Tim Oberg monthly Q&A (segment not given a name on air)

Appears in 4 episodes, first in episode 1.

Every appearance

• Episode 134 - Tim Oberg

  Tim Oberg (parkrun Australia CEO) returns for a wide-ranging chat: how Airlie Beach parkrun has grown to 80-90 a week and how he participates as a family (double pram, kids Jack, Evie and Archie, wife Nikki); why he deliberately avoids volunteering at his home event; being recognised on the road and at the recent parkrun at The Ponds; becoming an event director for the first time at Cannonvale junior parkrun and the volunteer-recruitment reality of 12 volunteers for ~20 kids; and an update on launching parkrun in Japan (targeting April 2019 at the earliest, Rugby World Cup / Tokyo Olympics context, translators, and the need for Japanese-speaking staff). Ends with Tim agreeing to co-host episode 135 with Mel while Scott is away.

• Episode 42 - Tim Oberg

  Listener questions put to parkrun Australia head Tim Oberg. Will asks how Tim addressed the anxiety/burnout he wrote about and whether weekly parkrun attendance contributed (answer: work burnout, not parkrun; he now switches devices off after 5.30pm). Peter asks the current Australian event count and the next 12 months (high 180s now, ~190s by year end, ~250 Saturday events plus maybe half a dozen junior parkruns by this time next year). Another Tim asks whether volunteer locations could appear in stats (possible but low priority; more likely after the global website rebuild around Easter 2017). George, an international listener, asks how closely Tim works with Helen Hood, Tom Williams, Nick Pearson and Paul Sinton-Hewitt. A question from "Sunny Inverloch" asks about race-entry discounts for parkrunners (Blackmores Sydney Running Festival promo code, Medibank Melbourne Marathon competition).

• Episode 22 - Anita Afonso

  Listener-question Q&A with parkrun Australia GM Tim Oberg, back after an eight-week absence and ribbed for not listening to the show. Questions answered: Tim Baldwin's sew-on event patches idea ("a definite maybe", alongside the shelved parkrun passport concept); Mel's own question on the global no-cash-handling policy and donating via the Australian Sports Foundation parkrun page; Miss Katie/Kasia of Research, Victoria on the minimum age to volunteer alone (11, same as participating); the Athletics Australia partnership and resulting perks at the Blackmores Sydney Running Festival; and the announcement of Renee (ex-Coomera ED) as parkrun Australia's second full-time employee, National Operations Manager. Scott jokes about a future "Ask Renee".

• Episode 1

  Interview with parkrun Australia GM Tim Oberg, explicitly framed as recurring at [00:21:57]: "We're going to make this a regular monthly thing" and at [00:34:40] "We're going to do this once a month" — the format being listener questions put to "Numero Uno", with Scott and Mel asking the first ones because "we don't have any listeners yet". Covers the parkrun leadership trip to San Francisco (Strava, Crissy Field parkrun), the state-by-state US growth plan and the Washington DC launch, Australian growth targets (50+ new events in 2016, ~400,000 registrations by year end), how to start your own event, and Tim's own return to run directing at Airlie Beach. No segment title is spoken. Runs to roughly 00:35:21.