewing Event Director Bronnie about five years of work to bring parkrun to Williamstown, the course change forced by density restrictions and lost landowner permission, the three-surface three-lap course through an off-leash dog park, the six-month council trial, and Joanne and Scott Watkins as mentors.

• Episode 274 - Johan Duvenhage

  Tracey Wood ("Tracey in a tutu") tours Redland Bay parkrun, south-east of Brisbane, and finds the whole event already in tutus for 22/2/22. She interviews Run Director Cheryl (four birthdays, event number 207, usually 90-120 finishers) and Tail Walker Rachel, who describes the two oval laps and the concrete path up to the golf course.

• Episode 274 - Johan Duvenhage

  Lyndell Murray reports from Wondai parkrun on a rail trail in the South Burnett, Queensland, on the lands of the Waka Waka people. She interviews Claire - newly appointed event ambassador, Wondai's home-grown Run Director since launch, who did her first ever parkrun in Western Australia the week before Wondai started - and Winston, today's RD, on his 106th volunteer day, who lives across the road and looks after all the gear. Wondai's event number 233 falls next week for Fibonacci Challenge chasers.

• Episode 273 - Falling for You

  Double roving report. Tracy in a Tutu checks in from Bargara parkrun (Bundaberg, QLD) with Carla and the team, unveiling a new loggerhead turtle mascot that is yet to be named, the event is polling its Facebook followers for a name and the turtle will "go on adventures" like the show's other characters. Tracy also offers a Palm costume tip: a tutu worn under a skirt becomes a petticoat, which starts with P. PK then files from the brand-new Oaklands Estate Reserve parkrun in South Australia at its third event, recording part of it from the toilets because of the easy-listening music, and interviewing core team member Jen (it is the first "O" parkrun in SA), "silent Event Director" Denise (original ED at Aldinga Beach, who set this one up near her mum and made it a deliberately environmentally friendly, bike-friendly event) and Rebecca (Torrens and Christies Beach regular, now local).

• Episode 272 - Ercan Boduk

  Oliver Spake throws to the roving block: "what we can have is we can have roving reports and we have a couple of roving reports to listen to. So let's throw to them and our informant." Two reports follow, PK at Mawson Lakes (SA) and TOC at Lewis Park Reserve (Vic), with the hosts recapping both.

• Episode 272 - Ercan Boduk

  TOC signs on "Toc [TOC] reporting in for the Channel 5 News crew" from Lewis Park Reserve parkrun, the relocated successor to Fair Park Reserve in Melbourne's outer east, interviewing Event Director Megan about the move and Run Director Tracey about the event's biggest day (about 135 runners). The show notes bracket PK's Mawson Lakes report under the same banner.

• Episode 270 - The only way is up

  Four roving reports back to back after Mel's cue "time to move on to our roving reports": Cameron Drake from Pioneer parkrun on New Year's Day (interviewing Emma, Michaela, Jen and Run Director Greg about their New Year's resolutions and the maze-like course); Adrian from Peppertree parkrun with tourist Tyson; Alistair's guerilla report from Riverbank parkrun with Victorian tourist Rachel Axton; and Melissa Ellis from Murray Bridge, South Australia, with Run Director Todd. Hosts cross back at 00:30:08 to thank all four.

• Episode 269 - Criminal Intent

  Mel throws to the week's roving reports - "perhaps time to throw to this week's roving reports, a couple of our favourites have dropped reports" - covering back-to-back crossovers from Lyndell Murray at Baringa parkrun and Tracey Natutu at Des Connor Junior parkrun. Ollie thanks both.

• Episode 269 - Criminal Intent

  Lyndell Murray files from Baringa parkrun on the southern Sunshine Coast, badging the report herself "checking in from Baringa parkrun for the Channel 5 News crew". She interviews Run Director Christina on the course (mixed grass, concrete and trail), its three-year history, its position inside a growing housing development, COVID volunteer shortages, and its welcome for tourists.

• Episode 268 - Geoff Glaab

  Ollie crosses over with a loose "new" theme (new course, new parkruns, new approaches) tying three reports together. Lyndell Murray from Zillmere on New Year's Day, interviewing ED Mark (300th parkrun that morning) and RD Tim about the event's new two-lap all-grass course away from the soccer club. Adrian, Event Director of Peppertree, inverting the format by interviewing a visiting tourist at his own event - Brendan Peel, there for Wilson number 32. Alison Fraser from the launch of Otaki River parkrun on New Zealand's Kapiti Coast, interviewing co-ED Mark O'Sullivan, with 111 finishers. Both Lyndell and Alison sign off "for the Channel 5 News crew". Hosts recap all three-.

• Episode 267 - parkrun spirit

  Oliver Spake crosses to the Christmas Day roving reports "Okay, let's listen to a couple of our roving reports." Two reports follow back to back: Alison King from Puarenga parkrun in New Zealand (celebrating parkrun's return there on Christmas Day, with an interview with walker Neil), and Sam Schroder from Picton parkrun, where she was Run Director for a record 96 participants and handed out hand-painted Christmas baubles. Melissa Ellis and Oliver Spake debrief both.

• Episode 267 - parkrun spirit

  Alison King's report from Puarenga parkrun (Rotorua, New Zealand) is filed explicitly under the Channel 5 News Crew banner - "It's Alison King here reporting in for the Channel 5 News crew from Puaranga [Puarenga] parkrun". She marks New Zealand's return from pause ("the best Christmas present ever") and interviews Neil, an walker on his 87th walk who kept walking the bike park through the pause. Oliver Spake also thanks the crew collectively and notes that they can step in and co-host.

• Episode 266 - Tinsel Time

  Mel hands over: "Shall we throw now to our roving reports and the informant?" One roving report this week, Melissa Ellis from Wallaby Track parkrun (Brownhill, Ballarat), recorded in the event's famous 120-metre tunnel with Christmas carols playing, interviewing volunteer Donna on her V25 while dressed as Santa. Immediately after it, and explicitly NOT billed as a roving report, comes Pippa's Christmas message from the UK.

• Episode 265 - Advance to Go

  Olly hands over to the week's roving reporters ("A few other people to say thank you to, Mel, are our roving reporters and crew checking in for the week"). Three reports follow back to back: Cameron Drake at South Beach Recreation Reserve parkrun in WA, Tony O'Connell at Dorset Recreation Reserve in Melbourne, and Alison King with a New Zealand update. Hosts recap all three.

• Episode 265 - Advance to Go

  Two of this week's reports are filed explicitly under the Channel 5 News Crew banner: Tony O'Connell from Dorset Recreation Reserve parkrun, interviewing Co-Event Directors Manny and Elle in the "meet me in the middle" cafe about the fifth event of the new Melbourne event; and Alison King from New Zealand, reporting 18 Saturdays without parkrun under the new traffic-light system.

• Episode 264 - Home & Away

  Ollie crosses over "we do have a bunch of roving reports" to a block of four back-to-back reports: Greta Wilkinson at Anstey Hill Recreation (SA), Lynette at the Nathalia Showgrounds launch (VIC), Sarah Jefferson at Cottesloe's 300th (WA) and PK at Torrens' 9th birthday (SA). Hosts debrief afterwards, including a debate about whether Anstey Hill is Australia's hardest parkrun (193m elevation gain).

• Episode 264 - Home & Away

  Two of the four roving reporters file explicitly under the Channel 5 banner - Greta "It's Greta here reporting in for the Channel 5 News crew" and Lynette "checking in as a roving report on behalf of the Channel 5 news crew".

• Episode 263 - Obi - 100

  A "terrific trio" of roving reports, thrown to by Mel and wrapped up by Ollie. Lyndell Murray reports from Nathan Road Sports Ground parkrun (Rothwell, Redcliffe Peninsula, Qld) for event 7, interviewing tourist couple Greg and Carolyn about their compass points and alphabet challenge, then Co-Event Directors Kelly and Matt about founding the event. Tracy Wood reports from Kirra parkrun on the Gold Coast during the GC50 Run Festival, talking to Run Director Heather about a finish-token mix-up and the reopened NSW border. Greta reports from Nuriootpa parkrun in the Barossa Valley during an event-ambassador takeover, interviewing Event Director Kareen. Mel notes it is a "clean sweep for the girls for the second week in a row" and that Lyndell's report was recorded a week earlier.

• Episode 262 - All the good things

  Three back-to-back roving reports, all from women, prompting Melissa Ellis's hand-back "So thanks, girls. Clean sweep from the girls." Sarah Jefferson volunteers as Barcode Scanner at Burswood Peninsula parkrun (Perth) and interviews Run Director Anita and Tail Walker Michaela Semin of Lake Joondalup; Tracy Wood reports from Bagara [Bargara] parkrun in Queensland and interviews Co-Event Director Maria; Greta Wilkinson reports from the inaugural Copper Trail parkrun on the Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, interviewing Co-Event Directors Gerry and Nicole.

• Episode 262 - All the good things

  Greta Wilkinson explicitly files under the Channel 5 News Crew banner "it's Greta here and I'm reporting in for the Channel 5 News crew from the Copper Trail parkrun today." Covers the inaugural Copper Trail parkrun between Kadina and Wallaroo, the Copper Coast's Cornish mining history and the Kernewek Lowender festival, plus interviews with the two Event Directors.

• Episode 261 - Back in the ACT

  Two crossovers: Tracy in a tutu at Zillmere parkrun checking out the new grass course and interviewing a visiting Chermside parkrunner, two parkrunners named Cameron and Charlie, and Run Director Peter; then Karen Hamilton checking in across four instalments as she runs a self-created marathon lap of Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra, dropping into Burley Griffin parkrun at about the 16km mark on the ACT's first weekend back.

• Episode 260 - The Wild Card

  Tracey Wood's roving report from Sandgate parkrun, Brisbane, thrown to by Melissa Ellis. She runs through S-named events for the snakes challenge, then interviews Tim Oberg (visiting from Airlie Beach with his old weightlifting coach Peter 'Tomo' Thompson, at Tomo's first parkrun), volunteers Lisa (Token Sorting) and Linda (finish token support), and Run Director Brenton, who confirms pacers and high-fives are back. Signs off heading for brekkie and a friend's 250th.

• Episode 260 - The Wild Card

  Paul Kitching (PK) reports from Patawalonga River parkrun at West Beach Parks, Adelaide, around its 15th event. He describes the course along the Patawalonga near Glenelg, then interviews Run Director Craig, Timekeeper Ashley and scanner Julia Church, and repeatedly returns to the running joke of a 'parkrun dolphin' volunteer role.

• Episode 260 - The Wild Card

  The hosts debrief Tracey Wood's volunteer interviews and rule that by interviewing Tim Oberg, 'the volunteer that introduced parkrun to Australia', she has triggered a clause winning her a free pass into the Channel 5 News Crew. Ollie calls it 'the wild card', which is the episode's title. They ask listeners not to spoil the surprise on social media before Tracey hears it.

• Epsiode 259 - Hailing TOC

  Tracy Wood reports from Highfields parkrun, about 20 minutes north of Toowoomba, Queensland, noting it is one of the seven points of the Southern Cross Circuit (Gatton, Highfields, Pittsworth, South Toowoomba, Stanthorpe, Toowoomba and Warwick). She interviews Graeme (marshal), Di (Volunteer Coordinator, ~140 volunteer credits, says Timekeeper is the hardest role to fill), Kim (Tail Walker, "Tail Walkers and talkers", 50-odd volunteer credits and just over 100 runs, mentions the event's sixth birthday the previous week), and Steve (Run Director, on the mixed path/grass/track course and the attendance of 45 that day). Signs off "this was Tracy in a tutu".

• Episode 258 - Richard McChesney

  Cam reports from Homestead parkrun (event number two) on the theme of being pipped at the post. He interviews Kevin the car park marshal, a group of three (Ashley, Michael and Blake), a serial finish-line sprinter named Alan, listener Louise, and finishes with first-time Run Director Clint. Running gag: he pointedly does not interview Rodney Glossop.

• Episode 257 - Cottesloe Consults

  Debut roving report from Sarah Jefferson at the launch of Homestead parkrun, Thornlie, WA - recorded in two parts, before and after the run. Out-and-back along the Canning River under two bridges, a Welcome to Country at 7.45am, 277 participants at the first event, chalked encouragement along the path, and a run briefing delivered by Event Director/Run Director Rodney entirely in rhyming call-and-response poetry. She could not get an interview with Rodney because he insisted on clapping every finisher across the line, and promises to return in a few weeks. Hosts thank her: "Lovely to hear from Sarah for her very first roving report."

• Episode 256 - X Factor

  Lyndell Murray's return to roving after a long absence, filed from Yowie parkrun at Kilcoy in the Somerset region of Queensland (event 104). She interviews touring adventurers Annika and Michael (a St Lucia Run Director chasing his alphabet and the Fibonacci challenge), Event Director Esther on how she and her son Josh started the event, and marshal Ron Grant, the first person to run around Australia, in 1983, at 62 km a day for 217 days. She also fails, entertainingly, to establish the difference between a yowie and a bunyip.

• Episode 256 - X Factor

  "Caveman Cam" (Cameron Drake) reports from Mount Clarence parkrun in Albany, Western Australia, testing a hypothesis that parkrun is a "gateway drug" to running obsession. He canvasses Rob and Jackson, then two more parkrunners about peer pressure into bigger events, and is warned the course is one of the steepest in Australia, closing with "Note to self, beware of any parkrun with the word mount in its name."

• Episode 255 - Nottie Time to Die

  Ollie crosses to the roving reporters - "there are a number of our Channel 5 News crew that have been out on the road... they've recorded some roving reports". Three reports follow back to back: PK from The Avenues parkrun in Kuitpo Forest SA (interviewing Steve, the run/Event Director); Tracy Wood from Old Thomson River Road parkrun, Longreach QLD (interviewing RD Anthony, locals Danielle and Lindy, and course record holder Dan Prosser); and Mark Scarborough from Renmark parkrun SA (interviewing local Dave, visitor Tanya and RD Susie) on the last stop of a 20,000km lap of Australia.

• Episode 254 - Ev’ry heart beats true

  Mel crosses over, "we've been lucky enough to get a couple more roving reports this week, Ollie, so perhaps we shall listen to those now." Two reports run back to back: Caveman Cam interviewing ultramarathoner and Shipwreck parkrun ED Phil Gore about his 51-hour, 342km Australian backyard-ultra record at Birdie's Backyard; then Tracy in Training at Logan River parkrun (Brisbane), explaining the Fibonacci Challenge and interviewing volunteers Sam and Kieran, 300-time local Michael Browning, and RD/ED Natasha. The hosts debrief all three of the week's reports.

• Episode 254 - Ev’ry heart beats true

  Mark Scarborough ("Marvellous Mark") reports in for the Channel 5 News Crew from West Beach parkrun, Adelaide, a one-kilometre stroll from the caravan park, an out-and-back course run mostly beside the Torrens River rather than along the beach, picturesque and fast. No interviews this week because of the wind. The travelling Scarborough family's progress south from central Australia is picked up again by the hosts.

• Episode 251 - Tokyo Tales

  Three self-contained roving reports introduced by Ollie and thanked. Mark Scarborough files his last report from Western Australia at Kununurra parkrun (Swim Beach Park), interviewing visitor Megan from South Australia, full-time traveller Graham from Torrens, and German-born Kununurra local "Wolver". Tracy Wood reports from Bundaberg parkrun in Queen's Park, interviewing local Tanya, Timekeeper Amanda and Run Director Matt. Dave reports from Waterloo Plains parkrun at Wandoan, interviewing Co-Event Director Amber on the two-year fundraising slog (QGC staff donations and an Apex mango drive) that got the dirt trail course started in December 2020.

• Episode 250 - The Story So Far

  A milestone run of back-to-back roving reports, teed up by Ollie. Mark Scarborough reports from the Pilbara in Western Australia, interviewing Jess, the Run Director who founded Hampton Oval parkrun at Dampier, about its mixed oval/trail/beach course, its volunteers, and mums Bianca and Kylie who take turns running while the other minds the kids; he notes Port Hedland parkrun was cancelled for a music festival and that he heads to Kununurra next. Tracey Wood then reports from Des Connor Park junior parkrun in Brisbane, talking to Mark (Wynnum RD and event ambassador, who once ran two parkruns either side of the date line), Andy (course setter and marshal, home parkrun Chermside) and Kiralee "Sass", the Run Director.

• Episode 249 - Becky Maybury

  Tracey Wood ("Tracey in a tutu") reports from Mudgeeraba parkrun on the Gold Coast after Tamborine Mountain cancelled its event. She interviews Donna (regular, 210 parkruns, Barcode Scanner on the day), Trent (newbie briefer, six years at the event, just hit 200 parkruns, son on his 93rd) and Peter, the Run Director, who has been with Mudgeeraba since about run 15. Signs off "Toodles from Tracey. See you on the B-side."

• Episode 249 - Becky Maybury

  Two Channel 5 News Crew contributions this week. Mark Scarborough reports from Karratha in the Pilbara, WA - 1,100km from the last parkrun course he could reach - and interviews Zoe, Event Director of the two-month-old Bayview Road parkrun, on how it started (Running Mums Australia, a mock parkrun at Cattrall Park, the move to Bayview Road for its wide double footpath), its local sponsors, and what it means to the town. Later, TOC files the Streaky September explainer under the same Channel 5 badge.

• Episode 248 - Bird is the Word

  Melissa Ellis throws to "a roving report from a new location". Karyn files it entirely in character as Runner 5 of Abel Township, the fictional settlement from the Zombies, Run! app, reporting the inaugural running of Abel Township parkrun, a recovered pre-apocalypse parkrun database, a barcode dispute with Janine on scanning, and a zombie horde moving in mid-event.

• Episode 247 - Caitlin Adams & David Crook

  Alison King's roving report from Sherwood Reserve parkrun, Browns Bay on Auckland's North Shore, New Zealand's newest event, launched 3 July. She explicitly files it "for the Channel 5 News crew". Three-lap course passing the start/finish six times, protected native short-finned eels under "Ely Bridge", a "Stonehenge" section and a "Troll Bridge". She interviews first-time Run Director Helen Watson (renowned in Auckland for her milestone cakes) and co-ED Scott Arrell (31 of 34 NZ events, with Trentham, Pegasus and Wanaka to go). This event completes the North Island and the whole country for her, and coincided with the return of Sherwood Pines parkrun in England, marked with "Scott airplanes" at the start.

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

  Two self-contained roving reports, both explicitly badged "reporting in for the Channel 5 News crew". First Mark Scarborough from Marina parkrun, Geraldton, Australia's westernmost parkrun, event 67, interviewing Perth tourist Jeanette and Event Director Tracy, and noting the Scarboroughs have now done the western-, northern- and southernmost parkruns with only the easternmost to go (James of the "Channel 2 News crew" got a PB). Then Alison from Dunedin parkrun on New Zealand's South Island, interviewing regulars John, Jo and Jeanette and delivering her verdict on the "Stairs of Despair", hands down the hardest parkrun of her 64 events.

• Episode 245 - Dan Buckley

  The roving reports block, two of whose reporters explicitly file "for the Channel 5 News crew": Alison Fraser from Taupo parkrun in New Zealand (wet and windy; completes her P-Index of 5), David/Dave from Graham Andrews parkrun at Charleville in outback Queensland, Tracey Wood from Kedron in Brisbane, and Mark Scarborough from Mount Clarence parkrun in Albany, WA. The hosts note the Charleville and Taupo reports were held over from the previous week.

• Episode 244 - Sarah Hudson

  Ollie crosses to the week's recorded roving reports: Tracy Wood in a tutu from New Farm (Brisbane), Mark Scarborough and Cameron Drake from Cottesloe in Western Australia, and a guest report from Hannah at Bass Point not parkrun during the Greater Sydney lockdown.

• Episode 244 - Sarah Hudson

  Mark Scarborough reports in for the Channel 5 News crew from Cottesloe parkrun (event 280), 2,405km on from the crew's last stop at Port Lincoln, and marks the Scarborough family completing Peel Club - a parkrun in every Australian state and territory. He interviews Cam, then covers a midweek Freedom Run at Kalgoorlie-Boulder. Later, at 01:13:33, the hosts revisit the crew in studio: they surveyed its members to set a challenge, joke about a potential new member and about the bar being lowered, and land on a challenge for Tracey - interview a parkrunner from every different volunteer role, with prior reports counting toward the list.

• Episode 243 - Weekend Work

  Melissa Ellis crosses to the week's roving reports "So shall we listen now to our raving [roving] reports?" Three reports follow back to back: Mark Scarborough from Cleve/Yeldulknie Weir parkrun in SA, Tracey in a Tutu from Kedron with a sausage roll playlist, and Mark Scarborough again from Port Lincoln parkrun. The hosts debrief all three.

• Episode 243 - Weekend Work

  Mark Scarborough files two reports under the Channel 5 News Crew banner from South Australia, "this is Mark reporting in for Channel 5 News crew" at both (Cleve/Yeldulknie Weir) and (Port Lincoln). Interviews the Yeldulknie Weir RD Mark, plus Annabelle, Richard and Darren at Port Lincoln. A rival "Channel 2 news crew" is name-checked.

• Episode 242 - Dog Assisted

  Three Channel 5 reports this week. Mark Scarborough reports from Mount Barker parkrun in South Australia and interviews Paul Kitching (PK) about the Laratinga Wetlands course, his parkrun history and Bushy Park; he also recounts freedom runs at Renmark and Victor Harbor and rates the Port Elliot Bakery sausage roll 7/10 and the steak-and-onion pie 9/10. Grette Wilkinson previews the brand-new the Avenues parkrun in Kuitpo Forest, SA with Event Director Steve, South Australia's first single-loop course, 100% fire tracks, with a campfire at the start/finish. Alison King reports from Trentham Memorial parkrun in Upper Hutt, New Zealand on a one-degree frosty morning, interviewing Judith, Cara, Event Director Alan and Sarah (the most recent person to complete all 33 NZ parkruns), then flags Victorian tourist Miles Savage among the 56 finishers.

• Episode 242 - Dog Assisted

  James reports from Thorndon Junior parkrun in South Australia for the junior-reporter crew, interviewing junior parkrunner Bethany (seventh junior run, 100+ 5K events at Lochiel Park) and Run Director Michelle, who started volunteering at junior parkruns in Milton Keynes in the UK. The hosts praise him, "Fantastic report, James. Always a pro", and note he has now done Aintree, Westerfolds and Thorndon.

• Episode 241 - Toolern Creek

  An unusually long crossover block of nine roving reports, teed up by Mel "we've had rather a lot of roving reports this week... And there's some strange theme happening." In order: Cameron Drake (cold vox-pop at his local), Tracy Wood (Kedron, including an event-day course check and an interview with RD/ambassador Bronwyn), Tony O'Connell (Inverloch's 313th and Victoria's return), Alison King (Puarenga, Rotorua NZ), Nadine (Fair Park Reserve), Greta (a brief check-in after a long absence), Lyndell Murray (New Farm, staying close to home under border restrictions), Mark Scarborough (Wagga Bridge, alphabet-challenge letter T) and Paul Kitching (Mount Barker, interviewing drummer Paul Butler and 200-milestone Kim). Every single report shouts out Toolern Creek parkrun, the episode's running gag, set up so listeners can spot the theme.

• Episode 241 - Toolern Creek

  The show notes flag it, "we hear from most of the channel 5 news crew and there is a strange similarity in their reports". Three reporters explicitly badge themselves as the crew: Cam "reporting in for the channel 5 parkrun adventurers podcast", Alison King "reporting in for the Channel 5 News crew from Puarenga parkrun", and Mark "reporting in for the Channel 5 news crew from Wagga Bridge". The crew's coordinated gag is that each report works in a Toolern Creek mention.

• Episode 240 - Raw & Uncut

  Two roving reports played back to back after Ollie's handoff "We did hear from a couple of other parkrunners at the weekend, a couple of familiar voices, one we haven't heard from for a while." First Nadine Crawford from Ted Scobie Oval parkrun in Griffith, NSW, interviewing visiting Wagga parkrunners Matt and Beth, co-EDs James and Glenys, and her husband Ian, with a running joke about whether Mel should have visited the Hermit's Cave. Then Tracey Wood from Bunyaville in Brisbane, interviewing Alison on her 250th parkrun and Claire the founding ED, and tail-walking in the cold. Hosts debrief both-.

• Episode 239 - Quack Quack

  Melissa Ellis crosses over "we've got a couple of roving reports to throw to, and we've got a new voice coming to the pod waves this week... Over in England." Two reports follow back to back: David from Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, filing from the 300th running of the Spaldwick not parkrun (no other runners, so he briefed himself), plus a follow-up clip defending Cornish pasties as "five out of five... they beat a sausage roll hands down"; then Tracey Wood, in her tutu, roving the entire seven-course Brisbane North Longest Run and interviewing a participant at each stop. Hosts debrief both.

• Episode 238 - Baked Goods

  Three roving reports back to back. David Moss ("Dave") files from Bourke parkrun in far western NSW while in transit, interviewing Co-Event Director Una Taylor about the levee-bank course and the town, and Bonnie, newly selected into the Indigenous Marathon Project and training for the Alice Springs midnight marathon; he also mentions completing parkrun bingo in 361 runs. Tracey Wood volunteers at New Farm parkrun in Brisbane, taking listeners through the first-timers' briefing with ED Vance and RD Mike, then delivering "Tracey's nice numbers to visit New Farm". PK reports from the 100th Charleston parkrun in the Adelaide Hills with ED/RD Kylie Ross, the "mad cows" family and visitors Tracy and Serenity.

• Episode 237 - Emma Keer

  Alison King reports from Wanaka parkrun on New Zealand's South Island in four-degree cold, interviewing Brisbane tourist Olive, Brisbane couple Chris and Prue (who ran in puffer jackets), and Event Director Adam Sharman on the friendly rivalry with Queenstown parkrun. 29 runners; she recommends flying into Queenstown, hiring a car and driving an hour north, and staying at the Edgewater Resort for the scone menu.

• Episode 237 - Emma Keer

  PK's roving report from Christies Beach parkrun, South Australia, his first visit and his fifth 'C' for the Pirate Club. He interviews Bob Hooper (105 parkruns), Charles (around 115), local Member of Parliament Katrine, and Co-Event Director Rich, and closes on parkrun being about community. Seacliff was closed for path works, boosting numbers to roughly 200.

• Episode 236 - Snot Logs & A-Listers

  Oliver Spake throws to the roving reports ("Is it time to listen to the roving reports and hear more of your travels?"). Three reports run back to back: Melissa Ellis interviewing Run Director Ingrid Botha at Dolls Point parkrun (NSW), Tracey Wood's Achilles VI-guiding report from Sandgate and Kedron, and Lyndell Murray's first-ever visit to a junior parkrun at Des Connor Park junior parkrun, Ashgrove.

• Episode 236 - Snot Logs & A-Listers

  Lyndell Murray reports from Des Connor Park junior parkrun in Ashgrove, Brisbane, the first junior parkrun in Brisbane, seven weeks old, her first time at a junior event. She interviews Event Director Pat and Run Director Gab about founding it, junior runner and Warm-up Leader Connie, and repeat interviewee Belinda about her 104-events-in-a-row streak and her switch to volunteering. She adds a postscript that event team member Gareth Saunders holds an Order of Australia for services to parkrun, then signs out "for the Channel 5 News crew".

• Episode 235 - Hi-Vis Heroes

  Mel hands over "we have some roving reports that have come in... perhaps we should listen to those", and two back-to-back roving reports follow: Cameron Drake at Shelley parkrun (WA) and Alison King at Pegasus parkrun (North Canterbury, NZ), both interviewing volunteers for National Volunteer Week. Ollie thanks them "thank you to our roving reporters Alison and Cam".

• Episode 234 - Mothers Day

  Roving report from Barry Curtis parkrun, Auckland, New Zealand, filed by Alison King, who explicitly files it "for the Channel 5 News crew". She returns to her first-ever parkrun (January 2016) for a fifth run to build her P index, notes the course sits under the Auckland airport flight path, and then interviews three parkrunners at the finish: Grant Lincoln (age-record chaser, 25-26 NZ events, recent 17:57 at East End/New Plymouth), Julie Collard (Western Springs Run Director who opened Auckland's newest parkrun about six months earlier, with her Sydney brother walking his first parkrun that day), and Anna Willis (Barry Curtis local, 100th parkrun the following week, fresh from a family road trip taking in Blenheim, Invercargill and Rotorua).

• Episode 233 - Autumnal Adventures

  Ollie hands over, "we've been lucky enough, fortunate enough to have another group of roving reports, including some more guest reports. So let's have a listen, shall we?" Four reports run back to back: Melissa Ellis from the brand-new Ovens River Trail parkrun at Myrtleford, country Victoria (week two, interviewing Event Directors Ruth and David); Brendan from North Shore parkrun in Townsville, talking to local Lisa; Tracy Wood from Chermside with "Tracy's top 10 of tail walking"; and Ingrid Botha from the Dolls Point relaunch after the COVID pause, with Sincerity, Pat and Jasmine. Afterwards the hosts note three further Ingrid reports whose audio was unusable (Wayne, Carys and Darren) and Melissa summarises them verbally.

• Episode 232 - Celebrating first’s

  First roving-report block. Paul Kitching (PK) files from Centennial parkrun in Sydney, his first ever interstate parkrun after five years and 167 parkruns in South Australia, interviewing Lynne (with the event since its October 2018 launch), Run Director Sam, Marius, Anne (75th parkrun on her 75th birthday, a founding member of the event) and Werner (40th parkrun on his 84th birthday, first parkrun in South Africa). Cameron Drake follows from Calleya parkrun in WA, canvassing parkrunners on whether anyone actually follows the stats challenges, pirate club, Wilson index, p-index, Passionistas, and finding one closet "challenge guy" among a table of shrugs. Both reporters open by naming the Channel 5 News crew.

• Episode 232 - Celebrating first’s

  Second roving-report block, introduced by Olly as "another few roving reports ... again, Alison, but a couple of new voices". Parth Bommakanti debuts from Fair Park Reserve parkrun with an interview with elite 1500m runner Adam Pike, who broke the course record and went under 15 minutes for the first time; Alison King reports from Kapiti Coast parkrun in New Zealand, interviewing visitors Florrie, Joanne and Megan and Run Director Bruce; and Jennine Sellers debuts from Mount Isa parkrun in Queensland, interviewing volunteer Lynn about the event's third birthday and its mining-town community.

• Episode 230 - Stepping up

  Mark Scarborough files a self-contained roving block from Our Park parkrun at Orford, Tasmania, collecting an "O" for the alphabet. He interviews visiting parkrunner Tony from Mackay, Queensland (in Tasmania visiting his wife's mother in Hobart), then Event Director Kendall on the event's 23rd running, its COVID-delayed launch, its double out-and-back trail course past the beach looking out to Maria Island, and its steady stream of interstate tourists. Closes with a verdict from Channel 2 News crew reporter James: "It had lots of scenery and it's very rough, but I still loved it."

• Episode 230 - Stepping up

  Melissa Ellis's own recorded field report from Kirra parkrun on the Gold Coast, made while on holiday. She had not planned to record because Kirra has been profiled before, but chased down Natalie and her two sausage dogs, Harry and Duke, "dogs of sausage", who walked rather than ran the course. Natalie's home parkrun is New Farm in Brisbane; she was at Kirra supporting a friend's 200th.

• Episode 229 - King & Queen of the mountain

  Mark Scarborough reports from Geeveston parkrun at Heritage Park, Australia's southernmost event, in Tasmania. He interviews Nadine, a touring parkrunner from Rosebud on the Mornington Peninsula; Lee Evans of Kate Reed parkrun in Launceston; and Nina, the day's Run Director at Geeveston, who talks about bushfire and COVID setbacks and the resident platypus in the Kermandie River. Closes with a verdict from James of the "Channel 2 News crew".

• Episode 228 - Bookrun

  Four back-to-back roving reports from the crew: Alison from Tauranga parkrun in New Zealand (interviewing founding core team member Warren, regular Peter Hall on his cardiac-arrest recovery, and Kat on her 50th); Mark from Lalor parkrun in Melbourne, down the Hume from Canberra (interviewing club member Melissa, walk-to-run graduate Michelle, and ED Kieran); TOC from Peppertree parkrun at Bacchus Marsh (interviewing ED Adrian and RD Bronwyn); and Cam from Rockingham in WA (vox-pops on how far people travel, plus RD Elizabeth). Mel and Ollie close the block by formally welcoming Alison to the crew.

• Episode 228 - Bookrun

  Debut of a junior counterpart to the Channel 5 News Crew: James, a child reporter, files a report from Eynesbury Heritage Trail junior parkrun, his own first junior parkrun, interviewing fellow junior Hannah, host Mel, and TOC, who was volunteering as Warm-up Leader and marshal. Mel and Ollie afterwards float building out a whole Channel 2 crew.

• Episode 227 - Smorgasbord

  Three back-to-back roving reports, all explicitly filed "for the Channel 5 News crew": TOC at the three-week-old Cascades on Clyde Wetlands parkrun (Clyde North, Vic) with first-time volunteer photographer Natalie, South African newcomers Chantal and her partner, and core team member Michelle; Mark at Braidwood Showgrounds parkrun (NSW) in gumboots as guest Run Director, interviewing ED Kelly on her birthday and Lauren, who organised a Canberra volunteer takeover so the locals could run; and Lyndell in the fog at Maleny Trail parkrun (Sunshine Coast hinterland, event 14), with the McKenna family, RD Anita and the scanning volunteers.

• Episode 227 - Smorgasbord

  Alison King's NZ Longest Day report - a chartered-bus freedom-run trip covering six Lower North Island parkrun courses in one day (335km on the bus, first run started 6:51am, last at 6:49pm). Interviews at each stop: Julia Gordon at Lower Hutt, Lizzie Elton-Walters at Porirua, Christina Cameron at Kapiti Coast, trip organiser Bruce McArdle at Palmerston North, Mel McGregor at Greytown Woodside Trail and RD Stu Leslie at Trentham Memorial.

• Episode 226 - Crackerjack

  Oliver Spake crosses to the roving report "We did hear from one of our Channel 5 News crew out roving the parkruns at the weekend... So, Mel, let's have a listen to Mark." Mark reports from Burley Griffin parkrun, Canberra, no on-course audio because screeching cockatoos overhead ruined the recording, so the piece is voiced off-site. He covers the out-and-back lakeside course, Black Mountain Tower views, kangaroos and birdlife, and pitches autumn in Canberra (Enlighten Festival, the Balloon Spectacular over Old Parliament House). Melissa Ellis thanks "Marvellous Mark".

• Episode 225 - Who let the dogs out?

  Four back-to-back roving reports, introduced by Ollie "we've had a great number of reports... So let's have a listen" and recapped by both hosts. Oliver Spake at Greenway parkrun in Sydney (interviews with runner Andrew, volunteer Yash and her dog Lungi, tourist Jill with trick-dog Harry, and Event Director Rachel); Alison Fraser doing aparkrun freedom lap at Puarenga in New Zealand with Greytown Woodside Trail ED Dave White; Mark at Batemans Bay for the Canberra Day long weekend; and Lyndell Murray at the eight-week-old SS Koopa Trail parkrun on Bribie Island.

• Episode 225 - Who let the dogs out?

  Mark files his Batemans Bay parkrun report explicitly under the Channel 5 News Crew banner, "This is Mark reporting in for the Channel 5 News crew", covering event number 209 and interviewing Tasmanian visitor Graeme, Wagga Bridge Run Director Penny, and Batemans Bay ED/RD Tim.

• Episode 224 - Madness & Mystery

  TOC's roving report from Louis Hamon Park parkrun in Numurkah, northern Victoria, five hours up the Goulburn Valley Highway from Melbourne. He tail walks the out-and-back course along the Broken River, notes he was born in Numurkah, and interviews Leanne, the event's Run Director and Event Director, about the course's four bridge crossings, how the event got its name ("because we can't have the town name anymore"), her motivation to start it so she could run with her daughter, the strong local walker turnout and the event being only four weeks old.

• Episode 224 - Madness & Mystery

  Mark's roving report from Ginninderra parkrun in Canberra, the first parkrun in Canberra, event number 424, average attendance 177.4. He interviews Rosie (a new Canberra arrival from Berry who rates Ginninderra prettier than her home Shellharbour and Husky), Amanda (Newcastle/Stockton parkrunner on holiday, tracking her Run Down Under progress towards Byron Bay) and Philip (Barcode Scanner, Ginninderra regular since 2013, praising the new scanning app and chasing the parkrun alphabet).

• Episode 223 - Abigail

  Roving report from Fair Park Reserve in Melbourne, filed by Tony O'Connell, who opens "Toc [TOC] reporting in for the Channel 5 News crew." He walks the course with two parkrunners, Jodie (eighth parkrun; first ever was the trail course at Kate Reid, on Brendan Peel's urging) and Lynne (down from Cobram, visiting family), covering the course's creek, bridges, greenery, animal noises and native-tree smells. Runs 00:11:24-00:14:05, with the hosts discussing it afterwards.

• Episode 223 - Abigail

  Melissa Ellis's own recorded report from her junior parkrun (spoken as "Eynesbury Heritage Trail Junior parkrun"), interviewing young parkrunner Abigail, the episode's title character. Abigail reports finishing 27th (a new best position for her), a rainy but fun morning, wearing her sister's hat, running with Zoe, Alicia and Summer, and her mum being Run Director. Runs 00:23:39-00:24:48.

• Episode 222 - Crickets

  Ollie's first-ever roving report, played from tape: a car-ride segment with his daughter Hannah on the way over Macquarie Pass while they pick an event using the family "World Cup decision-making process" (Riverbank, Gundagai, Gungahlin, Wagga Bridge and Queanbeyan were the contenders), then on-site interviews at Wagga Bridge parkrun with event/Run Director Ian, trail-running couple Kate and Nick, and Tony and Wendy, a couple who have moved away from Mount Barker (SA). Hannah, who had not run a parkrun in almost a year, finished 47th; Ollie was around the top ten. Bookended in the studio by Mel quizzing Ollie on the World Cup process and on forgetting to look for the event's troll.

• Episode 222 - Crickets

  Mark ("marvellous Mark") reports from Coombs parkrun in the Molonglo Valley, western Canberra - event number 114, launched March 2018, average 98 finishers. He interviews Mel from Running Mums Australia, whose members had taken over every volunteer role that morning; regular Terry, who attended the pre-trial event; Jeff, a Gungahlin Run Director visiting the new course; and Coombs Event Director Tim, on the event's third course in three years and on consulting other park users through the changes.

• Episode 221 - parkrun Royale

  Ollie hands over to a block of three roving reports - "this week, I think we've heard from a few more roving reporters, Mel... So let's have a listen." The block runs Alison Fraser from Puarenga parkrun (NZ), Lyndell Murray from South Bank parkrun (Brisbane) and Simon Mackley from Cowpasture Reserve (Camden, NSW), followed by the hosts' discussion of all three.

• Episode 221 - parkrun Royale

  Lyndell Murray files under the Channel 5 News Crew banner from South Bank parkrun, Brisbane, celebrating a P-index of 7 with her friend Erica in James Bond 007 tuxedo shirts and toy spy pistols. She interviews three first-time parkrunners (from Canada, New Zealand and Spain), volunteer wrangler Jodie and Matt, and Run Director Ross. Opens "it's Lyndell here and I'm checking in this morning for the Channel 5 News crew" and closes "this is Lyndell over and out from South Bank parkrun for the Channel 5 News crew".

• Episode 220 - parkrun fun

  An unusually large roving block, five reports back to back, which the hosts themselves call out as "a massive episode with Roving Reports". Ollie crosses over ("we were fortunate enough to hear from a multitude of different roving reports across Australia and New Zealand... let's start with yours"). In order: Melissa Ellis from Meningie parkrun, SA (interviewing RD Jenny); Alison Fraser from University of Waikato parkrun, Hamilton NZ (Jason McCarthy, Gail Sharp, Linda Brainer, RD Lex Chalmers); Mark Scarborough from Varsity Lakes parkrun, QLD (Sharon, Rhiannon, RD Andrew); Paul Kitching from Lochiel parkrun, SA (Louise, Penny, Vicky, Nick, Michael, Sputnik, Paula and dog Leo, RD Janet); Cameron Drake from Canning River parkrun, WA (Sharon, Richard, Mary, Penny, Bob, Owen, Peter, Michael, RD Andrew). The hosts debrief all five to.

• Episode 220 - parkrun fun

  Mark Scarborough opens his Varsity Lakes report with "this is Mark reporting in for the Channel 5 News crew", he has crossed the border into Queensland while travelling, chasing his V for the alphabet challenge. Ollie also files Cam's Canning River report under the same banner: "we absolutely love a bit of Channel 5 News team parochialism, but you did a fantastic job in also capturing the fun at Canning River."

• Episode 219 - Lauren Reid

  Mark's self-contained roving report from Coffs Harbour parkrun (NSW north coast), event number 144. He explicitly files it "for the Channel 5 News crew", gives the event stats, then interviews three people: holidaying couple Laurie and Therese from Queen Elizabeth parkrun at Casino, local regular Trent (who has lost roughly 35kg since starting parkrun and now tail walks), and today's Run Director Keelan, who describes the course and a year-long plan to extend it out to Muttonbird Island and turn it into a single-lap course.

• Episode 219 - Lauren Reid

  Two further roving reports back to back. Melissa Ellis reports from Victoria's brand-new Lake Boga parkrun on its second event (exactly 100 finishers, a 43-degree day forecast), interviewing Event Director Melissa and Run Director Tony, neither of whom has ever run a parkrun, and covering the Catalina Flying Boat Museum on the course. Alison then reports from Owairaka parkrun in Auckland, interviewing Wilson-index chaser Andrew Capel and nomadic New Zealand countrymen Nigel and Wendy. The hosts cross back at 00:27:40 to discuss all three reports and to ask listeners to coin a New Zealand equivalent of the "statesman" title.

• Episode 218 - Alison King

  Roving report from Fingal Bay parkrun (Port Stephens, NSW), event 370, filed by Mark while touring in his caravan and collecting an "F" for the alphabet challenge. He gives the event's stats (116 average finishers, 31:16 average time) then interviews volunteers Sue and Kevin, prolific local Kevin with Nerida (and Kevin's mother Colleen, on 255-odd parkruns), and Event Director Tammy, who reveals Fingal Bay parkrun has been nominated for the Port Stephens Medal in the Australia Day awards, to be decided on 26 January.

• Episode 217 - The Informant

  Roving report from Mark Scarborough at Riverbank parkrun in Yass, NSW, event number 19, and their first event back after bushfires, river flooding and COVID. He explains the Aboriginal derivation of the name Yass ("yar", running water), then interviews visiting tourist Anita from Ginninderra parkrun (Canberra) about the course and her top three parkruns, and Event Director Amanda about the 101-runner relaunch turnout and the two-lap course. Back in the studio Melissa Ellis dubs him "Marvellous Mark" for recording with a proper microphone plugged into his phone, and notes his "top three parkruns" question is a throwback to the Scott and Mel era.

• Episode 216 - Zoom zoom

  Melissa Ellis's own field recording from Mawson Lakes parkrun, South Australia, on New Year's Day 2021 (event 159, 242 parkrunners and parkwalkers). She interviews volunteer Timekeeper Michelle Dezago about the lakeside 'Z course', the event approaching its fourth birthday, council support, average numbers around 200, Michelle's start at nearby Lochiel Park, her trip to Bushy Park for its 15th birthday, and how the SA community coped through lockdown.

• Episode 216 - Zoom zoom

  Tony O'Connell (TOC) reports from Jubilee Way parkrun, north of Adelaide, on 2 January 2021 - 'getting the J' on a South Australian tour. He records a scene-setter at the start line, then interviews Run Director Phil about the horseshoe out-and-back creek course, the cones marking a koala and baby koala in a tree, and returning numbers; and Co-Event Director Deb about the team's pre-run numbers sweepstake (170-190 guessed), the event's two-year history and its 100th event squeezed in before the COVID pause.

• Episode 216 - Zoom zoom

  New Zealand correspondent Steve Darby checks in from Hobsonville Point parkrun, Auckland (event 62, 75 runners), interviewing Event Director Chantelle Clark about rebuilding numbers post-COVID, the former Air Force site and its cleared-out bomb shelters, the prospect of a Trans-Tasman bubble bringing Australian tourists across, and - a question sent over by Mel Ellis - the fairy houses in the trees on course.

• Episode 215 - Bon bon voyage

  Pre-recorded Christmas greetings and bonbon/cracker jokes sent in by the crew, played back-to-back: an unidentified member ("tinselitis"), Ollie Spake with his children Zali and Ava, PK checking in from South Australia (who also reminisces about PALM 2020 at Mount Barker), Mark reporting in "from Wagyu Bridge", TOC, one unattributed dog/delighted joke, Greta with her two "little elves", and two further unidentified contributors. Scott back-announces admitting neither host had heard any of the jokes before recording. Melissa Erbacher thanks the whole crew by name, "Cam, Dave, Gary, Greta, Lyndell, Mark, Melissa, Ollie, PK and TOC [TOC]", crediting them not just as roving reporters but as the rotating co-hosts who filled the vacant seat for the past year.

• Episode 214 - Festive Frivolity

  TOC's roving report from Mount Ainslie parkrun in the ACT (event 101, 152 finishers), his first real parkrun in nine months, and audibly emotional about it. Runs as a self-contained pre-recorded block: a start-line scene-setter, then three field interviews, Brett and Lee, a Shellharbour couple on their first parkrun back who know Ollie and "Em" from Shellharbour; the two Barcode Scanners (Danielle and Wendy) on volunteering and the return of crowds; and Rebecca, the Run Director, on the course's "undulations", the missing kangaroos, and the summer 2019-20 smoke cancellations. Ollie and Mel debrief it afterwards, noting TOC has bought his first Ugly Christmas Singlet.

• Episode 213 - On the Rove Again!

  Mel frames the roving block as the crew's return to the road now that parkrun is back in most states: "We also have a bunch of the Channel 5 News crew and a special ring-in from the Northern Territory this week who have sent in some roving reports for us." The "plus one" of the show notes is Mark from Darwin.

• Episode 213 - On the Rove Again!

  Three back-to-back roving reports and the studio debrief that follows them (00:27:57-00:30:44): Mark at Nightcliff parkrun in Darwin with Event Director Helen; Lyndell at Bunyaville, her first parkrun in nine months, with Run Director Marty on the new COVID-era course; and Cam at the launch of Garvey Park parkrun in Western Australia, interviewing photographer Paul on his 250th volunteer, a group of women running and kayaking, a repeat parkrun tourist called Simon, launch RD Melody and returning WA contributor Abdul. Mel and Mark then pick over the reports, and the episode's title "On the Rove Again!" comes from this block.

• Episode 211 - Waffle

  Cameron Drake ("Cam") files a self-contained roving report from Western Australia on the weekend parkrun returned to WA, the first WA events back after the COVID shutdown. He asks four parkrunners (Gerry, Claire, Bec and Kylie) what they missed most about parkrun, and closes by thanking parkrun Australia headquarters, the WA local councils and the event teams. He never states the event on air; Mel fills it in afterwards as Tamworth Wetlands parkrun (Baldivis, WA), noting it is not the first time Cam has left the location out.

• Episode 209 - parkrun is Coming!

  TOC files a Channel 5 News Crew interview with Mark Connolly, parkrun Australia's Northern Territory Event Ambassador and founding Event Director of Darwin parkrun, ahead of the NT's three events restarting that Saturday, the first Australian parkruns back after the six-month pause. They cover volunteer readiness, stakeholder and council approvals for the safety plan, expected turnout (about 100 above the usual mid-300s average), Darwin build-up humidity, and the Falkland Islands also being back on the same weekend.

• Episode 206 - Pause?

  Mel and TOC check back in with Channel 5 News Crew member Mark Scarborough, calling from under the caravan awning at Mount Isa. He recaps the Freedom Runs completed since the last update, Narromine Wetlands, Dubbo, Tamworth, Armidale, Coffs Harbour, Varsity Lakes, Surfers Paradise, Paradise Point, Nambour (where he met Fluffy the emu), Hervey Bay, Yeppoon, Rockhampton, Airlie Beach, Cairns and Mount Isa, the border-permit scramble out of NSW into Queensland, and the route ahead through Kakadu, Darwin, Litchfield and Uluru. TOC sets him an alphabet challenge: 13 letters ticked off in six weeks, 12 to go with eight weeks left.

• Episode 206 - Pause?

  Steve Darby files a roving report from Millwater parkrun in Silverdale, north of Auckland, recorded in the post-parkrun cafe on New Zealand's third run back after the COVID break. With Whangarei flooded out and Hobsonville not yet restarted, he notes Millwater is, for once, the most northerly parkrun in the world that weekend. He interviews the two Co-Event Directors about their first-run-back link-up with Italy (a run brief delivered in Italian via Google Translate and an Italian pronunciation app, plus contact with Giorgio Cambione), what has and has not changed post-break (QR contact tracing, sanitising tokens, otherwise back to normal), the course history and facilities, the absence of international visitors, and where they would travel if they could.

• Episode 205 - Tania Hollis

  Mark Scarborough crosses over live from Dubbo, NSW, where he and his family are holed up in their caravan at the start of a 14-week half-lap of Australia - a trip pulled forward after their 12-week Europe plans were cancelled by COVID-19. He recaps the freedom runs / not parkruns already ticked off on the way (Lawson in the Blue Mountains, Bathurst, and Orange that morning, 'proper Canberra cold'), the logistics of replanning around state border closures ('we are now actually up to our plan D'), and announces a new series: grouped-together not parkrun / freedom run reports from the road. The hosts try and fail to coin a name for them ('freedom reports', 'free ports'). He jokes about flashing his Channel 5 News crew ID badge at the Queensland border.

• Episode 203 - In the Dunny

  Melissa Erbacher crosses to a pre-recorded roving report from Melissa Ellis at her unofficial lockdown "Ellis Palace parkrun" (Event 14), recorded a few weeks earlier in June. Ellis welcomes two visiting tourists, Brendan Peel and Renee Jackson (Run Director at Wyndham Vale parkrun), for an attendance record of four including Ellis's husband Paul as "lead runner". Renee tells how a persistent friend got her into parkrun at the Wyndham Vale launch, the Wyndham Vale 50th-run capes and Cluck Norris traditions, and how her kids pulled her out of the isolation slump; Brendan describes missing out on Kangaroo Island parkrun when lockdown hit, rediscovering his local Fairfield area, and his perennially non-starting "Peelsville Sanctuary parkrun". The episode's own show notes badge this as a Channel 5 News Crew report, although on air Erbacher only calls it a roving report.

• Episode 202 - Tom Williams

  Melissa Ellis files a roving report from "Ellis Palace parkrun", the improvised lockdown course she has been running from her own home during the parkrun pause. She gives a full mock course description (two-loop anti-clockwise, road crossings so it "wouldn't classify as an official course in parkrun rules", two playgrounds, builders' portaloos, "our very own swamp", a ritual wave towards the Toolin Creek trail, and a rise in the home straight she calls "Mel's Mountain"), then marks event 10, which drew its first ever tourists, Irene and Parth, with Zoe as photographer. She closes on the point of the report: "It didn't matter that I didn't scan my barcode... What mattered was I caught up with my friends today... we don't need official parkruns with barcodes and tokens to get that feeling." The hosts cross back to discuss it. TOC separately talks up his Channel 5 News Crew credentials earlier-, his custom "Channel 5 News crew apricot", press pass and microphone.

• Episode 200 - Beau Miles

  Lyndell Murray's self-contained roving segment (00:41:36-00:51:31), recorded in check-ins across a single day. Rather than reporting from a parkrun event, she takes on the '42 in 42' challenge, 42km inside 42 hours, which she compresses to 20 hours, deliberately structured as an homage to Beau Miles's 'A Mile an Hour': roughly 2km every hour interleaved with a to-do list of long-deferred errands. Check-ins cover the running splits and the jobs completed (online course, mending running gloves and a cardigan, cleaning ten internal doors, the pantry, the tops of the fans, slow-cooker dinner, scanning old triathlon photos, eating a giant cookie). Mid-report she runs a 2K loop with fellow challenger Tracy Wood, and she notes Queensland restrictions had just eased enough to allow a two-person picnic. Signs off "for the parkrun adventurers and the Channel 5 News Crew". Afterwards Mel adds that Lyndell used the challenge to raise awareness and funds for the Women's Legal Service Queensland.

• Episode 199 - Bek Milne

  The roving slot with no actual roving report in it. Mel: "it's been a while between roving reports, and we don't technically have any because nobody's roving at the moment", with parkrun suspended there is nowhere to rove from. She fills the slot with listener audio received a few weeks earlier from Pippa in the UK, who checks in wearing her Ugly Christmas Singlet, having run 5K at Australian parkrun time and planning to run again at UK time, and looks forward to seeing people at the big parkrun quiz.

• Episode 198 - Phone a Friend

  With no roving reports possible (parkrun globally cancelled for COVID-19), the hosts phone round the Channel 5 News Crew during parkrun time to find out what each of them is doing on an "un-parkrun" Saturday. Mel proposes it "Maybe we should give the rest of the Channel 5 News crew a call and just catch up, see if anyone answers the phone. It's parkrun time." Five calls connect, Melissa Ellis (her home "Ellis Palace" 5k loop, army reserve COVID-19 work), Tony O'Connell (running week two of his home Cape Paterson course backwards, teddy-bear spotting), Paul Kitching (Adelaide, 5k a day, Mount Barker RD, Summiteers Zoom catch-ups), Mark Scarborough (Canberra, homeschooling, Centenary Trail stages, Berlin Marathon training) and Cameron Drake (Perth, honey-do lists and a threatened WA secession), while Greta Wilkinson and David Moss ring out and return the call with voice messages played later in the show.

• Episode 197 - Jon Pendse

  Tony O'Connell files two Channel 5 News Crew reports, both self-labelled as such. First from the Bendigo Botanic Gardens parkrun soft launch in central Victoria, teased as 'the Harry Potter parkrun ... the parkrun that must not be named yet' before the reveal, with an interview with Belinda about the launch (137 runners), the flat out-and-back creek course and the gardens' facilities. Second from Paradise Point parkrun north of the Gold Coast, with interviews with Chiaki (90-second PB) and Glen, plus a running Queensland-vs-Victoria weather joke about Inverloch.

• Episode 196 - #PALM20 LIVE!

  Live on-stage gathering of the Channel 5 News crew, the show's roving reporters. PK and Greta Wilkinson are presented with the official press passes they missed out on last year, then all six crew members present (Dave, Lyndell Murray, Greta Wilkinson, Melissa Ellis, Paul Kitching and Tony O'Connell) are interviewed in turn about how they joined, their first roving report and their next planned adventure. Redoes a bit attempted at the previous meet-up that was not recorded properly. TOC closes with advice for listeners thinking about filing their own report.

• Episode 194 - #PALM20 Teaser

  Mark Scarborough files a Channel 5 News Crew roving report from the launch of Warringal Parklands parkrun on the Yarra in Melbourne (~700 finishers). He describes the 2.5km out-and-back course and interviews finish-token volunteer Megan (an RD at Maribyrnong), the Mayor of Banyule, Alison, who talks up the Possum Hollow playground and the Araluen-run Chance's Cafe, Event Director Matthew Gregory on why he founded the event, a parkrunner going by "Action Man", and fellow adventurer Mel Ellis.

• Episode 193 - Podding in the Rain

  Two crew reports back to back, both from fire-affected communities. Mark Scarborough reports post-parkrun from the Albion Cafe in Braidwood, interviewing Event Director Kelly about Braidwood Showground parkrun's return after 10 weeks of cancellations, with visitors travelling in from the Gold Coast, Newcastle, Sydney, Canberra, Queanbeyan and Batemans Bay, and 27 finishers in the rain. TOC then reports from Bright parkrun in the Victorian Alps with Run Director Jill, covering the summer evacuations and smoke cancellations, the rail-trail course towards Wandiligong, Mystic Peak, and an appeal for tourists to come back and spend money in the town.

• Episode 192 - World Tourists

  Dave Moss's own field audio from his spontaneous 600-700km road trip to Yeppoon parkrun in central Queensland: an interview with Run Director and Co-Event Director Natalie about the Capricorn Rail Trail course, their new course record of 119, and the imminent move to a beachfront course along Statue Bay. Mel and Dave discuss it in studio afterwards and urge listeners to get there before the change.

• Episode 192 - World Tourists

  Two Channel 5 News Crew roving reports back to back. Cameron Drake covers the launch of Edinburgh Oval parkrun on the Curtin University campus in Perth, interviewing Event Director Mark and Run Director Nayo and doing finish-funnel vox-pops; then Mark Scarborough reports from his home event, Wagi Bridge parkrun in Canberra, with a comic 'cross to the weather', an interview with visiting tourist Brendan Peel about his ACT Territorian quest, and Event Director Ian knocking off his NENDY. Mel and Dave cross back and thank 'the gentlemen both for submitting those roving reports this week'.

• Episode 191 - Dynamic Duo

  Two roving reports explicitly badged as Channel 5 News Crew this week. Mark files from Riverbank parkrun in Yass, NSW (his first roving report of 2020), interviewing Canberra visitors Susan and Judith and Run Director Kendall about the event's first couple of months, its 300-strong launch that ran out of tokens, the smoke cancellation, and the local businesses (Trader & Co, pharmacist Andrew Douglas) who funded it. TOC then files from Kerang, a childhood pilgrimage town, interviewing a group of brand-new local parkrunners and co-ED/councillor Jodie about the event's strong week-two numbers and its unusually large walking contingent.

• Episode 191 - Dynamic Duo

  The rest of the week's roving block: Dave at Zillmere parkrun (Brisbane) for its second anniversary, in Hawaiian theme, talking to Run Director Tim and to New Farm visitors chasing their alphabet Z; Melissa Ellis at Kerang Regional with co-ED Annette on the wiggly-horseshoe levee course and the shire's support; and a two-hander "guerrilla tourism" report from Wagi Bridge parkrun in the ACT by K-Man and Action Man. The hosts note in the recap that it is unusual to have two reporters (TOC and Melissa) file separately from the same event.

• Episode 190 - Chasing Vert

  Neither host made it to parkrun, so Mel hands over to an unusually long block of roving reports, introducing them for once ("among those were a bunch of our roving reporters… we don't usually introduce them"). Five reports run back to back: Matty Trent from Mundy Regional parkrun in Perth (interviewing ED Geoff Hansen), Sarah from Cobram parkrun in Victoria (interviewing 100-milestone parkrunner Sue and Run Director Trish), TOC from Wallaby Track parkrun in Ballarat, Melissa Ellis from the Puckapunyal army base where she has been mobilised for bushfire relief, and the G-Train with two Canadian instalments. The hosts then recap each report in turn.

• Episode 190 - Chasing Vert

  TOC files a short Channel 5 News Crew bulletin from Wallaby Track parkrun in Ballarat ("Howdy parkrunners, TOC reporting in for the Channel 5 News crew"), pitching a 'macropod club' for parkruns named after macropods, Wallaby Track and Kangaroo Island, as a way to support the Kangaroo Island event. The crew is also a running joke this week: Mel judges that Matty Trent "is making a bit of a play for the Channel 5 News crew… Never signs off, Matty", while the G-Train has apparently declined membership in favour of the title 'special correspondent'.

• Episode 189 - Happy New Year!

  A long block of listener/reporter crossovers running 00:37:58-01:17:55, the bulk of the episode. Melissa Ellis reports from the brand-new Wallaby Track parkrun (Ballarat's second event), interviewing Co-Event Director Lorinda and tutu-wearing tourist Natalie Harrison. Cameron Drake reports from Dawesville parkrun (WA) on New Year's Day, interviewing first-timer Mitch, RD/ED Lynette, and three visiting parkrunners. Listeners Parth and Irene from Westerfolds parkrun turn the tables and interview the podcast crew (Mel Erbacher, Melissa Ellis and PK) at Lochiel parkrun in South Australia. Finally three reports from "the G-Train" in Canada: Downsview parkrun (Toronto) with Tail Walker Jemima and social-media ambassador Lawrence, River Oaks parkrun (Oakville) with co-EDs Joanne and Chris, and Meadowvale parkrun where he run-directed, talking to the Swirsky sisters, Australian tourists and co-ED Lawrence with RD Vicky. Mel and TOC thank the reporters by name-.

• Episode 188 - Merry Ugly Christmas

  The bulk of the episode: a long block of Ugly Christmas Singlet Day roving reports and Christmas messages from the crew. Matty Trent at Maylands Peninsula (interviewing Emma and Ben, who are getting married that day); Gerard "the G-Train" at Nautical parkrun, Oakville, Canada (Roderick, Berenice Schuller and Richard); Lyndell Murray at Bunyaville with four Run Directors; a Christmas message from Cameron Drake; Mark Scarborough from a Canberra breakfast after every ACT parkrun was cancelled for bushfire smoke; an unnamed reporter at Wilson Botanic; PK at Pakapakanthi; TOC at Traralgon with Run Down Under founder Travis; Greta at Carisbrooke; and a sign-off from David in Adelaide. Reporters are explicitly identified as the Channel 5 News Crew and.

• Episode 187 - PKRUN

  Roving report from Gawler parkrun, Adelaide (South Australia), filed by an unnamed reporter. He interviews Co-Event Directors Neil Sanders and Jules Reid, who share matching personalised number plates "PK RUN 1" and "PK RUN 5", the source of the episode title, plus Run Director of the day Jeff. Covers the event's July 2017 start (127th run that day), founder Cheryl McKibbin who went on to start Stebonheath parkrun, the creek-bed course with its two "leg tester" hills, and Neil's 100th parkrun run in a black suit and bow tie. Closes with a note about an upcoming Christmas event for South Australian listeners.

• Episode 187 - PKRUN

  TOC (Tony O'Connell) reports from Portarlington parkrun on the Bellarine Peninsula, an hour south of Melbourne, with Jack. Interviews Event Director and Run Director of the day Yvonne about the out-and-back 2.5km-each-way course along the bay on well-packed granitic sand, the headwind on the return leg, views across to Melbourne over Corio Bay, and a typical field of 30 to 40 runners spanning all generations.

• Episode 187 - PKRUN

  Multi-part roving report from Cohuna parkrun in northern Victoria near the Murray, filed by Sarah while touristing with her family. Opens with a course scene-setter on the two-and-a-half-lap Gunbower Creek course, then three interviews: Run Director Kirsten on the event's third anniversary and its creekside course through Garden Park; front runner Shannon Tracy, husband of Event Director "Ames", on how the pair set the event up and designed the course to start and finish in the centre of town for visibility; and marshal Wooly, a self-described larrikin who nicknames regulars (his goanna-running brother-in-law) and reckons parkrun is the best way to meet people.

• Episode 186 - J.O.G.I

  Two short "roving report lites" run back to back. Melissa Ellis reports from Gungahlin parkrun in the ACT, where she spotted both this year's and last year's Ugly Christmas Singlets at the briefing and tracked down the wearers, Nicole (a Melbournian who mostly runs at Gungahlin, with her dog approaching her 100th) and Hayley (part of a Gungahlin group order, a tourist to Sydney, Merimbula and Batemans Bay). Cameron Drake then interviews Craig Lawrence, who has just completed every parkrun in WA. The hosts tease Cameron afterwards for never saying where he was roving from, Lyndell guesses Tamworth Wetlands.

• Episode 185 - Trails and Tales

  Three roving reports run back to back. Lyndell Murray from Ros Gregor Trail parkrun, Nanango, Queensland - event six after a bushfire cancellation cost her a Wilson index seven; she chats to a group of local women, to 102-streak tourist Belinda, to first finisher Trevor Adams and to founding RD/ED Therese, signing off "for the Channel 5 News crew". Scott Watkins from Byxbee parkrun, Palo Alto, California - the second California event, heavily Australian-run, interviewing ED Sarah and volunteer Stephanie. Melissa Ellis from Benalla Botanical Gardens parkrun, Victoria - interviewing volunteer Robert, plus a post-run addendum giving the location context she forgot. Mel notes that Lyndell's and Scott's reports were held over from last week for length.

• Episode 184 - Margie Lewis

  Cameron files his roving report from Champion Lakes parkrun (Perth, WA) as his formal application to join the Channel 5 News Crew. He reads out a rejection email from "the parkrun adventurers" telling him his earlier application failed because he had not completed the set challenge, then works the challenge out as he goes: interview a pod listener he does not already know, with bonus points if they can name an existing news crew member. He talks to Run Director Richard, to Wendy, to founding Event Directors Anne and Teresa, and finally to Tricia, who names two of the crew. Back in the studio (00:55:42-00:59:46) Mel and Dave adjudicate, joking that no Tricia appears in the Champion Lakes results or volunteer roster, then admit him: "Cam, you made it… Welcome, Cam."

• Episode 183 - parkrun: The Musical

  The block of four roving reports from the crew, opened by Tony O'Connell signing on explicitly for Channel 5: TOC at Goldfields Reservoir parkrun (Maryborough, Victoria, event four) interviewing founding ED Belinda; Lyndell Murray in full pirate character as "Lyndell Scarface Runnerlegs, Chief Deck Scrubber" at Cormorant Bay parkrun (Lake Wivenhoe, an hour west of Brisbane) for her seventh C and Pirate Club entry, interviewing RD Charmaine and two young parkrunners; Melissa Ellis at Euroa parkrun in central Victoria after Benalla was cancelled, interviewing co-ED Ellie; and Greta at Lower Hutt parkrun, Wellington, her first international parkrun, interviewing Timekeeper Margaret, parkrunner Sandy and ED Mark on the event's 400th running.

• Episode 183 - parkrun: The Musical

  Hosts' crossover discussion recapping the four reports: reservoir parkruns and Mel's spontaneous "Reservoir Dogs" unofficial club idea; Lyndell's pirate accent and the Cormorant Bay female record holder being one Catherine Swords at a Pirate Club event; Gary Murphy also joining the Pirate Club at Castlemaine; Melissa Ellis's diversion to Euroa and the butter factory turnaround; Greta's first international parkrun and PK's own first international (Bushy, 2015, where he interviewed Paul Sinton-Hewitt). Also a status check on Cameron, who has again failed to file his roving report challenge.

• Episode 182 - Ian Shaw

  TOC reports from Inverloch parkrun in Victoria, in blue skies turning to horizontal rain, and interviews two visiting tourists, Ailsa from Essex (home event Southend parkrun, finishing 76th against her usual 300s) and Louisa, UK-born but Melbourne-based with Studley Park as her home event.

• Episode 182 - Ian Shaw

  Lyndell Murray reports from Augustine Heights parkrun in Ipswich, half an hour west of Brisbane, taken to keep her tourist streak going and claim her NENDY. Three interviews: Sam, a local mother of four who completed the whole hilly two-lap course for the first time; Andrew, the day's Run Director, on the event's 2013 start, the smoke and heat, and visitors displaced by the bushfire closures at Greenbank and White Rock; and Simon, celebrating his 100th parkrun, an alphabet-challenge tourist on 20 letters and the course's secret 'phantom lawnmower'. Melissa Erbacher wraps both roving segments with "Two old faves back reporting in from their localities."

• Episode 181 - Linda van Duynhoven

  Two roving reports back to back. TOC files from the launch of Campaspe parkrun at Woodend in the Macedon Ranges, Victoria, damp conditions, an out-and-back along Five Mile Creek with a bouncy bridge, and around 280 starters, interviewing new local parkrunner David, Co-Event Director Matt, and volunteers Dave Edwards and Nancy at the Milko cafe afterwards. Then foreign correspondent David Moss reports from Coldham's Common parkrun in Cambridge, UK, in its 52nd week, interviewing Co-Event Director Mark about the event's origins, the new Coldham's Common junior parkrun and running a parkrun barefoot during the rugby. Back in the studio the hosts also set Cameron Drake ("Cam over in WA") his crew challenge, voted on by the news crew: interview somebody at parkrun he doesn't already know who is also a pod listener, with bonus points if they can name an existing news crew member.

• Episode 180 - Myths & Legends

  Three roving reports in a block: Lyndell Murray from Redcliffe parkrun (Moreton Bay, QLD), where she interviews the on-course volunteers mid-run - Tail Walker Berenice, marshal/photographer Paul, south-end marshal Warren and Run Director Amelia; Sarah from the Sunday trial of the soon-to-launch Aurora parkrun at Wollert in Melbourne's north, with visiting Highlands parkrun runners, the co-EDs and local participants; and Nadine's first-ever roving report, filed from Swakopmund parkrun in Namibia - the show's first Namibian report. Lyndell signs off explicitly "for the Channel 5 News crew", and Mel recaps all three from the studio, also noting a fourth report from Dave at Coldham's Common parkrun in the UK that could not be aired because the audio files failed to transfer.

• Episode 179 - Eliud Kiprobbo

  The full roving-report block, five reports run back to back. TOC at Wyndham Vale parkrun (Victoria) interviews Run Director Loretto and the event's first two 250-milestone runners, Cheryl and Irene, with cake laid on; Mark Scarborough at Parkville parkrun (Melbourne) catches adventurers in town for the Melbourne Marathon Festival, including guest Dave 'Robbo' Robertson, Shirley Dahl and Sandy; Greta at Clare Valley parkrun (South Australia) interviews regular Julie and Co-Event Directors Cathy and Sharon, with a second junior report from Jess interviewing Cain; Cameron Drake at Bibra Lake parkrun (WA) interviews Dylan and Chris, volunteer Matt, and the On My Feet charity trio running 24 parkruns in 24 hours all sub-24 minutes; and Lyndell Murray files a deliberately short 'roving report light' from South Bank, Brisbane, with no interviews because rain kept the scan queue empty. The hosts recap the lot, noting it was Cameron's third report and that he is due a challenge to earn his ID badge and mic.

• Episode 178 - Roving Reports

  Two crew reports, branded as Channel 5 News Crew by the host in the recap "A couple of Channel 5 News crew members, we had Greta and Dave". Greta (Grette Wilkinson) covers Charleston parkrun's first anniversary in South Australia, green theme, rural setting, featuring core team member Naomi reading an anniversary poem in rhyming couplets with audience call-and-response, then interviews with tourist Tracey, young Largs Bay parkrunner Dylan in a propeller hat, and Mount Barker's Claire with her red kelpie Jaffa. David Moss, the show's Foreign Correspondent, reports from Hove Promenade parkrun in the UK on International parkrun Day, interviewing fellow Kawana parkrunner Sarah Graywald in the barcode queue and then Event Director and Sussex regional ambassador Mark Brocklehurst.

• Episode 178 - Roving Reports

  Cameron Drake's report, set apart from the Channel 5 crew by the host "and then Cameron back second week in a row with more roving reports, but this time from his home parkrun". He tours his local Tamworth Wetlands parkrun at Baldivis, WA, Evil Hill, the Puddle of Doom and the Skippy's Revenge turnaround, complete with a limerick about old man Skip, describes the wetland wildlife including a quenda (a near-threatened southern brown bandicoot, which both hosts admit they had never heard of), and interviews Shirley, Michelle and Run Director Sarah over post-run coffee at the Dome.

• Episode 177 - The Doddfather

  Block of self-contained roving reports. Greta from the Stebonheath (SA) first anniversary, interviewing junior volunteer Kobe (who re-records his Acknowledgement of Country to the Kaurna people) and Event Director Cheryl about the course change from an out-and-back to a figure-eight double loop; then Cameron Drake's debut report from Shipwreck parkrun, Hilbert WA (event 59), with Run Director Raoul. A third un-branded report, Melissa's, closes the run of reports at 00:56:55 from Burley Griffin parkrun, Canberra, with Run Director Kim and a bride-to-be, Steph, who ran in costume with her bridesmaids.

• Episode 177 - The Doddfather

  Two explicitly Channel 5 News Crew-branded roving reports back to back. TOC (Tony O'Connell) reports from Lorne parkrun on the Great Ocean Road, interviewing tourist and Shepparton Run Director Chelsea and Lorne Run Director Carly about the six-month-old event and its run out along the pier; then Lyndell Murray from Rocks Riverside parkrun in Brisbane, with Run Director Paul on the event's ~400-strong fields, and with Katrina, who completed her 14,080 km Run Down Under that morning as finisher number 56.

• Episode 176 - International Podcast Day 2019

  The entire special episode is a Channel 5 News Crew showcase. Erbacher introduces it as "a random array of top three tips about parkrun as created by our Channel 5 News crew", and credits the eight-member crew with 1,580 parkruns across 13 countries and 540 volunteer occasions between them. Seven crew members then deliver a top-three each, back to back with no studio interruption: PK on being a parkrun first-timer, TOC on costume themes, Melissa Ellis on recording a roving report, Mark Scarborough on getting a good parkrun photo, Dave Moss on touristing logistics, Greta on celebrating anniversaries, Gary Murphy on aviation-themed parkruns, and Lyndell Murray on adventuring. Erbacher hands over "without further ado, I give you the parkrun adventurers Channel 5 News Crew" and recaps each of them.

• Episode 175 - Twinning

  The crew's contributions this week: Lyndell Murray from Harris Avenue parkrun (Narangba, SE Queensland) at its fourth event, interviewing Katie's family, adventurer listeners Erica and Ryan, and ED Tony; and Paul Kitching (PK) with an impromptu report from Pakapakanthi parkrun in Adelaide, where the MFS fire crew volunteered and the event fell seven finishers short of its 10,000th participant. The episode is also framed around the crew: newest recruit Mark Scarborough guest co-hosts, and the co-host recaps the reports, closing "I do feel truly blessed to have the Channel 5 News crew on hand to co-host with me every week."

• Episode 175 - Twinning

  The non-Channel-5 reports, explicitly distinguished by the co-host "it wasn't just Channel 5 News crew we had on the roving reports this week": Steve Marston from Wangaratta parkrun in north-east Victoria with two six- and first-timers through a hailstorm; Melissa Ellis from Studley parkrun in Victoria interviewing Jacqui O'Connell on her and Tony's 100th different event; and two international reports, Pippa White's first-ever overseas report from Queen Elizabeth parkrun in Hampshire, UK (with her daughter Harriet), and David Moss from The Eden Project parkrun in Cornwall.

• Episode 174 - Stanthorpe parkrun

  Four roving reports back to back: Sarah and Rita from Highlands parkrun at Phillip Island parkrun (debut report, interviewing Westerfolds visitors, a trio of touring friends and RD Robyn, ahead of the inaugural Phillip Island Running Festival); Mark at North Sydney parkrun's 70th event on Blackmores Sydney Running Festival weekend (interviewing Queenstown NZ Run Directors Chris and Jamie, UK visitor Michael from Uckfield, and ED Matt); Gary at Windsor Precinct parkrun in Launceston (RDs Mel and Dean, the propeller hat movement, and 77-time Barcode Scanner Wayne); and Melissa Ellis from West Coast parkrun in Singapore after haze nearly caused cancellations.

• Episode 174 - Stanthorpe parkrun

  Hosts recap the week's roving reports, welcoming Sarah and Rita's debut, the Sydney Running Festival, Queenstown as one of only about six Q parkruns in the world and the alphabet challenge, Dean and Gary's propeller hat movement, Wayne's volunteering, and Melissa Ellis getting her Singaporean flag.

• Episode 173 - Roving, Roving, Roving

  Five back-to-back roving reports, the episode's centrepiece (hence the title "Roving, Roving, Roving"): Mark Scarborough at Ginninderra parkrun, Canberra (event 381, last parkrun of winter, interviews Will Barlow on his 250th and Run Director Debbie about the course change off the road to an out-and-back); Grette Wilkinson at Strathalbyn parkrun, SA (Co-Event Director Mel, then "the two travelling grannies", Robin from Main Beach and her cousin Helen, chasing alphabeteer and all-states milestones); Paul Kitching at Lochiel parkrun, Adelaide, for its fourth birthday in fluoro (Event Director Janet, cupcakes, a second-timer called Polly who came back after Bring a Friend Day); Lyndell Murray at parkrun Milano Nord, Italy (Battista on the gate, Irish tourists Trish and Trevor from Lough Key parkrun, and Event Director Max, who set a new Italian national record of 230 finishers); and David Moss at Harcourt Hill parkrun, Oxford (Catherine Daly and Mark Taylor, on the parkrun PROVE project and MS, the Copenhagen/Malmo New Year's Day double, and a parkrun alphabet finished at Zielona Gora). Erbacher and Ellis recap all five, and Erbacher apologises for having missed Mark's Ginninderra report out of the previous week's episode.

• Episode 172 - Rohan Day

  TOC opens the episode with the Channel 5 News Crew framing, then immediately subverts it because he is in the studio rather than out roving: "it's Toc reporting in for the Channel 5 News crew. Today I'm at the launch of episode 172... Hey, hang on, Mel. What do you mean I'm at the launch?" Mel replies "You're not roving this week, Toc. You're on site. You're on the couch" and he calls it "a stationary report". Leads into banter about Scotty's departure and TOC's first roving report back in 2015 / episode 4.

• Episode 172 - Rohan Day

  Three self-contained roving reports run back to back, followed by the studio recap "more awesome roving reports coming in this week from Melissa, Greta and Dave". Melissa Ellis from Point Cook parkrun (Victoria), interviewing new Run Director Nikki on a record 175-attendance "Where's Wally" theme day; Greta from her home event Mount Barker (South Australia), interviewing Fernando whose twin daughters Harriet and Phoebe completed their 100th parkrun, believed the youngest twins in the world to do so; and David Moss from Løvstein parkrun in Bergen, Norway, interviewing founder and Run Director Heidi about siting the course, the hills and the rain.

• Episode 171 - The Butler Boys

  Three roving reports back to back. Lyndell Murray at Chermside parkrun (Brisbane) for its fourth birthday, "bright and shiny" themed and run as a fundraiser "shining for Eva" for the Amy and Friends Cockayne Syndrome charity, she interviews Eva's parents Alicia and Dan, vision-impaired runner Henry and his guide Robert from the Achilles Running Club, and Event Director Bradley, who is also wearing gold tights. Tony O'Connell (TOC) at Nhill parkrun in western Victoria, interviewing young Zane, who tripped on a rock and "joined the parkrun stack club", and founding Event Director Bev. Mark Scarborough at Dubbo parkrun ahead of the Dubbo Stampede, collecting his "D" for the Alphabet Challenge, interviewing Simon from The Ponds, a group of visiting and local parkrunners, and Run Director Tim. Back in studio PK and Mel recap all three.

• Episode 170 - Linda Coombes

  Dave 'Mossy' Moss reports in from Copenhagen, Denmark, having run Fælledparken parkrun. He interviews Jonathan Sydenham, who started parkrun in Denmark: Sydenham ran parkruns in England, knew Paul (Sinton-Hewitt) and Roger, missed it after moving to Denmark, and was encouraged by Paul to start more than one event. Denmark now has eight events (nine historically, the Hillerød course north of Copenhagen closed when he moved away); Fælledparken had just held its 409th running, the first Copenhagen event turned 10 this year, and Danish parkruns pride themselves on never cancelling for weather. He flags Amager Fælled and the beach course at Amager Strandpark as the most unusual, and says tourists are "the guests of honour". Scott and Mel top and tail it with envy about Denmark.

• Episode 169 - Tabitha Schulz

  The episode's whole spine: with Scott Trickett missing, the crew is dispatched to hunt for him. Mark Scarborough runs the odds and reports from Coombs parkrun (Canberra); Greta almost catches him; Paul Kitching reports from Carisbrooke parkrun's 100th event (SA); Tony O'Connell reports from Newport Lakes (Vic); Lyndell Murray searches Kelvin Grove (Brisbane); Melissa Ellis works New South Wales. Melissa Erbacher notes that the whole crew has not rallied for a single purpose since episode 143.

• Episode 169 - Tabitha Schulz

  An international roving report from Hasenheide parkrun in Berlin by an unnamed Australian reporter, sitting apart from the Channel 5 News Crew Scotty-hunt material. He interviews English tourist Andrew Bull, an Australian holidaymaker called David, and Run Director Susan, who explains the name (Hasenheide, 'bunny heath'), the single hill, the roughly 50/50 local-to-tourist split and the bilingual run briefing.

• Episode 168 - #fluffyfactor

  TOC (Tony O'Connell) files a self-contained roving report from Grand Ridge Rail Trail parkrun at Mirboo North, Victoria, running 00:18:58-00:20:00. He interviews a local parkrunner, Helen, who is wearing an Ugly Christmas Singlet in August ("Christmas in July being August"), tying the report to the episode's singlet theme. Helen praises the course as a sheltered out-and-back on a beautiful track, and reveals she is running the 13k back to Boolarra afterwards as training for the New York Marathon. TOC signs off still professing not to understand the ugly-singlet phenomenon. Host Mel picks it up immediately afterwards as "a sighting in the wild of the Ugly Christmas Singlet".

• Episode 167 - Ian Rutson

  Roving report from Karkarook parkrun (Victoria) by the G-Train, on a morning when Achilles Melbourne took over nearly all the volunteer roles to celebrate Amanda's 25th volunteer stint. Interviews with Emma (Achilles guide, home parkrun Gardiners Creek), blind runner Adam and his guide Steve (who talks about parkrun's part in his stroke rehab), the three Tail Walkers Amir, Robin and guide dog Sally, and Amanda herself.

• Episode 166 - Social Prescribing

  Lyndell Murray files a roving report from Gainsborough Greens parkrun (south of Brisbane, north of the Gold Coast) on Kids Takeover Day, interviewing the young volunteers: Alyssa, first-time Run Director, who wrote her briefing out and rehearsed it in front of her mum; Bella on barcode scanning; Jess the Tail Walker; and Daniel the photographer. Signs off "checking in for the Channel 5 News crew".

• Episode 166 - Social Prescribing

  Tony O'Connell reports in from East Coast parkrun in "hot and humid" Singapore, after a taxi driver who had no idea where to go. He interviews a group of visiting tourists, Peter and his wife Rosalind from London, Lynn from Newy (NSW), and Stuart from Huntington, a run streaker on day 1913 of running 5k daily, then a group of locals: Nayana (56 runs, came via her school cross-country team), her mum Charu (close to 50), Katja (fourth run) and a school teammate. Talk turns to how routinely the tourist count at East Coast rivals the locals.

• Episode 165 - Justin Scholz

  Two international roving reports run back to back with no studio link between them. TOC reports from Taman Pudu Ulu parkrun in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (29 degrees, ~90% humidity), interviewing marshal Lachie, first-timers-briefer Trixie, and Run Director Colin, who says roughly 20 tourists turned up that week and that about half their tourists are British. Then the second reporter files from Lac de Divonne parkrun in France, interviewing three Central Coast NSW tourists there for Mont Blanc and the Netball World Cup, New York-born Timekeeper Ray Compton, and a group at the Full Moon Cafe in Divonne-les-Bains, one of whom is the parent of the man who founded both Divonne and the Paris parkrun. Scott closes it: "a very international feel from the boys this week".

• Episode 164 - UK Conference

  Mark Scarborough reports from the pop-up Freedom Run at Main Beach parkrun on the Friday before the Gold Coast Marathon (the event's own Saturday parkrun being cancelled for the marathon). He hands the mic to Indigenous Marathon Project head coach Adrian Dodson-Shaw, who explains the project's 10-year history under Rob de Castella, its 86 New York City Marathon graduates and its 12-a-year intake, then has this year's squad and several graduates introduce themselves in turn, Kiefer Yu, Narendra Dempsey, Shane Cook, Kate Axton, Jordan Armstrong, Jordan Merritt, Tyrone Bean, Em Broderick, Tanisha Atkinson, Sienna Cotullo, Neil Sabatino, Travis Naden, plus graduates Jess Bartholomew and Harriet David. Mark then does vox pops with Reece and Sam, two junior parkrunners, returning interviewees Bill and Jodie (last spoken to in January at Studley parkrun), and a group from Highlands (VIC) and Lismore (NSW).

• Episode 163 - Ada Macey

  David Moss ('Mossy') files a roving report from the inaugural Charleys Creek parkrun at Chinchilla, Queensland. He interviews Adrian Royce of Wishart parkrun (who won the inaugural event and clocked his 100th different Australian parkrun), Event Director Ronald Thompson on the three-year effort to get the event off the ground, and local first-timer Alan Middlebury. Around 150 participants on a five-degree winter morning; the course runs beside Charleys Creek, a tributary of the Condamine, with two hills and a railway crossing.

• Episode 162 - Lee Troop

  A run of three back-to-back roving reports, explicitly badged as the Channel 5 News Crew. TOC reports from Port Fairy parkrun in Victoria (town history, whaling/Belfast, the Folk Festival) and interviews ED Kate and walker Hester. Gary Murphy reports from Karkarook parkrun in Melbourne's south-east ("Karky Parky"), interviewing RD Chris and parkrunner Simon about the hot-air balloons and the reversed course, four women from Highlands doing an alphabet challenge, young volunteers Tom and Greta with mum Angela, Amanda Kwong of Achilles Melbourne, and RD Annie. PK reports from Charleston parkrun in the Adelaide Hills at minus two degrees, interviewing Event Ambassador Melissa Cox, breakfast companion Tracy and ED Kylie Ross, and rounds off the South Australian "pirate club" C-events list. Scott wraps them as "a trifecta of roving reports" and Lyndell says "The Channel 5 News crew are rocking it."

• Episode 161 - The Amazing Robbo

  Melissa Ellis files a self-contained report from Point Cook parkrun in Victoria, interviewing Run Director and fellow tourist Andrew Reynolds: the out-and-back course along a gravel reserve path with a deceptive gradual hill on the last kilometre, typical fields of around 120, the event's odd naming (it sits across the freeway from Point Cook and was originally Point Cook Truganina), and Andrew's tourism record - the most countries of any Australian-registered parkrunner at 11, built by tying parkruns to major sporting events (Zandvlei in Cape Town around the ball-tampering test, Australia v France in Kazan at the World Cup, South Africa v the Wallabies next), with eight events left to complete his Statesman and Nhill planned as the finale on a road trip to Adelaide.

• Episode 160 - Coach Dinneen

  Two roving reports back to back. Scott Watkins files from Westpark parkrun in Munich, Germany - where he realised mid-briefing that he had forgotten his barcode, ran 23 minutes, then ran 2.5km to an internet cafe to print one and got back before the Tail Walker - and then from RecPlex North parkrun in Pensacola, Florida, with interviews with Allison, co-EDs Robin Foley and Caleb Carmichael, Volunteer Coordinator Austin, Pensacola Runners Association president Gabby, the Martin family and UWF's Elizabeth. Melissa Ellis then reports from Curl Curl parkrun in Sydney (first-timer Sandra, ED Kim and RD Dana) and from the Sydney longest run, with Ollie and Emily at the secret Mona Vale Beach event and organiser Paul Rainbow at the end of the day.

• Episode 159 - Kelly & Charles Hodges

  Melissa Ellis files a roving report from You Yangs parkrun in Victoria, returning to the event where listener Dawn broke her wrist in the car park a couple of months earlier. Dawn is back with a chocolate mud cake to thank the community, and Melissa interviews Peter, who drove her to Geelong Hospital when the ambulance was half an hour away. Peter describes finding parkrun via a newspaper article about Torquay parkrun's first anniversary, and the You Yangs course, one lap, all left turns, a 1.3km uphill start, and a group nearby who train huskies to pull sleds.

• Episode 158 - v-index

  Self-contained roving report from Joanne Watkins at Albert parkrun, Melbourne, recorded during National Volunteer Week. She interviews Katie on reaching her 100th parkrun in five years, having started at age four after coming along in a pram with her mum. Katie describes the Albert Park Lake course ("around like a big lake", "heaps of swans"), running with her mum and grandma, seeing her teacher and classmates there, and her 35 volunteer occasions, marshalling and scanning, with scanning her favourite. She closes with advice for anyone nervous about volunteering: try a role once, and if you don't like it, try another. Hosts return praising "the power of our junior parkrunners".

• Episode 157 - State of the Nation

  Two of the State of the Nation crossings are framed explicitly as Channel 5 News Crew slots: TOC self-introduces "It's Toc [TOC] reporting in for the Channel 5 News crew in the Greater State" with the Victorian update, and Scott then says "we're continuing the Channel 5 News crew theme as we head to South Australia" before crossing to Greta Wilkinson. Referred to again "We've already heard from some of our Channel 5 news crew who double up their roles in the parkrun world."

• Episode 156 - Dr Lindsey Reece

  Gary Murphy files a roving report from Lancefield parkrun's first anniversary in Victoria, where the theme is superheroes. He interviews Event Director Erin about the first 12 months, the volunteer culture and the megafauna fossils found on course; Run Director Alison; "Duffman" Brendan; photographer John Nightingale; a group of women in the finish-line crowd; and cake-baker/Run Director Nadine alongside parkrunner-of-the-year Bryce, who supplies the course description (three laps, flat, granitic sand).

• Episode 155 - Oodles of Roving Reports

  The bulk of the episode, seven roving reports across two weeks, explicitly badged as Channel 5 News Crew work. Scott sets it up "we've been busy, and so have our Channel 5 News crew... we've got a bunch of roving reports". In order: Mark at Albert Park parkrun, Melbourne (Event Director Scott, Irish visitor Mary Murphy, US visitors, 260-time regular Vin); Lyndell Murray finishing her alphabet at Jells parkrun (Waverley Warriors footballers Sam and Mark, Run Director Mark); Mossy at Christies Beach parkrun, SA (Israeli visitor Tim, Event Director Miriam Williams); Tony O'Connell at the Grand Ridge Rail Trail parkrun launch, Mirboo North (ambassador Kate Luton, Jodie, co-ED Stacey); Melissa Ellis at the same launch (Michelle Taylor's 100th different event, plus an on-air correction of the event's name); Grette Wilkinson at the Shiraz Trail parkrun launch, McLaren Vale (Christina, first-timers Michelle and Louise, volunteers Mariana and Natasha, ED Alicia); and Lyndell Murray again at Glasshouse Mountains Conservation parkrun for May the 4th. Scott and Mel recap the lot.

• Episode 153 - parkrun Japan

  First of two roving blocks. Scott splits the week's reports in two and "leads with the ladies": Lyndell Murray from Dalby parkrun (Queensland), chasing the letter D for her alphabet challenge, followed by Melissa Ellis from event two of Lorne Beach parkrun on the Great Ocean Road, Victoria's 73rd event.

• Episode 153 - parkrun Japan

  Second roving block, running straight on from the Japan interviews with no studio handover: TOC at Gungahlin parkrun (ACT) with a Zoolander running club takeover, interviewing co-EDs Russ and Andrew; then PK at Reynella East parkrun (South Australia) for its 70th event, interviewing Louise, Rick, RD Rachel Semler and Craig, interrupted by the comic "KP" character, who sings a Bonnie Tyler parody about Scott's hamstring. Scott recaps both.

• Episode 59:59 - #palm19

  Melissa Ellis files a roving report from the beach at The Beaches parkrun during the #palm19 listener meet-up, interviewing two attendees: Caro Vos (Woy Woy, newly run directing, recently parkran in South Africa) and Michael 'Mike' Scott (local, Lakeview, chasing Wilson numbers, one of five NSW statesmen).

• Episode 59:59 - #palm19

  The Channel 5 News crew were introduced to the live audience at the meet-up and awarded official press passes and their own microphones; five of the eight members attended in person, a record. Scott reads recent iTunes reviews praising the roving reports, says they want to expand the crew, and thanks them for the different voices and diversity they bring. PK, Greta and Mark were the three crew members who could not attend.

• Episode 59:59 - #palm19

  Greta's roving report from the launch of Naracoorte Lake parkrun in the Limestone Coast region of South Australia, her first report in some time. She sets the scene (340km southeast of Adelaide), notes the same weekend brought the parkrun Australia anniversary and the launch of parkrun Japan, then interviews Event Director Marg about picking up a stalled 2016 project and fine-tuning the course with ambassador Phil Ackland, travelling parkrunner Stephanie from Bargara QLD, and the local volunteer team (Molly on timing, Marion on tokens, Fiona on photos).

• Episode 152 - RunWest

  Tim Oberg's field report from the inaugural 12km Run West in western Sydney, recorded on his phone while running with Scott Trickett - the hosts call it "not a roving report... a running commentary report" (-). Tim sets the scene in the parkrun wave (~1,500 of 7,000 runners), runs through the not-yet-open Sydney Zoo, interviews apricot-shirted Lionel from Penrith Lakes mid-race, reports Scott's hamstring going at the 8K mark, then picks up at the finish line with Dave 'Robbo' Robertson on commentary, an interview with Glen Turner (health and wellbeing lead, parkrun Australia), Scott limping in, and finally Carol Cunningham, whom Scott had a wager with and beat despite walking the last 4K.

• Episode 152 - RunWest

  Mark's roving report from Jindabyne parkrun, Banjo Paterson Park, NSW - a 195km, 2hr20 drive with the family. A detailed stats rundown (launched 9 June 2018, 915m above sea level, course records to Michael Daly and Sarah Tapp, average time 33:18) and the point that J is a rare alphabet-challenge letter, with David Messenger having completed his alphabet there on Australia Day. Interviews with Event Director Rosalie on running a parkrun in a tourist town, and with volunteer Erin on why she volunteers. Signs off asking Scotty and Mel to check their Wilson Index against event number 42.

• Episode 152 - RunWest

  Lyndell's roving report from East End parkrun, New Plymouth, New Zealand - a return visit to the town where she once staged a pop-up "parkrun of one" because there was no event there. Arrives 15 minutes late and only completes half the course, but interviews Andy (a Manchester transplant volunteering as run coordinator), Tail Walker Erica Perry, and Run Director Trevor Masters on how he and Erin Vaughan set the event up, plus why it is named East End rather than New Plymouth.

• Episode 151 - Madison de Rozario

  Paul Kitching (PK) returns after a long absence with what he insists is "not a roving report": a chat recorded hands-free in the car on the way to Mount Barker parkrun's fifth birthday in South Australia, with a much-discussed errant bee interrupting proceedings. His passenger is Tim Jenkin, the anti-apartheid activist whose 1979 escape from Pretoria Prison is being filmed in Adelaide as Escape from Pretoria with Daniel Radcliffe playing him. Ends with a post-run debrief: 375 finishers, a course record turnout, and Tim's 24-something Australian PB. Scott then sets PK his next challenge - get Daniel Radcliffe to a parkrun.

• Episode 151 - Madison de Rozario

  Melissa Ellis files the one conventionally-roving report of the week, from Frog Hollow parkrun in Endeavour Hills, Victoria, in light drizzle. She revives her "fashions on the field" angle to interview Catherine Hocking about the Slow Burners running group (founded 2014 by Rochelle Olsen, snail-yellow tops, trail focus, snake-awareness and night-running clinics), then interviews Tail Walker Rosemary about the Frog Hollow course, its 20,000th finisher, its swans and its frog mascot Ribbit.

• Episode 151 - Madison de Rozario

  Mark's response to the crew-entry challenge set in episode 149 - rather than roving, he argues his case. He replays the hosts setting him the task of finding a Wilson index number neither of them has, then plays the commentary from Steven Bradbury's 2002 Olympic gold to argue that his qualifying event at Gungahlin was a legitimate if fortunate win. Mel initially tries to raise the bar to a Wilson index under 100, then retracts on air - "I have never laughed so much in a roving report" - and admits him: "Mark, you're in. You've made it." Gold-level status is deferred to The Beaches in two weeks.

• Episode 150 - Lloydy

  Two back-to-back roving reports with no studio link between them. Melissa Ellis reports from Rosebud parkrun on the Mornington Peninsula, giving the town's history as a caravan-and-camping summer destination turned sea-change and young-family suburb, then interviewing founding co-ED Ian Crawford about the flat two-loop bayside course, the Peninsula Masters group, and rumoured future peninsula events (Frankston most likely, Mornington and Arthurs Seat whispered about). Mark then reports from Gungahlin parkrun in Canberra with a heavily stats-driven piece, event 287, the 599-runner New Year's Day record and the Gungahlin/Tuggeranong double, course records to Martin Dent and Paige Campbell, monthly PB Day, before interviewing visiting Canadian runner Rose about running with 5 degrees of vision and the Running Eyes guide-matching group.

• Episode 150 - Lloydy

  Studio debrief on Mark's bid to join the crew. His challenge was to file from an uncollected Wilson Index event; he satisfied it by reporting from his own home parkrun on its 287th running. Scott is happy to admit him ("I'm okay to admit him to the Channel 5 News crew"); Mel refuses, declares herself boss of the crew and moves the goalposts, the Wilson Index must now be under 100 and he must also find a Mel and a Scotty. Contrasted with Melissa Ellis, who "had to take doughnuts and pineapple chocolate to lure a Mel and a Scotty." The segment also puts founding member PK on notice for not filing lately, with his home event Mount Barker's anniversary suggested as his chance.

• Episode 149 - Nadine Crawford

  The hosts formally set Mark's entry challenge for the Channel 5 News Crew. Scott: "Mark has been dazzling us with some stats and some great roving reporting. It's about time we had the discussion about whether he's worthy to enter into the Channel 5 News crew." The challenge, set by Erbacher and Trickett: report from an event that neither host has on their Wilson Index, and deliver a genuine "deep dive" of out-there stats about it rather than numbers lifted off the event website. Erbacher notes precedent - "we made things pretty difficult for Melissa Ellis when she wanted to come on board and join the crew" - and they refuse to say which Wilson Index numbers they are chasing, making that part of the challenge.

• Episode 149 - Nadine Crawford

  Two roving reports, both from B events - "We're all about the bees this week. Mark was at Bateman's Bay and Melissa Ellis was at Bannockburn Bush." Mark reports from Batemans Bay parkrun (NSW) on its 149th event, interviewing locals Lisa and Emma, Event Director Kim, and international adventurer Louise. Melissa Ellis reports from Bannockburn Bush parkrun (Victoria), interviewing Event Director Julie and, at brunch at Bannockburn Station, new Victorian Statesmen Parth and Irene.

• Episode 148 - Nick Pearson

  A trio of roving reports back to back, which Scott sums up as "a trifecta of raving [roving] reports this week": Mark Scarborough from Queanbeyan parkrun near Canberra (interviewing Run Director Vanessa), David "Mossy" Moss from Greenbank parkrun in Logan, Queensland (interviewing Co-Event Directors Chrissie and Stuart, pacer Dan the Motivator, and visiting parkrunner Amelia), and Lyndell Murray from Victory Heights Trail parkrun near Gympie (interviewing a mother-and-daughter pair, first-time Run Director Gaylene, junior parkrunner Cheyenne, and Event Director Jodie).

• Episode 148 - Nick Pearson

  Lyndell Murray signs on explicitly for the crew: "It's Lyndell here. And I'm checking in this morning for the Channel 5 News crew, from Victory Heights Trail parkrun up near Gympie, just north of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland." She notes she postponed the trip a week because of Cyclone Oma, only to arrive in rain anyway.

• Episode 147 - #palm19 preview

  TOC (Tony O'Connell) files a field report from Mildura Weir parkrun on the banks of the Murray, self-identifying as "reporting in for the Channel 5 News crew". He interviews Co-Event Directors Greg and Nicole about the course (a flat riverside track with one hill near the homestead) and about the event setting attendance records in both week three and week four, with results dominated by brand-new parkrunners rather than tourists.

• Episode 147 - #palm19 preview

  Dave Moss reports from Yowie parkrun (Yowie Park, Kilcoy, Queensland) in its fourth official week. He speaks to Elle, a parkrun tourist chasing her alphabet with the Girls Run This Town group and the Run Down Under crew fundraising for defibrillators, and to Esther, a Run Director who co-founded the event with her son Joshua after running it unofficially since June the previous year. Closes on the park's statue of the mythical Yowie.

• Episode 146 - Kirsten Molloy

  A roving report from Lyndell Murray at Queen's Domain parkrun, Tasmania, held over from the summer break, Scott: "somewhere in the universe, we lost one... we're going to extend the time travel episode to go back in time to when Lyndell adventured to Queen's Domain." She covers the event's first anniversary, a new course and a Q-themed dress-up day, captures the event's rhyming run briefing, then interviews Event Director Nicholas. The show notes name her as "Channel 5 News Crew member Lyndell"; the episode itself calls it a roving report, so this one straddles both names.

• Episode 145 - Singleton parkrun

  Mark Scarborough reports from Goulburn parkrun's first birthday, an hour up the Hume from Canberra, "the first inland city in Australia" and home of the Big Merino. Opens with stats (102 average weekly participants, 37:20 average time, 1,181 total runners) and notes it is his eighth different event in a row. Interviews visiting parkrunners Shady (from Seattle, in town for the Goulburn Blues Festival) and Scott (from Wollongong), then both Event Directors: Mick on the first year, the 456-strong launch, the cowbell at the finish and 970 registered Goulburn parkrunners, and Ange on how the event began, her cousin at Lake Macquarie, a first parkrun at Bega, and ambassadors Gary and Denise Clark walking them through setup.

• Episode 144 - Glen Turner

  The month's backlog of roving reports, explicitly framed as the Channel 5 News crew: "We may have taken a few weeks off, but our Channel 5 News crew didn't. So we've got heaps of raving [roving] reports to catch up on." Mel runs the batting order, TOC at Wyndham Vale, Melissa Ellis at Mansfield, Lyndell at South Toowoomba, and three consecutive weeks from Mark Scarborough at Burley Griffin, Huskisson and Studley. Runs-.

• Episode 143 - With Us Now

  The roving-reporter crew's annual end-of-year contributions. Christmas messages from TOC and Melissa Ellis, then a longer thank-you message from Paul Kitching (PK), explicitly "not for a roving report, but for my Christmas message", thanking the hosts, parkrunners and his fellow roving reporters. The hosts thank the crew, noting there are seven of them, that Melissa Ellis joined the team this year, and that applications are open for new members.

• Episode 143 - With Us Now

  Two roving reports, both from reporters the hosts flag as "two new reporters". Caroline Southwell reports from Penrith Lakes parkrun in Western Sydney (event number 200), interviewing Run Director Sam about the event's three alternate courses and its strong deaf-community participation supported by Auslan interpreters. Steve Marston reports from Portobello parkrun in Edinburgh in near-freezing sleet, with his son Ethan. Mel thanks both.

• Episode 143 - With Us Now

  The episode's promised "gift to our listeners", a group cover of Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart" performed by the Channel 5 News Crew and hosts, running to the end of the episode, including a guitar solo. Teased by Scott ("it's going to finish with another gift to our listeners at the very end of the episode") and as the hoop the new crew members had to jump through.

• Episode 142 - Roving Reports

  Three Channel 5 News Crew roving crossovers in one episode. Lyndell Murray at Yarrabilba parkrun (SW of Brisbane) interviews the Leo Wanker Academy of Fitness running club (Andrew, Aaron, Paul, Jason), a visiting granddaughter Jess from London surprising her grandmother Vivian, RD Spencer, and 50-time volunteer Rick Rosenblatt; she also ticks off her Y in the alphabet challenge. Tony O'Connell (TOC) reports from Urunga parkrun on the NSW mid-north coast as an "honorary New South Wales reporter", interviewing ED Nathan, and is congratulated in studio for completing the Aussie Alphabeteer. Gary Murphy checks in from Highlands parkrun with junior parkrunner Zoe Ellis, who has just completed her Statesman, christened on air the "State's Kid's Ship".

• Episode 142 - Roving Reports

  Debut roving report from Mark Scarborough of Canberra (home run Gungahlin), who adventured to Braidwood Showground parkrun in country NSW to tick off his NENDY (nearest event not done yet) and complete the Staying Alive Challenge. He interviews founder/RD Kelly, junior volunteer Scarlett, fast Queanbeyan runner Bernardo and RD Joel. Set up by Scott after another failed call-out for NSW roving reporters, and closed with "a great debut from Mark".

• Episode 141 - Facts in a Haystack

  Two back-to-back roving reports. Steve Marston reports from Weipa parkrun in Far North Queensland with colleague Michael, after a two-hour drive from their work site on a 30-degree morning, and interviews outgoing Event Director Alicia on her last run before relocating to Melbourne. Gary Murphy then reports "from home" at Highlands, interviewing Robin Rishworth on joining the Half Cow Club - 50 different parkruns, 48 of them in the last 12 months, never repeating an event, saving Lilydale for last.

• Episode 141 - Facts in a Haystack

  Melissa Ellis files a deliberately coy report from "the parkrun that shall not be named" - a 3am alarm, a 6am flight out of Melbourne, a first-ever hire car and arrival with ten minutes to spare. She completes her Stayin' Alive (Bee Gees) letter challenge, adds a number to her Wilson Index and claims a compass point, then interviews Andrew, a near-stranger and fourth-time parkrunner who came along as the condition of a gifted flight. Co-host Erbacher reveals it as Geeveston parkrun in the crossover afterwards.

• Episode 140 - An Early Xmas

  Two back-to-back roving reports from the Channel 5 News Crew. Paul Kitching (PK) reports from Mount Barker parkrun's 250th event in South Australia, interviewing founder and Co-Event Director Ros Lowe on her own 250th parkrun, and Wes from sponsor The Athlete's Foot. Lyndell Murray then reports from New Farm parkrun in Brisbane on her parkrun birthday (six years to the day since her first parkrun, at the same event), interviewing new parkrunners, token sorters Andrew and Bella, a parkrunner whose surname is literally Happy, and Run Director Karen. The hosts cross back to thank both and to call for fresh roving reports from New South Wales.

• Episode 138 - Tony Park

  Melissa Ellis files a roving report from Christies Beach parkrun in South Australia, travelling there to claim her seventh 'sea' and join the Pirate Club. Post-run at the Ripple and Swell Cafe she interviews Co-Event Directors Richard and Miriam about the event's July 2016 founding by Frank Finn, the undulating beachside course, the four City of Onkaparinga events (Christies Beach, Aldinga Beach, Reynella East, Moana), council and sponsor support, and their New Year's Day plans. Closes with a plug for the Christies Beach caravan park.

• Episode 137 - Dane Bird-Smith

  Two roving reports filed back to back. First, Melissa Ellis from Cohuna parkrun in northern Victoria during the Big Cohuna Festival weekend, she interviews Cheryl, a South-African-born Melbourne parkrun tourist completing her seventh 'C' for the Pirate Challenge (201 parkruns, 121 different events), then Amy, Cohuna's founding Event Director, on the event's approaching second anniversary, its 101 events, the Gunbower Creek course, and the town's festival weekend. Second, TOC from Koonwarra parkrun's first anniversary, interviewing Event Director Ebony on 163 finishers, a 90-per-week average in a town of 300, the K-themed dress-up day and TOC's own koala outfit.

• Episode 136 - Kelly Hodges

  Two roving reports back-to-back after a dry spell, Melissa Ellis from Chelsea Bicentennial parkrun (Victoria) interviewing Dawn, then Lyndell Murray from Ocean View parkrun (Queensland) covering the new course launch. Mel recaps "Melissa Ellis was at Chelsea Bicentennial... And Lyndell was at Ocean View", and reminds listeners that roving reports are welcome from anyone, not just crew members.

• Episode 133 - IpD recap

  The bulk of the episode: five roving reports, all explicitly filed under the Channel 5 News Crew banner. Scott sets it up "We've got a couple of our Channel 5 News crew overseas at the moment" and jokes about the wage bill. Lyndell Murray reports from Heritage Harbour Ottawa parkrun in Illinois on the eve of the Chicago Marathon (interviewing Australian, Russian, British, Irish, South African and American parkrunners plus ED Pierre); David Moss files a double from Derry City parkrun and Derry City junior parkrun in Northern Ireland; Gary Murphy from Geeveston in Tasmania; Melissa Ellis from Castlemaine in Victoria; Greta from the launch of Charleston parkrun in South Australia. Lyndell signs off "Over and out for the Channel 5 News crew."

• Episode 132 - Digger Hargreaves

  TOC (Tony O'Connell) files a roving report from Timboon parkrun (event 71), walking the back half of the course with Tail Walker Maureen and a group of local walkers, discussing the two-and-a-half-kilometre downhill-then-uphill course and the Timboon Gourmet Trail (cheese, whiskey, olives, strawberries, fudge, beer, wine and the locally famous ice cream). Mel closes it calling him "one of our most prolific members of the Channel 5 News crew".

• Episode 131 - Abdul-Raouf Mohamed-Isa

  Greta files a self-contained roving report from the Stebonheath parkrun launch in Adelaide (SA), which had a pirate theme. She interviews four people in sequence: Simone (a parkrun tourist from Carisbrook), Alan (first-time volunteer photographer, doing his very first parkrun), Helen Turnbull (Tail Walker, Gawler regular and the person who got Alan involved), and Cheryl, the Event Director. The block ends at the John McVeity Centre over post-parkrun coffee.

• Episode 131 - Abdul-Raouf Mohamed-Isa

  Roles reversed: event ambassador Steve Marston interviews the podcast's own Channel 5 roving reporter Lyndell Murray at Bunyaville (their shared home parkrun) on the occasion of her 100th parkrun. Covers how she found parkrun at New Farm, how she became a roving reporter, and her self-set challenge to reach 50 different events before hitting 100 runs (100 runs, 20 at Bunyaville, 50 different Australian events, 2 overseas).

• Episode 130 - Julian Spence

  Roving report from Railton parkrun, Tasmania, filed by Gary Murphy while visiting with his wife straight off the Spirit of Tasmania. He interviews Ben Jozefiak (just completed his 50th parkrun, ex-UK, now Launceston) and Catherine, Railton's Event Director and RD on the day, who recounts Railton being the 250th Australian parkrun to launch, TOC's visit and accidental 'parkrun plus', the sceptical local Mayor, the Tasmanian Trail and Sykes Sanctuary loops, and the town's topiary. The episode's show notes attribute this report to the Channel 5 News Crew; on air the hosts credit it simply to Gary.

• Episode 129 - Beau Miles

  Greta roves at Greenway parkrun (Sydney) on parkrun Australasia conference weekend, interviewing the two Event Directors, Mel and Rachel, about the event's February launch, its 300-plus launch turnout, their parkrun backgrounds and their motivation for bringing an event to the local community. Introduced by Scott and thanked by Mel as "a member of the Channel 5 News crew".

• Episode 129 - Beau Miles

  Melissa Ellis roves at Toolern Creek parkrun (Melton, Victoria), walking the out-and-back course with Tail Walker Matt and talking to him about being new to parkrun, walking rather than running, volunteering, his weight-loss journey and the parkrun clubs/Alphabeteers challenge. Self-introduced as "from the Channel 5 News crew".

• Episode 128 - Streaky September

  Two roving reports back to back, both explicitly signed on as Channel 5. David Moss files from the Isle of Man, reporting from Nobles parkrun's alternate course in the Conrenny Community Woodlands (in use for four weeks while the Manx Grand Prix takes over the island), with a primer on Manx independence, the triskelion flag and the tailless Manx cat, then interviews the Nobles Event Director on the 18-month slog to get permissions and the island's week-long run festival. Lyndell Murray then reports from Ipswich parkrun in Queensland, chasing an I for her Alphabeteer Club and kicking off her Streaky September, interviewing Mark on his 50th parkrun (came to running at 52, lost 25kg, ran the Paris Marathon two years after a heart attack), Run Director Tom, Event Director and event ambassador Kay, and Gary, who has volunteered over 200 times and never run a parkrun. Scott scores the reports 10 out of 10 and jokes about starting to rate them.

• Episode 127 - Rob de Castella

  Scott introduces the week's roving reports with an apology for having missed Scott Watkins's Weipa material sent weeks earlier. Three reports follow: Scott Watkins from Weipa parkrun (Far North Queensland), then Melissa Ellis and Tony O'Connell both from the Wimmera River parkrun launch in Horsham, Victoria.

• Episode 127 - Rob de Castella

  Melissa Ellis reports from the Wimmera River parkrun launch in Horsham, interviewing Co-Event Director Candy about how the event came together (seeded by Andrea Draper), the out-and-back course over the Centenary Footbridge, the 200-plus turnout and community backing from the East Rotary Club and local cafes. Scott confirms that both Horsham reports were Channel 5 News Crew items, and Mel notes the crew needs reviving in the other states.

• Episode 126 - Clinton Bishop

  Three roving reports in a row, all from rainy Saturday events: Greta at the Meningie parkrun launch in South Australia (interviewing local photographer Marianne Caneen, Coorong Council Deputy Mayor Sharon, participants Jenny and Kirsty, and ED Matt); TOC at the Willow parkrun launch in Wodonga (interviewing co-ED Maria, 186 finishers in the rain); and Melissa Ellis at Westerfolds junior parkrun in Melbourne (interviewing volunteer Justine and her daughters Olivia and Hannah). Scott and Mel wrap the block-, with Scott calling the Westerfolds report "my favourite roving report in the history of roving reports", and remind listeners that you don't have to be in the Channel 5 News Crew to submit a report.

• Episode 125 - August Madness

  The slot is acknowledged but empty this week: "We don't have any roving reports filed this week from any members of the Channel 5 news crew or otherwise." Mel fills it by describing photos sent from the UK by David Moss, "our foreign correspondent who's on the ground in the UK", whose attempts at recording audio failed, a shot of Dave with Paul and Joanne Sinton-Hewitt at the Isle of Man half marathon (run on Paul's birthday, a gift from Joanne), and one of a participant in a full replica rhinoceros costume.

• Episode 124 - parkrun and not single

  Greta Wilkinson's roving report from the launch of Pakapakanthi parkrun (Victoria Park) in central Adelaide, SA. She interviews first-timer Brendan, Naomi and Ethan, the Barcode Scanners Anthony and Charlissa, volunteer Peter, the eleven South Australian "statespeople" retaining their statesmanship, PK and James on timing and tokens (James on the course, the Kaurna name and the council grant), the onesie-clad marshals Karen Bentley and Janet Reid, and Event Director Alicia. Over 350 finishers and the Lord Mayor started the event.

• Episode 123 - Penny Redhead

  Roving report block set up "let's get to roving reports because we've got three, three batches". TOC reports from Phillip Island for the Channel 5 News crew and interviews course-record setter Hannah Oldroyd; Dave Moss is promoted from Channel 5 News crew member to the show's first Foreign Correspondent and files from Hampstead Heath parkrun in London, interviewing ED Andy and first-time Run Director Michelle.

• Episode 123 - Penny Redhead

  Em Nicholson's self-contained report from the Doomadgee parkrun launch in far north Queensland, with three interviews: PCYC Deadly Runners participants Will and Trenton, the visiting Morton family from Timboon (Victoria), and Doomadgee Primary School teachers Sarah and Shanley.

• Episode 122 - Kelly Hodges

  Lyndell Murray reports from the launch of Pallara parkrun in Brisbane's southern suburbs, checking in before the briefing and again after the run. She interviews first-ever finisher Ethan (New Farm regular, around 294 parkruns), Calamvale runner Kerry "Keza", marshal Janice (wife of the Event Director, teacher at Pallara State School, who plugs Pittsworth parkrun's fourth anniversary and its cattle-yard course), "the littlest volunteer" Maddie in a purple, pink and white dressing gown, and Event Director Peter, who explains the mixed concrete/grass/gravel course, the bridge, and that Pallara is an Aboriginal word meaning flat land. Lyndell reckons it is the 20th parkrun in the Brisbane City Council catchment.

• Episode 122 - Kelly Hodges

  Allan Hoskins reports from Port Fairy parkrun in south-west Victoria, touristing over from his home event at Portland with the Portland crew. He records mid-run on the three-lap Russell Clark Reserve course, then interviews Event Director Kate about the hills ("Everybody thinks Port Fairy's flat, but it's not") and Run Director Sue, before rounding up the visitors: Paige, a Portland Run Director heading home to Calgary, Alberta; Kay; Janet, who covered 5.1 km after getting lost on the last lap; and Tracy. Signs off "This is Alan reporting for Channel 5 News at Port Fairy parkrun."

• Episode 121 - Mark Musk

  Two roving inserts back to back, flagged in the show notes as "Channel 5 News Crew faves Dave and PK". David Moss reports from the inaugural Cormorant Bay parkrun launch on Lake Wivenhoe west of Brisbane, with vox pops from participant Janine, Event Director Jodie and visitor Susan. Paul Kitching then reports from the Pakapakanthi parkrun trial at Victoria Park, Adelaide, interviewing Brendan Peel (of Peel Club fame), Michelle, and incoming ED Alicia Hopper. Scott and Mel hand back.

• Episode 120 - UK Conference

  Scott sets it up, "have a treat with a bunch of roving reports", and the bulk of the episode is four self-contained roving segments: Martin from Neckarau parkrun, Germany (the show's first report from Deutschland,-); Gary Murphy from Coombs parkrun in the ACT (-); Alan, ED of Portland parkrun, filing from Narrabri in northern NSW (-); and Lyndell Murray from Bunyaville (-). Hosts recap the haul.

• Episode 120 - UK Conference

  Lyndell Murray reports from her home event Bunyaville parkrun, Brisbane, explicitly under the Channel 5 News Crew banner. She interviews the day's two milestoners: Xander Hawthorne on his 100th (complete with the Bunyaville tutu tradition) and Phil, who with his wife Claire founded Bunyaville, on his 250th and green shirt.

• Episode 119 - Highlight Reel

  Melissa Ellis files a fresh roving report from Warragul parkrun (Victoria), no launch, no anniversary, just a regular Saturday. She walks the course with Tail Walker David, who talks about being pestered into his first parkrun in 2015, reaching 100 parkruns, 15-16 volunteer stints, losing over 20kg and his gout improving. The episode's show notes call her a "Channel 5 News Crew member".

• Episode 118 - Matty Trent

  Two back-to-back Channel 5 News Crew roving reports, both from Victoria. Melissa Ellis reports from Hastings Foreshore parkrun's fourth birthday (fluoro theme, 119 attendance, bacon-and-egg barbecue) and interviews RD Tim Baldwin. Tony O'Connell (TOC) then reports from Portland parkrun, interviewing first-time Run Director Kay and volunteer scanner Tracy about the lagoon course, koalas, and their soccer commitments. Scott and Mel debrief both reports from the studio.

• Episode 117 - Roger Hanney

  TOC files a report from Mernda parkrun's first anniversary in Victoria, blue skies, chilly and crisp, a mixed-terrain double-lap course around wetlands, a Plenty Road leg and a nature reserve. He interviews Event Director Amanda about how the course came together (originally scouted in Doreen; event ambassador Mark Porritt suggested the Mernda site; Whittlesea Council reworked some hills), notes Gary Murphy was guest Run Director, and confirms there is plenty of cake.

• Episode 116 - Hannah Oldroyd

  David Moss files a roving report from Lawson parkrun in the Blue Mountains, NSW, interviewing Kai Porrett about the all-trail course (creek crossing with stepping stones, the "hill of awesomeness") and the Porrett family's involvement, then Roger, a local with around 75 Lawson runs.

• Episode 115 - Matt who?

  Melissa Ellis is formally inducted into the Channel 5 News Crew. The hosts recap the "level-up challenge" they set her in episode 107, file a report in which she finds a Scott and a Mel to interview, and play her successful Inverloch report, complete with cinnamon doughnuts for Scott and pineapple chocolate for Melissa. Mel: "From number one fan to Channel 5 News crew, you're in, honey ... we'll add you to the secret Facebook group later." Later in the outro Lyndell also signs off "for the Channel 5 News crew", and PK is congratulated as a crew member on reaching his 100 Club milestone.

• Episode 115 - Matt who?

  The main roving block: Melissa Ellis continues from Inverloch with new Victorian Statesperson Rhianna (Bendigo) and Run Director Addie, then Lyndell Murray reports from St Lucia parkrun in Brisbane, the Brisbane 5K Koalas running club, ED Paul, and a course description. Hosts wrap "Great work, ladies ... both official members of the Channel 5 News crew" and put out a call for more reports and iTunes reviews.

• Episode 114 - Steph Auston

  TOC (Tony O'Connell) files a Channel 5 News Crew report from Highlands parkrun's fifth birthday, run on a Hawaii theme, leis, grass skirts, Hawaiian shirts. He walks the three-lap lakeside course with Rowan, the parkrun ambassador for the area, then interviews finish-line volunteers Sue and John, who each clocked over 100 volunteer credits in the past year. Includes a running gag about course landmarks named after visitors: the "Trickett Bridge" at Shellharbour and a "TOC turn" now up on the wall at Highlands. Scott closes the crossover.

• Episode 112 - junior parkrun

  A bumper roving-report block, trailed by Mel as "some roving reports from our Channel 5 News crew this week" and named again by Lyndell "it's Lyndell reporting in for the Channel 5 News crew". Contains three reporters at the Jubilee Way parkrun launch in Wynn Vale, South Australia, Paul Kitching (PK), then a novelty three-way on-site chat between PK, Greta and David Moss, then Greta's and David Moss's own interviews, followed by Lyndell Murray at the Woodford parkrun launch in Queensland. Scott: "We put the challenge to them, and my God, did they deliver."

• Episode 111 - Euan Bowman

  Referenced only, no report actually aired. At Scott says "So no roving reports this week... hopefully maybe next week we might hear from those two events", then jokes "We started giving directions to our Channel 5 news crew and they just ignore us" / "We have no authority over them", with Mel adding "Apparently we weren't paying them enough to go out on assignment" and "We are still happy with our current team." Logged for the mention; there is no roving-reporter content in this episode.

• Episode 110 - Paul Freyne

  Two roving launch reports back to back, both flagged as Channel 5 News Crew: TOC at the Ocean Grove parkrun launch in Victoria (interviewing Claire from the Medibank Free + Active crew and Yvette, who started the event), then Greta at the Goolwa parkrun launch in South Australia (interviewing Sputnik, Tim, Jill and Julie from Victor Harbor, Justin, Jo and Louise from the Mount Barker crew, Kane, event ambassador James, and Run Director Paul). Mel closes it with "Massive thanks to Greta and TOC... As always, awesome effort from the Channel 5 News crew."

• Episode 109 - Sonia O'Sullivan

  Two roving reports run back to back: TOC from Maribyrnong parkrun in Victoria (interviewing Richard, a German parkrun tourist, then Casey, a vision impaired runner, and Jess, her first-time guide, on guiding and the Achilles clubs), followed by PK from the Moana parkrun launch in South Australia (interviewing his mate Davo, blogger Jane Luke, joint ED Sam, first finisher Mike and umpire Isaac), complete with running Moana-the-movie gags. Named as the Channel 5 News Crew in the episode's own show notes rather than on air.

• Episode 108 - parkrun Malaysia

  Emma Nicholson files a self-contained roving report from a surf club, interviewing Sergeant Mel Gilbert (in charge of Doomadgee PCYC) about the Deadly Runners program, over 30 kids have earned a singlet by attending six weeks, and the appeal to the parkrun family for donated pre-loved shoes, because kids running barefoot were getting injured. Gilbert took the runners to her home parkrun for their first-ever 5k and says she is "in talks with parkrun Australia" about a future parkrun at Doomadgee.

• Episode 107

  Greta travels interstate to Main Beach parkrun on the Gold Coast for its 7th anniversary, the birthplace of parkrun in Australia, and files a long on-location report. She interviews Nikki (a Comm Games visitor from Wollongong), Rhonda (volunteer), the Carl/Meredith/Ethan family who were one of the first families at Main Beach, Julie the Run Director, Tim Oberg (who announces the launch of Junior parkrun Australia), and Paul the Event Director.

• Episode 107

  Melissa Ellis files "yet another audition for the Channel 5 News crew" from Albert Melbourne parkrun, themed around adventurers and unofficial parkrun clubs. She interviews Cathy Ray (the Rayfarer Club), Margie Olsen (Ollie Volley), and Brendan Peel on his 250th parkrun, then asks directly to be made a roving reporter. Back in studio the hosts debate it, dock her for "a couple of factual errors", and set her one final level-up challenge: interview a Mel and a Scotty at the same parkrun on the same weekend. Verdict: "Mel Ellis, you're not in just yet, but getting close."

• Episode 106

  The bulk of the episode is roving reports back to back with no studio segments between them, Lyndell Murray from the Kelvin Grove parkrun launch in inner Brisbane, Melissa Ellis from an Easter-themed Pakenham parkrun in Victoria, and Dave Moss from St George in south-western Queensland. Scott sums it up afterwards: "A veritable treasure trove of roving reports this week, Mel. So much so that it's taken up the entire podcast. Episode 106 is all about roving reports."

• Episode 106

  Lyndell signs off her Kelvin Grove report "This is Lyndell signing off for the Channel 5 news crew on the parkrun adventurers". Scott then frames Melissa Ellis's Pakenham report as "another solid... application for entry into the Channel 5 News crew. Not there yet", with Mel adding "We make them work hard for it these days, don't we?", Dave Moss is described as having had the honour "bestowed on him many months ago".

• Episode 105

  Mel throws to "PK, our good mate from the Channel 5 News crew", who could not attend the listener meet-up because of an adventure at home. His Mount Barker parkrun fourth-birthday report follows. The crew's membership is also quizzed in Madness, with PK, TOC, Lyndell, Greta and Gary Murphy named as members.

• Episode 104

  Lyndell Murray's self-contained roving report from the launch of Forest Lake parkrun in south-west Brisbane on St Patrick's Day. She interviews Bobby (a visiting alphabeteer from Springwood), Schulze (Statesmen update), Sue (celebrating her 100th parkrun in a green tutu) and Event Directors Rory and Shirley, then wraps with a shout-out to Craig, a Run Director at Rocks Riverside. 559 finishers on launch day.

• Episode 102

  Lyndell Murray's roving report from White Rock parkrun (Ipswich, SE Queensland) on its first anniversary - a trail course. She interviews costumed runners marking Huy Nguyen's 100th parkrun (a music-theme dress-up: two Angus Youngs and a Bob Marley), the "Spice Girls" from Springfield Runners Group, local Jenny, award winners Caroline and Ella, volunteer Anita (who ran the whole course including "Roxy's Rise" for the first time), and Event Director Lee on founding the event, Ipswich City Council support and the low "stack count". Signs off with a shout-out to listener Emily.

• Episode 101

  Mark Connolly's self-contained roving report from the launch of Nightcliff parkrun in Darwin, NT - announced on air with the spoken ident "Tales from the Top End." He interviews Event Director Tina Sanderson twice, once before the run ("we're just waiting for people to arrive... people are sort of arriving in hordes") and once after ("it couldn't have gone any better"), covering the cool cloudy morning, the Nightcliff foreshore course over the Rapid Creek Bridge, how easy she found the parkrun start-up process via Darwin City Council funding and parkrun Australia's tools, and a Knight Rider / David Hasselhoff gag on the way out. Scott hands back at 00:44:58 with the attendance figure of 254.

• Episode 100 - Lyndell Murray

  The episode's roving-report block, explicitly named on air - the guest is introduced as "one of our very own Channel 5 news crew" and Gary signs off "From Rosebud parkrun and the Victorian chapter of the Channel 5 News crew." Contains three reports: Dave Moss at Mitchelton parkrun (Steve York, Karen McComb who ran the event's 60,000th run, and Director of the Day Tim Jamp, with a 400+ attendance); TOC at the Rosebud parkrun launch (ED Nadine on the 402-runner launch, then Bec Howe on her first 160km miler at Tarawera in NZ in 27.5 hours); and Gary also at Rosebud (a Westerfolds/Lalor/Albert Park trio, 250-club member Danielle Stewart, the Running Divas, and a South African couple, Mark and Cheryl, who film parkrun videos). Scott wraps it "More roving reports. Nice work from the boys this week. Double effort from the Rosebud launch." Several reporters and interviewees add 100th-episode congratulations.

• Episode 99 - Patrick Tiernan

  Lyndell Murray reports from the fourth anniversary of Golden Beach parkrun (Sunshine Coast, Qld), which ran a "P" party theme, she is head-to-toe purple with purple zinc. She interviews Ethan and Cherie (punk and princess), Sheila and Lisa (prisoner and police officer), pirates Ian and Daryl, and Event Director Rochelle, who reports around 300+ finishers on the day against a course record of 377.

• Episode 99 - Patrick Tiernan

  Melissa Ellis reports from the launch of Nhill parkrun in the Victorian Wimmera, halfway between Melbourne and Adelaide. She interviews Patsy from the Twin Towns Running and Walking Club (Tweed Heads), area ambassador Bruce, and Event Director Bev, 104 runners plus about 12 volunteers, with eggs and bacon laid on afterwards.

• Episode 98

  Scott hands over to three roving reports: Melissa Ellis's debut from the Lakes Entrance parkrun launch, TOC from the same launch for the Channel 5 News Crew, and debut reporter Gerard Corcoran ("GC"/"G-Train") from Whitby and Beach Strip parkruns in Canada. Scott jokes he will "let the listeners decide which one's better" between the two Lakes Entrance reports.

• Episode 98

  TOC reports from the Lakes Entrance parkrun launch in Gippsland, Victoria, a pre-run scene-setter, then finish-line interviews with event ambassador Nigel and Event Director Hayley about the 254-strong launch turnout, the flat double out-and-back course along the inlet, and Bairnsdale parkrun's role in inspiring the event.

• Episode 97

  Roving report from the Bargara parkrun launch (Queensland, 27 January 2018), filed by Greg - Scott calls the reporters "the Murrells". Interviews with Fi Edmonds, Sasha from Bundy parkrun, an unsuccessful attempt to interview a child ("Kenzie"), and the Co-Event Directors Phil and Maria, who report 318 participants against an expected 200, 169 registered on the day, and a launch turned around from late October.

• Episode 97

  Lyndell Murray reports from Tamborine Mountain parkrun's third birthday and 150th event (she says "Mount Tambourine" throughout, then corrects herself at the end). The advertised surprise turns out to be a flash mob to the song "Happy", choreographed by two girls, Sarah and Abby, which Lyndell suggests may be a parkrun world first. She interviews the dancers, tourists Nerida (Nepean River) and Chris, a Main Beach contingent (Faye, Meredith Tucker, Sharon, Gary Rogers), Timekeeper and Scenic Rim councillor Nigel, and Event Director Bruce, who reckons it is among the five toughest parkruns in Australia.

• Episode 96

  Lyndell Murray reports from the launch of Zillmere parkrun in Brisbane's northern suburbs, the long-awaited "big Z" for alphabet collectors. She interviews an English-born New Zealand tourist chasing her first true Zed, Logan River parkrunners Carolyn and Greg (who complete every letter of the Australian alphabet bar X), volunteer/Run Director "Sarge", the Nisbet family from Sandgate, and Event Director Mark. She signs off explicitly "on behalf of the Channel 5 News crew".

• Episode 96

  TOC reports from the launch of Gardiners Creek parkrun in Victoria, 466 finishers, said to beat the Victorian launch record by about 80. He interviews Event Director Wendy Glen about the turnout, the granitic-sand trail course, and five generations of her family at Gardiners Creek; he also confesses to joining the stack club himself.

• Episode 95

  The crew is all over this episode: they open it singing a parkrun-lyric Christmas carol as the intro music, and file festive sign-offs and cracker jokes across the show, PK from South Australia, Lyndell, TOC, Greta and Tim Oberg. Lyndell and Greta also file the episode's two full roving reports. In the wrap Mel and Scott formally induct Gary Murphy into the crew ("we told him that if he was willing to sing our Christmas carol for the introduction this week, that that would be his initiation ... Gary, you're in") and put out a call for 2018 applications: "take your phone, turn it upside down and press record ... Be hilarious."

• Episode 94

  Double roving crossover introduced by Scott "The news crew has been busy again this week." Lyndell files a short report from Cleveland parkrun (southeast Queensland) with a quick chat to Run Director Stu; TOC then reports from the launch of Marriott Waters parkrun in suburban Melbourne, talking to Deputy Mayor Amanda and co-ED Justine. Both reporters name the Channel 5 News Crew on air.

• Episode 92

  Lyndell Murray's roving report from the inaugural North Harbour parkrun (Caboolture, QLD). She opens "Hi ho, it's Lyndell the adventurer here reporting in for the Channel 5 News crew", having kitted herself out in a safari suit (channelling PK) and a Kermit-the-Frog-style reporter hat, then interviews first-timer Lynne, the Bunyaville contingent, Tim and Neil, Arne from the Embracing 2018 Legacy Program, and Event Director Connie.

• Episode 92

  Gary Murphy's roving report from the inaugural Sunbury parkrun (northwestern Melbourne), explicitly framed as "an audition for the Channel 5 News crew". He interviews launch Event Director Natalie Harrison, volunteers Jenny and Tanya, adventurer Nathan Castle, a group of four visitors, parkrunners Jess and Cheryl, and event ambassador Mark Porritt, and reports the naming debate over the course hill (Happy Hill vs Hell Hill).

• Episode 91

  PK reports from his home event Mount Barker parkrun in South Australia on the International Day of Running Naked, opening with a running gag about turning up literally naked before being told "naked" means running without a watch. Vox pops with a string of locals about predicted versus actual times - Gary/Gaz, "cowboy", Jazz, Ken, Charlie, Cam, Joe (50th milestone), Emily, the Brownie brothers Davo and Tom, Wendy (a Victor Harbor regular), Scotty and Brent - plus Biggles the dog, who reportedly did parkour rather than parkrun.

• Episode 89

  TOC's self-contained roving package from the Koonwarra parkrun launch in South Gippsland, Victoria - 255 people in a town of 385. He interviews Inverloch parkrunners Greg and Shirley Dell, teenage RD Addy, and (on the Monday after, sitting on kindergarten chairs) Event Director Ebony Knox, who explains the Danish concept of hygge she built her launch speech around and describes the rail-trail course.

• Episode 89

  Tony O'Connell is formally inducted into the Channel 5 News Crew after delivering on last week's promise - "Last week we said if Toc delivers, he's in. He's delivered. So he's in." Mel: "Welcome to the Channel 5 News Crew, Toc", with another sequined microphone sent down south.

• Episode 88

  Scott introduces three roving reports: Greta at the Kangaroo Island parkrun launch (SA), Lyndell Murray at Mudgeeraba parkrun's fourth anniversary (Gold Coast), and TOC at the Railton launch (Tasmania), Australia's 250th parkrun. Runs 00:23:45-00:59:45, then the hosts debrief. Introduced as "Continuing our long-standing tradition of having roving reports, we've got three more ready for you this week."

• Episode 88

  The show's branded roving-reporter crew. Scott bills Lyndell as "also from the Channel 5 News crew" and she self-identifies as "roving reporting for the Channel 5 News crew". At- the hosts joke about running out of safari-suit uniforms and set TOC a challenge: cover another launch next week and they will add him to the crew.

• Episode 87

  Grette Wilkinson reports from Murray Bridge parkrun (South Australia) on its third anniversary, bringing along her young assistant Jess as a co-reporter. She interviews Run Director Rose (course beside the Murray, the coin-operated papier-mache bunyip on the course), local parkrunner and trail runner Monique (and daughter Helena), and Michelle at the post-run coffee at the Davery; Jess interviews junior parkrunner Sakshi, an unnamed tourist en route to Kangaroo Island, and Ross of Mount Barker on his 204th parkrun.

• Episode 87

  Lyndell Murray goes international, "loaded into the Channel 5 News crew chopper" to East Coast Park parkrun in Singapore, one of the country's two events, alongside West Coast Park. She interviews local running blogger Priscilla, South African tourist Mark (home run Mdoni), first-timer Brent from New Zealand, 13-year Singapore resident Anna, and Run Director Daryl, and signs off with "Singapore, tick."

• Episode 85

  Three roving reports introduced together by Mel: Zara Curtis from the Portarlington parkrun launch (interviewing Event Director Fiona), Lyndell Murray from her home event Bunyaville on International parkrun Day, and Greta Wilkinson from Ararat while camping in the Grampians. Hosts debrief and formally add Greta to the roving crew.

• Episode 85

  Lyndell Murray reports "for the Channel 5 News crew" from Bunyaville parkrun, interviewing volunteers Fionn (photographer), Wayne and Bob (tokens), Marie (Tail Walker/communications), Tess (Run Director and Volunteer Coordinator) and Grace (Run Director since), then signs off "for the Channel 5 News crew on International parkrun Day 2017". At Mel says Greta "wants in on the Channel 5 News crew" and the hosts sign her up.

• Episode 84

  Grette Wilkinson reports from the launch of Carisbrook parkrun in the City of Salisbury, South Australia, on AFL grand final day. She interviews Sean (Mawson Lakes and Torrens regular, organises a Saturday running group), a pair of women having post-run banana bread who both completed their first 56 km Yurrebilla ultra the previous weekend, Hope (running with a decorated pram in Adelaide Crows colours, upcoming Run Director), and Jess, an from Mount Barker with 100 parkruns who loves the playground and speaking on the microphone as Run Director.

• Episode 83 - Kelly Hodges

  Lyndell Murray reports from Toowoomba parkrun's fourth birthday, coinciding with Toowoomba's Carnival of Flowers, running through Queen's Park. She interviews Event Director Margaret about how she and Tressa Lindenberg brought parkrun to Toowoomba, then two anniversary award winners, Paula (most parkruns at Toowoomba for the year) and junior Jess (awarded "for being awesome", four years of helping her dad set up the truck and chalk). Handed back by Mel: "Roving Report from Toowoomba, love your work."

• Episode 82

  The roving-reporter corps branding, named three times on air ("Channel 5 news crew"; Melissa calls PK "the best member of the Channel 5 news crew"; Lyndell "I've loaded up the Channel 5 bus and headed out to the launch of Redcliffe parkrun"). Scott notes that TOC is "making a big play to get in the Channel 5 news crew". PK jokes about wearing a powder-blue safari suit and a microphone with a big fluffy number five.

• Episode 82

  A four-report week, flagged up front by Melissa "Epic week of roving reports this week." PK from the Nuriootpa launch in the Barossa (07:35-18:29, including an ambush interview of Scott and Melissa themselves, who were there in person); Greta from the same Nuriootpa launch (18:29-24:07); TOC from the Pakenham anniversary (24:12-29:03); Lyndell Murray from the Redcliffe launch in Queensland (29:06-43:47).

• Episode 81

  Ricci McGreevey files a long self-contained roving report from Colin Glen parkrun in West Belfast, Northern Ireland, course description (woodland, Colin River, Gruffalo trail, brutal hills), then six interviews: Gerard Devine (50th parkrun), Paula Burns (106th), Aisling McAleese (her sister-in-law, 2nd parkrun), volunteer Tracey McCulloch, Run Director Shauna, milestone runners Nicola (100th) and Bobby (200th) from Carrickfergus/Seapark AC, and Joint ED Claire. Hosts cross back at 01:04:35 and Scott calls her "my gun reporter".

• Episode 79

  Dave Moss's roving insert from the inaugural Port Lincoln parkrun in South Australia: interview with Event Director Pauline about the foreshore course and why she started the event, plus vox pops from Sue (first-timer) and Roz, who drove seven hours from Mount Barker for the launch. Mel signs it off "Thanks once again to Dave, our Channel 5 News crew member", and Scott notes that "Dave is still without a nickname".

• Episode 78

  A double roving block from the Aldinga Beach parkrun launch in South Australia. Grette Wilkinson (her debut for the show) interviews Minchi on her 200th parkrun, a first-timer, two half-marathon-training walkers, Frank Finn on getting the event up with the City of Onkaparinga, and Event Director Denise on processing the first results (122 finishers). David Moss then interviews Miriam, Christies Beach ED, on why Aldinga was needed and the Reynella East event planned for December. The hosts wrap up afterwards, noting the run of consecutive weeks of roving reports and workshopping a new nickname for Dave Moss since 'Mossy' is already taken.

• Episode 77

  Lyndell Murray reports from Wishart parkrun's third anniversary, themed "the 80s jogger". No cake but free coffee, so she polls the field, costumes or coffee?, interviewing Bronwyn, Monique, Naho, Jeff and Event Director Adrian, all in fluoro, leotards and terry-towelling headbands. Costumes win decisively.

• Episode 76

  Scott moves the roving reports to the front of the show this week ("Should we have a look and listen to all our roving reports first up? We usually have them at the end"). Three self-contained reports follow back to back: Lyndell Murray at the Greenbank parkrun launch, Gary Murphy at Chelsea Bicentennial's first birthday, and Joanne at Albert Melbourne. Melissa frames them as "an anniversary... a launch, and... an event that's happening all the time".

• Episode 76

  Lyndell Murray's branded roving-report slot. Trailed by Melissa "we've got Lyndell coming back with another Channel 5 news team report" and by Scott "I'm keen to see how our Channel 5 news crew is coming together". Lyndell opens "It's Lyndell, I'm back for the Channel 5 News crew" and signs off "on behalf of the Channel 5 News crew". Earlier episodes call this bit the "Channel 4 News Crew"; this episode says Channel 5 four separate times across three voices.

• Episode 75

  Scott crosses to "a new roving reporter... by the name of Timothy", Tim Oberg, unsolicited, reporting from Airlie Beach parkrun, where he interviews Nicole Sanday about her 100th parkrun (50 at home, 50 away) and her alphabet-tourism quest. Melissa follows up asking listeners, including international ones, to send in their own unsolicited roving reports.

• Episode 74

  Two roving reports in one block. PK (Paul Kitching) covers the Cleland parkrun launch in the Adelaide foothills, South Australia's first trail parkrun, interviewing Run Director/joint ED John Lang, photographer Sputnik, Jane Luke (in a penguin onesie), and quickfire interviews with Esme, Charlie Butler, Julia and three kids; 229 finishers on debut. Then Dave Moss reports from Stanthorpe parkrun's third Christmas in July event. Scott and Mel formally add Dave Moss to the crew ("Welcome to the Channel 5 News crew") and nudge Lyndell Murray for a report. Scott also flags an upcoming trip to meet PK and the South Australian crew, "just over a month" away.

• Episode 73

  A packaged set of roving interviews from the Yeppoon parkrun launch (Central Queensland), held over from the show's break. Craig (Territory Director) interviews Yeppoon Event Director Natalie about getting the event off the ground; then interviews with Adrian Royce, parkrun tourist Tony Jennings (his 78th different Australian event), and Dylan's interview with parkrun Australia CEO Tim Oberg, who previews the imminent launch of Junior parkrun.

• Episode 72

  Scott crosses over "One of only two members of our Channel 5 news crew reported in from the Redland Bay launch on Saturday. Are you ready for a roving report?" Lyndell Murray files a self-contained report from the Redland Bay parkrun launch in Queensland, chasing two questions: why the Redlands soil is red (answer: ancient volcanic activity) and whether she can find any parkrun pirates hunting the 'R' - she finds none. She interviews a local ("Lamo"), Robin from South Bank, Jane of the Sharks Triathlon Club, and ED Cheryl with RD Paul.

• Episode 71

  Debut roving report from Ricci McGreevy, an RD at Ballarat parkrun, covering Ballarat's second anniversary (theme: gold). She interviews Lou Bray (Territory Director, home parkrun Bendigo), Event Director Bruce, ultrarunner Tash Fraser (recent winner of the Great Ocean Road 60K), parkrunners Jane and the two Sharons, and founding Event Director John Goodwin.

• Episode 71

  Second roving report of the episode: Scott Watkins ('Dr Scott') files from the UK. Having run Bushy parkrun on the Saturday, he reports instead from Moormead junior parkrun on the Sunday, interviewing Helen Hood (parkrun UK head of event delivery), junior parkrunners William and Gabriel, volunteer Jo, and Claire, parkrun UK's safeguarding lead.

• Episode 70

  PK's roving report from the launch of Mawson Lakes parkrun in South Australia - the run itself (a Z-shaped course, 307 finishers), then vox pops with walkers Kylie and Peter, Zoolander tourists Kate and Jazz, Gary and Jason, and finally Co-Event Director Justin Parise on how the course was designed around parkrun's no-road-crossing rule. Notable: PK states on air that the roving reporters have just been upgraded from Channel 4 to Channel 5 - "one of your roving reporters for, what is it, the Channel 5 news team, I think, now, Scotty? I was very impressed when you upgraded us. And thanks so much for the merchandise, the new outfit." Mel sets it up with "we had a man on the ground, and he was wearing a suit."

• Episode 69

  The show's first ever roving report from the United States. parkrun Australia board president Scott Watkins files from Roosevelt Island parkrun in Washington DC, his first international parkrun, describing the out-and-back boardwalk course on the island in the river between Virginia and DC, then interviewing local parkrunner Joyce, UK military parkrunner Paul, and parkrun USA country manager Darryl.

• Episode 68

  Two roving reports this week, explicitly flagged as such "we don't have one roving report. We've got two roving reports this week." Simon Mackley from Curl Curl parkrun's fourth birthday (record 300+ attendance, Year of the Volunteers theme) interviewing Paul Rainbow; then Zara Curtis from the launch of Timboon parkrun (Vic) with ED Donna Ellis and TD Phil Ackland.

• Episode 66

  Crossover to a run of roving reports from the launch of Emerald parkrun (central Queensland, the first 'E' in Australia). Scott sets it up "we had some roving reports... roving reports are all the rage these days" and Mel names the contributors: Dave Moss, plus Dylan, Riley and Tara. Reports run 00:07:42-00:18:30 and include interviews with Donna (course description), councillor Megan (Central Highlands Regional Council funding), Shannon and Sophie, Amanda/Caitlin/Mia, Bianca, Tony, Mel and tourist Steve.

• Episode 65

  Oyiela Litaba reports from Newborough parkrun (Gippsland, Victoria), where three generations of one family, Jenny Erickson, her daughter Amber Erickson and grandson Corey Simmons, all completed their 250th parkrun on the same morning. Recorded across the Friday-night celebration dinner and the Saturday event, with interviews with all three plus a closing chat with Tony O'Connell about the ten parkruns now running across Gippsland.

• Episode 65

  Gary Murphy of Highlands parkrun reports from Lalor parkrun's first anniversary in Melbourne's northern suburbs, ticking off his NENDY. Interviews founding Event Director Melissa Flentjar, guest Run Director Kaz Derby (Mullum Mullum), first-time Run Director Chris Bullock, Karkarook ED Anita Nichols, a house-sitting touring couple, tourists Pat and Holly from Highlands, and Timekeeper Karen. Includes a fluoro-themed course, a cake with a replica of High Five Bridge, and an Avenue of Honour at the finish. Gary admits he failed to hit record for several of the best interviews.

• Episode 64

  Mel crosses to roving reporter Dave Moss at Sandgate parkrun, where Phil Rourke ("the Eggman") attempted a two-egg 5km Guinness egg-and-spoon world record, dropped one egg at 2km and instead set a single-egg 5km record of 24:30, raising awareness for Autism Queensland. The hosts then discuss whether Guinness will ratify an unintended record.

• Episode 62

  Lyndell Murray's self-contained roving report from New Plymouth, New Zealand, standing under the Wind Wand. She attempts a pop-up parkrun on the coastal walkway, nobody joins her, and she interviews passers-by, Peter (a local walker who has never heard of parkrun), an unnamed visiting parkrunner from Whangarei, Tom from Christchurch (who suggests she "go up to Pukekura Park and run around there"), and Dawn, a local walker, failing to solve "the mystery of why New Plymouth doesn't have a parkrun."

• Episode 62

  RENAMED ON AIR THIS EPISODE. After Lyndell's report Scott says "I think she's made a strong case to be the second member of our Channel 4 news crew that I want to rename the Channel 5 news crew because we're just that one better than the other one", and Melissa confirms "So from here on in, we shall be known as the Channel 5 news crew." Lyndell Murray is inducted as the second member, "I don't think she needs to earn any more stars. I think that got her over the line." The show notes flag it too: "the Channel 5 News Crew inducts a new member!"

• Episode 60

  Roving report from Paul Kitching (PK) at Mount Barker parkrun, South Australia, for the event's third birthday, a green/St Patrick's Day theme, a record turnout of 290, and three interviews at the post-run cafe: Charlie Butler ( volunteer photographer/videographer and Tropfest Junior finalist), Tracy (PK's sister-in-law), and Greta Wilkinson (Run Director, Co-Event Director and newly appointed joint South Australian Territory Director, alongside John and Lorraine). Also covers Cormac's 100th parkrun and the event's crowdfunded defibrillator arriving.

• Episode 59 - Nicola Forwood

  Tony O'Connell reports from Bairnsdale parkrun's first anniversary, interviewing founder Vee McShane beside the river in 16 degrees. She was inspired by her first parkrun at Strathclyde Park in Scotland and brought the idea home to Bairnsdale. Course records discussed: Charlotte McShane (her sister, pro triathlete, 3rd in the World Triathlon Series) 17:30, and Brendan Sexton (Charlotte's partner, Olympian) 16:08.

• Episode 58

  Lyndell Murray reports from Nambour parkrun on the Sunshine Coast hinterland, testing whether it has taken her home event Bunyaville's mantle as the toughest parkrun going. She interviews parkrunner Ralph (who says the consensus is Nambour is harder, because it's a loop rather than an out-and-back) and Nambour Event Director Mel ("Bunyaville on steroids"). Her verdict: about the same, roughly 100m elevation difference, but Nambour's hills are bigger, and it's her favourite non-home parkrun. Host hand-back notes "our roving reports are back".

• Episode 55

  Crossover to a block of roving reports from the launch of Bundaberg ("good old Bundy") parkrun in Queensland, introduced by Mel: "we've got a whole bunch of roving reports from Tara, Mitchell and Riley who got a wrap-up from a lot of the participants on the day." Trainee roving reporters Tara Carpenter and Riley Murrell (both from Tannum Sands parkrun), plus a third reporter, do vox-pop interviews with Abby, Chris Whiting, Dana Perrin-Smith, Neil Schultz, Dwayne, Debbie Phillips and Michael Schultz. Scott closes: "Our first roving reports for this year, for 2017, and they got a lot. Thanks, guys."

• Episode 53

  Scott and Mel throw to "this week's collection of roving reports", but nothing plays. Scott: "Not what I was hoping for." Mel: "maybe they had trouble with the sound quality this week." It becomes an appeal to listeners: "What he's trying to say is, send us some roving reports. We heart them." No actual roving report in this episode.

• Episode 51

  Mel hands over to the returning roving reports "We've got Paul Kitching having some New Year's Day doubles and Monique and Jeff who had some adventures in the UK. Let's have a listen to what they've got to say." Hosts return to encourage listeners to send more in, "That's a New Year's resolution for all of you. Do some roving reports for us."

• Episode 51

  PK's New Year's Day double from the Adelaide Hills, Mount Barker at 7am then Strathalbyn at 9am, with interviews of first-timer Jed Richards, Mount Barker regular Scott Veers (on his 102nd), Kent Baraglia (who ran the 21km between the two events), and parkrun Australia board chair Scott Watkins. Opens "this is underscore PK or PK, your Channel 4 reporter, hopefully not the only one this year."

• Episode 50

  Billed on air as "a segment we like to call: get to know the Channel 4 News crew", a studio chat with the crew's "one and only member", underscore PK (Paul Kitching), rather than a field report. Covers how he found parkrun in January, why he started sending in roving reports from South Australia, Mount Barker parkrun and its Laratinga Wetlands course and photography culture, the Mount Barker mannequin challenge video, and his Bushy Park interview with Paul Sinton-Hewitt on parkrun's 12th birthday.

• Episode 41 - Noah Carter

  Scott crosses to junior roving reporter Zara Curtis, who covered the You Yangs parkrun launch in Victoria and interviewed two Berwick Springs parkrun tourists, Michaela and Vanessa, about the course and their overseas parkrun tourism (including a Russian event with a palace). Scott frames it as part of a junior-reporter push: "like all good Junior Roving Adventurers reporters do, she got us some audio."

• Episode 39 - Simon Kilma

  Scott crosses to PK, who is on holiday in the UK and reporting from Bushy Park on International parkrun Day. He interviews Sally and Ingrid at the parkrun tree, Dan (met on the train) and finally parkrun founder Paul Sinton-Hewitt, who breaks the news that he plans to spend about six months travelling to every parkrun event in Australia. Scott jokes that "there's only one member of the Channel 4 news crew".

• Episode 32 - Lorraine Lawson

  Listener Monique Brennan of Wishart sends in audio recorded at Krakow parkrun in Poland, where she ran with her friend Alana from Chermside. She interviews three Polish parkrunners: Run Director Piotr (100 parkruns, 17-minute best), beginner Marcin Ortman (fifth or sixth parkrun), and Jan, who has 142 parkruns and 33 marathons including New York and 15 Krakow marathons.

• Episode 31 - Stephen Dinneen

  Scott: "We've got a little bit of audio. Should we have a listen to that?" Mel crosses to field audio recorded by Alyson Webster at the Sunshine Coast Longest Run, where she interviews two fellow longest runners, Tina Kerwin (favourite course Nambour) and Robert Harrison (favourite course Noosa; five of the seven courses new to him).

• Episode 30 - Hamilton Island

  Two crossovers back to back. Scott hands to PK for Strathalbyn parkrun in South Australia (interviews with Rhys, Peter Sandery, Finn and ED James Clegg at the Jack's Cafe after-party); Melissa then hands to Dave D'Alessio for Sydney's inaugural Longest Run across seven parkruns.

• Episode 30 - Hamilton Island

  FIRST APPEARANCE of the roving-reporter crew concept. Immediately after PK's report Scott says "We're going to start to assemble our own Channel 4 news team, and I think PK's already made the cut", and after Dave's report "Also making a strong case to be added to the Channel 4 News team. Great first up effort." Note the show calls it the Channel FOUR news team here, an Anchorman reference, and it is not yet a delivered segment, just the germ of the idea; the name settles as Channel 5 News Crew later.

• Episode 25 - parkrun Singapore

  Melissa Erbacher hands over to Donella Taylor, who filed audio from Town of Seaside parkrun's first anniversary: interviews with volunteer Katie Johnston (27 volunteer credits with her husband Neil), first male points winner Rob Fleming, and first female points winner Megan Hewitt. Mel had been at the event herself as stand-in volunteer photographer, dressed as a unicorn and minding an 11-week-old mini dachshund called Schnitzel.

• Episode 25 - parkrun Singapore

  Allan Hoskins, Event Director of Portland parkrun (Victoria), reports from the Portland Winter Solstice Fun Run with six vox-pops: Chris and Beryl King, Jody May, Mel from Hamilton parkrun, volunteer photographer Courtney, Kerry (a Run Director at Mount Gambier, there with 38 Mount Gambier runners), Kari from Portland parkrun, and an unnamed Hamilton parkrunner who took third in the 15K. Running gag about the missing whale in the bay.

• Episode 24 - Rochelle Vaisanen

  Scott hands over to roving adventurer Ben Brockman, reporting from the parkrun event-team powwow in Launceston, Tasmania. Ben covers Launceston parkrun going ahead despite the northern Tasmanian floods, and interviews Elkie and the Lakeview parkrun (Belmont, Lake Macquarie) travelling party of six, Tim Oberg after his Q&A, and Alan (Shepparton ED) and Pete (Coburg ED), with the Launceston 10 road race to follow the next day.

• Episode 23 - Brendan Davies

  Paul Kitching (PK) files a self-contained field report from the launch of West Beach parkrun in South Australia, walking the course with his family and describing the beachside reserve start, the sand dunes, the bridge and the run up Linear Park along the Torrens. Afterwards he interviews Camilla (City of Charles Sturt children and families / OPAL), Mayor Angela Evans, two Tasmanian parkrun tourists, and the joint Event Directors, reporting 187-188 finishers on the day.

• Episode 21 - Longest Run

  Three field reports back to back: Craig Curtis from the Portland parkrun launch (Victoria) interviewing ED Allan Hoskins, run-team member Brian Glover, Hamilton ED Brian Barrera and Mount Gambier ED Phil Ackland; Zara Curtis also from the Portland launch with touring parkrunners Sean Hill and Maxime Sylvester; and Melissa Taylor from the Warwick Pentathrun in Queensland with a long run of half-marathon finishers.

• Episode 19 - Facts in a Haystack

  Two back-to-back field reports. First, junior adventurer Zara Curtis from Altona Beach parkrun's first birthday, interviewing a visitor called Wendy who is up to 14 different events, signing off "Next stop, Portland parkrun launch May 21st". Then WA correspondent Jeremy Savage from Balyang Sanctuary parkrun in Geelong, interviewing Event Director Dale (who completed his 100th run that morning, finishing 100th) and Mary from Ballarat, and grading the course "top 25 of what I would consider a perfect course". Scott coins a collective noun in between: "an avalanche of junior roving adventurers".

• Episode 19 - Facts in a Haystack

  Second roving crossover, used as the outro in place of the usual witty sign-off (Scott: "We had lots of good suggestions for clever and witty sign-offs. They've all gone in the think tank... So we don't have a witty sign-off this week"). Jeremy Savage and Kelly Underwood file a practical venue review of Balyang Sanctuary parkrun in Geelong after their trip over for the Wings for Life World Run, parking and toilets at the start, the Barwon Edge Boathouse cafe 800m along the course (excellent French toast, opens 9am), the alternative cafe Two Sugars about a kilometre away, and caravan parks on Barrabool Road 1.4km from the start line.

• Episode 18 - Rodney Turner

  Scott crosses to roving adventurer Nicole at Crissy Field parkrun, San Francisco, billed as "some more international roving adventuring" and "our first sample of some American parkrunners". Nicole interviews Run Director Dale, Peter visiting from Barking in Essex, and Catherine from Seattle who is working to start a parkrun at Myrtle Edwards Park.

• Episode 16 - Pat Farmer

  Scott hands over to a roving report from Warwick parkrun: "one of our roving adventurers, Peter Pohlman [Pohlman], caught up with Gary [Garry] Wells at parkrun on the weekend. Let's have a listen." The insert runs 00:53:04-00:54:57 and is an interview with Garry Wells, aka "Guru", a founder of the 530 Runners club, covering what the club is, joining it, and the Pentath Run five-race weekend (Warwick parkrun is hosting a Friday-evening freedom run that weekend because the half marathon uses the parkrun course). Mel closes it "Thanks very much, Peter and Gary."

• Episode 14 - Brendan Murray

  Four roving reports back to back with no studio hand-over: Donella Taylor from the Lismore parkrun launch (first-timer Noreen Finucane, her twin sister and Lismore Event Director Belinda Smith, and Lismore Mayor Jenny Dowell), Gerry also at Lismore with second-placed visiting Brit Martin Gillies, Gary Clark from Lilydale Lakes [Lillydale Lake] in Victoria, and Darren Walters from Hervey Bay with volunteers Graham, John Street and Kylie. Scott and Mel recap the block "that was a nice collection of roving reports we got this week."

• Episode 13 - Junior Adventurers

  The episode's centrepiece: a run of short field reports recorded by junior parkrunners around the country, introduced by Scott "she wasn't the only parkrun adventurer who was out getting some roving reports for us this weekend. We've got a whole sample dotted all around the country, so let's take a listen." Contains Amoy at Launceston (interviewing Run Director Michael and Celeste), Lani interviewing her brother Rowan, Emily at Diamond Creek interviewing three adult parkrunners, and Levi at Central Lakes interviewing Zach. Preceded by Scott's daughter Kasia interviewing a volunteer at Ballarat.

• Episode 13 - Junior Adventurers

  PK's field report from Mount Barker parkrun's second anniversary in South Australia, handed over by Mel. He interviews Mount Barker mayor Anne Ferguson, a fellow "Derek Zoolander running group" member called Scott, South Australian Territory Director John Lorry (who trails Clare's first trial and a 23 April launch), and volunteer photographer Gary, before signing off "Peace and out from Mount Barker parkrun."

• Episode 12 - Trevor Allen

  Scott crosses to Cassandra of Stones Corner parkrun, reporting from Hagley parkrun in Christchurch, so far as this pass can tell, the show's first international roving report. She interviews Run Director Mordecai on the flat figure-of-eight course around Victoria Lake, the golf course it passes through, minus-four ice on the path last winter, and a new parkrun being planned at Pegasus; then runs a set of vox pops asking Kiwi parkrunners to sell their events to Australians. Introduced as the fruit of last week's listener challenge to record a freedom run.

• Episode 11 - Freedom

  Matt Fullerton reports from Albury Wodonga parkrun's second anniversary and interviews Event Director Sarah: the "bright, tight and tutus" theme, a photo booth supplied by event team members who manage a party hire business, the out-and-back course along the Murray River that starts in Albury NSW and crosses into Wodonga VIC (which she believes makes it the first parkrun to run in two states), 325 finishers on the day against a record 330 the weekend before, and how she and Curtis started the event after a single visit to Newy parkrun in Newcastle.

• Episode 10 - Brad Beer

  The slot is addressed but empty this week. Scott "We don't have any roving adventurers... No submissions this week. I think maybe they heard Gary last week and thought, no, the bar has been set too high." Mel reassures listeners "don't worry about it. I don't have a radio voice. Not everybody sounds like Gary Clark", and Scott appeals for more: "our bar is pretty low, so keep them coming in". Scott also hopes for reports from the Albury Wodonga anniversary next week.

• Episode 9 - Jakub Fedorowicz

  Mel crosses to roving adventurer Gary Clarke at Tuggeranong parkrun's superhero-themed third anniversary. Scott praises the piece afterwards: "Now that is how you contribute a roving adventurer's report."

• Episode 8 - parkdogs

  Scott crosses to roving reporter Andrew at Maryborough parkrun (QLD) for the episode's title story: Tash brings a different dog each week from the Maryborough Animal Refuge to parkrun to improve adoption rates, six dogs so far this year, all six adopted. Andrew also speaks to Taylor, who adopted Rusty through the scheme and did her first parkrun with him that morning. The hosts then swap their own parkdog stories: Scott's dogs Buster and Champ (Buster can no longer run after a back problem 12 months ago) and Mel's Clover and Enu.

• Episode 7 - Ashley Cowley

  Mel crosses to roving adventurer Karen at Golden Beach parkrun's second anniversary on the Sunshine Coast, where Mel herself was volunteering as Timekeeper. Karen interviews Paul, the event's newest 100 Club member, who was dragged to Kawana parkrun by his daughter after years away from running, and Keith, a 50-year athletics veteran who keeps coming back for the atmosphere. Scott closes it "great work Karen, loving the roving adventurer contributions that our listeners are giving us every week."

• Episode 6 - Northern Territory

  Melissa crosses to the field "we had a roving adventurer out there who asked some of our parkrunners what their favourite movie or movie line was". Adam files a short vox-pop from Town of Seaside parkrun with three interviewees, Jerry Taylor (Star Wars / "You don't know the power of the dark side"), Mark (Shaun of the Dead / an Arnold Schwarzenegger "I'll be back"), and Mackenzie (Peppa Pig / "jumping up and down in muddy puddles"). Scott jokes on the return that "the award for our cutest parkrun adventurer so far goes to Mackenzie".

• Episode 5 - Dave Robbo

  Scott crosses to roving reporter Robbo at the launch of The Terrace parkrun (Raymond Terrace, NSW), the nation's largest parkrun launch, 693 finishers. Robbo interviews Event Director Brenton Pobjie, who had hoped for 600 and says "we super exceeded that", and then Matt Rushke, who describes the two-lap out-and-back course along the Hunter River as the region's first river run. Mel closes the crossover.

• Episode 4 - Matt Shields

  Scott hands over to TOC's field recording from the Churchill parkrun launch in Gippsland, Victoria. Two interviews: Jo (Balyang Run Director, 144 runs, 34 different courses) on volunteering and parkrun tourism, then Heather, Churchill's other co-ED and the day's Run Director, on why the community wanted the event. Scott closes it with a how-to pitch for listeners wanting to send in their own reports, record on a smartphone voice memo app and email show@parkrunadventurers.com.

• Episode 3 - Ian Hay

  First outing of the show's roving-reporter crossover slot, and the hosts are still settling on what to call it, Scott muses "Maybe they can be our roving adventurers" before crossing over "This week, though, we had our rovering [roving] adventurers where the party's at." Contains two self-contained field reports: Silpa from St Peters parkrun's fourth-birthday neon-themed event (interviewing Volunteer Coordinator Bernie and parkrunner Sharon), and Mel from Point Cook parkrun's second anniversary Hawaiian-themed event (interviewing volunteer Christine Willems and touring parkrunner Kaz Derby). Melissa wraps it.

• Episode 2 - Norm Phillips

  Two field pieces from Shepparton parkrun's second anniversary: roving adventurer Matt interviews Event Director Allan Connolly about their record 182 attendance, the big hats and big hair theme and the Victoria Park Lake course; then junior adventurer Takesha interviews Brendan Peel, who was run directing so Allan could run his own 100th parkrun.