Episode 105

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00:00:16Scott Trickett: It's time for episode 105 of the parkrun Adventurers, and I guess you all thought we were going to be outdoors with a studio audience. Sucked in. That whole palm listener meetup was a ruse.

00:00:32Melissa Erbacher: It didn't happen. It's just like the moon walk.

00:00:35Scott Trickett: Well, that's not true because if you've been on social media, you know it happened and you know it was lots and lots of fun. But if you haven't been following along, a couple of months ago, one of our listeners, Gary Murphy, approached us with the idea of having a listener meetup. We thought, sure, that sounds like a good idea. As the weeks and months rolled by, it got closer and closer. excitement grew and it culminated in one awesome weekend that you and I have just experienced, Mel.

00:01:09Melissa Erbacher: We have. It was incredible and if you could have been there and didn't make it, then you really did miss out. I understand not everybody can be there because it was an adventure to a little corner of our country that is not accessible to everyone all the time, but for those who could make it, They had a great time, I am told. And for those who couldn't make it, well, at least we recorded the podcast live. So you get a little bit of a taste of what the weekend was about.

00:01:41Scott Trickett: So before we throw to it, I think I'm convinced we're going to do it again, Mel.

00:01:48Melissa Erbacher: Well, aren't we already planning? Yes. Isn't that the plan? Yes. So it was announced. Brendan Scollary did announce in the pre-run brief at Shell Harbour parkrun on Saturday morning that it was the inaugural annual parkrun Adventurers Listener Meetup. So I guess that locks us in.

00:02:06Scott Trickett: Yep. So if you had massive FOMO from the weekend, you have got 12 months to plan and put it in your diary because I think it's a good time of year. The weather was perfect. We're post-Christmas holiday season. It just, everything lined up. So put it in your diaries. 2019 happening again, but 2018 happened. And let's have a listen to how it went. Episode 105 of the parkrun Adventures, Mel. Not our usual episode. I could see you for starters.

00:02:47Melissa Erbacher: Yeah, I'm feeling weirded out by this. So I'm going to look. Let's hold up a book.

00:02:51Scott Trickett: Yeah, I'm not going to look. For now, anyway. Yeah, that works for me. I'm not in my study or my bedroom. There's a bit of wind about, but we're going to work through that. But I've got a great view, and it's not just because of the people in front of me. But that's partially... the reason why. We're at Shellharbour, we're at the parkrun Adventurers Listener Meetup. We have parkrun Adventurers with us. So our first fears were allayed when there were people here.

00:03:26[applause]

00:03:26Melissa Erbacher: And thank you to those two people who just made that crowd sound like there was a lot more of you.

00:03:33Brendan Peel: And so we're also recording on a Saturday morning.

00:03:36Scott Trickett: Which is awesome, which means I've got a whole... That's a first for us. Yeah, I've got heaps of time to edit this. And the reason why is because we're at Shell Harbour parkrun. We've done Shell Harbour parkrun this morning. And we're going to start the program with our guests, our hosts for today. So I'm going to welcome up Brendan and Ollie. Hey. And we're going to learn more about Shell Harbour parkrun and these two gentlemen who run the show. So I'll give Olly the mic. Introduce yourselves. Hello everyone. I'm Olly.

00:04:17Brendan Scollary: And I'm Brendan. now this is your home event so technically brendan is our event director but yep that's correct but ollie is uh our right hand man here without ollie on our core event team shell harbour parkrun would not be able to take place every week i've never publicly said top three

00:04:37Scott Trickett: but and i'm not going to publicly say top three but my goodness my goodness you're showing off like this is i mean you guys know it don't you this is like one of the best parkruns going around we certainly love it we were stoked to have you here um shame there's a bit of wind but uh yeah beautiful day to uh get to share it with you all

00:05:03Melissa Erbacher: Wind is good, perfect running conditions.

00:05:04Oliver Spake: And it's nice to make the unofficial top three. It's in contention, it's not unofficial.

00:05:15Brendan Scollary: And we're definitely blessed to be here within the Reflections Killalea State Park. We've been here nearly four years now. The park management have been on board since day one and have improved the park and the parkrun in that time, making the course friendly. We had one pram pusher today. They made it around. We've really only ever had three or four make it around the course because the course is... A variety of terrains, you know, you've got gravel, grass, sand and a couple of hills as well. But we are blessed. We've been to different parkruns and we think, yeah, we're lucky we don't have any cars. We aren't allowed to have dogs here and it is one loop course. So, yeah, we are different to a lot of parkruns and we think we are unique as most parkruns are. But we are blessed to have Killalea here.

00:06:13Melissa Erbacher: Well, we felt blessed to be here, Brendan, especially because who knew there's a beach, a Mel Erbacher beach. And there's also a Scott Trickett Bridge. Apparently. Among this, Gary Murphy, he kind of is obviously the king of the place though, because he got two hills. But Brendan, let's go back to, you've been involved with parkrun for a while. Can you tell us how you first got involved?

00:06:42Brendan Scollary: Well, I've been running nearly all my life. As a teenager, I started running. Obviously, parkrun here has only been going for, what, seven years. But I got on board with parkrun just over four years ago. I started at Sandon Point and immediately saw... living here in Shell Cove, that Killalea was going to be a perfect venue for it. So that's really my parkrun journey started at Sandon Point. Not long after that, we decided that Killer Lee was worthy of having a parkrun. So we made initial investigations into it. Carl Hayes came on board as the first event director, got us underway and we were so lucky that we had the park management on board and we've not had a problem since day one.

00:07:36Scott Trickett: So we had about 300 this morning?

00:07:39Oliver Spake: Yep, just shy of 300. Is that normal? Yeah, we're typically average in the 200s. We top out in the mid 300s. So we get a great following here, a number of families. So it was great to see another good turnout today.

00:07:54Scott Trickett: And everyone hang around after the run, which was good to see. Yeah.

00:07:58Oliver Spake: Is that normal? That's fairly normal. It's always a group of potentially a couple of dozen people sitting by the cafe. We're fortunate to have support from the cafe here, which is only metres from the finish line, so you can stumble straight in for your coffee. But it's, again, part of the local community that's built around Shell Harbour parkrun that people really have taken the habit of sticking around.

00:08:22Melissa Erbacher: We're all about families and we've managed to recruit several members of our families to come along personally to parkrun. Ollie, something you have managed to do which Scotty and I have had mild to not a lot of success with yet is get your mum to come to parkrun. Have you got any tips? Like what can we do?

00:08:42Oliver Spake: Look, it's best time of the week to spend with mum. Fortunately, she shares my passion for just getting out and enjoying beautiful surrounds, spending a bit of time with other like-minded people. and uh of late you know the odd adventure which is again quality time that we share it's been it's been extra special for me because sharing it with mum you know we've done the odd event outside of parkrun but by doing it with mum my oldest daughter's come along too so it's you know the three generations of us just getting out on a saturday

00:09:16Melissa Erbacher: Awesome. We need to get that happening, don't we, Scotty?

00:09:20Scott Trickett: Is now the time to introduce other members of the family? Yeah.

00:09:24Unidentified speaker: Sure.

00:09:26Scott Trickett: Because we had a special guest planned to, for whatever reason, couldn't come. So we organised someone better. Em, do you want to come up and have a chat to the parkrun adventurers?

00:09:35Paul Kitching: So nervous.

00:09:41Scott Trickett: Nothing to be nervous about. So hold the microphone. And you've just got to answer every question I ask you or Mel asks you.

00:09:47Melissa Erbacher: And you've got to be hilarious. Yeah.

00:09:50Scott Trickett: So you got a lot of energy this morning when your dad was up there. I'm guessing you love parkrun too?

00:09:57Em Scollary: Yes, I do. Yeah.

00:09:58Scott Trickett: What is it you love about parkrun in particular?

00:10:03Em Scollary: That's a very hard question.

00:10:05Melissa Erbacher: You can give us more than one answer. It doesn't have to be just one thing.

00:10:08Em Scollary: I just love parkrun because it's like the best. It's like my whole family.

00:10:13Scott Trickett: So you've met plenty of people, met plenty of friends coming down to parkrun, I'm guessing?

00:10:18Em Scollary: Yeah.

00:10:18Scott Trickett: Yeah, because you sort of run up to everyone and introduce yourself.

00:10:22Em Scollary: I like give hugs, give knuckles. Yeah.

00:10:27Melissa Erbacher: High fives. You were there in the first-timers brief, standing beside with a lovely big sign saying, have you handed back your token? And you also checked if we all had our barcodes. And I was very impressed that you weren't impressed enough with the answer and you asked us to all do it again a lot louder the second time. You really do, Scotty mentioned it, you bring a lot of energy to the event. Do you know what kind of impact you've had here yourself? Like what you have brought to parkrun?

00:10:58Em Scollary: I'm a bit of a character. Yeah, I'm a little bit of a character.

00:11:04Melissa Erbacher: We're definitely fans of characters. It's been lovely to meet you in person as well. We've been very excited and we were super excited. You've been asking about who the special guest has been and I couldn't tell you because it's you. So you've been here the whole time. Thanks, guys.

00:11:22Scott Trickett: Thank you. And thanks to gentlemen for this morning and for putting on an awesome parkrun. So now I want to find out Mel's view. I think, do we want to know what Mel thought of the course? I said it's pretty good.

00:11:37Melissa Erbacher: Yeah, it was amazing. I loved, you know, you have these one lap courses where you never see other runners, but Shell Harbour's not like that because I was down on the beach and I could hear you guys cheering back the first timers already and I looked up on the hill and you could see the runners and there are so many places along the course where you just look across these amazing views and and there are people on the horizon that are running or they're just about to go up a hill or you know they're doing the turns and stuff so you don't feel alone but at the same time i had a similar experience as when i was at margaret river and it was really peaceful you know i got another question for you 105 episodes in so so mel ellis our first madness champion asked us last night how did the podcast start why did we start the podcast and

00:12:24Scott Trickett: I don't think we've shared that story before. So when I asked you two years ago, did you think you'd be standing under a tree at Shell Harbour because people wanted to hear us talk about parkrun?

00:12:38Melissa Erbacher: Of course. I mean, that was the first thing that sprang to my mind, obviously. yeah no i think um if i recall correctly it was a facebook messenger message that you sent me and i'm pretty sure that my response was just all capitals yes with about three exclamation points um like because we need to do a podcast and i had been i had been thinking there needs to be a podcast just a couple weeks earlier like well there was a gap there left by other podcasts

00:13:06Scott Trickett: Who used to listen to the parkrun show UK? Yeah, you all did? Yeah. So who was really sad when it went away? Yeah, I was too. So I didn't want there to be this gap between having an awesome parkrun podcast to listen to every week to nothing. So I asked the powers that be, can I do it? And they weren't as enthusiastic as I was. So I sat on it for a while and then a few months went past and I just said, well, stuff it. i'm going to do a parkrun podcast and an unofficial parkrun podcast and then i just thought who really loves parkrun as much as me and i didn't really know mel and i asked somebody else i had this idea that we'd have a three host podcast this is an insight into scotty's mind because obviously he's a risk taker yeah i'm really glad that person said no they couldn't do it because managing two people schedules with the guests every week is really hard. me yeah that's not what he's saying here no but just coordinating times so adding another person so and i actually think the dynamic of mel and i work pretty well so i'm really happy with my choice you know two and two and a bit years ago uh not knowing a hell of a lot well we have fun anyway yeah yeah it's it's great to be able to have a chat once a week and just you know vomit parkrun stories for a It's time for Madness, my favourite part of the entire podcast, 105 episodes worth. We've got Simon Mackley representing Mosman parkrun as the defending champion.

Madness

00:14:49Melissa Erbacher: And New South Wales.

00:14:51Scott Trickett: And New South Wales. We've got from the greater state, Brendan Peel, the only man in Australia who we've named a club after. Is that right?

00:14:59Melissa Erbacher: Yeah.

00:15:00Scott Trickett: Yeah.

00:15:02Melissa Erbacher: You're the one who's got the right button.

00:15:05Scott Trickett: And representing Queensland, sort of, Sonja Pohlman. So thanks, guys. You know the rules. We're going to ask you a series of questions.

00:15:15Melissa Erbacher: There are 20 questions.

00:15:16Scott Trickett: There's 20 questions. Buzz in.

00:15:18Melissa Erbacher: Some of them have bonus point rounds.

00:15:20Scott Trickett: Incorrect answers lose your point.

00:15:22Melissa Erbacher: Oh, that's going to make it hard for the maths, Scotty.

00:15:25Brendan Peel: Doesn't matter. We'll keep checking it.

00:15:28Scott Trickett: Are we ready? Okay, take it away. I'm going first. Which country is home to the event that holds the global record for last... Oh! All right, we might need an adjudicator to tell us. Brendan.

00:15:46Brendan Peel: South Africa.

00:15:47Scott Trickett: There's a bonus point if you can tell me the event.

00:15:50Unidentified speaker: I can't tell you the event.

00:15:51Scott Trickett: Okay. You don't lose a point for not getting the bonus.

00:15:52Melissa Erbacher: But I think we should open that up to everybody, bonus point, if the other guys know the event.

00:15:57Scott Trickett: Okay. Anyone know the event for the bonus point? North Beach.

00:16:06Melissa Erbacher: All right, question number two. How many events are there currently in Tasmania?

00:16:15Brendan Peel: There is six.

00:16:17Melissa Erbacher: That is incorrect. Oh, and what I need to do is go... That's the sound of a dentist drill. Okay.

00:16:29Scott Trickett: Are we opening them up? Yeah, yeah, the rules of madness are you can just keep going until someone gets it right.

00:16:33Melissa Erbacher: Oh, okay.

00:16:34Scott Trickett: Yeah.

00:16:36Melissa Erbacher: Yes! You're gonna do the, hold on. There we go.

00:16:41[applause]

00:16:41Scott Trickett: Yeah, don't clap until you know it's right. Okay, question number three.

00:16:45Melissa Erbacher: Question number three.

00:16:47Scott Trickett: Is someone keeping score in the audience?

00:16:48Melissa Erbacher: I'm keeping score.

00:16:52Scott Trickett: Name the southernmost event in Western Australia. Simon? Esperance?

00:16:59Melissa Erbacher: No. Oh, sorry. I'm not doing that whole negative one situation because that's too hard for the maths if you get things wrong. I think it just counts you out.

00:17:12Scott Trickett: The rules evolve.

00:17:15Melissa Erbacher: It's just like any good car game. The rules evolve as somebody starts cheating. Alright, last week all three events in the Northern Territory were cancelled due to dangerous weather caused by Cyclone Marcus. What are the names of the three events?

00:17:30Brendan Peel: He's quick. Nightcliff, Palmerston and Darwin. Well done.

00:17:35Melissa Erbacher: I think Brendan's triangled before.

00:17:41Scott Trickett: Okay, question four. Question five. Question five. What is the newest event in New South Wales? Chipping Norton.

00:17:52Melissa Erbacher: Very nice. And it launched this morning, so you're on to it. Question number six. Which one of these Queensland events has been around for longer? This is a multi-choice. South Bank, Coomera or Cleveland? Simon.

00:18:10Scott Trickett: South Bank.

00:18:13Sonja Pohlman: Boom.

00:18:18Melissa Erbacher: Yes, that's correct, Sonia. And now do the thing. Yeah, we should have had more helpers.

00:18:25Scott Trickett: Yeah, we might do something in the edit.

00:18:30Melissa Erbacher: Alright, it's me again. Score update.

00:18:32Scott Trickett: Score update, Mel.

00:18:33Melissa Erbacher: Score update. We have Brendan on four and Sonia on two. Carryover champ Simon is yet to score.

00:18:41Scott Trickett: Which event in Victoria has changed its name since it started?

00:18:46Brendan Peel: It started off as Mornington Peninsula parkrun. Now it's Hastings for sure.

00:18:50Melissa Erbacher: Brendan, first we have to say Brendan. It started off as Mornington Peninsula parkrun.

00:18:57Scott Trickett: That is correct. Well done, Brendan. The man's on fire.

00:19:01Melissa Erbacher: All right. Question number eight. True or false? Queanbeyan is closer to Parliament House in Canberra than Tuggeranong. Brendan. Answer. Yes. True or false? Yes. Yes. There we go.

00:19:19[other]

00:19:19Scott Trickett: So, yeah, isn't that weird? It's in New South Wales, but it's closer than the ACT event. Have you run it? Okay, give us a quick review of Queanbeyan.

00:19:27Will: I hear it's tough. You go up, then you go down, and you go down a little bit, and then you go up again, and then you turn around, and you go down, down, down, and you turn around again, and then you go up, and you go up, and you go up, and then you come back down. It was like we were there.

00:19:40Melissa Erbacher: We should get Will to do the reviews all the time. That was an excellent description. Question number nine. No, well, did I ask that one? I can't count. Was that me? That was me. All right, it's your turn because of your odds.

00:19:53Scott Trickett: Yeah, because of you, yeah.

00:19:55Melissa Erbacher: I can count.

00:19:56Scott Trickett: Okay, how many parkruns in South Australia have beach in their name?

00:20:04Brendan Peel: Two, it's West Beach and Aldinga Beach. Oh, I've been waiting to do this.

00:20:12Scott Trickett: Well, I haven't, Brendan, because you're Victorian, so I'm cheering for you secretly. Three.

00:20:18Sonja Pohlman: Correct. He's on the board.

00:20:22Scott Trickett: You were right. What is the other one we're missing?

00:20:24Melissa Erbacher: The other one is Christies Beach. All right. Question number 10. Which frog was voted by parkrun Adventurers as their favourite?

00:20:35Scott Trickett: Simon. Now he's in his element. Kermit?

00:20:38Melissa Erbacher: That is correct.

00:20:43Scott Trickett: Name five Aussie parkruns starting with the letter S. That was like a three-way tie. Tell me what I'm going to do. Each of them. Each of them, yep.

00:20:56Melissa Erbacher: If you can each answer five and you can't double up.

00:20:59Scott Trickett: Carry over champ.

00:21:00Melissa Erbacher: No, you can't double up. No.

00:21:01Scott Trickett: Because there's a lot of them. There's a lot. So I'll go one. It's a process of elimination. Shell Harbour.

00:21:07Brendan Peel: Shepparton.

00:21:08Sonja Pohlman: Stanthorpe.

00:21:09Scott Trickett: And we'll snake it.

00:21:10Sonja Pohlman: Southbank.

00:21:12Brendan Peel: Sandon Point. St Peter's.

00:21:16Sonja Pohlman: How many did we ask for?

00:21:16Scott Trickett: Five.

00:21:17Sonja Pohlman: Five each, yeah.

00:21:21Brendan Peel: Pass. Sirromet.

00:21:24Sonja Pohlman: Singleton. Again. Stockton.

00:21:29Brendan Peel: San Remo. I'm out. Oh, Studley. Great event. Great event.

00:21:35Melissa Erbacher: All right, that's one point for Brendan because he got five. Well, Sonia's still got to go.

00:21:40Sonja Pohlman: Oh, hang on. I know I've got lots of S's on my list.

00:21:45Melissa Erbacher: Think about where you're from.

00:21:49Sonja Pohlman: Yes, Sandgate. Very good. Well done.

00:21:52Melissa Erbacher: Now, Simon, are you sure you don't want to have another go at the last three? Okay. So that is... And... Okay. What are we up to? Question number 12. This week, it was officially announced that Junior parkrun is coming to Australia as a 12-month pilot. Where will the first Junior parkrun... That was Simon.

00:22:17Scott Trickett: Gold Coast.

00:22:18Melissa Erbacher: That is correct. Sorry, I keep saying that before you get it. You need to stand close to the buzzer.

00:22:24Scott Trickett: I think I'm going to do it. It's the buzzer.

00:22:27Melissa Erbacher: Okay.

00:22:28Scott Trickett: That's me.

00:22:29Melissa Erbacher: It's you. And this is a multiple choice, so you're going to want to read the...

00:22:32Scott Trickett: Okay. Multiple choice, yeah. How many adults ran official milestones last week? Was it A, 262? B, 555? C, 829? Or D, 1,185 milestone runs last week? C. Got to wait for it.

00:23:04Sonja Pohlman: B. Oh my goodness.

00:23:12Scott Trickett: So 50-50 Brendan. Did we give away 262 t-shirts last week or 1,185 t-shirts last week? 2,262. That wasn't one of the... 262, 262.

00:23:28Melissa Erbacher: 1,185 people on one Saturday achieved milestone statuses. So you can appreciate the whole shirt situation is absolutely phenomenal. Alright, question number 14. That's the first one everyone's got wrong. Number 13. I was unlucky for everyone. Alright, in episode 71. Now you have to remember back to individual episodes, guys. Mel was in hospital following the birth of baby Wes and Scotty was joined by a guest co-host. What is the name of the guest co-host? Simon.

00:24:04Scott Trickett: Renee Gimbert.

00:24:05Melissa Erbacher: That is correct.

00:24:08Scott Trickett: Can we get a score update now?

00:24:09Melissa Erbacher: Score update. We have got Simon Mackley on four, Brendan on three, four, five, six, seven, and Sonia on three. It's all right. It's still anyone's game.

00:24:25Scott Trickett: Okay. Now for a couple of Who Am I's. I'm a male Australian parkrunner. My first parkrun was at Rooty Hill and I finished in a time of 14 minutes and 45 seconds. I suffered from asthma as a child. I am an Olympian.

00:24:45Melissa Erbacher: That's Simon. I want to say Liam Adams. You do want to say that?

00:24:51Unidentified speaker: Yeah.

00:24:52Melissa Erbacher: Because it's correct. All right, question number 16. We're at the point here now. Who am I? I am a female Australian parkrunner. My parkrun PB is 34 minutes and 34 seconds. I competed in my first marathon in France in 2013. That was Sonia. Mel. I want to give you the rest of the clues. I have completed 133 parkruns worldwide at more than 50 different locations. I have completed more than 160 official volunteer stints. I am reading this question and I am co-host on a cult podcast. The answer is Mel Erbacher. So, yep, I think I'll just give Sonia five for that.

00:25:40Scott Trickett: I wanted to use the word niche, but Mel went with cult podcast. 17. 17. Okay, it's an event. What event am I? I launched in Victoria in 2016. Each week, I average 115 participants. Our female course record is 1909 and has been achieved by two different athletes on three separate occasions. I have one magnificent bridge. This bridge was constructed in 1928, but was washed... Can I finish? Well... Stop it.

00:26:18Brendan Peel: Stop it.

00:26:21Melissa Erbacher: All right, but we need to redo the rest of these clues so everybody learns something today.

00:26:28Scott Trickett: The bridge was constructed in 1928. It's all right, I know this, but it was washed away in 1934 for a flood and rebuilt the same year. Prior to the launch, the event team had engineers survey the magnificent bridge to make sure it could withstand the weight of the large runners, number of parkrunners.

00:26:46Melissa Erbacher: Not just the large ones, all of them.

00:26:51Scott Trickett: The bridge is red.

00:26:52Melissa Erbacher: Okay. And the answer, of course, was Studley.

00:26:55Scott Trickett: Correct.

00:26:57Melissa Erbacher: Question 18. There's only a couple more to go. Name three official members of the parkrun Adventurers Channel 5 news crew.

00:27:06Scott Trickett: This is almost for the win, Brendan. Don't stuff it up.

00:27:09Brendan Peel: PK, who gets known as underscore PK, we have from Queensland. Well, TOC is part of the news crew and Girl from Queensland, I forget. Time's running out.

00:27:23Scott Trickett: Time's running out. Anyone else want to jump in? Lyndell. Lyndell. Lyndell and two others. Greta.

00:27:33Melissa Erbacher: You can double up on one. We do have some here.

00:27:38Sonja Pohlman: Gary Pullman. No. No. Gary Murphy.

00:27:41Melissa Erbacher: Gary Murphy. All right, question 19.

00:27:46Scott Trickett: Is this the penultimate question?

00:27:48Unidentified speaker: It is. This is it. Okay. This is the definition of penultimate.

00:27:52Scott Trickett: Okay. So in episode 99, quite recent, I sang a popular song from the 80s. Okay. You don't know what the question is. German?

00:28:07Melissa Erbacher: Because what language did he sing in? You know us too well. However...

00:28:13Scott Trickett: There's bonus points. Can you sing a line from the song? Try again. Nine. Sonia?

00:28:23Melissa Erbacher: Sonia's going to sing it. Nine anointing luftballon.

00:28:24[music]

00:28:26Sonja Pohlman: Yeah?

00:28:27Scott Trickett: Yes. I've got to play that.

00:28:28Melissa Erbacher: Sonia gets one for that too.

00:28:31Scott Trickett: Quick, quick raise of hands. Whose version was better? Sonia's or mine? Thank you.

00:28:38Melissa Erbacher: All right, guys. And there's one last question, which is actually for the audience. And if you get it right, you get to nominate who gets the point. I'll give you a wrap up on what the numbers are. So Simon is on six, Sonia is on five, Brendan is on seven. So the pressure's on. Do you think there should be another parkrun Adventurers Listener Meetup? I think that's the correct answer. All right, and you get to choose who gets the point. Popularity contest here. Sonia.

00:29:22Scott Trickett: Okay. Who's the winner of Madness?

00:29:24Melissa Erbacher: Brendan by a point. Well done.

00:29:31Scott Trickett: Thank you guys for being part of March Madness, parkrun Adventurers Madness. Simon, you've given up your title. How do you feel? It was a worthy opponent.

00:29:45Sonja Pohlman: I'm disappointed, but, you know, it goes to the right person.

00:29:49Brendan Peel: So, Brendan, before you go, how do you feel? I feel very lucky. I stumbled at the end and Simon came home like a train, so I was very thankful to win by a point, so very happy with that.

00:29:59Scott Trickett: Thank you, Brennan. My pleasure. Thank you, everyone, for playing Madness.

Channel 5 News Crew

00:30:14Melissa Erbacher: And now to follow on from the madness, we interrupt your regularly scheduled live podcasting to bring you some other live recording that was done in South Australia over the weekend. We had PK, our good mate from the Channel 5 News crew, who was not able to attend the listeners' meetup because he had an adventure at home. Let's listen all about it.

00:30:40Paul Kitching: Good morning, Scott and Mel. It's PK. Yes, I'm back. I know, it's been a while. Oh, g'day, Charlie. Yes, checking in for the parkrun Adventurers podcast, doing a bit of a roving report from my home, parkrun, the awesome Mount Barker. I know you guys hear a lot about Mount Barker, and hey, why not? It's our fourth birthday today and I've got excellent Charlie Butler. G'day Charlie.

00:31:05Charlie Butler: Hiya, how you doing?

00:31:06Paul Kitching: I'm great. So, can you guess what the theme is for our fourth birthday?

00:31:12Charlie Butler: Oh, it might be a bit hard to tell. Something, some sort of bright colours maybe.

00:31:17Paul Kitching: Yeah, we went the fluro. As an RD here, I suggested fluro. And here come some other fluro people. G'day, Es. Hey, Dad. Hey, Charlie. Eddie. Ollie. So many people. So little time. Anyway, so yes, it is a fluro theme. And it's our fourth birthday. And we're having lots of fun. I'm going to chat to a whole lot of people afterwards and ask them about their fourth birthday. So, Charlie... whilst I yabber away, just think about your fourth birthday. And also, I'm going to get a few people to tell us some awesome jokes. Hopefully dad jokes. We've got cake, we've got food, we've got everything. We've even got someone from the NBN here. Do you work for the NBN? Oh, sorry, you've just borrowed an NBN vest. Of course. You've got to steal my brother's clothes. Looks good, Jazz. Looks good, mate. And happy 100, Karen. Woo! Nice colours. All righty. Keen for cake. Keen for cake, yes. We're keen for the fluoro cake. So yeah, everybody needs to go online and check out the Mount Barker Facebook page and you'll see the cake. Good times. We'll chat at the end of the run. Okay, we have finished. We're eating cake and I'm here with Maxim and Amelie from Canada. I saw you guys running past a few times. Well, when I say a few, I mean twice, clearly. One's out, one's back. But awesome to have some visitors from Canada. What were your thoughts on Mount Barker, on the course today? Did you like the course here today?

Dad joke

00:32:46Maxim: Yeah, it was really funny. It was the first time, but it was a great one.

00:32:50Paul Kitching: No, Amelie, she's busy eating. Yeah, that's right.

00:32:52Maxim: I really have something in my mouth. Yeah, that's all right. It was really funny for the first run.

00:32:58Paul Kitching: Excellent. And so you're tempted to do, I think there is a parkrun in Canada. I'm not sure. I'm sure someone will tell me there is. Maybe in Toronto, in Quebec, I'm not sure. Okay, but are you tempted to go and check it out? Yes, for sure. You should, absolutely.

00:33:10Maxim: That's what Nina told us, we should start it if we don't have it.

00:33:13Paul Kitching: Oh, so Nina, you're from Adelaide?

00:33:15Nina: Yeah, I live here, but I'm previously from Canada.

00:33:18Paul Kitching: Excellent. Have you done Mount Barker before?

00:33:19Nina: Yeah, I did on and off.

00:33:21Paul Kitching: Great. Oh, well, welcome back. Thank you for coming. Thank you for bringing visitors from Canada and yourself from coming out. And are you in Australia for a long time?

00:33:30Maxim: We were here for two months, but we finished. We have still one week. Oh, okay. And we'll come back in Canada.

00:33:37Paul Kitching: All right. Okay, I was going to see if you could come out or maybe do some parkrun tourism at another course. But anyway, welcome. Hope you had an enjoyable fourth birthday celebration, and thanks for coming out to parkrun. It's a pleasure. Thanks, Maxim. Thanks, guys. Okay, I've found some people who can remember what they did on their fourth birthday. G'day, Lil. How are you? Lily?

00:33:54Lily: I'm good, thank you.

00:33:55Paul Kitching: Fourth birthday celebrations, what were they all about?

00:33:57Lily: At my old house, I had a fairy birthday party, and my parents printed off toadstools for each of us to sit on.

00:34:04Paul Kitching: Awesome. That's very cute. Hey, so happy 50th parkrun Tracy 5-0. Hey. Hawaii 5-0. Hey. Is that why it's like that? That's why it's like that. It's very good. Tracy's done her 50th. Tracy Shepard, congrats on your co-stars. Nice work. A birthday joke or just a random joke for me?

00:34:20Unidentified speaker: A random joke. Why did the old man fall down the well?

00:34:23Paul Kitching: I don't know.

00:34:24Unidentified speaker: Because he couldn't see that well. Ha!

00:34:25[laughter]

00:34:28Paul Kitching: I'm sure you appreciate that one, Scotty. Serenity, what about you, your fourth birthday?

00:34:33Unidentified speaker: I remember way back in 1980, we went to Hungry Jack's at Campbelltown. I was proud as punch because I got one of those crowns.

00:34:39Paul Kitching: Oh, yes. The crown.

00:34:40Unidentified speaker: The crown. I took it to school the next day. I was so proud of it.

00:34:43Paul Kitching: And you had a, what did you eat back in the, what was on the menu at Hungry Jack's in the 80s?

00:34:47Unidentified speaker: I don't know. Junior Burger. Junior Burger. Junior Burger. Cheeseburger. Cheeseburger and fries. Cheeseburger and fries.

00:34:53Paul Kitching: Something like that. And a milkshake. Good time. Probably had a milkshake as well. Of course you did. It's time for a lime milkshake. And then went for a run. Yeah. No.

00:34:59Unidentified speaker: No, played in the playground.

00:35:00Paul Kitching: Played in the playground. Yes. Speaking of milkshakes, lime milkshake in the cafe very soon. Happy fourth birthday, everyone.

00:35:05Sonja Pohlman: Happy fourth birthday.

00:35:07Paul Kitching: We are still here celebrating our fourth birthday, and I've got some other excellent people here who are going to tell me Can you remember your fourth birthday?

00:35:14Unidentified speaker: It was snowing.

00:35:15Paul Kitching: It was snowing. How about you, Pedro? How old are you, mate?

00:35:18Unidentified speaker: Three.

00:35:19Paul Kitching: Three. You haven't even celebrated your fourth birthday yet. What are you going to do for your fourth birthday?

00:35:24Caroline: Have sausages.

00:35:24Paul Kitching: Have sausages. Yes, Pedro is a four-legged individual and he loves coming out to parkrun. How about you ladies, and man, fourth birthday celebrations?

00:35:32Unidentified speaker: Oh, gosh. All family over for dinner, I'm guessing.

00:35:36Paul Kitching: Excellent. And dodgy jokes. I believe you may have a dodgy joke for me.

00:35:39Unidentified speaker: Oh, well, if you're cold at early morning parkrun, you just go stand in the corner. It's 90 degrees.

00:35:46Paul Kitching: I love it. Ez, a random joke for me, please.

00:35:49Unidentified speaker: What can you do when it's raining cats and dogs? You can jump in a poodle.

00:35:52Paul Kitching: Oh, so if it's raining cats and dogs, you what?

00:35:54Unidentified speaker: Jump in a poodle.

00:35:56Paul Kitching: Awesome. There you go, Scotty. Some random jokes and birthday celebrations. And we are here with my fellow Roaming Reporter, Greta. How are you going?

00:36:05Greta: I'm good. Happy birthday.

00:36:06Paul Kitching: Happy birthday.

00:36:33Greta: Isn't that great?

00:36:34Paul Kitching: It is great. Who would have thought that four years ago that we'd be here today? Yes. And you were a little bit worried, though. You had a phone call last night.

00:36:42Greta: Oh, yes. I panicked last night when I got a phone call from Renee from parkrun Australia. I thought we'd done something wrong. and i thought oh no it's the night before and we've done something wrong and instead of that it was to congratulate us isn't that lovely reaching our fourth birthday that is really nice thank you for what we've done for the parkrun community that's a beautiful thing good on you parkrun australia she loves us and everything we contribute so yeah that was nice that is really good isn't it it's a wonderful thing that we're all a big part of the

00:37:13Paul Kitching: A little part of a big community, which is great. And a growing community here in South Australia. Yeah, I know, right, as one of our event ambassadors. Greta, tell me about what's coming up.

00:37:22Greta: So we've got 23 events here in South Australia at the moment, and we are in the process of launching 24. 24 and 25.

00:37:32Paul Kitching: Awesome.

00:37:32Greta: Yep, so we've got one launching at Moana. Moana's going to launch.

00:37:36Paul Kitching: Moana. So do we get to sing Moana songs at that launch?

00:37:39Greta: You can sing whatever you like. Awesome, right.

00:37:41Paul Kitching: I'll be there. I promise that I will sing some random Moana song at the Moana launch and do a roving report. Excellent.

00:37:47Greta: So that's a lovely one. That's along the beach at Moana, so that's gorgeous. And great coffee. I've already scoped out a few places for that one.

00:37:53Paul Kitching: Awesome. Good coffee.

00:37:54Greta: Nice. And Goolwa.

00:37:56Paul Kitching: Ah, Goolwa. Not Gawler.

00:37:58Greta: Not Gawler. In fact, we already have a parkrun at Gawler. Now we're going to have one at Goolwa.

00:38:04Paul Kitching: Goolwa, yeah. And they are a very different distance away. Exactly. One's that way and one's this way.

00:38:10Greta: Yep, yep. South and north.

00:38:11Paul Kitching: See you tonight, guys. Bye. Just saying goodbye to some excellent parkrun friends that we're having dinner with tonight. Oh, there you go. Beautiful part of parkrun. I love it. So when do these launch? April. They're both in April?

00:38:24Greta: Yeah, you're going to ask me the exact date.

00:38:26Paul Kitching: No, I know Moana's the 21st because I'm already locked in, staying down there the night before.

00:38:31Greta: So Goolwa is the 28th.

00:38:32Paul Kitching: Oh, there you go. Nice one. So that's two more parkruns. And I know there are a few more on the cards, a few people putting the word out there. I've seen a bit of chatter online, but nothing official. But it's good that people do get out there and put the word out there. But obviously there's a process that we know that everyone has to go through, but it's just nice that it's continuing to grow.

00:38:53Greta: It's continuing to grow, yep, and it's fantastic. So sometimes you sort of think, oh, you know, if you open a new parkrun, it's going to make existing parkruns smaller. It doesn't seem to be the case. It's just growing and growing. So, yeah, it's great getting lots of people out, being active. And, you know, what's so great about today is there's families, there's kids, there's people who run, there's people who walk, they bring their dogs. Yeah, it's just a fabulous atmosphere.

00:39:16Paul Kitching: Sure has been. Well, good times. I'm going to go and have a coffee.

00:39:18Greta: Yeah, sounds good. Good on you. Thanks, Greta. See you. Good work.

00:39:21Paul Kitching: Thanks, Scott. Thanks, Mel. That's us checking out from the parkrun birthday here at Mount Barker. We'll check in again soon.

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

00:39:38Melissa Erbacher: So let's kick off with the launches. Queensland is coming in strong. We've got two launches in Queensland next week. One at Kelvin Grove and the second one is where, Scotty?

00:39:50Scott Trickett: In Mount Isa. Do you know anything about Mount Isa, Mel?

00:39:53Melissa Erbacher: I do know a little bit about Mount Isa. I don't know exactly where this particular course is, but I spent some time there in my formative years.

00:40:01Scott Trickett: Your formative years, yes. So give us your best Mount Isa story. Best Mount Isa story. From Mel Erbacher, what years are we talking about?

00:40:08Melissa Erbacher: We're talking about from age 2 to age 10.

00:40:11Scott Trickett: Okay.

00:40:12Unidentified speaker: Yeah.

00:40:12Melissa Erbacher: So I don't remember this, but it might explain a lot about me. My first night spent in Mount Isa, I actually stayed in hospital overnight because I was bitten by a redback spider. And I was two years old. So, as Scotty asked me last night, don't people usually die from that or can't they die from that? Yes, they can die from that and they have.

00:40:32Scott Trickett: You're like 10-year-old girls. I was two. Well, two-year-old girls are even worse.

00:40:36Melissa Erbacher: Yeah. So, I like to think I've got some kind of the radioactive spider woman thing going on.

00:40:43Scott Trickett: The spider woman of Mount Isa. Are you going to go to Mount Isa next week?

00:40:46Melissa Erbacher: I won't be there next week, no. But it is on the agenda, that's for sure.

00:40:51Scott Trickett: Okay. Anyone going to Mount Isa next week?

00:40:54Melissa Erbacher: None of these adventurers.

00:40:55Scott Trickett: Kelvin Grove.

00:40:56Melissa Erbacher: Might not be the only Queenslander here.

00:40:59Scott Trickett: Anniversaries next week. We've also got one at Manjimup and Riverway in Queensland. It's a bit of a quiet time, is it, because it's Easter? But Easter changes every year.

00:41:11Melissa Erbacher: I can't explain it, Scotty.

Live audience Q&A

00:41:13Scott Trickett: We thought maybe you wanted to ask questions of us. Maybe.

00:41:18Melissa Erbacher: If there's something you want to know.

00:41:21Scott Trickett: Now is your chance.

00:41:23Unidentified speaker: How long does it take you to put the podcast together after you've recorded it?

00:41:26Scott Trickett: Okay. So in the early days, when it was getting to know each other process for Mel and I, I think we took about three to four hours on a Monday night.

00:41:38Melissa Erbacher: Some Monday nights where I think we started at like 5.30 and didn't go to bed till 11.30. Yeah, yeah.

00:41:44Scott Trickett: But the actual only recording phase was whatever you hear. So generally, as you're kind of seeing now... No, that's not true.

00:41:51Melissa Erbacher: There was a lot of stuffing up and faffing about and saying wrong things and, you know, all right, we'll start that again. And he doesn't remember this. In the early, early days.

00:42:01Caroline: In the early, early days. Okay.

00:42:03Melissa Erbacher: A lot of it was Scotty being very patient and waiting for me to have the courage to say things on a recording because it was still very new. And obviously with his background in that sort of area, he was used to telling people to talk and waiting for them to talk and encouraging them to talk. Yeah, but in general, the actual recording part doesn't take too long. It depends on if we've had an adventure. If we've had an adventure, it's easy and it flows and it happens really quickly. If we haven't and we're both like, well, we were both at home last week and nothing out of the ordinary happened, what can we talk about? That's when you get the pearls of wisdom that are completely non-parkrun related. yeah like the entire outro usually yeah where there is no planning involved and it just descends into just a conversation between the tours figure out is that if you don't want to listen to us exactly then yeah you've listened to the guests it's like ah okay well we don't have to hang around if um you're hardcore or you feel like you're one of our friends because we feel like you're our friends and if you if you're listening to us at the end you're one of our friends basically then you're not going to mind and you're going to indulge us in a little bit of talk about crap, basically.

00:43:24Scott Trickett: One of the beauties of podcasts is I can see who downloads it and I can actually see how long they listen for.

00:43:29Melissa Erbacher: We know where you live. Yeah. We've got your IP addresses.

00:43:33Scott Trickett: It's not an exact science, but generally most people listen all the way to the ends.

00:43:38Unidentified speaker: Did you have any interest in podcasting, Scott, before you started the parkrun adventures?

00:43:42Scott Trickett: Yeah, so I've switched off radio many years ago, despite working in it for 15 years. I just can't do it anymore. I can't listen to an ad every couple of minutes. I just can't listen to someone else's choice of music. And I just like to listen to conversations with people, extended conversations about different topics. So I've always loved podcasts. And I used to have an hour commute before starting with parkrun. And I just loved putting on an episode. And I would binge podcasts. a few podcasts so I'd find one and then just binge through it, which I know some of you have done with us. So I kind of know what that's like too and I apologise. But yeah, so I've always listened to podcasts and I still listen to podcasts now. I wish there were more good running podcasts.

00:44:31Brendan Peel: You know, I think we...

00:44:33Scott Trickett: Anyway, I won't go into a commentary, but we don't call ourselves a running podcast. We are a parkrun podcast. We talk about, really do parkrun. When we get our guests on, we try and get them, if they've done parkrun. There's been a few occasions where they haven't done parkrun, but they've got a good story to tell anyway. And we think parkrunners will be interested in it. But even like Liam Adams last week, we delved into a little bit of the high-end sort of stuff. I mean, Mel was asking about VO2 max.

00:45:01Unidentified speaker: It's really good when you get those guests because we get to hear the high-end part of athletes like that, but then their parkrun story and their everyday, like, us kind of stories as well. So that's a really good thing about the podcast.

00:45:13Caroline: Another question? So I'm one of those parkrunners that have been binge listening. And what I've noticed is about once every decade or so, you get on a guest who is so inspiring, I'm in tears. And so I'm curious, in 105 episodes so far, have you guys got one or two people each that you feel so inspired, so moved by? Who are they and why?

00:45:40Scott Trickett: You go first, Mel.

00:45:43Melissa Erbacher: I was being polite and I was going to wait. Okay.

00:45:48Scott Trickett: That's a tough one.

00:45:50Melissa Erbacher: Yeah, I mean, inspired. Oh, that is a really tough one. It's 105 episodes now and counting, so I need to go back through the guest list. I think I really enjoyed speaking to Pat Farmer. A lot because he's just a regular guy who's done irregular things basically. He gets a stupid idea and I'm known for doing that myself. Mine aren't as epic as his are but when he gets a stupid idea he still runs with them and literally runs with them and makes stuff happen. I'm always really inspired by people that aren't all talk. You know, you can meet people in your life that just, you know, they say they're going to do stuff and then nothing ever happens. But there are other people that say, you know what, I'm going to do this. And if they say, you know, okay, that's actually going to happen. And it doesn't matter how crazy or weird or stupid it is. you know it's going to happen. And I think he's one of those people. So it was great speaking to him. Also because he's so down to earth and he has no false pretensions. He's not up himself. He's just a regular guy. So that's one of my two. I'll pass to you, Scotty. So I've got time to think of my second one.

00:47:09Scott Trickett: It's a bit of a cliche, but actually there's never been an interview where I've gone, well, actually that's a lie. There have been a couple of interviews where I've gone to Mel that that wasn't as good as I thought it was going to be. And then there have been a couple that have just been awesome that I wasn't expecting. And what I like is when our interviews really engage with us, like they really let down their guard and they really enjoy the conversation, there was a guy He was just a parkrunner in the UK. He was in a wheelchair. He was gay. We didn't know that. He just sprang it on us during the interview. Like, talking about breaking down barriers, he wasn't even in a powered wheelchair. And he used parkrun to get out there in his community and get up in front of his community. And just those guys I like talking to because I don't know anything about them going in. Pat Farmer, yeah, I've read his book. He was great to chat to. as I said Liam Adams I know him so they're always good but it's when you learn the story during the interview like we sometimes do they're the fun ones I've also liked some so this year we've stopped doing event director interviews as much I think we're going to bring some of them back because sometimes they're a bit hit and miss but when when again when they really get engaged and

00:48:25Melissa Erbacher: they really get parkrun and they they kind of know us i think they're the good interviews as well yeah yeah one thing we always do um when we've got a guest coming on and most people say yes uh even if they feel awkward about it um and then they tell us that they're nervous some people request questions ahead of time just so they can feel a little bit prepared um and and that takes a bit of the worry out of it for them i always tell people that We won't see them so they're more than welcome to podcast in pyjamas and have a glass of whatever makes them feel more comfortable talking to us. It doesn't matter the time of day. There's no judgment on the podcast. But we are aware that there are people who don't feel like they're particularly special. and that they don't have a particular story to tell and it's usually the regular parkrunners that we find. Sometimes that is an event director but sometimes it's just somebody that we heard about through the grapevine or somebody's got in contact with us and said this person's got a great story and we'd like you to talk to them and yeah they're the ones who they're the inspiring ones as well because they they don't have, once again, it's that false pretensions. They're just like, well, I'm just a person who's getting out there and doing what I want to do. And the idea that they're inspiring people or motivating other people to do things doesn't even occur to them. So when they can come on and share those stories, that's always awesome.

00:49:52Scott Trickett: I want to ask you, Caroline. So you've had interviews move you to tears. Which ones?

00:49:58Caroline: oh put me on the spot um um yeah well there's there's been there's been quite a few um i think when i i really love that i i see from you guys like i i was surprised too with the the uk parkrunner and he said oh such and such and my husband got me into it and i was like whoa didn't see that coming and i'm like But I loved that you guys just rolled with it because I think I get teary wherever I see real inclusivity because I've run in so many circles where it's like, oh, we're all the fast runners or we're the long runners or we're the trail runners. So I think the thing that I love so much about parkrun is it's so inclusive. So when, you know, there's a time when you had done, you talked about the, I don't know if it was a guest specifically, but you were talking about the connection to like indigenous landholders and making the welcome to country like a really important part of every event. And I was like, Scotty I don't think you realize I'm in tears right now because I feel like that there's so many organizations in Australia that really don't do that very well and so wherever I'm seeing inclusivity where I'm seeing you know the the guy who had been on a roving report and he goes yep okay I'm trying to lose 100 kilos I'm like You're trying to lose 100 kilos like that's transformational. I'm like, what does this person look like now and what are they going to look like and feel like when they've lost 100 kilos? So I think I get really teary any time I hear about anyone or anyone who has a focus on inclusivity and how do we really include

00:51:38Scott Trickett: everyone of every ability and especially those who are marginalized in so many other contexts it's i just yeah i'd be in tears i love it and um did you all love brendan's welcome to country or acknowledgement country today yeah yeah so i'm passionate about that and in my role official role with parkrun i'm trying to encourage a lot more events to do that simply because it's the right thing to do and it's a very inclusive action to take to get people feeling more comfortable

00:52:07Unidentified speaker: Thank you both for doing this today, for coming along for this weekend. It's been brilliant and I just need to know for next year, where's it going to be? And can you give us a date?

00:52:18Melissa Erbacher: We only found out this morning when it was announced in the pre-run brief that this was an annual thing. So it sounds to me like Brendan has put us... on the spot i don't know every some of you will be aware um that every now and again scotty makes a comment on the podcast oh you know will we make it to 150 or will will we keep going kind of thing and it's just like well yeah we'll keep going but you know he needs a little bit of encouragement sometimes i think We would be quite happy to have a phone conversation every week about parkrun and just all that sort of stuff. But the fact that we have people that listen and are interested in listening is obviously why we keep recording it and putting it on iTunes and out in the world for people to listen to. So if you guys weren't listening... It's just like they say, you don't have parkrun without volunteers, but you also don't have parkrun without the runners and the walkers. You know, what would the volunteers have to do if people didn't show up to do the event? So it goes both ways. And we are super grateful that you guys could all come. We are massively grateful for crazy, wacky people like Gary Murphy, who gets ideas like this from other podcasts. And he's one of those guys who says, I think we should do this and he makes it happen. So we're very... Yeah, we do like doers.

00:53:44Unidentified speaker: Everyone can have an idea.

00:53:45Scott Trickett: Yeah, everyone can have an idea. And I reckon a lot of people in parkrun are doers. Like all the people that you meet. Some of you guys here, event directors. I've got this great idea to have a parkrun. Well, good on you, mate. Make it happen. Make it happen and then 300 people come and run in a beautiful national park like this. So cheers to you, Gary, because you're a doer as well as an ideas man. Thank you for coming and sharing this with us. We're going to do it again.