Streaky September

Appears in 15 episodes, first in episode 76.

Every appearance

• Episode 456 - The hype team

  Lyndell flags that Streaky September is a fortnight away and crosses to a pre-recorded intro from "Streakmeister" Pippa, who explains the annual reset: intentional daily exercise for the month (2km run/walk or 30 minutes of other activity), logged in the Facebook group, plus a bingo card and mid-month level-up challenges. Hosts then reminisce about past bingo tasks (cats in windows, street numbers) and joke about "Swoopy September" magpies and bird flu.

• 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 bingo 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 bingo 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 bingo card. Melissa Ellis is named as the first person to finish her bingo 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" at [00:49:15].

• Episode 128 - Streaky September

  Streak status update on day four (recorded Tuesday 4 September). Mel is four days clean of chocolate, Skittles and wine as her "level up"; Scott's solidarity attempt at giving up coffee lasted exactly one day, defeated by a Father's Day breakfast. Both are streaking as a family; Wes and the dogs are on the streak too.

• 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 at [00:00:37] "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 from [01:05:44]: 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 at [01:07:38] "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 "bingo 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 at [00:17:29], Lyndell asking Tim Oberg at [00:40:42] 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 at [00:47:50] 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 ([00:04:52]-[00:04:58]), and says he will restart on 1 September and "I want all adventurers to join me" [00:06:19]. Melissa coins the name at [00:06:32] "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.