Episode 72

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00:00:06Melissa Erbacher: Welcome to Episode 72 of the parkrun Adventurers Podcast. I am Mel. I missed partaking of Episode 71, much to my dismay. However, I'm back and I'm joined by Scotty Trickett, who is... Where are you, Scotty?

00:00:23Scott Trickett: I'm on the other side of the world, a long way from you. Before we get to that... That is a long way. Before we get to that, what did you think of last week's episode? Sans Mel.

00:00:34Melissa Erbacher: It was good. What was it?

00:00:36Scott Trickett: What was your highlight?

00:00:40Melissa Erbacher: I think it probably was when Renee suggested that Coomera's anniversary should be a W theme in honour of Wesley. I think that was my highlight.

00:00:52Scott Trickett: Hang on, you just told me you haven't listened. You said you block it out of your memory. I don't want anything to do with Episode 71.

00:01:06Melissa Erbacher: You're giving away my secrets. You're not supposed to do that. Any good co-host wouldn't do that. I have people out there reviewing all episodes and they get back to me every week. How do you think I get spies to follow you around?

00:01:19Scott Trickett: I forgot about the spies. You got me there. But you haven't listened because what? You've been too busy?

00:01:27Melissa Erbacher: I have been a little bit hands full lately. Yes. Literally, hands full of baby. Yes.

00:01:36Scott Trickett: And so we heard about it last week. We announced that Wesley's entered the world. He has. Is Wesley with us today?

00:01:45Melissa Erbacher: He is. He was having a little bit of a tantrum just prior to recording, so I had to put something in his mouth to shut him up.

00:01:53Scott Trickett: Okay.

00:01:54Melissa Erbacher: But he's very quiet now, I think you'll agree.

00:01:56Scott Trickett: Yeah, so we can't chat?

00:01:58Melissa Erbacher: No, not at the moment. Maybe a little bit later after he's full.

00:02:02Scott Trickett: Okay, goodo. So how's that all going? Congratulations, by the way.

00:02:08Melissa Erbacher: Thank you. It's going pretty well, apart from, you know, the normal things like sleep deprivation and stitches and everything hurting and all that sort of stuff that follows on from pushing a child out your vagina and having to stay in a hospital.

00:02:25Scott Trickett: Yep.

00:02:25Melissa Erbacher: Too much information.

00:02:26Scott Trickett: We're getting a lot of information tonight, which is great. Which is great, because we had no information from you last week, so you're making up for it. That's fantastic.

00:02:34Melissa Erbacher: Yeah. But, you know, I did actually, because the little blighter made me miss my first parkrun in I don't know how long, because I was in labour during parkrun last week, which was interesting, I actually got my husband to take a photo of me at 7am when everybody in Queensland would have been starting their runs. Originally, I had planned to share that photo, but I have since looked at it. That was my next question. In the interest of public health and safety, I will not be sharing said photo. But I have it. I have it on record where I was at 7 a.m. on the 3rd of June and exactly what I was doing. It wasn't pretty. And it wasn't fun and it certainly was not parkrun, but I had a worthwhile outcome in the end, so I can't really complain.

00:03:31Scott Trickett: And look, true to your word, I had a little bit of fun with you last week that you were not available, but you said you would be available and here you are one week later.

00:03:44Melissa Erbacher: Yes, and I would have been available last week except for a few visits to the special care unit for my newborn child. So I'm going to say that I was available until that happened. And it wasn't just because I was all loved up and wanting to have lots of cuddles with my new little man. Exactly. I would have been here if I could have been. And I was very sad to miss the episode.

00:04:09Scott Trickett: That's okay. Renee did a sterling job in your absence.

00:04:14Melissa Erbacher: She's a trooper. She is. And an inspirational half Ironman athlete now.

00:04:20Scott Trickett: She is. So an update on that. Renee finished. She smashed her predicted time.

00:04:25Melissa Erbacher: Absolutely obliterated it. She's such an inspiration.

00:04:30Scott Trickett: And she's making plans to do the full.

00:04:32Melissa Erbacher: Yeah, she's crazy.

00:04:33Scott Trickett: I know. And we're putting it on record now. So she said it. And now it's out there in the podcast world.

00:04:42Melissa Erbacher: Yep. Once it's out there in the podcast world, it'll happen. I want to see her follow through.

00:04:46Scott Trickett: Now, but on this, we alluded last week that we may or may not be here this week. We're here. You and I are here. There is an episode 72, but it's going to be a brief one.

00:04:57Melissa Erbacher: Yes. Well, we'll see how long it takes Wes to crack the shits again.

00:05:01Scott Trickett: Pretty much. That's the timer on this week's episode. We're just going to shit until he cracks the shits. Yes. And...

00:05:10Melissa Erbacher: And hopefully it's not a s*** episode.

00:05:11Scott Trickett: Yeah. Speaking of, no, not speaking of s***, speaking of the opposite of s***, do you want me to tell you what I've been up to?

00:05:18Melissa Erbacher: Please do, because I feel out of the loop.

00:05:20Scott Trickett: So I went via Bangkok, took a run in, a bit different running in Bangkok in June than Melbourne in June.

00:05:29Melissa Erbacher: So what's the weather like there at this time of year?

00:05:31Scott Trickett: Hot.

00:05:33Melissa Erbacher: Hot.

00:05:33Scott Trickett: Hot and rainy and hot and humid. Not good for running. Okay. I've got this weather app on my phone that gives you a run reading, like where it tells you if it's a good day. A rating out of 10 if it's a good day to go for a run. Wasn't a good day to go for a run in Bangkok. Okay. But I still did it. I got out. And further to proof that running is the universal sport that anyone can do, I head out into the streets of Bangkok. And I'm in suburban Bangkok. I'm not in the city or anything. And come across another guy going for a run. Can't speak any English. He just waves to me, says, come along, and we go for a run out along the road. It was part of me that thought, I hope he turns around and comes back with me because I'm not sure.

00:06:23Melissa Erbacher: How to get back?

00:06:23Scott Trickett: Well, I was, but if we started taking some detours, I would have been in trouble. We had a runner's conversation. We pointed at things. We grunted, and it was great. And then we had a sprint finish, which I wasn't expecting, but he just, he pointed to something on the ground and then just took off. So I took that as my cue that, right, we're in a race now.

00:06:44Melissa Erbacher: Okay. Yeah.

00:06:45Scott Trickett: I beat him.

00:06:47Melissa Erbacher: Oh, that, well, he probably let you win.

00:06:50Scott Trickett: You think? No. Yeah. I didn't come in. I was in cruise control.

00:06:55Melissa Erbacher: Okay.

00:06:57Scott Trickett: I'll take your word for it. But then left Bangkok, arrived in London in a British summer. Not quite.

00:07:05Melissa Erbacher: Yeah, I've had a couple of those.

00:07:06Scott Trickett: Yeah, not quite. Not quite the summer that I'm used to, but at least warmer than Melbourne at the moment. So I'm not complaining. I'm not complaining at all. And I've spent pretty much all weekend walking around London, trying to see as much as I could, covering a lot of town. This is a great thing about travelling. And I've experienced in the past, you walk a lot when you're a tourist. I do anyway.

00:07:29Melissa Erbacher: You do. Yeah.

00:07:30Scott Trickett: I was using public transport. I was jumping on and off buses and trains and that. But inevitably, you just end up walking a long way. So I returned home on Saturday night and looked down at my watch and I'd done 38,000 steps.

00:07:44Lyndell Murray: Nice.

00:07:46Scott Trickett: That was including a parkrun in there as well. Yeah. And a similar number again on Sunday. Okay.

00:07:52Melissa Erbacher: Awesome. Well, you can just sit down for the rest of the week, can't you?

00:07:54Scott Trickett: I was exhausted. But in those 38,000 steps, I went to Bushy. I went to Bushy parkrun and got to experience the home of parkrun and got to experience my first international parkrun.

00:08:07Melissa Erbacher: And did you see any deer?

00:08:09Scott Trickett: Oh, deer are everywhere. So prior to Saturday, I got here on Friday and I'm staying near Bushy Park. So I went for a run around Bushy Park. And the deer literally, they really are everywhere. That was what I wanted to see. Actually, was it just a story that we tell tourists to get them here? But no, they're literally everywhere. Bushy's a really big park. I went for a run trying to fight some jet lag and ended up doing 13 kilometres simply because I just kept running and the park never ended.

00:08:41Melissa Erbacher: That's one way to deal with jet lag.

00:08:44Scott Trickett: It worked.

00:08:45Melissa Erbacher: Okay, good.

00:08:46Scott Trickett: Running cue is all.

00:08:48Melissa Erbacher: At Bushy, you get to start in like a really wide sort of start line, is that correct?

00:08:54Scott Trickett: It is. So you run for a couple of hundred metres just along the open grass. So the start line must be 50, 60 metres wide. People wide. Oh, people wide, okay. 50 people across the front.

00:09:09Melissa Erbacher: And were you toeing the front line?

00:09:12Scott Trickett: A couple of rows deep.

00:09:13Melissa Erbacher: Okay, that's not too bad. I mean, usually at the bigger events, if you want to get a decent time or you want to be not overtaking a lot of people, you have to start quite close to the front.

00:09:26Scott Trickett: Bushy, you don't have to worry about that because it's such a wide opening and you run for so long that by the time you get to the path, it is narrowing down. Okay. Not for us, though, because there was a deer, like literally on the path.

00:09:41Melissa Erbacher: So you had to dodge it?

00:09:43Scott Trickett: Yes, so the guy in front of me smacked it on its bum. And I thought, oh, don't be doing that. Oh, my God. It's going to turn around and charge me. But it didn't. It just kept eating its leaf in the fence. But then all its little baby deer, it's on the path. It's a fawn if it's a baby deer. Fawn. All its fawn were on the path next to it. And they didn't seem to bother either.

00:10:03Melissa Erbacher: Well, they're probably used to a thousand people running past them every weekend.

00:10:06Scott Trickett: Yeah, I think they are. There's lots of signs in Bushy Park to stay away. from the deer but that's for the humans so yeah the deer can't read so they pay no attention to those signs stay away deer yeah no but bushy bushy park it's a it's a flat run i highly recommend it we crossed a bridge love that little tiny one it was it's a pb course apparently and it was just over just too quickly

00:10:35Melissa Erbacher: It was a beautiful morning.

00:10:36Lyndell Murray: Well, that's because you got a PB.

00:10:38Scott Trickett: Apparently it was really hot and humid, according to the locals, but... I don't think it even nudged 20 degrees. So it was a perfect morning. And I've ticked Bushy off my list. And I'm on to another one.

00:10:51Melissa Erbacher: Were you walking on sunshine for the rest of the day? Like you got a PB, a parkrun PB. I didn't.

00:10:58Scott Trickett: Well, you didn't know about it for a few hours. And to be honest, I didn't know if, you know, the official time was going to match up with my watch. Just because when there's so many people, you can expect that, you know, I might be a bit out or for whatever reason.

00:11:13Melissa Erbacher: But how close is it to your previous parkrun PB then?

00:11:17Scott Trickett: You're asking more details than I'm familiar with. I knew my PB was around this mark, so I think it's close to that.

00:11:25Melissa Erbacher: Okay. Well, because, I mean, I haven't had a personal best since, I think it was May 2013, so it's fairly emblazoned on my memory what my PB is, and when I finally get to move past that, I'm there will be cake and there will be wine and all sorts of celebrations. So obviously not everybody is so focused on that, I guess.

00:11:53Scott Trickett: Well, yes and no. I've been really keen to get a PB this year. And what I really want to do is I want to go sub 20 minutes. And there was actually part of me that crossed the finish line knowing that I had got close to my PB and thought, well, that was a waste. I feel fantastic. I could have really gone for it.

00:12:11Melissa Erbacher: Oh, well, next time.

00:12:12Scott Trickett: Next time. Next week, maybe. Maybe... The nine o'clock start was good, too, because I don't like running early in the morning. I do all my running at night. And with the sun coming up here at, like, four o'clock in the morning, I'm wide awake. And so there was a couple of hours of just waiting around, killing time, waiting for nine o'clock.

00:12:34Melissa Erbacher: Well, all the things aligned for you. You had good weather, the time suited... You obviously were over your jet lag, courtesy of your running the day prior. Yep.

00:12:46Scott Trickett: So everything lined up. So it was a great morning.

00:12:49Cheryl - Redland Bay parkrun Event Director: It was a great adventure for me at Bushy.

Channel 5 News Crew

00:12:51Scott Trickett: 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?

00:13:01Melissa Erbacher: I certainly am.

00:13:03Lyndell Murray: Take it away, Lyndell. Okay, parkrun Adventurers, it's Lyndell here reporting for the Channel 5 News crew on the parkrun Adventurers podcast. I am reporting from the launch of the Redland Bay parkrun here in Queensland. Love a good parkrun with a theme, and the crew here at Redland Bay have developed a theme for their launch of red, blue and green to match the surrounds. Now, the blue and green are pretty obvious. Blue by the bay, green for the park. And the red, now... The soil out here at Redlands, this is why it's called the Redlands, is quite red. So I'm going to try and find out today from some of the locals why the soil is red at Redlands. The other thing that I am going to try and find out in my roving report this morning is I'm a very attentive parkrun adventurer and I've noticed that Redland Bay starts with R. So I'm going to see if there are any parkrun pirates here or any potential parkrun pirates who have come here in search of an aura. Now, it's no good to me. I've already got my arrr from Rocks Riverside. So I'm not contributing to my pirate-ness this morning, but I'll see if anyone else is. Wish me luck, guys. Okay, guys, so I'm here with Lamo, and he's a local here around the Redland Bay area. Have you done parkruns before? No.

00:14:30Lamo - Redland Bay local parkrunner: Look, I'm a pretty slick crack parkrunner. I fancy myself. I know that you don't spell parkrunner with a capital P, so it means I've done more than 10 parkruns. That's right.

00:14:39Lyndell Murray: Well, that's a good point. Now, the Redlands. The theme this morning is red, blue and green. The dirt out here is red. Do you know why the dirt is red?

00:14:50Lamo - Redland Bay local parkrunner: The dirt is red because it's apparently volcanic. That's going back a fair bit. It means we get tons of koalas out here. It means we get lovely boardwalks to run along. And you've always got a view of the water, which makes running very special.

00:15:01Lyndell Murray: It sounds lovely. I can't wait to get going this morning. Now, the other question I have for you, you say you're a bit of a parkrun aficionado. Have you heard of the Pirate Club in parkrun?

00:15:10Lamo - Redland Bay local parkrunner: Look, no, I haven't. But this is the Pirate HQ of Queensland because this is where they've filmed a lot of pirate films the last couple of years. So, Johnny Depp, eat your heart out.

00:15:20Lyndell Murray: Wow, so it's Pirate Central here. Okay, but you're not here for your pirate club. So thanks, Limo. Thanks for your time. Have a great run today.

00:15:27Lamo - Redland Bay local parkrunner: No, it'll be lightning fast today. Flat track and they're tipping under 19 minutes for the winner.

00:15:32Lyndell Murray: Okay, I've tracked down Robin. Robin, what's your home parkrun? South Bank in Brisbane. Ah, right. So that's a pretty big one.

00:15:39Robin - South Bank parkrun regular: It is. It's about 500 a week.

00:15:41Lyndell Murray: Excellent, excellent. And how did you find today at Redland Bay?

00:15:44Robin - South Bank parkrun regular: It was really beautiful. It was one of the most scenic ones I've done. Lovely. A bit hard at the beginning going around the grass, but no, it was a beautiful course.

00:15:51Lyndell Murray: Yeah, it is lovely out there, isn't it? Yeah. Now, the other thing, so you're obviously touristing or adventuring down here to Redland Bay.

00:15:57Robin - South Bank parkrun regular: Yes, we are. We decided a group of us to come down and try the launch and be here to support them for their first one.

00:16:03Lyndell Murray: All right, so you didn't come to Redland Bay for an arrr. Oh, so you don't know about the parkrun Pirate Club? Oh, yes, I do.

00:16:15Robin - South Bank parkrun regular: Right. I'm not very good at it.

00:16:16Lyndell Murray: But you haven't come here for your R?

00:16:18Robin - South Bank parkrun regular: I haven't come here for my R, no.

00:16:20Lyndell Murray: Oh, still on the lookout for an aspiring pirate. Thanks, Robin.

00:16:25Robin - South Bank parkrun regular: No worries. Thank you very much.

00:16:26Lyndell Murray: Okay, so now I'm with Jane. Jane is here as one of many, many members of the Sharks Triathlon Club, the local club here in Redland Bay. And Jane's looking awesome with her lovely blue tutu with sharks embroidered all around her. It looks really awesome. So, Jane, you're a local here, right, around the area?

00:16:45Jane - Sharks Triathlon Club member, Cleveland: Yeah, I live in Cleveland. So that's about, oh, about 10 minutes drive from here. Yeah, and there's a parkrun there too. Yes, we have a parkrun also. So I was going to ask you whether Redland Bay was going to become your home parkrun, but... It's unlikely since I basically live on the Cleveland course. But I had to come and check out the inaugural Redland Bay parkrun. Absolutely. And how did you find the course today? Oh, it was fantastic. The grassy section was a little hard. I would have worn my old shoes if I would have known there was a grassy section. But then once you got onto the pathway and the view was just unbelievable. Just a beautiful day.

00:17:23Lyndell Murray: Okay, so I've tracked down the event director Cheryl and one of the run directors Paul to just check in with them and see how the launch went. So how did it go today?

00:17:32Cheryl - Redland Bay parkrun Event Director: I'm really happy. I think we've probably got between 300 and 400 people. We've got gorgeous blue skies. It's a stunning view out there and it's not too cold. So thumbs up from me.

00:17:42Lyndell Murray: Yeah, it's been great. It's been a really great event. How about you, Paul? How's your day been?

00:17:46Paul - Redland Bay parkrun Run Director: Fantastic. Everyone's very positive and they seem to have enjoyed themselves. And like I said, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful views and fantastic weather. Can't complain.

00:17:57Lyndell Murray: Absolutely not. Now I do have one, actually I have two questions for you. The theme today, red, blue and green. So the red obviously I'm presuming is for the soil.

00:18:06Cheryl - Redland Bay parkrun Event Director: Yes, the Redland Bay, yep.

00:18:08Lyndell Murray: So can you tell me why the soil is red down here? Can I phone a friend?

00:18:14Cheryl - Redland Bay parkrun Event Director: How about you, Paul?

00:18:16Paul - Redland Bay parkrun Run Director: I don't know the answer to that one.

00:18:18Cheryl - Redland Bay parkrun Event Director: Paul lives here, so he should know the answer. No, I don't know the answer, but I know it is very red. And when you're up at the golf course and turn around where they're making a new green or something, and it's beautiful, rich red soil.

00:18:29Lyndell Murray: It is, absolutely. Now, the other question I have for you is... Redland Bay is an arrrrr course.

00:18:35Cheryl - Redland Bay parkrun Event Director: Yes, pirate. Yes. So if you're up for your pirate club, then please come and visit.

00:18:40Lyndell Murray: Absolutely. So the arrr for me wasn't very useful today because I already had an arrr and I was really trying to track down another pirate. Haven't succeeded just yet. So pirates, get down here. This is an awesome course.

00:18:52Cheryl - Redland Bay parkrun Event Director: Absolutely. And we would welcome you. This is a beautiful part of the country and we've got some lovely cafes and things straight across the road. So please pop down and check us out.

00:19:00Lyndell Murray: Great, thanks guys. Thank you very much. Okay, so that is a wrap from the Redland Bay parkrun. Beautiful course. What I did find out is that the red is definitely due to the soil, and the soil is most probably red due to volcanic activity from days gone past. No current volcanic activity, so don't let that keep you away from Redland Bay parkrun. the blue for the bay and the green I thought that was really just because of the park but actually there's also a bit of a rainforest section on the course so the green obviously represents that area as well and didn't really find any parkrun pirates down here which is a little bit disappointing aspiring pirates out there put Redland Bay on your list it's an awesome course down here see you next time guys

00:19:56Scott Trickett: So it's a short one this week, Mel. At least there is one. At least there is an episode 72, but it's a short one.

00:20:02Melissa Erbacher: Well, we should tell people. Oh, we should have mentioned this in the intro, perhaps. People should use it for like a tempo run or some fartlek or what do they call those things? It's like fartlek, but it's not fartlek. Threshold?

00:20:17Scott Trickett: Threshold.

00:20:19Melissa Erbacher: No, you know, the one where you like run super fast for two minutes and then you have like a 30 second slower recovery and then you do it again. Yeah, that's fartlek. Repeatedly.

00:20:28Scott Trickett: That's fartlek.

00:20:30Melissa Erbacher: No, it's like fartlek, but it's not fartlek. There's two things. I used to do it once a week every, it's not a tempo run though. No, it's not. This is what happens when you get a baby brain. Okay, that thing that's like fartlek, that's what people should be doing to this episode.

00:20:49Scott Trickett: I'm pretty sure it's far-looking. But I don't want to have an argument with the sleep-deprived.

00:20:55Melissa Erbacher: I'll think of it next week and I'll clarify. I'm sure there will be people out there that know exactly what I'm talking about.

00:21:02Scott Trickett: Let's move on. Launches. Anniversaries.

Launches and anniversaries ("Where is the cake?")

00:21:06Melissa Erbacher: We've got a few launches this week in a few different states. That's a bit exciting.

00:21:10Scott Trickett: Yeah, it's massive. We're spreading the love all over the country almost. Well, along the eastern seaboard anyway. We're going to Dolls Point in New South Wales. Cool name.

00:21:22Melissa Erbacher: It is a very cool name.

00:21:23Scott Trickett: Mernda in Victoria. Not as cool name, but I ran there a couple of weeks ago. Really nice parkrun.

00:21:31Melissa Erbacher: Awesome.

00:21:32Scott Trickett: And Yeppoon in Queensland. That's a cool name too.

00:21:37Melissa Erbacher: That is a cool name. And Yipoon is another one of those events that is going to challenge a lot of the statesmen in Queensland because it's, Not necessarily easy to get to.

00:21:48Scott Trickett: Great. We love it.

00:21:51Melissa Erbacher: We do. Got to challenge the adventurers out there.

00:21:54Scott Trickett: We are boosting the coffers of the airlines around the country. They need to come at us.

00:22:01Melissa Erbacher: Yeah. Why don't we have one of those as a major sponsor yet? Yes.

00:22:04Scott Trickett: I don't know. We need a sponsorship guy working for the podcast to organize that.

00:22:09Melissa Erbacher: We should. We should get one of them.

00:22:10Scott Trickett: We need staff.

00:22:12Melissa Erbacher: Now, anniversaries, because everyone loves anniversaries. Where are they happening?

00:22:19Scott Trickett: Burley Griffin in the ACT, Corrine Glades in Western Australia, and how about you take the other two?

00:22:26Melissa Erbacher: And then in Queensland, we've got North Shore and Town of Seaside, as I mentioned a little bit earlier.

00:22:32Scott Trickett: You know what also I did? On Sunday, I went and experienced Junior parkrun.

00:22:40Melissa Erbacher: Oh, how was that? Was it super cute?

00:22:43Scott Trickett: It was. I had high expectations. I knew I was going to love it, but I truly loved it. It was the best thing ever.

00:22:53Melissa Erbacher: Wow.

00:22:54Scott Trickett: Yeah, wow.

00:22:55Melissa Erbacher: And which event did you go to?

00:22:57Scott Trickett: I ventured down to Surbiton Junior, where the event director and run director on the morning is a gentleman by the name of Danny Norman. Do you remember Danny? Yes, I do. Yes, so I took the opportunity to catch up with Danny, and I volunteered as a marshal, so I was the finish... I was the funnel finish marshal. So at Surbiton Junior, they do two laps, so a one-lap circuit, and my job was to stand near the finish line and direct them... To their second lap, if they hadn't done it yet.

00:23:36[laughter]

00:23:36Melissa Erbacher: LAUGHTER

00:23:37Scott Trickett: The expressions on the kids' faces on the first lap was there was a bit of pain. They weren't enjoying it as much as I thought. They were working hard. The other part of my job was when they finished their second lap was to guide them into the funnel and it was to keep the parents out. You don't want the parents in the funnel because the parents stuff everything up apparently. If you just get the kids in the funnel, everything works beautifully. But as soon as you introduce parents into it, everything goes tits up.

00:24:06Melissa Erbacher: Okay.

00:24:07Scott Trickett: So the expressions turned from pain and sorrow on the first lap to absolute joy and elation as every single kid was coming up to the finish line. Some of them were giggling. They were so happy to be finishing. And I'm sure lots of them were proud of themselves for finishing. And you cannot help but Enjoy it.

00:24:32Melissa Erbacher: Did you have a sore face from smiling?

00:24:34Scott Trickett: Absolutely. The sight of a kid enjoying themselves running is just an absolute treat. And I came away on a real high simply by watching kids get active on a Sunday morning. And there's no pretending with kids. Like I said, on the first lap, you knew exactly how they were feeling. But you also knew exactly how they were feeling when they finished. And it was just pure happiness.

00:25:05Cheryl - Redland Bay parkrun Event Director: And it's 2K.

00:25:07Scott Trickett: It wraps up really quickly. So you're pretty much done by 9.30, as the case here starts at 9. Everyone was gone by 9.30. And it's just a fantastic way to start your Sunday. And I just cannot wait until it's coming. To Australia. And Renee teased us last week that it's coming. I can confirm that it's coming. Just working through some really important stuff. But when it does, I know, Mel, you're going to love it. Wesley's going to love it. It's going to be huge. He's going to have to wait a little bit, a few more years, before he can do it. But, oh boy.

00:25:46Melissa Erbacher: It'll be worth it. And it'll be great for everyone who gets to... to start embracing it as soon as it happens in Australia. I know there are a lot of people chomping at the bit for Junior parkrun to come. So that's really exciting. And you did a volunteer stint. I did. In the UK at a Junior parkrun. Yeah. There's not too many people who've probably done that.

00:26:04Scott Trickett: No. No. And there's plenty of parents around. So volunteering, I don't see that as being an issue necessarily. Because the parents are there anyway, and you need heaps of marshals to make sure the kids are getting around safely. But there's no shortage of marshals willing to step up. I just can't see any problems. I just can't see any pitfalls at how this could not be an absolute winner and transform physical activity for our juniors in this country.

00:26:36Melissa Erbacher: It's very exciting. It's very exciting.

00:26:38Scott Trickett: The run briefing is different too. So, Danny, there's no point talking to the kids because they're not listening. So, the run briefing is really directed at the adults because kids are kids and they just want to run.

00:26:53Lyndell Murray: Yep.

00:26:54Scott Trickett: They do a warm-up. That's pretty cute too. So, before they all line up at the start line, they've all got to do their stretching and their twisting and make sure they're all ready to go. And, of course, they have no idea what they're doing. They're just following the volunteer who's taking them through the warm-up. I'd say about 2% probably were doing the right thing. The rest were just jumping up and down and pretending, just being kids. Fantastic.

00:27:21Melissa Erbacher: Cuteness overload. Yes.

00:27:23Scott Trickett: So, unfortunately, we don't have any Junior parkrun launches to announce.

00:27:27Melissa Erbacher: Maybe by the end of 2017. Guaranteed.

00:27:31Scott Trickett: And that's a wrap. Again, Mel, we will hopefully speak to each other next week. But stay tuned.