Streaky September

Appears in 67 episodes, first in episode 76.

Every appearance

• Episode 459 - What is your Colour?

  The last Streaky September update for 2026, with the Bingoe card fully released: Sarah has seven of thirteen squares and still wants the date streak, letterbox, full moon and treat; Simon had a 17-day streak until the flu and eight of sixteen bingo items. Pippa delivers her final Streakmeister piece, on the power of accumulation (over 100km of walking this month, "two and a bit marathons") and on mental health fitness, changing the routine, walking a familiar course in reverse, and giving the brain something to do while the legs streak.

• Episode 458 - The Unicorn

  A week into Streaky September (recorded Monday 7 September): TOC is on day 2,929 of a streak begun on the first Streaky September, 1 September 2018; Lyndell is seven days in counting running, walking and gym. Week one bingo squares (merch, your age, how odd, parkrun adventure) and week two's (flowers, street art, somewhere new, friend). Pippa the Streakmeister's audio on why streaks matter on the bad days and the gift of 30 minutes a day. Hosts swap streak savers, Lyndell's bikeway tree, TOC's Wonthaggi shop-veranda loop and estate walk with wombats and echidnas.

• Episode 457 - Legs Eleven

  Streaky September update ahead of 1 September: the Bingoe cards are made, the Office Lady has been "working overtime", week-one card (four squares) posted in the Streaky September group as this episode goes live, with four more squares revealed each Monday from 7 September. Teaser: one of the first squares is "a parkrun adventure". Includes the Streakmeister insert from Pippa White on having a plan and a two-kilometre "Streak Saver" route, followed by the hosts admitting neither has ever completed a full month's streak.

• Episode 456 - The hype team

  Lyndell flags that September is one pod away and the Streakmeister, Pippa, is back on board. Pippa's pre-recorded intro- explains the format: intentional exercise every day for the month (a 2km run/walk, or 30 minutes of bike/swim/yoga), logged in the Facebook group, plus a Bingoe card with level-up challenges released through the month. The hosts then reminisce about past bingo items (cats in windows, street numbers) and grumble that Streaky September is also "Swoopy September", with a plea to leave the birds alone this year because of avian influenza.

• Episode 434 - It’s Upside Down

  Sarah opens with "Have you been streaking this September, Simon?" The pair compare notes on the Streaky September Bingoe card: Simon admits he had not looked at it until that day, Sarah describes a streak walked up and back a 200-metre footpath outside her house with her baby Hadley in the carrier. They then run through the four newly released challenges, streak after 11pm, streak before 6am, spot a bird, and run the date, and Simon advises pairing up with a friend for the late-night and pre-dawn ones for safety.

• Episode 433 - Ready, Set, Streak...

  TOC opens the September streak challenge: a daily activity, a Facebook group, and the first Bingoe card dropping that night. He reports being on streak day 2,558; Melissa says she streaks a minimum one-mile walk daily but does not track it. Returned to, where they note the Streakmeister's annual video was shared on the show's socials.

• Episode 432 - Amazing Grace

  Sarah previews Streaky September: with the move to a fortnightly podcast there will be less streak content on air, so the Bingoe card and daily fun move to the Streaky September Facebook group - minimum 2km of activity every day, any way you like.

• Episode 398 - Planes, Trains and Automobiles

  Wrap of the 2024 streak month on its final day (recorded 30 September). Mel hands to Pippa, "the streak master herself", for a parting piece: she asks whether listeners broke the streak on 1 October or will keep going to New Year, reports that the month reset her relationship with running, that she is still appalling at Strava Art, that she streaked with borrowed dogs, and that she never managed to add anyone to the parkrun adventurers group. Ollie admits to no streak; Mel describes her own year-long pre-7am Garmin half-hour streak.

• Episode 397 - The Grate Return

  Pippa's recorded piece for her own 10-year parkrun anniversary, recorded on 20 September: how her first Streaky September began 23 days before she fell and cracked her back, how streaking became part of her recovery and then a habit, and a mental-health tip, the 5-4-3-2-1 senses walk or run (name five things you see, four you hear, three you touch, two you smell, one you taste) as a way to ground yourself. Sarah and Simon reflect on it afterwards.

• Episode 396 - Oh What a Feeling!

  TOC reports his own streak is intact at around day 2000-something. Pippa the Streakmeister's weekly insert: her training plan fell over on Wednesday so she spelled her name out in street signs instead, and her challenge is to use the Bingoe card for fun rather than obligation. TOC then announces the new Bingoe card challenge, sign a friend up to the adventurers.

• Revisits and Backflips

  Streaky September check-in, including the weekly Streakmeister audio from Pippa a quarter of the way through the month, on mixed days, using the streak saver and walking rather than running. TOC describes measuring a 2km streak-saver loop under the shop verandas at Wonthaggi to beat eight days of gale-force winds, and runs through the Bingoe card: selfie, budgie streak, spelling, streak in the rain, streak saver, streaky Strava art, early bird (out before 7am) and parkrun.

• Episode 394 - Dangling the carrot

  TOC previews the start of Streaky September on 1 September and hands to a pre-recorded piece from Pippa (the UK Streakmeister), who explains the commitment, 30 minutes of exercise a day, roughly two kilometres walking, a little less swimming, a little more running, or gym, yoga or Pilates if injured, and encourages people to keep themselves honest by posting in the Facebook group. TOC and Mel then trail the Streaky September Bingoe card, due out by 1 September, with TOC urging people not to complete it all on day one.

• Episode 393 - Onwards and Upwards

  Post-outro Streakmeister insert setting up the month: 30 minutes of intentional exercise a day, roughly two kilometres of walking or running, a bit more on a bike, a bit less swimming or doing yoga. A spring start in the Southern Hemisphere and a way of carrying summer momentum into winter in the Northern. The job for the week is to find your "streak saver", the short route you can always walk on a day that has gone pear-shaped.

• Episode 392 - Bolting towards Septmeber

  Preview of the coming month's streak challenge, with the traditional Bingoe card due before 1 September. Melissa Ellis explains the origin for newer listeners: it began with the original co-hosts using September to get back into activity; a streak is a minimum two-kilometre activity of any kind. Also explains the "Septmeber"/"Sep Meeba" running joke, she misspelt September when renaming the group in her first year as co-host and had to leave it for the month.

• Episode 390 - Jumpy

  Mel flags that Streaky September is approaching and they need to get organised; Ollie promises the Streakmeister podcast and community tips, and agrees to again be the creator of the Bingoe card, a job he took over from Scotty when he and Mel inherited the podcast. September is also a Blue Moon month, so he will be back to be held to account.

• Episode 385 - Ice Ice Baby

  Pippa's out-of-season check-in for the streakers: solstice reflections from the UK, and five blessings counted, a parkrun and a waffle, running in a tutu on the 22nd, being well enough to run, good friends, and still streaking. Ends with her parkrun barcode being scanned from a QR code on her t-shirt.

• Episode 353 - Mel’s a dot

  TOC hands over to Pippa for her closing comments on the month. Pippa reports a second injured September, three first-time streakers she recruited (including her daughter), an unfinished Bingoe card, and signs off "See you next year". Mel completed the month with 10,000 steps and a minimum 3K a day.

• Episode 352 - Black and White Army

  Streak check-in, Olly's habit has slipped to about six days in seven while Melissa's three-kilometre-a-day streak is intact, followed by Pippa's Streakmeister audio from the UK about encouraging junior parkrunners over the line and a first-time Barcode Scanner named Anne. The hosts then unlock the final Bingoe card level up: streak in your colours (black and white, for the Collingwood grand final).

• Episode 351 - Missing Magpies

  Pippa's three-weeks-in streak audio - the habit has had time to form, and she talks through why she keeps streaking: mental health, maintaining fitness, and that the half hour is her own time, adding that any regular activity counts, running, walking, cycling, swimming, yoga or Pilates. The hosts then compare notes: Simon has broken his streak three times, Melissa is still going on three kilometres a day; they discuss progress on the Bingoe card, Simon's magpie photo that turned out to be a selfie (the missing magpies of the episode title) and Callum's unfindable magpie; and they choose the next level-up challenge in Ollie's absence - say hi to everyone on your streak, an idea Simon credits to Dave 'Robbo' Robertson.

• Episode 350 - Black and White

  Oliver Spake apologises for the late level-up Bingoe card and announces two new bingo squares for the September streaking challenge: street sign spelling (themeless this time, spell a big thing or your next adventure) and parkrun with a friend, which can include a dog or a troll. Melissa Ellis asks whether squares can be claimed retrospectively and is told to make her own rules.

• Episode 350 - Black and White

  Melissa Ellis throws to the Streakmeister. Pippa reports from the New Forest in the UK, where she celebrated a friend's 100th parkrun at Moors Valley Country Park and then walked rather than ran with him, enjoying the plants, the trees and each other's company, and lobbies for "streak with a friend" to be added to this year's Bingoe card. Afterwards the hosts compare streaks: Oliver admits breaking his on Friday after a G Flip concert in Sydney and restarting at three days, while Melissa is still going on three kilometres a day and is ticking off bingo squares.

• Episode 349 - Big Swoop

  TOC and Mel walk through the 2023 Streaky September Bingoe card, sixteen squares of which several are stars still to be revealed during the month: rainbow, create a challenge, Streaky Strava Art, an uphill streak (requested by the intern ahead of the Panorama Punish), try a new volly role, now that's a garden, a cat in a window, full scale, sign them up (a push to reach 500 Adventurer Club members), and re-index an event. They explain the re-index (events done more than once) and float a magpie-themed square as next week's level-up.

• Episode 349 - Big Swoop

  Four days into the month, TOC and Mel throw to the Streakmeister audio. Pippa explains the challenge for newcomers, two kilometres a day on foot, a little less swimming, a little more cycling, or yoga, Pilates or any other committed activity, and describes her own extra rule of doing her two kilometres in the afternoon whatever happens, once at ten at night. She thanks Val Warwick for the idea of hunting a number matching the date on each outing as a way of getting out of your own head, and invites people into the Facebook group.

• Episode 348 - Cat Amongst the Magpies

  Melissa cues Pippa's pre-recorded streaking audio. Pippa sets two tasks for week one: simply show up every day for a minimum of two kilometres, and find a short go-to route for the bad days. Melissa then pledges to step her own daily two kilometres up to 3K for September.

• Episode 347 - What Windmill?

  Simon crosses to the first of Pippa's weekly Streaky September inserts ahead of the 2023 season, a week and a bit out from the start. Pippa sets the challenge, two kilometres of running or walking a day (a little more on the bike, a little less swimming, or call it 30 minutes) every day of the 30-day month, starting a minute after midnight, asks returners to reflect on last year and set a target, and dates the challenge to "around 2018-ish", predating both the pandemic and Mel and Ollie. Melissa confirms Pippa will bring Streaky September news every week from here.

• Episode 347 - What Windmill?

  Bingo-card planning for the coming Streaky September. Only one listener submission arrived, a clip from the Intern, training for the Punish on Mount Panorama's 174 metres of elevation, asking for seven or eight hill-climbing challenges; Melissa agrees to one hill square. She adds a square for returning to an event for a second time (picking up the re-index discussion earlier in the show) and Simon suggests volunteering in a role you have never done. Submissions still open; the card has not been made yet.

• Episode 346 - Wonder Woman

  Look-forward to Streaky September, explained from scratch by Oliver Spake for newer listeners: started by original hosts Scotty and Mel, completely voluntary, 2km or more of any activity every day of September, with an affiliated Facebook group. The hosts ask listeners to email suggestions for this year's Bingoe card (spelt "bingoe", Melissa Ellis explains, "because Scotty couldn't spell").

• Episode 304 - Let Us Entertain You

  Final instalment of the month's streaking encouragement, a pre-recorded piece from Streakmeister Pippa on habit-forming, streak savers and bingos, plus the announcement that the group carries on as "Streak to New Year's Day" from 1 October, with the name change to be made by the Office Lady or Melissa. Preceded by Mel confessing she missed Tuesday and Wednesday streaks while editing last week's episode.

• Episode 303 - Home on the range

  Week three of the streaking challenge. Simon started on 1 September and caught COVID on 2 September, tried streaking in his backyard and gave up; he is now walking a 1.35k loop to the bus stop with the dog. Mel is still going, having done a lap of the block with her husband and later walked to the bottle shop to bank a streak. Also covers the streaking Bingoe card, Mel has yet to tick Strava art or the signpost box, and Ollie's promised "level up" from Fiji.

• Episode 302 - Lined Up

  Mel and Ollie check in on their own streaks and Bingoe cards, then cross to the Streakmeister audio from Pippa, who asks how listeners are getting on with their Bingoe cards and talks about habit-forming ("it takes about three weeks to create a new habit"). Ollie flags the Bingoe card has had a couple of "level ups", and the pair set this week's streak challenge: photograph street signs and spell out a word using the first letter of each, with a royal theme, as a tribute to Queen Elizabeth II.

• Episode 301 - Thumbs Up

  Streaky September update: both hosts report their streaks are intact, then Oliver Spake finally explains the BINGOE card released on 31 August, streak with a parrot, streaky Strava art, a camera with 300, streak with a friend, thumbs up (a nod to Dazza's regular Monty Slade's thumbs-up photos), brekkie or cake, shopping trolley, streaking in the rain and five of a kind. Level-up challenges are promised.

• Episode 300 - Tricentennial

  Launch-week check-in for the streaking challenge, with a contributed audio tip from Pippa in the UK on focusing on the head rather than the legs, using the streak as time out, calling a friend, breathing exercises and a "five senses" five-four-three-two-one mental health walk. Oliver Spake nicknames her "the Streakmeister" and promises a Bingoe card; Melissa Ellis plans a 2K lunchtime streak on recording days.

• Episode 299 - Buzz Buzz

  Ollie flags the coming challenge and admits the Bingoe card is still in the pipeline. Pippa White contributes a pre-recorded explainer from the UK (01:02:11-01:03:32): a daily 2km walk or run, or ~30 minutes of swimming or cycling, checked in on the Facebook group, and the advice to nominate a "streak saver", a default 2km loop for bad days. Mel reveals she is already on day 28 of a streak and used her streak saver that day.

• Episode 298 - Not Flat

  Looking ahead to September. Mel is already 21 days into a streak and getting a head start. The hosts explain the challenge for newcomers: walk, run or find any way to be active for at least two kilometres every day in September, with a Facebook support group and a Bingoe card of side-challenges (run in your pyjamas, selfie with a garden gnome, street sign challenges, streaking with a friend, Strava art, Spoonville). Bingoe card suggestions invited from listeners; the card is to be released imminently, with level-up challenges through the month. They also explain the running gag of spelling "bingo" with an E, "a hangover from the previous hosts who couldn't spell".

• Episode 294 - the new U

  Trailed rather than run. Scott, who says the idea was to get people outdoors more ahead of summer, commits to streaking; Melissa says she will too, despite editing eating into her running time. Walking counts, 2K minimum.

• Episode 256 - X Factor

  Referred to throughout this episode as "Septober", the streak challenge extended into October with aparkrun alphabet twist. Bruce answers the hosts' homework question about what to do for X: log the 24th not parkrun at Apple Cross as the next best thing, or spot five Xs in signage during the W knotty, with Ollie adding Strava-art Xs. At the check-in Ollie is up to H (two notties that week, Fingal Bay and Galston) while Mel has done seven, Huskisson, Inverell, Jindabyne, Kangaroo Island, Lakeview, Mount Ainslie and New Farm, with everyone aiming to reach Z at Zillmere on 30 October.

• Episode 255 - Nottie Time to Die

  Wrap-up of the month-long Streaky September challenge. Mel completed the whole month and is still going, and praises the community's bingo challenges and the unofficial spin-offs in the Streaky September Facebook group. Ollie also made it to the end, and recounts his loose interpretation of the "flightless bird" bingo square (a grounded 747 he never reached, then cockatoos in a caged-off bush) plus his Pirate Club sailing of "eight seas".

• Episode 254 - Ev’ry heart beats true

  The hosts mark the end of the September streaking challenge, Mel: "Streaky September has been a great distraction. I've really enjoyed seeing all the chronicles. And, yes, I am still streaking," and Ollie confirms his own streak run happened "first thing this morning." Show notes: "As we wave farewell to Streaky September." Ollie also flags outstanding Streaky September bingo challenges, chronicling, spelling and a flightless bird still to tick off.

• Episode 253 - Runner 5(00)

  Established regular, running for the whole of September 2021. Mel and Ollie check in on each other's daily streaks and on the weekly "level up" bingo-card challenge. Last week's challenge (find a chalk drawing with a positive message) is reviewed, Ollie found one, "actually written in something other than chalk"; Mel's own kind-thing is rescuing abandoned supermarket trolleys and returning them. This week's new level-up is set: "chronicle your local area", inspired by listener Sonja Pohlman's lockdown chronicles of her suburb. Bingoe card posted on the parkrun adventurers Facebook page.

• Episode 252 - Jenny Blow

  Halfway-mark check-in on the September streaking challenge. Both hosts are still streaking; Melissa Ellis is also working through the Bingoe card and spelling challenge and has entered a virtual ultra marathon ("streaking till Christmas", 5.6km a day). A long magpie/swooping digression follows. At they announce this week's level-up addition to the Bingoe card: "kinder things", find or perform an act of kindness (free lemons out the front, chalk art, positive affirmations on the pavement).

• Episode 251 - Tokyo Tales

  Runs through the whole episode. Hosts report on their own streaks and on the Streaky September Facebook group taking off with new members and bingo-card challenges; Mel describes a jailbreak-themed Not parkrun complete with toy handcuffs, and both hosts credit listener Pippa's two-kilometre-minimum tip for keeping their streaks alive. At Ollie and Mel announce the week's new level-up challenge: "street signing", spell out a word (ideally a parkrun name, e.g. Toolern Creek, Bundaberg, Waterloo Plains, Kununurra) using the first letters of street signs in your local area, and post a composite photo. Also discussed: Strava art, with praise for Peter Mitchell's route drawing a numeral six containing a flightless kiwi over exactly six kilometres, and Sonja Pohlman's accidental upside-down elephant.

• Episode 250 - The Story So Far

  The 2021 Streaky September launch. Pippa's tips piece follows earlier contributions from TOC (what counts as a streak) and Alison (streaking in a fog-bound airport), and challenges listeners to find and measure their own two kilometres close to home for lockdown. From Ollie unveils the crowd-sourced Bingoe card: a selfie with a park bench, streak with a friend (in person or virtually), a flightless bird photo, record aparkrun, streaky Strava art, coffee at Dazza's, find a "stranger thing", and run with a podcast (the Zombies, Run! app as a mini level-up). A Facebook group and a parkrun adventurers Streaky September Strava group are announced, with the card to be uploaded to Strava for listeners not on Facebook.

• Episode 249 - Becky Maybury

  Build-up to the fifth annual Streaky September, starting the following Wednesday; the Bingoe card is done but not yet revealed, and Melissa Ellis prefers to call it "Swoopy September" because of the Victorian magpies. A three-part expert package follows: TOC explains the origins and the rules (a minimum 2km walk/run or 30 minutes of other exercise daily, plus Facebook bingo and bin chickens), Alison Fraser reports mid-streak from New Zealand as she closes on 365 days, and Pippa describes how a September 2019 start turned into a permanent, life-changing streak.

• Episode 248 - Bird is the Word

  The hosts preview the coming Streaky September, working out that episode 250 will be week one and that the Bingoe card traditionally isn't released before September starts. Melissa Ellis recounts her typo when renaming the Facebook group, which turned "Streaky September" into "Streaky Septmeber", now affectionately kept as a thing.

• Episode 247 - Caitlin Adams & David Crook

  Trailed rather than run, last call for listener bingo-card suggestions, with the hosts promising a full preview "in the weeks to come". Olly flags it to newer listeners as "a highlight" of the podcast year.

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

  Not run as a segment this week but actively being built: the hosts review listener feedback on the Streaky September Bingoe card, thanking Tracy ("Tracy in a tutu") and Pippa for suggestions, note that nobody has yet volunteered to help make the card, and decide to hold the ideas back and invite more. Ollie: "we look forward to streaky September, it's just around the corner." Revisited.

• Episode 210 - Aussie adventures

  Both hosts discuss how their streaks are going: PK is combining Streaky September's minimum 2km a day with his own 5K-a-day-for-2020 challenge, while Mel admits she finds the daily 2km tricky when it creeps up on her in the afternoon. They also cover the Streaky September Bingoe card, the Strava heart (Mel has yet to do it) and streaking in pyjamas, which Mel ticked off in navy flannelette pyjamas with her partner Adam walking alongside. Returns with a sign-off encouraging the "streaky September mob" to just start again the next day if the streak breaks.

• Episode 209 - parkrun is Coming!

  Extended streaking check-in that frames the whole episode: Olly and Melissa Ellis report on their own streaks and Not parkruns, Ellis describes her weekly themed home "Ellis Palace parkrun" (Christmas in July, 70s Pizza Hut, Alice in Wonderland, circus, Where's Wally, a Hawaiian luau) with its magpie mascot Brett, named for Victoria's chief health officer Brett Sutton, and dressed-up garden Buddha Daryl; streaky bingo, Spoonville, and Ellis's poll on the group page asking whether people streak solo or with others (mostly solo). Includes a guest "special streaky correspondent" insert from UK listener Pippa White- on why she has streaked continuously since September 2019, including through injury and lockdown. Ellis also owns up to misspelling the Facebook group name, which Facebook will not let her fix for 28 days.

• Episode 208 - We Heart the NT

  The month-long streaking challenge, in its first-week check-in for 2020. Scott Watkins introduces it ("the last few days, Mel, have been dominated by Streaky September, which we introduced last week"). Mel reports her streak intact (minimum 2km a day, one 5k not-parkrun, ~20 seconds faster than the week before) while "all the boys broke their streaks" and the dogs lasted three days; Adam is still going. Scott has filled his one permitted hour outside three times, done a 2km "blocky" before the 8pm curfew, and inadvertently ticked off a Streaky Bingo challenge by running with a friend (Ben). They discuss the Streaky Bingoe card (DFYB, running with a friend, Sign Me Up, flannelette pyjamas) and the streaky Strava heart, including Scott's idea of mapping an anatomically correct heart onto the Melbourne CBD grid. From they read out first-week highlights posted by members of the (deliberately misspelled) "Streaky Septmeber" Facebook group: Janet Llewellyn-Reed (reconnecting with old friends), Alison King (got her out of the house instead of scrolling; bumped into an old friend during hill repeats), Lou Bray (talked a magpie out of swooping her), Craig Ryan (eighth consecutive day, 40km for the month, never previously run two days in a row), Paris Lawrence (a returning streaker), Sally Heppleston (saw a koala in Westerfolds Park), Michael Gentle (first attempt at streaking; found a baffling no-parking sign), Birgit Rainbird (got Casey Hyde and her guide dog Bridget involved) and Pippa White (streaking with the group since 2019, to be heard from next week).

• Episode 207 - Streaky Streaky

  The episode's spine, the show's annual streaking challenge (minimum 2km of movement every day of September), opening the episode with "Streaky September is here" and running through it. Explicitly its "fourth year running"; hosts discuss the Facebook group, day-one streaks (Mel a 2.5km "blocky" with her family in pineapple tights and 2019 Ugly Christmas Singlet; Scott a lap of Albert Park lake counting cygnets), the honour-system, no-logging-required format, and its accessibility for people in lockdown or coming back from injury.

• Episode 206 - Pause?

  TOC and Mel preview the fourth Streaky September, starting in two days: move two kilometres every day for the whole month, however you like. TOC flags streakers approaching 731 days and Carolyn Vandermeer nearing 800, plus the Facebook group (Streak 365 / Streak365plus1) with members like Cassie in WA and Pippa White in the UK. Mel explains the challenge's origin, she and Scotty looking for motivation to get their mojo back, promises Streaky Bingo and a "lockdown level up" set of challenges designed for people confined to their homes and neighbourhoods this year, and reassures listeners that a broken streak just gets restarted.

• Episode 175 - Twinning

  Weekly progress update from the co-host, who is still streaking. Shout-outs to Heather Hunter and Mel Alderton (both streaking, both recently joined the Pirate Club), Mel Alderton's Streaky Bingo Strava art of a snail with a spiral shell, Therese Marty's eight-to-nine-kilometre Strava-art house with windows, and a listener on day 21 recording her longest streak to date. Streaky Bingo also drives the episode's title bit: one tile is 'have a parkrun adventure', which is why the co-host and Pippa White ran twinned Queen Elizabeth parkruns in queen costumes on opposite sides of the globe, and Mark Scarborough is set a Streaky Bingo gnome selfie with Canberra's Pink Floyd.

• Episode 174 - Stanthorpe parkrun

  Streak check-in at day 16. Grette is exercising every day but not always running or walking; Mel's streak is intact and she is playing "streaky bingo", having ticked off a barefoot run and a gnome selfie. Shout-out to Heather, streaking along and admitted to the Pirate Club on Saturday after sailing her seventh C, dressed as a pirate. Also a parkrun wedding shout-out for Will and Lou Gardner at Newy parkrun, and a happy-birthday shout-out to TOC.

• Episode 173 - Roving, Roving, Roving

  Erbacher (10 days into her streak) and Ellis compare notes, then Erbacher reads out the full Streaky September Bingoe card for the year: the gnome-selfie bonus (inspired by Kirk, the resident gnome at Broken Hill Racecourse parkrun), tie or tutu, with a pooch (or, failing that, with a pineapple), barefoot, with a friend, with someone new, Streaky Strava Art, unusual letterbox, and a parkrun adventure. TOC is teased for posting a gnome-less gnome selfie and Errol thanked for sending gnome photos. Ellis reports her own "swoopy September", she has been feeding magpies all year and made her house ground zero for swooping.

• Episode 172 - Rohan Day

  The month's flagship challenge, in its opening week. TOC reports his own streak ran Streaky September to Streak to Christmas to Streak to Easter and on into a full Streaky 365, about 4,500 km and six pairs of shoes. Mel recaps the challenge's origins ("it was mostly to get ourselves out of a bit of a rut"), notes the Facebook group has been renamed back to Streaky September, and reports a world first: a police-officer streaker who fitted a streak into a night shift and made a drug-bust arrest along the way, "Streaky September is fighting crime since 2019". A Streaky Bingoe card is promised for the week. Includes listener audio from Matthew Billington and his wife Sally on completing 365 straight days, and a shout-out to Pippa White and her daughter, who rode Pippa's shoulders dressed as a parrot for the Pirate Club.

• Episode 171 - The Butler Boys

  The annual challenge returns from 1 September. Mel sets out the rules, a minimum 2K walk, run, swim or ride every day of the month, at your own pace, any time before midnight, and confirms Streaky bingo will be back with extra challenges. She notes people who started on 1 September last year are still streaking, and points listeners to the open Facebook group "Streak Your Way Every Day", which began life as last year's Streaky September group. PK clarifies for new listeners that "you don't have to run naked"; Mel: "Clothing on is actually preferred." Listeners are asked to tag both #StreakySeptember and #parkrunAdventurers.

• Episode 132 - Digger Hargreaves

  Wrap-up of the 2018 Streaky September challenge. Scott confirms he streaked unbroken and is "two for two", stopping on 2 October; Mel missed days through illness and family upsets and is finishing her day 30 on catch-up days into early October. They praise participants who set personal monthly bests, confirm it will run again next year, and float a "streak the date / run the date" challenge for March.

• Episode 131 - Abdul-Raouf Mohamed-Isa

  Streak check-in and Bingoe card wrap-up. Mel confesses she broke her running streak after a rough run of sick-family washing and lost sleep, but is restarting; Scott's streak is intact, including a 2K run started at 11:59pm on Friday after falling asleep watching the footy. Both discuss remaining bingo items (Scott still owes his Strava art; Mel's go-to is a four-kilometre toilet). Two final #levelupchallenges announced for adventurers who have already completed their Bingoe cards: (1) run two kilometres barefoot, (2) a "run the date" selfie, find or create the number of the day's date on your run and photograph yourself with it.

• Episode 130 - Julian Spence

  Streaky bingo progress: the hosts add an asterisk option to the 'last minute' (post-11pm) challenge for anyone who does not feel safe running late, replacing it with a Cinderella-themed 'run carrying a whole pumpkin' alternative. Scott's daughters have broken their streak; Scott doubts he will complete the Bingoe card. Melissa Ellis is named as the first person to finish her Bingoe card and is asked for level-up challenges after posting a video of herself running a magpie gauntlet in a helmet and a Collingwood jumper. Strava art from the group is praised.

• Episode 129 - Beau Miles

  Progress check on the month-long daily 2km challenge: Scott is still on track despite sore ribs, his daughter runs laps of the school oval by herself to keep her streak, Mel's toddler Wes broke his, and Mel thanks the listeners who confirmed they track streaks with Strava on their phones rather than GPS watches. Also referenced as "streaky bingo".

• Episode 128 - Streaky September

  Streak status updates four days in: Mel is holding her extra streak, off chocolate, Skittles and wine, and reports her husband Wes at day four and the dogs at a 50% attendance rate; Scott's pledge to give up coffee lasted exactly one day, undone by a Father's Day breakfast at his favourite cafe. The pair then reveal the returning "Streaky Bingo" card (the level-up challenge trailed in the show notes): two carried over from last year, do a parkrun, and streak with a friend, plus six new ones: Streaky Strava art, record a hotline question while streaking, streak with a dog (or with a person named Max, Charlie, Jack, Bella or Jessie, with Buster, Champy, Clover and Eno also accepted), the "last minute streak" after 11pm, "Groundhog Day" (same time, place and distance two days running), and backwards-cap streaking. They also explain the switch from a Facebook event to a Facebook group, since Facebook won't allow month-long events.

• Episode 127 - Rob de Castella

  Mel runs through the rules as a refresher: run or walk a minimum of 2km every single day in September, honour system, parkrun counts, a Strava event on the parkrun Adventurers Club and the hashtag StreakySeptember for shout-outs. Optional add-on of giving up a vice - Mel gives up chocolate, lollies and wine, Scott gives up coffee. Shout-outs to listener Amanda of Westerfolds, still streaking a full year on from last September, and to Carolyn, dubbed the "Streaky September Ambassador" for recruiting participants unprompted.

• Episode 84

  Bookending the episode. Opens "Streaky September is over, and I'm enjoying not-so-streaky October", then the hosts recount ticking off the last of their bingo-card and level-up challenges together on the Sunshine Coast: a Nambour freedom walk in the dark with Melissa Taylor, climbing Mount Coolum before sunrise in pyjamas, Kawana parkrun, and listening to a podcast. The formal wrap-up runs: both hosts kept their streaks, Scott recounts starting a run at 11:58pm in a hotel car park in Brisbane to save the streak, Melissa thanks everyone who streaked along on Strava/Facebook/Instagram/Twitter, and Scott declares "Streaky September is now going to be a tradition for the parkrun adventurers."

• Episode 83 - Kelly Hodges

  Hosts check in on the Streaky September streaking challenge and its bonus "Bingoe card" tasks, the gym jams run, the before-sunrise run, the barefoot run (Scott did his as a barefoot stroll at Main Beach). Both reflect on whether they will keep streaking past 1 October; Scott says Team Trickett will try, Mel plans a looser three-or-four-times-a-week commitment. Scott notes it is intended to become an annual thing.

• Episode 82

  Progress check-in on the September daily-streak challenge. Scott calls it "transformative", injured after his stack, he has walked every streak with his daughters and formed a family habit. Melissa reports it has got her out the door daily, tracking 21.3k then 22.4k then 15k so far, chasing her biggest mileage month in years and running a full unbroken kilometre for the first time in ages. The streak also recurs through the roving reports (PK, Lyndell asking Tim Oberg whether gym and yoga count).

• Episode 81

  Week two round-up of the Streaky September challenge. Scott is still streaking, helped by his injury forcing easy 2-3km evening walks with Yvonne and Kasia; Mel is still streaking too but reports that Wes has broken his streak. They then run through the "Bingoe" card released on Facebook that week (streak with a friend, streak a parkrun, streak selfie, freedom run, jim jams, bonus: streak with a podcast), both have three of five. Includes Scott's dingo/chigoe ("a small tropical flea") explanation for the deliberate E in "Bingoe".

• Episode 80

  The hosts' running check-in on the #streakyseptember daily-streak challenge, week one. Melissa reports her legs are struggling "coming off a base of nothing" and that her whole family (husband Adam, baby Wes) is streaking together; Scott reports Team Trickett is still on track after lasting only three days in August, with a late-night torch-lit family walk/run with Kasia and Yvonne. Resumes for the promised "roundup of our streaky Septembers... including the splits", where Scott instead tells the story of two mates (Chris and Barney) walking back with him when a headache stopped his Sunday run: "Runners are good people, Mel."

• Episode 79

  Scott and Mel launch #streakyseptember ("all one word, all lowercase") and invent the rules live on air: run or walk a minimum of 2km every single day of September, starting Friday 1 September; at least one freedom run; weekly bonus-point challenges on an honour system, one of which Mel proposes should be "2K in your pyjamas". Scott has already created a Strava group; Mel says a Facebook event is needed. Both admit motivation will be the hard part, Mel is not yet back to running after her baby and plans to walk it, pushing the pram. They also flag a run-breakdown segment for next week's pod and tease an unannounced competition later in the month.

• Episode 77

  Brief check-in on the Streaky September run-every-day challenge: listeners are already signing up, and the hosts have been challenged to include freedom runs at events they haven't done, which they suggest incorporating into the challenge. Both note they have two weeks to get ready.

• Episode 76

  ORIGIN of the Streaky September challenge. Scott admits he tried a daily run streak for August and broke it after three days (-), and says he will restart on 1 September and "I want all adventurers to join me". Melissa coins the name "Streaky September", Scott replies "That's it. We've even got a catchy phrase for it" and Melissa adds "we can use that as a hashtag". She commits to joining from 1 September but not earlier, on doctor's advice.