Episode 5 - Dave Robbo

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00:00:07Scott Trickett: back welcome back to the parkrun adventurers we're here for the fifth week we've got some special guests joining us this week i'm joined directly in my studio by buster the dog in the sunshine coast we've got mel howdy mel howdy scotty Have you got a special guest with you tonight, today?

00:00:29Melissa Erbacher: I do, actually. I've got two shaggy special guests, but we're going to let them stay quiet today. Clover and Inu are here joining me in the studio.

00:00:39Scott Trickett: Well, I've got Buster with me, and he is asleep. He is snoring, but I haven't got a mic on him, so we should be good. You might remember these characters from being previous parkrun Dogs of the Week.

parkrun Dog of the Week

00:00:52Melissa Erbacher: And every week on the podcast, it is Bring Your Dog to Work Week. So they're going to be here a lot. We might even interview some of them in the future.

00:01:01Scott Trickett: This week in parkrun Australia, another massive week. It's getting a bit monotonous. It's getting boring. But every week, we're breaking new figures. This week was no exception. A new record for parkrun Australia. 24,000 and a few extra runners ran this week or walked. So we've got a new record?

00:01:23Melissa Erbacher: Course attendances are falling all over the place, the records that is. We had, I believe it was 16 different events out of the 150 now in Australia broke course record attendances. That's a little bit insane.

00:01:39Scott Trickett: Helped along by a massive launch at the Terrace in the region of Runners. They had over 600 again for their launch. That's scary, but they managed. Why do you think we're getting these boosting numbers, Mel?

00:01:51Melissa Erbacher: Okay, Scotty, I think probably a lot of people might attribute it to New Year's resolutions and people are doing great with keeping to their plans and things like that. But I don't buy it because, let's face it, New Year's resolutions are made on New Year's Eve when people have probably had a little bit too much to drink and they're usually broken within 24 hours. So I'm pretty confident that's not why everyone's coming to parkrun. I'm going to put it down to the weather. And a word that's been getting around in the last week or so relating specifically in Queensland to the stupid level of humidity is stumidity. And I think the stumidity coupled with something we spoke about in a show a couple of weeks ago, the photos that get taken at parkrun, people are seeing photos of their friends, photos of their family members on Facebook in all their sweaty glory grimacing and in parkrun photos because they are just dripping in sweat. And who wouldn't want that? Who wouldn't want a piece of that? I think that's what's getting everyone to parkrun.

00:03:02Scott Trickett: Do you take a good sweaty photo?

00:03:05Melissa Erbacher: I don't think anyone takes a good sweaty photo, but they're all definitely enviable.

00:03:11Scott Trickett: Okay. Well, that's comforting to know because I've never taken a good sweaty photo. Actually, I've never taken a good running photo.

00:03:18Melissa Erbacher: You've never taken a good running photo?

00:03:21Scott Trickett: I've got this mate who is just spot on. He's the classical photogenic runner. Every photo, he's smiling, he's got perfect form. I'm the complete opposite.

00:03:33Melissa Erbacher: So do you try to get a good photo in? Like you spot the photographer?

00:03:39Scott Trickett: Giving up.

00:03:39Melissa Erbacher: You know, you've given up.

00:03:41Scott Trickett: Just know it can't happen. So...

00:03:44Melissa Erbacher: I have to say, I mean, I can't say I look good in all my photos, but I certainly always try to smile at everyone and that's feedback that I often get back after, you know, like Sunshine Coast Marathon or one of these larger organized events, people see my photos because they just – you know how friends look up other friends because they know what their bib numbers are and stuff. And they go, oh my God, you're smiling in every one. You look so happy. You don't look like you ran a half marathon. It's like, yeah, because I took three hours, okay. I could see that photographer from five minutes away. I had time to slow down, look composed, not sweat. So I'm not that person who's about to vomit and that's why they're not smiling.

00:04:30Scott Trickett: That's me. Because you're trying hard. I'm the guy who looks like he's going to vomit. But he's not. He just looks like it. He tried to smile once and he just developed four double chin or four chins. Didn't try that again. And I think it's genetic because my sister is also horrific when it comes to the running photo.

00:04:55Melissa Erbacher: That's very generous of you to say. I'm sure she would really appreciate that.

00:04:59Scott Trickett: Like a sister, that's what I can say.

00:05:02Melissa Erbacher: Has your sister been along to parkrun with you, Scotty?

00:05:05Scott Trickett: My sister? I got her hooked early on, yep. She did some volunteering for me on the weekend. She came over and helped me at gels. She was my run director. Encouraged everyone to get naked and just left it there. Didn't explain the whole naked thing.

00:05:21Melissa Erbacher: Oh, hopefully it's not naked because of the stumidity.

00:05:24Brenton Pobjie: Maybe.

00:05:26Scott Trickett: Okay, so explain stumidity to me. How does it affect the average parkrunner?

00:05:34Melissa Erbacher: Well, if you're the average parkrunner, I would say it probably slows you down. You know, it's... It's like having a rainy parkrun without the rain. So you end up saturated as if it had been raining, only it's from your own bodily sweat. And, you know, anything that your body comes into contact with is just immediately dripping your shirts. Like there are all those really interesting different color patterns happening with, with the various sweat patches all over your body and things like that.

00:06:09Scott Trickett: So when that runner hands you the barcode that's all wet and falling apart, it's not from the rain, it's from their bodily fluids.

00:06:19Melissa Erbacher: Yes. You've got to – you have to hand it to our volunteer scanners, you know, especially the ones that touch those barcodes. Although, realistically, runners can just hold them out and they can go, you know what, I'm not going to try to scan that. I just might write it down because you remembered to bring it with you. But it's one of those things. I don't know if you do it at your events, Scott. Some events – They provide bags for people or a board where people can clip their barcodes and their keys as well actually to the board so that Things don't fall out of pockets or get lost or, you know, dissolve. Well, yep, key bowls. We get a lot of jokes about key bowls at parkrun. So, actually, I have an interesting story about keys. We do have a key bag at Kawana. Not all parkrunners choose to use it and I'm sure you'd be aware and everybody else would be aware, you know, most active wear is for the bottom half of your body comes with a nice little secret pocket or a little zipper pocket that you can actually just put your key in for your car so you don't lose it. We actually had a parkrunner one day came up to us after the event and he's like, has anybody handed in a key? I've lost my key. It was just sort of shoved into the top of his pants apparently and And he thinks he's lost it on the course. And I said, oh, well, you know, have you looked in your pants? Have you checked your jocks? So you would know whether or not it's in there. He goes, oh, no, no, no, no. I think I would know if it was in there. Okay. So we had probably about 20 people. looking, searching the whole ground because he couldn't get home without his car key for a good 25 minutes after the event. And some people had headed back out onto the course to see if it had dropped out on there. And then he comes up to me and goes, Mel, you wouldn't believe it. I found it. Guess where it was? And I just looked at him and he said, it was in my jocks.

00:08:32Scott Trickett: I knew where this story was going halfway through.

00:08:35Melissa Erbacher: Yeah, and so, I mean, I could have saved everybody 25 minutes of looking because that was the question that I asked him. But he apparently would have felt it if it was in there and obviously he didn't. So, we have a bit of a laugh with him. Now and then. But ironically, two weeks later, we had another parkrunner who lost his key. And the first question I said was, all right, now, I'm not having a joke with you, but is it, have you looked in your pants? Have you looked in your undies? And he's like, yeah, yeah, no. He said, it's not in my undies, you know. And so he started looking. And then two minutes later, he came back to me and said, it was in my undies.

00:09:18Unidentified speaker: Yeah.

00:09:19Melissa Erbacher: It was actually, that's two people in two weeks had their keys in their undies. And, you know, we do have a key bag. I just don't understand why people don't use it.

00:09:30Scott Trickett: So maybe, so you've got the key bag. People want the key bowl.

00:09:38Melissa Erbacher: Possibly.

00:09:38Scott Trickett: Hey, could you imagine if they had a key bowl at the terrace launch with 600 plus runners? Oh, you'd need it. It would need to be a big bowl.

00:09:46Melissa Erbacher: It would need to be a 44-gallon drum.

00:09:48Brenton Pobjie: Yeah.

Roving report — The Terrace parkrun launch

00:09:49Scott Trickett: We had a roving adventurer there, Robbo. Do you want to hear some audio? Let's do it. Take it away, Robbo.

00:10:00Dave Robbo: Here we are with Brenton Pobjie, the event director at the Terrace Park. You've got the first one over and done with. Tell us how did it go?

00:10:07Brenton Pobjie: It was an amazing morning. Much better than expected. The rain held off. Crowds came out. It was a fantastic morning. Amazing team which made it all happen. And yeah, it's a record-breaking crowd apparently. So lots of great feedback on the course. Just perfect morning. Nothing went wrong. It was fantastic.

00:10:24Dave Robbo: And in your wildest dreams, did you imagine you'd get close to 700 people crossing the finishing line at the launch of the Terrace parkrun?

00:10:30Brenton Pobjie: I had a dream of 600 that everyone scoffed at and didn't believe. But we super exceeded that. So yeah, it was an exciting morning from that front. Finally, what's it going to do for Raymond Terrace? I think it's a massive impact in the community. People loving and getting behind what they can do as far as getting fit and just exercising. And the fact that it's free, I think people are going to love it. It's going to be a great thing for Raymond Terrace.

00:10:54Dave Robbo: And when's it on again? Next Saturday at 8 o'clock. Get down here, folks. The Terrace parkrun. Great work, mate. Question without notice. Matt Rushke.

Question without notice

00:11:02Matt Rushke: The Terrace parkrun, mate. Give me your thoughts. Mate, it's actually something new to the region of runners because it's our first river run. We've got lots of running along the water, but running along the Hunter River, you can't beat it. Two lapper, so you get to see the bridge and run up and back twice, so you get to gauge how you're going on the first lap. You can have a crack and then do the second lap, so... just love it beautiful and what about those numbers mate you expect that mate i was thinking we'd get 350 so we've just about doubled that i'm always a bit conservative when it comes to lost numbers but yeah that's just blows my mind 693 crazy well i know you've been a big part of uh pushing it mate you work here i know you're passionate about getting it up so well done and thank you very much i'll be here next week or the week after actually give it a crack front page material Thanks, mate. There we go.

00:11:48Melissa Erbacher: By all accounts, it sounds like they had an amazing launch at the terrace. So congratulations to the event director. And it's awesome to see so many parkrun adventurers getting out there, including some statesmen and women who were representing. So well done, guys. We are adventuring to South Australia for our next event director guest. She is the ED at Murray Bridge parkrun and her name is Sarah Pixley. Welcome, Sarah.

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Event Director interview — Murray Bridge parkrun

00:12:25Sarah Pixley: Hello, parkrun Adventurers.

00:12:27Scott Trickett: Hi, Sarah. Tell us a little bit about your parkrun or tell us, maybe start off telling us about Murray Bridge itself. It's an interesting town.

00:12:35Sarah Pixley: Is it? Okay.

00:12:36Scott Trickett: Well, a lot of Melbournians would know it because it's sort of a nice stopping point on the way to Adelaide.

00:12:44Sarah Pixley: That's it, Scott. You've got it right there. We're about 80km out of Adelaide. And anybody coming to or from the East Coast has got to go through Murray Bridge to get there. So there's plenty of opportunities to pop in and see what we've got to offer here. So we're sort of a rural city, for want of a better word, of putting it. And we have a parkrun that started in October 2014.

00:13:09Scott Trickett: So the name Murray Bridge refers to what exactly?

00:13:14Sarah Pixley: The bridge. I'm sorry, Scott. I've got nothing more intelligent than the bridge.

00:13:18Melissa Erbacher: Do you actually run across the bridge, though, Sarah, or around it?

00:13:21Sarah Pixley: We run under the bridge.

00:13:22Melissa Erbacher: Under the bridge, okay.

00:13:23Sarah Pixley: So our course, we start just up from the bunyip at Murray Bridge. It's probably our call to fame is the Murray Bridge bunyip. We start just past there. We run past the bunyip along the river, and we actually do a two-lap out-and-back course. So there's plenty of opportunities for high-fives and cheering on, plus you get to go under the Murray Bridge twice, right?

00:13:42Melissa Erbacher: So you have a bunyip on your course?

00:13:45Sarah Pixley: We do indeed. We're the only parkrun in the world with a bunyip.

00:13:48Melissa Erbacher: Is that in your risk assessment?

00:13:50Sarah Pixley: You're right. I probably should have put it on there. I've got snakes in the risk assessment. He's pretty tame. He's behind a great big cage.

00:13:57Melissa Erbacher: Oh, okay. So it's a domestic bunyip?

00:14:00Sarah Pixley: Well, you go and listen to him. He doesn't sound that domesticated. He's quite scary. He does scare the children occasionally. He's well trained, put it that way.

00:14:08Scott Trickett: I'm intrigued. I'm intrigued.

00:14:10Melissa Erbacher: I'm intrigued as well. I don't really know what a bunyip looks like. I'm keen to come and check it out.

00:14:16Sarah Pixley: You'll have to check it out. He's big and green and he's got a great big yellow tongue and makes very scary growly noises. I think it's a dollar to make him go up and down.

00:14:25Melissa Erbacher: Oh, he performs for money.

00:14:29Sarah Pixley: Well, like all board entertainers really. You and Scott should know that, Mel.

00:14:33Melissa Erbacher: Oh, I think we've been ripped off, Scott. We're doing this for free.

00:14:36Scott Trickett: So do you take money on the run?

00:14:39Sarah Pixley: Some of the children go after the run. My little four-year-old, she adores them and she pretends to be scared every time she goes past. Our photographer gets a great vantage point when he climbs up the top and he looks down on the runners. There's some great photos from up there.

00:14:57Melissa Erbacher: With the bunyip in it as well?

00:14:58Sarah Pixley: Unfortunately, no. I'm yet to figure out the perfect photo angle to get the bunyip because he's kind of in a cave. Sure. And, yeah, I haven't quite got the perfect little... Might take a parkrun flag there and get a photo with the flag and the bunyip at one point.

00:15:14Scott Trickett: It's okay to have a staged parkrun photo. It's been done before, I can tell you that.

00:15:20Melissa Erbacher: Happens all the time.

00:15:22Sarah Pixley: We do have a few with pelicans with parkrun volunteer vests on. They may or may not have been staged.

00:15:30Melissa Erbacher: Pelicans actually wearing volunteer vests.

00:15:33Sarah Pixley: Well, having a vest kind of draped over his wings, this pelican kind of came in from the river and thought he'd try and steal everyone's food. And we had fruit platter one day. So one of the volunteers saw him and just gently laid a parkrun vest on while I took a photo.

00:15:49Melissa Erbacher: Nice. As you do.

00:15:51Sarah Pixley: The pelican did not like it, but it's okay. The photo looked good.

00:15:54Melissa Erbacher: You do what you can to get volunteers.

00:15:56Sarah Pixley: Exactly right. And he didn't have his barcode, so he had to volunteer.

00:16:01Melissa Erbacher: So, Sarah, what kind of numbers do you get at Murray Bridge? And what would you say is the demographic that makes up the majority of your runners?

00:16:09Sarah Pixley: We have in between about 40 and 60 week in, week out. Sometimes in winter, it gets bitterly, bitterly cold here. So I think we bottomed out at about 25 on almost a snowy day. We don't snow, but it feels that way. And we're a bit unique among the parkruns in that a third of our runners are actually juniors. So that means another third are their parents. So our course is described as quite a difficult course because the times are really realistic. We don't have – I think our course record is about 16 minutes, which is incredibly fast, but the average time is about 45 minutes in our course. So it's a really achievable, supportive sort of a community we've built down there.

00:16:57Melissa Erbacher: A third children. I wonder how that rates actually.

00:17:02Sarah Pixley: Yeah, when Prof did our figures for our anniversary last year, he was pretty surprised, but we had so many children. We have probably – good 20 under 11 that come every week and although we've had the usual teething problems of faster children to slower mums and dads we've managed to team up a few of our faster lead runners with a couple of the kids that need that extra supervision so it's kind of helped our community grow even closer because we're introducing people all the time you recently won an award We did. We were really, really fortunate in that we had seven nominations in the Australian of the Year Awards here at Murray Bridge. So we ended up walking away with Community Event of the Year with highly commended for Community Initiative of the Year and also for Volunteer of the Year. So our little group are very proud of that.

00:17:59Scott Trickett: And so you should be. They don't just hand them out.

00:18:03Sarah Pixley: No, and the fact, probably what made me extra proud of the achievement was the seven nominations that we had. I mean, of course, I put one in because I think my community is awesome. But it means that six other people of our community also put in a nomination for us. And I just thought that was fantastic that we're changing people's lives so that they actually want to acknowledge that.

00:18:24Melissa Erbacher: And the fact that they went to the effort of actually submitting that nomination, that speaks volumes for what an impact you're making on your community. So well done, Sarah, and all your event team.

00:18:36Scott Trickett: Would this make you a celebrity around town? Murray Bridge is a small town. So does everybody know who you are now?

00:18:42Sarah Pixley: Yes, yes, that is all true. My daughter came home from childcare today and said, Mummy, did you know your face was in the paper?

00:18:49Melissa Erbacher: Just your face?

00:18:51Sarah Pixley: Well, face and trophy. But yes, just my face and trophy. So that was kind of cute because she's like, why were you in the paper? And I thought, well, you were there on the day, Em. I think you'd have gotten it already.

00:19:02Melissa Erbacher: You're going to have the paparazzi after you now.

00:19:06Sarah Pixley: If that brings more people down to our run, I will take it for the team, guys. We have had so many people contact us since the newspaper article came out and people are literally stopping me at work. I work in quite a large building and they're going, parkrun, what's that about? Tell me about it. So I know at least 10 people that have started last week after us taking the award home on Tuesday. So that was a brilliant exposure for us.

00:19:31Melissa Erbacher: And this ties into what we were actually talking about earlier in the show about people finding out about parkrun and how they get involved. So the fact that you've got your community event out there and it's getting that sort of exposure for the great work that you're doing is definitely going to bring you more runners. You might be finding that your numbers increase and you'll be fighting off the volunteers soon.

00:19:54Sarah Pixley: That will be a good problem to have. When we started we had a regular group of about 20 or 30 runners and our territory director, John, told me, don't worry, Sarah, they're going to come. Because we've got Mount Barker, but it's 40km away. And at the time, there was only four parkruns in South Australia. So we thought, well, if we build it, they will come. And so what do you know, it's working. They are coming.

00:20:17Scott Trickett: Fantastic. Can you tell us a little bit about the Sarah Pixley story? How did you get involved in parkruns?

00:20:26Sarah Pixley: I actually came to Murray Bridge in February 2014 and I was travelling down to Mount Bark, a parkrun, it's about 40km away, every Saturday morning to do my run up until about April when someone said to me, hey, we should have a parkrun in Murray Bridge. At which point I've kind of gone, yeah, sure, it's a great idea. I'll kind of give it a hand to find then that I had Tim emailing me all the stuff and asking me to do everything and get it off the ground. So I was kind of handballed a parkrun to get started. So I was very lucky that I had some really good helpers around me to help it along. But I've been a runner for quite a number of years, ironically up until later on this year where I actually broke a foot. So I've been hobbling around with a moon boot on for the last six months. So my 50 runs is a long time away.

00:21:18Melissa Erbacher: I'm sure your 25 volunteers as well in the background too though.

00:21:23Sarah Pixley: Yeah, I did say to someone the other day, I wish there was a 50 volunteer shirt I could wear instead.

00:21:30Scott Trickett: Purple's nicer than red anyway.

00:21:32Sarah Pixley: I do like purple. Purple's my colour. Everyone should try and get themselves a purple shirt. I think it's a goal for everybody.

00:21:40Scott Trickett: Good luck with your event, Sarah. It's been great chatting to you. We hope to visit Murray Bridge one day. So next time I'm driving to Adelaide, I'll just time it to happen on a Saturday so we can pop in for a Murray Bridge parkrun.

00:21:53Sarah Pixley: Sounds like a plan, Scott. We've got really good coffee at the farmer's market. And of course, we're not that far away from the Barossa anyway. So you can go there after you see us.

00:22:02Scott Trickett: Great. Looking forward to it. We're joined by Tim Oberg, the General Manager of parkrun Australia. Hi, Tim. Hi, Scott. Hi, Mel. You ready for a round of questions, this time not from us, but our listeners? Mate, I'm ready as I'll ever be, so bring it on. Okay, here we go. The first one's from Annie Paul. She wants to know if there are any plans for a kids' parkrun in Brisbane.

Tim Oberg listener Q&A

00:22:30Tim Oberg: Oh, I like it. Okay, Annie. Well, look, that's a great question. We could talk about that all night. But Junior parkrun has been going in the UK now for about a year and a half, and it's wildly successful. It's actually growing at a faster rate than Big parkrun, if we want to call it that, or as we know it in Australia, just parkrun. The situation is that it is for 4 to 14 year olds in the UK and despite the success of it at the moment, the question mark is out whether 4 to 14 is the correct age grouping because I mean 4 year olds can be and most are very little. And some 14-year-olds can be like men or women. So there's a train of thought. Do we keep it at four to 14 or do we just do four to 10? We're doing some research, I guess some, I don't know if research is a correct word, but we're looking into that. And once we have a definitive answer as to what the age grouping should be, then there will be an expansion of junior parkrun outside of the UK. And certainly Australia will be putting its hand up for it. I would love to bring Junior parkrun to Australia. However, it is another whole kettle of fish in terms of what would be required to set up an event, mainly around child safeguarding. So there's a lot to it. It's not as simple as just going, oh, let's just do it. We have to make sure that we get it right. Because we don't want to get it wrong when you're dealing with other people's children. So it will happen. Most likely, I'm going to say next year. There you go. Next year, 2017. I'm putting it out there. There will most likely be Junior parkrun in Australia. And yes, it will be in Brisbane, I'm sure.

00:24:24Melissa Erbacher: okay tim i've got a question from chris wade so chris asks with so many events starting around australia what does parkrun see as the key to sustainability so that they are all successful in five years time well first of all how do you define a successful event and i would say we don't define it when we never have defined a successful event

00:24:46Tim Oberg: as a large event or so by by the size we we don't define an event as successful because it has lots of runners and one that is smaller as as unsuccessful so i think first of all it's it's you know what is what is success and to me i would say so that a successful event is an event where the people who are attending and the people who are volunteering are enjoying it And that's what it comes down to. So that can be 10 people or it can be 110 people. But the key is that the people who are putting it on are enjoying doing so. And the people who are attending are also enjoying going along and having fun. And really that's what it's all about. If we're not having fun, then why do it? So I think first of all, we just, you know, we have to be clear about what success is. But if we're looking at specifics in the essential, I think he's asking, How are we going to keep these volunteers doing it? I assume that's kind of the question there. It's about sharing the load and it's about the event director. When an event director starts an event, they don't try and do too much. That's my job and the job of the territory directors to support a new event director and a new event team. through that process so that the workload can be shared and so that many other people come in and become run directors so they can share that load. And then you just have a natural evolution over time when an event director does stand aside. There's generally a person who's there waiting in the wings to become the event director. And that just happens and happens. And, you know, we've got some events where the founding event director is still the event director. And let's use the example of Paul Wilcock at St. Peter's parkrun in Sydney. He's our longest standing event director at a single event. He's been at that one event since, oh, I'm testing myself here. I'm going to say January 2012. when St Peter's started. So I think the key is that myself and the Territory Director support events to share the load and I guess have a succession plan and then it should all hopefully just happen, keep happening on and on. Goodo.

00:27:00Scott Trickett: Simon Mackley wants to know, where would you love to see a parkrun start where there isn't one approved yet?

00:27:08Tim Oberg: That's easy, Centennial Park, Sydney. Full stop. Basically the eastern suburbs of Sydney. We don't have, if you look at a map, there's a big hole, no parkruns, huge population, both of tourists and residents, huge parks. But the issue we've had with Centennial Park is that it's not governed by council, therefore we have to go, it's governed by a trust and the trust don't have as part of their agenda, or it wouldn't seem, is to provide the park for free for things like parkrun. You know, it's a commercial operation, they charge, pretty high rental fees. So when you do do a fun run in Centennial Park, you know, whoever is putting that on has paid a pretty hefty fee for that. And as parkrun, we don't pay park hire fees. It just doesn't fit into our model. So if anyone is listening out there and has any connections at Centennial Park Trust, get in touch with Scott and Mel because that's where we want to have an event. Absolutely.

00:28:14Melissa Erbacher: Okay. So I have a question now from Mark Connolly. This is in relation to the Facebook post we did on our parkrun Adventurers page on Friday last week. Mark would like to know how you got such nice calves.

00:28:30Tim Oberg: Mark Connolly, hey. Now, I haven't seen this post, so I'm just quickly looking at it. Ah, there we go. Ah, the post of me being Rodan's thinker. Yeah, well, Mark, first of all, nice question, mate. And I was born with them, I think. They haven't helped me out, though, because that's the one recurring injury that I've had over the years is calf niggles. So, yeah, I'd rather that they weren't... so nice but a bit more efficient and I just I meant nice in inverted commas there just in case anyone's listening thinking I'm being a bit of a tosser but yeah yeah yeah so yeah that's it Mark good question mate I'll see you later have words with you later we've got Mark on the show next week have you got a question for him let me think about that and I'll come up with something he's a good Queenslander even though he lives up in NT so I don't want to be too hard on him

00:29:28Scott Trickett: Finally, last one from Peter Pohlman. He wants to know, what is your favorite Dr. Seuss book?

00:29:36Tim Oberg: Right. You know, as father of two young children, you may be able to hear one of them crying in the background right now. We haven't got onto Dr. Seuss yet, so I can't really comment to you. I know there's the Cat in the Hat and all that sort of stuff, but I was just reading Where is the Green Sheep with Jack and Evie before coming on there. on the broadcast so that's a bit of a classic so i'm going to say don't have a favorite one but um where is the green sheep is the book of the month in the oberg household okay we can hear in the background yeah i think you need to go grab a book yeah yeah yeah yeah perfect opportunity to wrap it up thanks for joining us tim we're going to do this again next month speak to you then fantastic thanks guys always a pleasure and thanks to everyone for supporting the parkrun adventurers

00:30:32Melissa Erbacher: If you've been joining us in the social circuit this week, you will have noticed that parkrun Adventurers have a schmancy new logo and we've been adding that to our Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. It's all over the place. Brendan Scholarly has already claimed that the runners on the logo look like they're running across Shell Harbour parkrun. We're keen to hear what you think about our logo, so let us know.

00:30:56Scott Trickett: Also let us know what you think of the show. Don't be afraid. Don't hold back. We got a tweet this week. I mentioned we were international last week, and we really are. So we've got listeners in Scotland, and Morris the music teacher let us know that he's loving the show, but just need to pick up the audio quality a bit. And we're working on that. Hopefully it is improving over time and hopefully one day Mel and I will be in the same studio together so I won't sound so whispery quiet and you won't sound so harsh and distorted.

00:31:36Melissa Erbacher: Yep, totally not taking that personally. For anyone who's ever been on a podcast you probably know or even just heard your voice recorded anywhere We actually don't like the way we sound either. So apologies to you guys out there that we're making listen to us every week.

00:31:56Scott Trickett: Yeah, and to have a conversation over Skype is also interesting. But we're trying, and in a few weeks' time, hopefully we'll be able to be in the one place, which will be exciting.

00:32:07Melissa Erbacher: And as Scotty said, don't hold back. You know, we've got thick skins, mostly.

00:32:11Scott Trickett: Yeah, bring it. We want feedback, good and bad. So thanks, Morris. That's great. You may remember in Episode 2, we caught up with Jeremy Savage over in Western Australia. He talked briefly about Woodbridge Riverside, which is launching this week, and it sounds like a great run, very pretty. So head along to that. Where's the cake this week? Where are we going for cake?

Where's the cake this week?

00:32:36Melissa Erbacher: If you're a cake eater, you need to be at the Super parkrun being held in Victoria at Tulane Creek's first anniversary. Forgive me if I've pronounced Tulane Creek incorrectly.

00:32:49Scott Trickett: Yep. I think you have. I think it's Tulane Creek. Toolan. Toolan. Toolan Creek.

00:32:55Melissa Erbacher: Toolan Creek.

00:32:56Scott Trickett: Yep. I've butchered a few times. Mark will correct me if we're wrong. But happy birthday, Melton South parkrun. And as you said, they're having a superheroes thing, which is always popular. We're done for this week. Next week, we're going to catch up with Mark Connolly. Fingers crossed.

00:33:17Melissa Erbacher: Yeah, we might need to invite him on the show.

00:33:19Scott Trickett: Yeah. Mark, if you're listening, we're going to talk to you next week on the show. He's in Darwin, which is only parkrun in the Northern Territory. So that'll be a very interesting perspective because they know all about stumidity.

00:33:35Melissa Erbacher: They do. I think stumidity actually originates from the Northern Territory. So, yeah, I'm really looking forward to that. That'll be a great one.

00:33:45Scott Trickett: There's also a movie launching next week.

00:33:49Melissa Erbacher: Do you know anything about it? Oh, I may know a little bit about it. I may be coordinating a group session to go and see it because it has a little bit of something to do with my running club.

00:34:02Scott Trickett: Yep. So we might talk a little bit about that in the next episode. Okay, so that's all happening in the next episode. Okay, bye. We're out. Later. Mark, come on the show.