Episode 135 - Intern Pete

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00:00:16Melissa Erbacher: Well, he thought he'd get out of it by having an odd-numbered episode the week he's not here, so he doesn't have to do an introduction. But that just means my new co-host, Mr. Tim Oberg, is going to have to do it. Tim! introduce everyone to the episode.

00:00:34Tim Oberg: Well Mel it is a thrill to be here first time as co-host on the parkrun Adventurers and we're here for episode 135 and we are going to be reflecting on what has of course been a typically stellar seven days in the life of all parkrun adventuring in Australia.

00:00:52Melissa Erbacher: Wow I think Scotty just lost his job that's possibly the best intro we've ever had on the podcast.

00:00:58Tim Oberg: Well you know I'm here to bring it you know it's It's going to be a good hour or so. So let's rip into it.

00:01:05Melissa Erbacher: Cool. Well, what did you get up to on parkrun Day last weekend?

00:01:09Tim Oberg: Well, Mel, as is typical for me these days, parkrun Day is no longer about me, but it's a family day. And I was pushing the double pram around Airlie Beach parkrun with my four, almost five-year-old daughter on the right-hand side of the pram, which is also known as the high-fiving side of And then Archie, who is 18 months on the left-hand side of the pram. So I probably had about near enough to 40 kilograms of weight that I was pushing around the Airlie Beach parkrun course. On my right, and sometimes in front of me, sometimes in behind me, but always at arm's distance, was six-year-old Jack Oberg. And my wife, Nikki, was there and thereabouts as well. And so, yeah, big family affair. And as has been the case often lately, Jack obliterated his PB. He brought his PB down from 30 minutes something or other to 28.35. I couldn't believe it. He knocked two minutes off his PB. And it's getting pretty hot up here now too. But basically he's got in with a couple of kids who are a little bit older than him. and a little bit faster than him. So he has just been hunting them around the course and they're basically towing him to uncharted territory. So yeah, parkrun day was pretty amazing for me. And then Jack followed that up with an 8.03 junior parkrun on the Sunday for two kilometers. So he's loving his running, which is great to see. 803 that's a blistering time i don't i can't remember the last time i ran in 803 for one kilometer let alone two oh look it's look again it's the same kids so there's a there's about three or four kids who are faster than him um and he just you know has the determination he tries to he follows them around and um really really uh is enjoying it so um you know We never sort of force the kids to get up and do junior parkrun or do parkrun. Jack just wants to do it. And yeah, he's just loving it.

00:03:27Melissa Erbacher: That's so much fun. I do love as well that you've got a high five side of the pram. Did Evie choose it in particular? Does Archie understand the concept of high fives yet?

00:03:38Tim Oberg: Archie gives out a high five, but not really a high speed high five, because that's really what you're dealing with at Junior parkrun, or sorry, at parkrun is, you know, the prams going around and There's a lot of high-fiving happens on the Airlie Beach course. It's a sort of two lap out and back. So there's a lot of high-five opportunities, which is great. So yeah, I always tactically put You know, the child who's most likely to give high-fives, I put on the right. And so prior to Archie coming along and prior to Jack running, Jack would have been on the right because he's the more sort of boisterous, outgoing kid and, you know, hangs out at the pram giving high-fives. Evie's a bit more timid, but she'll still give high-fives when she sees someone she knows.

00:04:26Peter Deppeler ("Intern Pete"): So whereas Jack would high-five anybody.

00:04:28Tim Oberg: So, yeah, because obviously we keep left at parkrun, so that makes the right-hand side of the pram the high-five side. Everyone knows that now.

00:04:35Melissa Erbacher: That is so cute. I didn't realise that there was one side or the other. I'll have to educate Wes accordingly.

00:04:41Tim Oberg: Aha, very good. And now, what about yourself? What did you get up to?

00:04:46Melissa Erbacher: I had a similar family-themed weekend, although Adam was out on the course marshalling, so he volunteered. I pointed out to him that he's been somewhat lacking in the volunteer aspect. count this year, which, you know, he does a lot of the behind-the-scenes stuff to help me out. So, it's a lot of uncredited stuff. But I thought it might be nice for him to do something on the weekend. And so, he agreed and popped his hand up to Marshall. But that meant that I had Wes in the pram. And it's been a long time since I've actually run the Kiwanat parkrun course. I've been away from home on adventures. And it's Pushing – well, you've got 40 kilos worth. I've got between the weight of the pram and Wes about 20 kilos. So, half of what you've got to deal with. I've got a little bit more elevation I would warrant than Airlie Beach at Kiwana. But, yeah, I actually ended up with a bit of a sore back by the end. And that's with me stopping at about the four kilometre mark where we passed Adam as a marshal for the second time on the way back. And Wesley, he was starting to crack it, I'll be honest. I don't go as fast as Adam. And he does that little thing in the pram where he sort of pushes his body forward as in like, let's go faster, let's go faster. My speed just wasn't cutting it for him. So when we came up to Adam again... I thought, oh, you know, maybe you can just take him home. And he had the car, so he had to drive back. So he popped away in the car. But I forgot. I completely forgot. And I did a Strava fail. I had put my phone, which is what I record my activities on Strava on. I don't use a GPS watch, you may not be aware. It was just sitting in the hood on the back of the pram and I completely forgot about it. So the last kilometre got recorded in our car and I got four segment trophies for my speed over that little section of the course. And thanks to a couple of parkrun adventurers who helped me out with Strava. during the week, they explained how I was able to cut out the false part of the section that I didn't actually run or walk. So the whole activity is not going to get flagged as a dodgy one on Strava. But it did cut it short.

00:07:13Tim Oberg: We've all hopped in the car without stopping the watch. So, you know, I've gone on there and edited a few Strava videos results in my time to do such things as well. So yeah, I'm sure you're not alone.

00:07:28Melissa Erbacher: Ironically, it was part of my sloth challenge, which I've talked about in the podcast in previous weeks, which is a virtual run that you're supposed to see how far you can go in one hour. And while I did do more than the hour and I did about 6K, yeah, the last little section of it wasn't really recorded. But sloth challenge completed. So even with the Strava fail, my medal's on the way in the post.

00:07:57Tim Oberg: Oh, very good. Hey, just getting back to Wes. Now, look, I've met him a few times. He's got some chubby cheeks on him. He does. I would have thought that when he's cracking it at parkrun, you could just give him a bit of food. That would satisfy him.

00:08:14Melissa Erbacher: Well, no, because it's not a hunger thing. He has his breakfast before he goes. And if he's in the pram, he either needs to be going a certain speed or he needs to be heading toward a park with a swing in it. And if he cannot see either of those things, then yeah. But to be honest, he doesn't often crack it in the pram. We'll go for a walk every single day and he loves it. So I literally think he was just not really impressed with the pace at this particular point. Probably because he's familiar with the parkrun course and he knows how it works and he knows there's a little park at the end that he gets to have a swing in once he's done. So yeah, looking at it from such a slow...

00:08:56Tim Oberg: vantage point i guess was not really gonna cut it uh i did try him i did try him on some food and he wasn't interested yeah well now we've got a we've got a little downhill on the on the early beach uh course and when i say little i mean it's probably like you know four meters of downhill but um archie always lets out a little bit of a whoop when uh because it's uh yeah the pace just picks up just just with that small amount and um yeah he loves it so I think I can appreciate what you're saying with Wes wanting a bit of speed.

00:09:29Melissa Erbacher: Yes, well, I guess he takes after everyone who just really wants to go just that bit faster, doesn't he?

00:09:35Tim Oberg: Well, he has the need, the need.

00:09:39Melissa Erbacher: I'm just waiting. Obviously, we haven't got there yet. He is walking now but only has been for a couple of months. I'm just waiting for the part where he wants to get out and walk and then everything comes to a grinding halt.

00:09:50Tim Oberg: Yeah. It is almost five and she's still very happy to sit in the pram at parkrun.

00:09:58Melissa Erbacher: Well, she is a clever cookie, I think.

00:10:01Tim Oberg: Yeah. She's obviously been out of the pram for, well, she started walking at about 14 months. So she's been out of the pram for, you know, four years almost. But at parkrun, she's happy to get in it because she just likes spectating. So there you go. today is parkrunner A2751791, also known as Intern Pete, also known as Peter Deppler. Pete, welcome to the parkrun Adventurers podcast.

00:10:42Peter Deppeler ("Intern Pete"): Guys, thanks so much for having me on this very exciting podcast. And firstly, yeah, congratulations on the podcast, by the way. It's absolutely fantastic.

00:10:49Tim Oberg: Well, Pete, that obviously coming from you, mate, you are a producer at KIIS 106.5 on the Kyle and Jackie O Show in Sydney, which is obviously one of the top breakfast shows in Sydney. So that's a great compliment coming from you, Pete. Thanks very much.

00:11:05Peter Deppeler ("Intern Pete"): No, no, no, my absolute pleasure. But, yeah, no, no, I'm super excited to be on here. It's good to get in and talk a little bit of running, which is something that's kind of taken over my life over the last little while.

00:11:19Melissa Erbacher: Now I'm going to jump in here, Pete, because I know that the way you and Tim first got introduced is sort of a big mash-up between parkrun and radio. Can you give us a little bit of a recap for that for our listeners?

00:11:32Peter Deppeler ("Intern Pete"): Yeah, yeah. It was actually a bit of a funny story, actually. I had been parkrunning for a little while and I really enjoyed sort of bringing people along. And I was talking – every weekend when I do a parkrun, I don't believe – You did a parkrun unless you Instagram about it. So I'm one of those people that is always Instagramming about my weekly parkrun. And a lot of my work colleagues were like, what's this? What's this? Some people found it annoying because I was posting so much about it. Other people were loving it, all that sort of stuff. And how it actually happened was... Beau Ryan, NRL player from Sydney, was talking about it because there was a bit of confusion because when Bo Ryan started working at KISS, I had texted him and it was actually an invite to one of Kyle Sandilands' parties. And what happened there was Kyle actually – so Bo mistakenly thought that Kyle had texted him. So for about two months or so, Bo was texting me thinking he was texting Kyle. And he was like, hey, do you want to catch up? Maybe we do lunch. And I hadn't clicked either, by the way, that Bo was thinking he was talking to Kyle. And there was one Saturday morning he was like, hey, we're going to be out and about. Do you guys want to come down? It's Cara's birthday. I was like, oh, hey, mate, I can't make it. I've got a parkrun. And Bo Ryan was like... Okay, he's got a parkrun. Maybe he's just doing something dodgy or something. I don't know what this parkrun thing is. And it actually came to fruition, which I think we put on the parkrun website and, you know, the KISS accounts. Basically, we clicked one day... when I rang Bo and it was me on the other end of the phone. I'm hoping this makes sense to you both because it was actually one of those crazy things that went on for a couple of months and we started talking about parkruns on the radio show and we put the video up and then it ended up going a little bit viral on your pages as well. It was like we were educating the Kiss listeners on what this amazing parkrun thing is all about and that's where I think you might have spotted it, I think, first. Is that right, Tim?

00:13:42Tim Oberg: Yeah, that's it. Well, you shared it with us. You shared it with the parkrun Australia page or you emailed us or something. I can't remember what it was. But from there, it just had a bit of a life of its own for a couple of weeks. We were sharing it. You guys were talking about it. Beau was threatening to come to parkrun. I don't think he's followed through though, has he?

00:13:59Peter Deppeler ("Intern Pete"): No, he hasn't. Do you know what? I've kept on his tails as much as I can about this one because he did commit to it. He said he wanted to do one down in the Shire in Sydney. So definitely on his case about it. He has brought it up a couple of times. Where are we doing a parkrun, brother? And I'm like, you let me know, mate. We'll be there because I'm there every Saturday morning with my little barcode that I print out. So, yeah, he'll definitely be on the cards and we'll definitely let everyone know as well because he loves a selfie with fans as well.

00:14:25Tim Oberg: I bet he does. Now, Pete, I want to take you back to where it all began. And I don't talk about where parkrun began, but actually where you grew up. And you grew up in Timboon in Western Victoria. Am I correct?

00:14:39Peter Deppeler ("Intern Pete"): Yeah, that's exactly right. I grew up, it's about 20 minutes from Timboon, in a little town called Simpson. I grew up on a dairy farm. My parents, both farmers, their parents, farmers, milking cows, all that sort of stuff. My mum is one of 14. Oh, wow. So we have a huge family Christmas, around 80 people. Everyone has their different jobs. Three people bring the ham, three people bring the chicken. My uncle owns a cordial company, so he brings a slushie machine for the kids. Everything's a job. And a lot of that family, funnily enough, I didn't really get the athlete side of things, but a lot of the 14 kids are actually running background. They were kids that their hobby growing up was running, And a lot of them ran. And I think our greatest sort of success story was my auntie Jane, who unfortunately isn't with us anymore. She was a beautiful woman who ran regularly at the Stawell Gift. She had a... She had a beautiful run at the MCG on Boxing Day in the early 90s and beat Cathy Freeman. She was a really inspiring woman. And as I said, yeah, unfortunately no longer with us. But there was always a bit of running in the family. And it wasn't necessarily about winning everything or anything like that. It was actually just about... knowing how great and fun running really is. And so growing up, like, you know, there was in a small country town, I think we had, you know, AFL footy and running. And I looked never a great runner myself. I used to get told I run a little bit like a sissy because I'd be flapping my arms around or whatever. But hey. Hey, I enjoyed it. So, yeah, so Simpson is about 20 minutes from Timboon, beautiful, not far away from the Twelve Apostles, the Great Ocean Road. Over the last couple, it's a beautiful area if anyone gets a chance to go down because it's also an area that's, predominantly dairy farming, but the Great Ocean Road for years has been a beautiful spot to see the Twelve Apostles and the London Bridge and the Bay of Islands and stuff. But what's happened is a lot of the farmers started to realise creating local produce is such a great thing. So where my parents live, they live next door to a cheese factory, followed by a chocolate factory, followed by a cider factory, followed by another cheese factory, a strawberry farm. snail farm and all these beautiful food trails. So it's sort of turned into a really amazing food trail area down that area.

00:17:17Tim Oberg: And not to forget Tim Boone parkrun, of course, which is 74 events in. And what I loved when I was looking at Tim Boone parkrun earlier is the address is the corner of Bailey Street and Snake Track Road.

00:17:32Peter Deppeler ("Intern Pete"): yeah yeah this is this you know what this this the timber parkrun is a lot of history for pretty much anyone who grew up in the area as well because it was actually the cross-country track that we did in high school um so that was the um that was the snake track um down there which it's not not like let's be honest it's called the snake track but there's not many snakes you might be lucky enough to spot one but it's like it's not as dangerous as it sound but um sounds but You get a great opportunity to, you know, if you're having to do that one, I really recommend it. You know, you go and do the parkrun, then go and see the Twelve Apostles. That's an absolute must with that one. Because you can also go into, they turned the old train station into a distillery as well. So they're making whiskey down there. So if you want to wait till... later in the day um you can really have a great day on the Timboon parkrun um and most likely you'll definitely see one or two koalas down there if the weather's nice enough they're easily hanging from the trees over that parkrun it's just it's a really really beautiful spot and it's um it's nice when I get home because I've I you know because I've got such a large family as well I'll be like oh there's my cousin, there's my auntie. There's always someone down there, I know. And it's a really, there's a really good team of volunteers down there as well that have really, doing really good things in Timboon and the area.

00:18:51Melissa Erbacher: Sounds like a fabulous place. I mean, people could go down on a Friday and get the whiskey in and then run it off the next morning at Timboon parkrun. There's also another way they could approach it.

00:19:03Peter Deppeler ("Intern Pete"): Absolutely.

00:19:04Melissa Erbacher: Now, Pete, it is where you grew up, but it's not actually your home parkrun. Your parkrun story starts in New South Wales at St. Peter's parkrun. Can you give us a little bit of an insight how you got involved or how you heard about parkrun in the first place?

00:19:18Peter Deppeler ("Intern Pete"): oh yeah yeah it was actually a couple of my aunties Jacinta and Bridgie and Philippa um they're three um three sisters who live in Melbourne and I I think it was back in 2016 I think when I did my first one and I also I'm sorry just before that I just sort of started to get into running a little bit just to you know get the body moving all that sort of stuff going oh god I'm getting a little older now it's time to um do something a little bit healthy. And they actually told me about this, like, hey, you should do this thing called parkruns. And I was like, what's a parkrun? And they explained it to me. It's a 5K run. They do it at the Maribyrnong one, I think it is, in Melbourne. And they just loved it. And I was like, oh, okay, what do you do? And they're like, well, you print out your barcode, you head along, you run, it's free. And I was like, hey, that sounds really cool. And then so I basically quickly Googled when I got back to Sydney the best – sorry, the closest one to where I live in the inner west of Sydney. And St. Peter's was like 12 minutes away from my house. I was like, I'll go along and check it out. And I ran. Tim, you might be – I can't remember what my first time was. But, hey, it was a little bit of a struggle for me. But I absolutely had a ball doing it. Do you remember what it was, Tim?

00:20:37Tim Oberg: Yeah, yeah. So your parkrun debut – 3rd of september 2016 3606 at st peter's oh wow okay okay that's the second one was oh what was it all right so you say yeah just so just so we'll tell you your parkrun history mate so you did You did St. Peter's on the 3rd of September and then, you know, as you say, had a great day. Two weeks later, you backed it up. You were in Canberra and you went to Ginninderra, Ginninderra parkrun. And you took five minutes, almost five minutes off your time. You did 31.43. So you would look at this and you would think, this guy's on a roll here. He's hooked. And do you know what happened then?

00:21:19Peter Deppeler ("Intern Pete"): What happened?

00:21:19Tim Oberg: You had two years off.

00:21:24Peter Deppeler ("Intern Pete"): All right, okay, okay, okay. Hear me out, hear me out. Do you know what happened? I'll explain myself. The Canberra one, you've just reminded me. So I ran that run, if that makes sense, with a very good friend who I hadn't seen for a while. Now, he's a police officer in the Special Forces something or other, Canberra, and lives and breathes for running and pushed me so hard in that five minutes, and I think he almost killed my, well... There was nothing left after me after that, and I think I went back to Burger and Chips pretty quickly. So, yes, I did have a break for a couple of years, but I have returned. I think I'm having a crack now.

00:22:02Tim Oberg: So, Pete, you're back with a vengeance. So your next parkrun, so you went from September 2016, and then your next parkrun was 21st of April 2016. this year, 2018, you came back with a 35.35, but something's happened to you since then. You just said it yourself. You've given it a good crack. Now, I want you to tell me what's been going on since the 21st of April because on the 21st of July, my friend, you ran 22.55. So we're talking a 13-minute improvement between April and July. So what is going on in your life?

00:22:36Peter Deppeler ("Intern Pete"): Yeah, there's a couple of things that have kind of happened. And I think it's when I think I turned 35 in March or 34. I can't remember how old I am. Basically, I'm like, oh, we're getting to the closer part of 40 anyway. So, yeah, there's times. And I think it was – there's a really good guy in my life now, and that's actually my trainer. I've never been great at – sort of self-motivation of sport myself, really. So there's a guy that approached me named Richard Kerrigan. He runs a personal training business, a healthier lifestyle. He used to be called RK The Beach Life, but he used to be a chef and a butler at Buckingham Palace. And he came into the radio show. And it was a couple months later, he sort of hit me up. He's like, hey, would you be interested in training? And I was like, yeah, I'm happy to roll with it. Let's see where it goes. Not thinking too much of it. And he said to me, what do you think you would do outside of Um, you know, outside of the training, I said, look, I, I used to do these like parkruns and I thought they were really good. And I thought that was a great way. Cause there wasn't, I didn't have to overthink, you know, the, how many weights I was doing or, you know, the, all that sort of stuff. It was, I just rock up, do a stretch and go for a run. And, um, so he's training me. And absolutely part of my life is Saturday morning parkrun, like without a doubt. So, and I've said to him, I said, I do not want to lose that. You know, you might give me instructions on doing this, this and this, but I'm definitely not going to lose the parkrun, which he totally agreed. He's joined me on a few of them as well. And I think one, I think my PB time, I think you might've said was 22. He was with me on that one. So, I think I'm due for another visit with my trainer at the moment to push me a little bit further because I've, you know, I train sort of the best I can during the week. And the parkrun, look, in all honesty, is more than just a run for me or, you know, keeping fit and healthy. I honestly treat it like it's – It's this Saturday morning. I get up, and as soon as I start the parkrun, I'm washing away all the bad stuff that happened that week. Like it's all literally washing out of me, all the crap meetings that I was in, all the things that I did wrong in my job. Maybe I had too many beers at that corporate dinner during the week. I'm washing – I'm literally washing it away up until I get, I reckon, to that 2, 2.5K mark, and then I sort of twist it, and then I'm – I'm getting ready for the week ahead. That's what my mind frame is. And I know there's been a lot written about what mental health does for running. And I'll tell you, look, I've dropped nearly 16 kilos since April. And that has been so rewarding. But what it has done for my mental health, I swear to God, I've made smarter decisions in life. And I can honestly thank parkrun for that. and obviously training with Rich as well. But, yeah, this is what my Saturday parkrun is about, is washing the week away that was and getting started for the week that's about to come as well.

00:25:51Melissa Erbacher: That is a fantastic perspective, Pete. I had never really thought about it that way before. We always say that, you know, it's the best way to start your weekend. But the idea that it's a fabulous way to renew yourself after a week, like to finish off a week almost, that's very cool.

00:26:08Peter Deppeler ("Intern Pete"): Yeah, yeah. And do you know the other thing with that is I find that – look, we all run into weekends that can be busy, boozy, going out for a bit of bad food. I just think if I've done the parkrun and it all goes a little bit haywire on a Saturday night, I go – At least I did a parkrun on Saturday morning. So it's okay to have the extra chips with the burger that, you know, I shouldn't have and all that sort of stuff, all the extra beer. It's just that there's something that it's done to my mind frame that if I don't do it, I, yeah, I do – I feel guilty in myself because I enjoy it so much. Like, I genuinely enjoy it. And I'll tell you this quick story. I actually, when I met you, Tim, I don't know if we've talked about this or not, but I actually met you at the Greenway parkrun when you guys were up for the national conference, I think.

00:27:03Tim Oberg: Yeah, yeah, I remember it well.

00:27:05Peter Deppeler ("Intern Pete"): yeah yeah yeah and i remember i met this and i can't remember her name and i feel terrible i met one of the volunteers i think she works um i think she works in sydney she's she's uh seemed to be quite high up or something she was the at the willoughby she was maybe in charge of the willoughby parkrun i can't is it karen is it oh i can't remember i wish i could talk about karen carol i met carol i met carol yes now anyway i said to her i said oh i i know she said have you ever volunteered and i was like do you know what no i haven't i'm like i feel really bad that i haven't but i'm also like i don't want to miss out on scanning my barcode like it's it's my thing on a saturday and she's like why don't you do a tail runner and i was like what's what's a tail runner and she's like well you basically just walk it and be the last runner um and you still get to scan your barcode at the end and i was like Oh, what a great idea. Like, cause you know what I mean? I was becoming selfish with myself cause I believe you got to give back. And this is what the volunteering thing, what's so important, but I didn't want to miss out on my Saturday morning run. Do you know what I mean? So, um, yeah. So Carol told me about that. Um, two, three weeks ago, got bitten by a spider on my elbow and has been on some antibiotics and all sorts of stuff and been told not to run by the doctors. And I thought, well, here we go. We wanted to do a bit of tail running, so that's what I did. So I did the St. Peter's parkrun as the parkrunner in a sling. Had a ball, had an absolute ball. And for anyone who hasn't volunteered, I'm telling you, go and do it because I felt like Lady Gaga. And I know that might sound weird, but it's so cool. Everyone's so positive. Everyone's like, thanks, Tail Runner. Thanks, volunteers. It's a pretty good feeling. Like it's equal as running, you know what I mean, or getting a PB, I reckon.

00:28:52Melissa Erbacher: It's definitely for the rock stars, that's for sure.

00:28:55Peter Deppeler ("Intern Pete"): Yeah, totally. It was a really awesome experience. So thank you, Carol, for suggesting it. Thank you for parkrun providing it. And thank you for St. Peter's parkrun, who I sent a message on Facebook. I'm like, I know I have to register on the website, but I just need to get the message straight away. I need to be a tail runner this weekend. And someone got back to me. So shout out to the St. Peter's guys.

00:29:14Melissa Erbacher: I'm sure they will love to hear that. Now, Pete, it has been a fairly condensed period since you returned to parkrunning in April, but you've managed to get quite a few adventures in in that time, trips to different events. Have you got any highlights from that? How have you managed to do that? Is it part of a work thing or are you just travelling around?

00:29:34Peter Deppeler ("Intern Pete"): Yeah, yeah. So I do a bit of traveling for work and I've sort of got a friend in a few different states and stuff. So a few weddings and things have been on and bits and pieces. So I really, really enjoyed the Adelaide. I think it's the Torrens one that runs past the zoo there. That was a really, really good one. I just enjoyed that. Like it was a, I was flying up there for a wedding or something. I had the wedding that afternoon and I was like, got to get a park ride and got to get a park ride. Cause that's kind of what I've, what's changed me as well. Now I'm going, Oh, I've got to go here. Oh, okay, cool. What's the local parkrun? Like let's work that out. And, um, you know, I really enjoyed that. And, and on the weekend I flew to Melbourne for the radio awards. Um, and I put up on my Instagram that I'll be running at the Albert park one. Um, so I had a few, few Melbourne friends touch base and a few of my aunties and uncles who came down as well. So we ran with, uh, a few other radio people and my, funnily enough, those three aunties that I was telling you about before, Philippa. Philippa, Jacinta, and Philippa, oh, my God, I can't remember my own auntie's name, Philippa, Jacinta, and Bridgie on the weekend as well. I thought the Albert Park one was great because you get to see all the rowers as well. They're rowing, all the training's going on for there. So there's like 18 megaphones as you're running around at someone yelling at people in rowing while we're all doing the parkrun, which is really, really great.

00:31:01Tim Oberg: Pete, it sounds like you are having a ball at parkrun and we love to hear that, mate. And I just want to echo Mel's sentiments. Your description of what parkrun means to you and is doing for you was so beautifully put before. So I think our listeners will really love that. We're going to wrap up now, mate, but before we do, I just want to congratulate you because you mentioned you're at the Radio Awards and in your show you guys actually won the best on-air team at the Australian Commercial Radio Awards on Saturday night. So well done.

00:31:33Peter Deppeler ("Intern Pete"): Yeah, thanks, mate. Yeah, no, it was a really great night. We had an absolute ball. So I had a few little sore legs before going up because I tried to have a crack at a nice little time with parkrun beforehand at the Albert Park. But yeah, no, it was a great weekend. So no, no, no, thank you for that. And I'll definitely have to up that you guys i've got some very exciting parkruns coming up over the summer break actually so um i'll update you guys at some stage but i'm heading off to do what i'm locked in for a parkrun in moscow so in russia so so excited about that it all came down to hey we could get these cheap flights i'm like yeah but that's not going to land in time for parkrun on the saturday morning so um so we have that's how that's that's my love for parkrun at the moment and if i could say to anyone who's listening to this i just feel like if you've got a mate or a family member who's even just like yeah they just need something to do there's something a little bit of like you know going back to that mental health side of things as well um who like you know what this would actually be really good for them i just mean yell at them bring them along at some stage and um you know bring a mate along to to parkrun or 10 mates recruit you know what i mean it's great fun it's for everyone

00:32:45Tim Oberg: Never were truer words spoken, Pete. So, look, Peter Deppeler, aka Intern Pete, thanks for coming on the parkrun Adventurers podcast and we look forward to hearing from you again in the future. Thanks, guys. Have a great day.

00:33:02Melissa Erbacher: Well, we don't have any roving reports this week. Everybody's been slacking off in the field. Hopefully next week, we've got a huge swag of anniversaries and a launch this week. So hopefully we get something next week from you guys out there. But where are we launching this week, Tim?

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

00:33:18Tim Oberg: Well, this is exciting, Mel, because we are launching Bourke Racecourse parkrun. And yes, that is in Bourke, as in the saying, the back of Bourke. So I think this is going to become a must-do on the adventurers checklist. What do you think?

00:33:33Melissa Erbacher: Possibly. It's certainly one of those famous sort of road trip detours that people go to in New South Wales. So yeah. Yeah.

00:33:43Tim Oberg: This could be – you know my thoughts on the clubs, but we can make a new club here. This could be the Sayings Club.

00:33:49Melissa Erbacher: The Sayings Club.

00:33:51Tim Oberg: The Sayings Club. If it's a location that is renowned for being part of a famous saying, the back of Bourke. Maybe it's a club with only one at the moment.

00:34:02Melissa Erbacher: Oh, I'm sure there are other parkruns out there that will put their hands up and go, yes, you know, like Bega or Robe, you know. I'm sure they've got famous sayings about them.

00:34:14Tim Oberg: On the road to Gundagai? We don't have a Gundagai parkrun.

00:34:17Melissa Erbacher: We do, we've got a Gundy parkrun.

00:34:18Tim Oberg: No, no, we've got Goondiwindi. We don't have Gundagai.

00:34:21Melissa Erbacher: Well, they're both called Gundi, though. Oh, no, we had a Gundagai. Use your words, Melissa. We had a Gundagai prospect at one point. Did we?

00:34:32Tim Oberg: Well, along the road to Gundagai, Slim Dusty. I'm just looking at it now. Okay, if anyone from Gundagai is listening, start a parkrun.

00:34:41Melissa Erbacher: And I'm sure you'll have everybody's brains ticking over with the Sayings Club as well.

00:34:47Tim Oberg: Where have we got anniversaries? Where's the cake happening this week?

00:34:50Melissa Erbacher: Well, let's kick off with Bunbury in WA.

00:34:53Tim Oberg: Been there? You done it?

00:34:56Melissa Erbacher: Yeah, I was there the same week you were there. You don't remember?

00:34:58Tim Oberg: There we go. I don't know. It's all a blur. Cloncurry in Queensland. You done that one?

00:35:05Melissa Erbacher: I haven't done that one, but it's top of my list because I want to head to Cloncurry and Mount Isa because I grew up there. So fond memories of Currie.

00:35:14Tim Oberg: That could be the food club. It's got Currie in the title. Start another club.

00:35:19Melissa Erbacher: Sorry. You're on a roll here.

00:35:20Tim Oberg: I'm off track. I'm off track. Anyway, Cloncurry, happy anniversary.

00:35:25Melissa Erbacher: Yes. Then we've got Darwin in the Northern Territory.

00:35:29Tim Oberg: Been there. You done that one?

00:35:30Melissa Erbacher: Yes. Been there, done that.

00:35:32Tim Oberg: Same time as me?

00:35:33Melissa Erbacher: No, not that time.

00:35:35Tim Oberg: Don't think so. Then we are our friends at Highfields in Toowoomba are having their anniversary.

00:35:40Melissa Erbacher: Have you done that one?

00:35:41Tim Oberg: I haven't. No, I've only done – like there's a few up in Toowoomba now, and I've only done the original, which is Toowoomba.

00:35:48Melissa Erbacher: Okay. Well, you'll have to head back that way. Then we've got Kangaroo Island in South Australia. This one is high on my list. I'm still trying to convince Adam that that should be my birthday parkrun trip next year.

00:36:00Tim Oberg: That would be awesome. And, of course, that could be the animal club right there.

00:36:06Melissa Erbacher: Yes, I don't know how many animal club members we might have. That might be the only one.

00:36:11Tim Oberg: Now, this next one on our list, I think it's one that you and I, but particularly you, are familiar with, Kiwana.

00:36:19Melissa Erbacher: Yeah, you've been to Kiwana a few times, I think, like maybe even three times.

00:36:25Tim Oberg: Oh, well, were you at the launch? I can't remember. Were you there?

00:36:28Melissa Erbacher: I was not at the launch, no. I didn't meet you. Actually, the first time I met you was at the first anniversary of Kawana. So five years ago this weekend is the anniversary of when we met.

00:36:39Tim Oberg: Oh, my word. Can I tell my Kwan on launch story? Do we have time?

00:36:43Melissa Erbacher: Yeah, please do.

00:36:46Tim Oberg: So in the good old days or bad old days, depending on how you would consider it, let's call it the early days of parkrunning in Australia, there was no such thing as trial events or training. The volunteers never got trained. I just pitched up on the Saturday morning in a new town or wherever. I had all the gear. Yeah. And I basically showed everyone how to do it. I was like, right, here's the stopwatch, this is how it works. Here's the scanner, this is how it works. The only thing that sort of needed to be sorted in advance was that the event director knew the course, like where the course was going to be. So Kawana parkrun launch, I rolled up and met Kelly Daly and, you know, we love Kelly and Kelly's about to have her first bubba. We'll talk about that in a minute. So I turned up and said to Kelly, so where's the start line? And she goes, yeah, I don't know. And I said... And I said, what do you mean? She goes, oh, well, we could just do it over here. And I said, okay. So I said, let me ask you another question. Where do we have to get to to get our 5K? And she's like, um... Yeah, it could be. Yeah, look, I think let's just start here, shall we? And I was like, okay. And so we basically stuck some flags in the ground and we were like, all right, let's hope that this is 5K. You know, Google Maps was telling us it was roughly 5K. And, you know, with Kiwana, obviously, you've got a fixed endpoint. It's the lighthouse. You run around the lighthouse. Is that still the case? Do we still run around the lighthouse?

00:38:17Melissa Erbacher: That's our turnaround point, yes.

00:38:19Tim Oberg: Exactly. So it's got to be, you know, up there with the most scenic turnaround points in all of the parkrun world out looking across the Sunshine Coast. So anyway, so long story short, Kawana parkrun starts, event one, we stick some flags in the ground, everyone goes out, runs around the lighthouse, gets back to what was the finish line and it was, I think it was about 4.7K. So we had to, I can't remember whether we made people run.

00:38:44Melissa Erbacher: No, no, it was 5.5.

00:38:46Tim Oberg: 5.5 or something. I knew it was something.

00:38:48Melissa Erbacher: We actually have to walk 500 metres to the start line as a group.

00:38:53Tim Oberg: That's it.

00:38:53Melissa Erbacher: Because they all got bonus distance out of it, number one.

00:38:57Tim Oberg: That's it. That's it. I knew it was something like that. So it was one of the great stories of the early days of parkrun and the way we used to do things versus the way that we do things there, which are much more precise. And, look, you know, just to be clear, that's not having a dig at Kelly at all. That was really a dig at myself. because, you know, in those early days we just had no systems where we were just winging it. And, you know, it all worked out in the end.

00:39:26Melissa Erbacher: And look, yes, everybody came back the next week, or the majority of them came back the next week.

00:39:30Tim Oberg: That's it. And they probably all got PBs, I'd imagine.

00:39:34Melissa Erbacher: Yes, well, they absolutely would have if they were there on week one.

00:39:38Tim Oberg: Awesome.

00:39:40Melissa Erbacher: And now we're having our sixth anniversary this weekend.

00:39:44Tim Oberg: There you go. It's gone fast. Well done. Well done. So well done. Happy anniversary, Kawana. So what's next?

00:39:52Melissa Erbacher: But we've got more. We've got more. We've got Mudgeeraba in Queensland.

00:39:56Tim Oberg: Yep, done that one. Love Mudgie. Mudgerabah parkrun. We have Orange in New South Wales, another one for the food club.

00:40:03Melissa Erbacher: Do we have a food club?

00:40:05Tim Oberg: Well, we do now.

00:40:06Melissa Erbacher: You've just created a food club.

00:40:07Tim Oberg: I've created a food club. It's a new club within the parkrun clubs.

00:40:12Melissa Erbacher: We're only halfway through the anniversaries and you've already created three clubs along the way.

00:40:16Tim Oberg: Three clubs and one of the clubs now has two members.

00:40:22Melissa Erbacher: We've got Port Mac in New South Wales as well.

00:40:25Tim Oberg: And we have Railton in Tasmania.

00:40:28Melissa Erbacher: Yeah, Railton was our 250th event. We recently had a roving report from down that way, which was very cool. And then we've got Shelley in WA. Yeah.

00:40:40Tim Oberg: and last but not least another event that we we all we know quite well i'm sure on this show which is Westerfolds parkrun, parkrun as started by the former co-host of the parkrun adventurers scott trickett serious scott as we like to call him serious scott i informed him yesterday that he's lost his job because you and i just you know are nailing it so um thanks thanks for all you guys how did he take the Well, when I told him that he'd lost his job, I think at first he thought I meant his real job. His real job was parkrun. And then I said, no, no, no, no, just talking about your gig with the adventurers. So, yeah, look, he wasn't happy. So maybe I'll have to let him come back next week. What do you think?

00:41:28Melissa Erbacher: Okay. Well, we'll see. We'll see. But, yes, happy anniversary to all those events. It's a big weekend for anniversaries. There may be cake. There may be donuts. Who knows? Who knows? You can just try your luck. But should we go to the hotline?

The Hotline

00:41:44Tim Oberg: Let's.

00:41:46[music]

00:41:46Unidentified speaker: Hotline. Hotline.

00:41:54Tim Oberg: Dorothy Dix would like to know, if you were a snack, what kind of snack would you be?

00:42:00Melissa Erbacher: Well, Dorothy, that is one of the more random of the questions that we've ever had on the hotline, I think. If we were a snack, what kind of snack would we be? I think this is a very existential kind of question because people say you are what you eat. So maybe I should consider the kind of snacks that I usually have. I don't know. I think – I don't think I'd be a salty snack, and I don't think I'd be crunchy. I'm pretty sure I would be something sweet, possibly chocolate, but that might just be informed by my current hankering for chocolate. It's like, hmm, I could really go a snack right now. Hmm, chocolate. I don't know. What about you, Tim?

00:42:42Tim Oberg: Well, for me, it's easy, and it's like you say. You are what you eat, and my snack of choice is nuts, and – I think people that know me well would agree I am a bit nuts. So I'm going to go with nuts. It's easy.

00:42:57Melissa Erbacher: And any nuts in particular?

00:42:58Tim Oberg: Well, my preference for my nuts is my local Coles has the little nut self-serve area. The dispenser thing. Yeah, the self-serve. And so from memory, I think it's called the premium natural mix or something like that so it's not the roasted it's not the salted it's just the the natural nuts And when they say premium, that means they put the fancy ones in there. So you've got your Brazil nuts and your macadamias.

00:43:27Melissa Erbacher: I was going to ask if you're a bit of a Brazil nut.

00:43:30Tim Oberg: Well, I mean, you know, they're the go-tos, the Brazil and the macadamias. But what happens is I know Coles, you know, they're a bit sneaky because they load it up with like the cheap nuts anyway. So you've got your almonds and your, you know, your...

00:43:45Peter Deppeler ("Intern Pete"): Well, the cashews, they're probably not the cheap nuts.

00:43:47Tim Oberg: But anyway, you never get a high percentage of the expensive nuts in the expensive nut selection. So just saying. So if anyone out there is at Coles, you know what I'm talking about, don't you?

00:43:59Melissa Erbacher: The way that you... Do you ever grab out the, like,

00:44:02Tim Oberg: the um the container and just like shake it up so that all the little ones haven't gone to the bottom and you get a good mix look i don't know if i can say this on air but i'm gonna say it people might think poorly of me but what i'll often do i'm i'll often just get a little scoop of the macadamias and just add it in to my my bag and then and then and then you just mix

00:44:24Melissa Erbacher: Well, there are macadamias in there, I'm assuming, as well. You're just increasing the proportion.

00:44:28Tim Oberg: I sort of view it as a bit of a Robin Hood kind of rob the rich and give to the poor kind of scenario. You know, the poor being me and the rich being, you know, the supermarkets. And, yeah, as you say, they're already in there. So really, I mean, come on. It's, you know, I'm sure it's probably not even a crime, really. But, yeah, it does just, you know, balance up. I bet some of the listeners do the same thing. Let us know on Facebook. Do you add the expensive nuts into the cheap nuts, tuck it, and then just weigh it as the cheap nuts? Do you do that? I bet I'm not alone.

00:45:08Melissa Erbacher: It's a new poll question. Scotty likes to do the polls with random things like this. Love it. Tim Oberg's nut hacks. Oh. You heard it here first on the parkrun Adventurers.

00:45:21Tim Oberg: Oh, my word. We deal with the big topics here. There's no doubt about it.

00:45:24Melissa Erbacher: We do. We do. And when you have quality questions like this one from Dorothy Dix, you know, this is where the tangents go. Now, speaking of tangents, last week we had a bit of a chat about barcodes and where people keep their spares, et cetera. Scotty got a bit disgusted by those who might keep them under the sole of their shoes.

00:45:45Tim Oberg: No. People don't do that, do they?

00:45:47Melissa Erbacher: Yeah, yeah. How? Yeah, they do.

00:45:50Tim Oberg: You mean inside the shoe?

00:45:52Melissa Erbacher: Yeah, the insole. You lift the insole up and you slide a spare barcode under there, laminated preferably so it doesn't disintegrate because apparently Scotty, who doesn't sweat, sweats through his feet and that would just be gross.

00:46:05Tim Oberg: Imagine how warm it would be in there like during the run, like the friction and the juices.

00:46:12Melissa Erbacher: Look, I still think it's preferable.

00:46:14Tim Oberg: Oh, God.

00:46:16Melissa Erbacher: Yeah, but it's foot juice. That's better than other kinds of juice. Some people keep them in their undies.

00:46:20Tim Oberg: Yeah, well, I'm not even going to go there.

00:46:24Melissa Erbacher: Yeah, exactly. No, let's not go there.

00:46:25Tim Oberg: We have wristbands, people. Buy them. It supports us as well.

00:46:30Melissa Erbacher: We do. And we talked about the fact that I'm now in the market for another wristband. And I mentioned those people, inverted commas, who wear two. And we have at least one self-confessed who realized that they do it. And his name is TOC. He's one of our roving reporters. Perhaps that's why we don't have a roving report from Tok this week. But Will Barlow also weighed in and said he wears two, but they're not both for him. One of them's actually for his daughter, and I'm assuming he's referring to April because the wristbands only come in certain sizes and the smallest is still a bit too big for her little wrists. So I think that's really quite sweet that he wears two and one of them's hers.

00:47:09Tim Oberg: Yeah, but you know what, Will? I've encountered that problem as well. And what you do for the little bit, it becomes an anklet. You put it on the little people's ankle. before they put their shoe on. That's the go-to. You don't carry two yourself. Well, that weighs you down, mate. That's an extra 50 grams or something that you're carrying around. You just go – it stays on the ankle until it becomes – the wrist gets big enough. So, yeah, put it on the ankle. Done.

00:47:36Melissa Erbacher: Well, I don't know. I mean, I guess Will often pushes his other daughter in the pram, so he's already got some weight to be dealing with. You know, you were discussing weight.

00:47:47Tim Oberg: Yeah, I was going to say, let's not talk about Will Barlow pushing a single pram. You know, you're not pushing weight until you're doing a double pram, Will. So come on, mate.

00:47:56Melissa Erbacher: Well, I'm not sure. He might have used to do the double pram until April started running.

00:47:59Tim Oberg: And he carries a camera. He carries a camera most of the time too. So, as we know as well.

00:48:03Melissa Erbacher: I know. He's pretty quick. He took on Shellharbour with that pram and Shellharbour's got a big section of beach.

00:48:09Tim Oberg: That is full on.

00:48:10Melissa Erbacher: So, that is full on. Kudos. But speaking of which, babies at parkrun. My goodness, there are babies everywhere at parkrun at the moment. There are.

00:48:20Tim Oberg: So we were talking about babies in prams, but there's actually brand-new babies galore. And I want to send a big shout-out across the ditch to our friend Caitlin Deschamois. Now, many listeners won't know Caitlin, but Caitlin's mum and dad, Noel and Leanne, are the country managers of parkrun New Zealand. They are actually some of Paul Sinton-Hewitt's oldest friends. Noel and Leanne. Leanne and Paul used to all run together in Johannesburg many, many, many years ago when they used to do time trials in Joburg, which was the inspiration for parkrun many years later when Paul was living in the UK. So a lot of history between that family and the Sinton Hewitts or the Sinton Hewitt himself. But yeah, their daughter, Caitlin, who is a run director at Cornwall Park in Auckland, and she also does a lot of the social media and the newsletter for parkrun New Zealand, has had twins during the week. Oh, yeah, so they are very, very busy over there. So they're twinning.

00:49:19Melissa Erbacher: All their arms are full, I imagine.

00:49:20Tim Oberg: They're twinning it up. But this got us thinking, didn't it, Mel? I wonder if, well, I bet there's been lots of babies born this week. There always are. I'm sure we've just got, you know, the amount of people in parkrun in Australia now, there'd be babies galore every week. But I'm wondering, have there been any twins or have there been any triplets? Are there any parkrun triplets? that have come into the world even this year. Tell us. We want to know. parkrun triplets, parkrun twins, parkrun babies. Let us know. Give us a shout-out on social media. We love babies. We love kids in parkrun and certainly on the parkrun Adventurers. So tell us what's going on.

00:49:58Melissa Erbacher: Yeah, I can't even fathom. I know that there was a woman who just set the Guinness World Record for the marathon distance pushing her four children in two double prams. She did it in just over two hours. Absolutely insane. I don't know how. Like, I struggle with the one pram. Hang on, hang on, hang on.

00:50:21Tim Oberg: Hold it right there. You said a woman pushed two prams. Yes. How do you push two prams?

00:50:26Melissa Erbacher: Two prams, one pram on each hand. And these are not small prams. And her kids are not small. She's got four of them. So by the time you get your fourth one, they're not all twins and triplets. The other ones are quite grown.

00:50:38Tim Oberg: And what distance? Did you say marathon?

00:50:40Melissa Erbacher: No, half marathon in two hours with four children and two prams.

00:50:45Tim Oberg: Oh, my word.

00:50:47Melissa Erbacher: That was a Guinness World Record. I don't know if it was any kind of other sort of official world record.

00:50:52Tim Oberg: She must have had the two double prams modified to almost essentially be like attached to each other so that it was like a four-pronger. And, oh, yeah, that's – It was bloody wide.

00:51:02Melissa Erbacher: I reckon if you were also running, you know, she must have like little bells or horns or something to tell people to get out of her way because she – She takes up the like distant, the width of a car on the road pretty much. Insane. I don't know how people manage with twins, let alone triplets. Do they have prams that go three abreast or do they go, are they tandem prams when they get to those?

00:51:26Tim Oberg: I've seen them. The triple prams do exist. They're rare. I have seen the odd one and I think, I don't think, did they go three wide or did they have like a sort of three on top of each other? Kind of like, you know, the one in the normal pram seat, then one sort of on the top and then one in the sort of patch at the back. I'm not sure. So I've, uh, you know, I've never had to look at the triple pram, you know, Jack was old enough to not be in the double when Archie came along. So, um, Yeah, they do exist, but that's good going. Four people, four kids, half marathon, two hours. That's like the breaking two, except breaking two for the half with four kids. So that's a different sort of challenge.

00:52:08Melissa Erbacher: Exactly. That's the one that Nike should be doing.

00:52:11Tim Oberg: Yeah, exactly. This would be sponsored by Bob. Bob Running Prams. Bob Breaking 2. There we go.

00:52:19Melissa Erbacher: We should totally pitch that to Bob. That would be hilarious. And get some of our twinning parkrun babies out there if we have any.

00:52:30Tim Oberg: Oh, yeah. Now, listen, we mentioned earlier Kelly Daly, Kiwana parkrun. She's due. When is she due? A couple of weeks?

00:52:35Melissa Erbacher: She's due in December to have her first bub. So she is still actively run directing at Kiwana at the moment. She was quite happy to run direct up until the 8th of December, which I understand is quite close to the due date. And I said, look, you know, I've been there. I've had to call my fellow co-ED and ask him to come collect the kit from the hospital while I was in labour. Because I was supposed to run direct that morning and it wasn't going to happen. I said, let's not do that. How about we let you finish up a few weeks before that just to be sure, to be sure. So end of November is going to be her last run directing stint. But she's doing an amazing job. even with the baby brain that I'm sure must have set in because it always does.

00:53:21Tim Oberg: Good job, Kelly. One of my mates up here at Airlie Beach, Rihanna Ronski, and her husband, Adrian, they've just had a little baby boy. And Rihanna was at Airlie Beach parkrun when she was 40 plus 2 years I think she was tail walking actually. And I said to her, I said to her, I don't want to see you here next week. And I didn't. So she didn't get to parkrun day on 40 plus nine, thankfully. So she, she had a little boy. I think Harry, they've called him. She had Harry during the week.

00:53:49Melissa Erbacher: Can you imagine a parkrun baby, like a proper born on the course parkrun baby?

00:53:54Tim Oberg: Has it happened? I don't know. It hasn't happened in Australia. Has it happened anywhere? Baby born on the course or at least labor. Have we had labor on the course?

00:54:03Melissa Erbacher: Got no idea. Not that I'm aware of. I've never heard of it. But, you know, 14 years, it's been a long time. Got a lot of pregnant women out on those courses.

00:54:11Tim Oberg: Yeah, imagine it. Imagine it. Baby born at parkrun on the course. I mean... That's its own milestone club, really. It's a milestone club. We'd have to create a new one for that one. Yeah, there would have to be infant milestone shirts. Born at parkrun. Oh, man, that would be hilarious.

00:54:32Melissa Erbacher: That would be hilarious.

00:54:33Tim Oberg: Anyway, babies everywhere. But as we said, let us know. We want to know. Triplets, twins, babies, let us know what's going on. Send photos. We love it.

00:54:39Melissa Erbacher: Yes, absolutely. So where are you headed this week, Tim, for parkrun on Saturday? Anywhere exciting?

00:54:45Tim Oberg: Well, I will be – well, it's always exciting to go to Airlie Beach parkrun. We have a great mix of this core group of people that are there every week. I reckon there's probably about 30 that are there every week. And then we have, you know, 30 to 40 who just float in and out. And then there's probably always about 20 to 30 tourists because Airlie Beach being a big tourist. But, yeah, there's heaps of tourists. It's so cool and really always a great kind of vibe. But it's obviously, you know, those 30 that are there every week, you know, they become your friends and they're the ones that I love catching up with them. You know, you always see them around the shops and, you know, on the road and school pickups and drop-offs. These are all the people that become part of your day-to-day, which is awesome. So I'll be at Airlie Beach and we've actually got pacer week. I think it's probably only about the third time we've ever done Pace a week up here in Airlie Beach. and I am a 30-minute pacer, but I will be running with the double pram, so the double pram pacer. So I'm really looking forward to that. I love pacing.

00:55:49Melissa Erbacher: So poor Jack is going to have to slow down this week.

00:55:52Tim Oberg: Well, that's it. Well, he can run with his mum, so that's all good. I will be on the 30 minutes, unless, of course, I start off and it ends up that no one wants to run 30 minutes and I'm running on my own. then I'll just do whatever. But I think that's unlikely. I think for a lot of people, 30 minutes will be a bit of a time that they – yeah, a good target, exactly. So I'll be the 30-minute pacer at Airlie Beach Park around this weekend. If anyone wants to break 30 minutes, come up to Airlie Beach. We'll see you there. It's a short flight for many of you.

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00:56:23Melissa Erbacher: so around 30 minutes with Tim would be great and what about you Mel you're you're well I know where you're going to be you're going to be at Kiwana for the anniversary anniversary of course you do we are we've got a spooky theme this year so um well no not necessarily of course it's just very close to Halloween and you know what for the last several years I've just dressed up in a spooky outfit anyway just because I like to and not because we've had a theme so I will be on the tools I am time keeping to make sure that everything goes according to plan and on the app oh yeah we've been app only since our stopwatch died several months ago and it's amazing and we love it good job yeah Everybody has embraced it wholeheartedly. And all my run directors are like, oh, this is amazing.

00:57:10Tim Oberg: Yeah, got to do it. As for any of our event teams listening, all the Junior parkrun events are app only. it's so smooth so easy no cords we like that no cables no cords app only it's the way we are wire free that's it that's it well that look that sounds awesome mel um be great uh great weekend for you kudos to yourself for uh you know giving so much to that event over the years i'm sure you're gonna have a great time we will and it's always been my pleasure thank you for joining me as co-host on the parkrun adventurers this week tim it's been fun having you It's been fun. It's been a great experience. And, you know, like the fact that you and Scotty have done this week in, week out for 100 and how many weeks did we say?

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00:57:56Melissa Erbacher: Well, this week's 130. Well, this is episode 135, but it's actually only our 134th episode because we skipped one.

00:58:03Tim Oberg: Yeah, there you go.

00:58:05Melissa Erbacher: That was having a bit of bad luck at episode 103, so we're saving that for later.

00:58:10Tim Oberg: Oh, very good. Yeah, but like, you know, as I was saying, it's a huge commitment. And, you know, good on you guys. And I'm sure the regular listeners appreciate it. And, you know, I know when I was out with Scotty the other week at the Ponds, lots of people wanting to come up and talk to him about the podcast. So it's a credit to you guys for all the work that you do. And, yeah, but look, I'll be happy to be back. You know, Scotty will be back next week. All jokes aside, Scott will be back next week. But I'll certainly be happy to come and guest host any time you guys just let me know when you need a break. Awesome.