Episode 168 - #fluffyfactor
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Episode 168 - #fluffyfactor · 2019-08-09
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Welcome
Lyndell Murray: Episode 168 of the parkrun adventurers. Surprise everybody! It's Lyndell and I'm back! Back co-hosting the parkrun adventurers and you might be wondering why. Well, or maybe not. Scotty's been talking a little bit and dreaming or something about not being the co-host anymore and whether he could find a replacement. Um, so, here I am, and I'm joined by Mel Erbacher. Mel, how are you going tonight?
Melissa Erbacher: I'm really well, thanks, Lyndell, aka the new Scotty. Or you're the new Scotty, or I'm the new Scotty. How would you like to play this?
Lyndell Murray: Well, well... I don't know. I think there was a poll about who was the funniest one. And I mean, you pipped him at the post on that and you're the funny one.
Melissa Erbacher: Yeah, but see, the thing is, I think you're probably funnier than I am. So you could be the new Mel in that respect. You're the funny one. And maybe I need to just tone it back and talk slower, more deliberately, possibly with a lower register if I can – lower register? I don't know. Is that going to – I don't know. That's not going to work, is it?
Lyndell Murray: I can already tell that's not going to work. That's probably not going to work. Maybe we should just be ourselves. Well, we could try that. We could see how that goes. Maybe we could both be the funny ones.
Melissa Erbacher: Oh, I don't know if the podcast could handle that much funny, Lyndell.
Lyndell Murray: Oh. Well, I'm not that funny, so.
Melissa Erbacher: I disagree. I disagree. Your original, the actual roving report that got you onto the team where, you know, you went and interviewed people who had never heard of parkrun before, that was a moment in parkrun adventurers history that I will never forget. It was brilliant. Well, it was fun. Yeah, it gave me a good laugh anyway. And I know we got great feedback about that one. So, yeah, I think we're both funny. I think we're both a funny one.
Lyndell Murray: Let's see if the listeners can handle it. Let's see. Let's see.
Melissa Erbacher: Now, I'm very happy to have you join me this week. It is very sad that Scotty has decided to step away from podcasting. But we're not going to dwell on that. We're just going to move forward in a positive way and see where the podcast goes. It could go all over the place. Who knows? A whole new direction.
Lyndell Murray: It might be chaos without Scotty.
Melissa Erbacher: Let's see what fun we can have. Let's start with Lyndell. Where were you last parkrun day? Okay.
Lyndell Murray: I was at Nambour parkrun, Mel. I followed in your tracks and went to a spy and meet the elusive Fluffy, who turns out to be not that elusive. No, he's a bit of a media tart, isn't he? Sure is. He just wanders along. Loving the people, I think. Oh, I think so.
Melissa Erbacher: And how was it? Obviously, he's not so elusive. That kind of indicates to me that he was there. He showed up this week.
Lyndell Murray: Yeah, he sure was. And you know how at Noosa, at Nambour, where everybody walks to the start line? Yep. Yeah, Fluffy just joined in and walked along to the start line with us. Nice.
Melissa Erbacher: Was he at the pre-run brief this week? Yeah.
Lyndell Murray: Well, he was not at the pre-run brief, so I think he might have got lost and probably didn't get a finisher token. I don't know whether he completed the course.
Melissa Erbacher: He got a PB the week before, I hear. So, yeah. Makes his own rules, does Fluffy, I believe.
Lyndell Murray: Oh, look, he's an emu of his own devices, I think. And has got...
Melissa Erbacher: He does and he's got quite the cult following now as well. You know, people are travelling interstate to parkrun at Nambour just so they can hopefully meet Fluffy. The famous emu aside, how did you enjoy Nambour parkrun this time? You've been there before but, you know, it's always good to go for another hit out on familiar courses.
Lyndell Murray: Yeah, it was great. Look, I loved it. Yeah. What I loved most about going back to Nambour was that I got to run it this time. The first time I went, I accompanied my friend's kids and so we walked through the bush and we had a lovely time. It was lots of fun. But this time I got to have a run and I haven't been running on the trails too much and I've really missed it. And this weekend really showed me how much I missed running on trails and Yeah, it left a little warm spot in my heart and to the point where I think I'm going to add Nambour as one of my P-index runs and get back there, try and get back there a little bit more regularly.
Melissa Erbacher: Okay. So what is your P-index up to at the moment?
Lyndell Murray: I'm on five at the moment, Mel. Okay. And only three runs away from seven.
Melissa Erbacher: Ooh, three runs on one event away from seven?
Lyndell Murray: Hold on, four runs away from seven. I need to get one more at – no, my maths is terrible. Oh, see, this is why you're the perfect new me. I think I might be five away. So to get to six, I need to do one more at one event.
Melissa Erbacher: Okay. And then four more at another event.
Lyndell Murray: So then I have to get the one that I'm going to the sixth time up to seven. So that's one. And I've got another four. So it is four events away. Gee, that was a really boring part of the podcast, me trying to figure out
Melissa Erbacher: No, look, I'm doing this with the maths all the time. Everybody's used to it. Don't worry. So is Nambour one of those or Nambour will be like the next event that will get you to eight and you'll have to go back there six more times?
Lyndell Murray: So, yes, I've only done Nambour twice. But what I'm starting to do is I'm running out of events that I've got more than two. So, I'm looking at three events that I've done twice and thinking, okay, which are the ones that are either… This is the time where you choose who's going to be the next P-Index contributor.
Melissa Erbacher: Yes.
Lyndell Murray: Which ones do I want to start building up over time to be the next contributor to my P-Index?
Melissa Erbacher: Oh, that's exciting. See, because we haven't had a lot of new launches in Queensland lately. There's not a lot on the board coming up as well. So I guess that leaves the adventure landscape open for people to try and choose a different running challenge to pursue for a little while. And, you know, if... if the new events thing isn't something that they're clocking up, even if people don't attend the launches and wait for a little bit longer. This is, I mean, it's creating a problem for me because my Wilson index, I need event number four and five and we don't have any launches coming up. So the prospects for me being able to do those are way off into the future. So I'm playing the long game with my Wilson Index at the moment and going for numbers that are up in the 200s and things like that. If I haven't already got it, basically, and it's up there in those numbers, then I try to strategically attend those ones. But it's been few and far between for me as well. And I like that you're choosing Nambour as a P Index. Was it Plan B or Plan A? Have you only run Plan A twice? No.
Lyndell Murray: I believe so.
Melissa Erbacher: Okay. So that's the loop. It's the big circuit. Yeah. I've done that twice. Yeah. Which is the official course. But when they have wet weather, the contingency, you don't cross the creek. So you turn around before you get to the creek and come back. And you go up those really nasty hills again, which – turns a difficult course into one with even extra elevation. So maybe you'll be lucky enough to experience a plan B among your P-index endeavours in the future.
Lyndell Murray: Yeah, maybe I will.
Melissa Erbacher: So, Mel, where were you on the weekend? I got a new event in. I've got back, not that it matters anymore because he's not co-hosting, but I think I'm going to maintain this competition anyway. Scotty and I are now equal again on the Australian Most Events list. He's technically still ahead of me by two events because he's got two more international events than I do. But I got a new event in. Would you call it a penultimate Nendi if it's the event that's the second closest to you that you haven't yet done?
Lyndell Murray: Well, the way I look at them, I call them Nendi and then Nendi 2, Nendi 3, Nendi 4.
Melissa Erbacher: Okay, that's probably a lot more logical.
Lyndell Murray: I don't know whether it does.
Melissa Erbacher: Well, maybe it's the Snendi, the second nearest event not done yet, the Snendi.
Lyndell Murray: I reckon Snendi's a winner.
Melissa Erbacher: And then the Ternendi? No, that's not going to work.
Lyndell Murray: Trenendi.
Melissa Erbacher: Or the Threnendi. The Thernendi? Yeah, okay. Let's not create any new words. Obviously, it's a bit too late in the evening to come up with anything intelligent. At any rate, Baringa parkrun on the Sunshine Coast was my Snendi and I went along to do that one. It's actually... We tried, we tried, or we had intentions of getting there last week, which didn't happen as everyone who listens to the podcast knows. We just didn't get out of bed. So this, this was our second attempt to get along to Baringa and we made it, which I was very happy about because it's always good to get along and have an adventure. It's my first one since Emmett has been born and my first one since, oh, months before he was born, actually, you know, it's been a, A long time between adventures for me, possibly my longest drought. That's got to be a thing, your adventure drought. I know there's a lot of people who are counting the list of them in a row, but this is the longest time, I think, since I started adventuring that I haven't been to a new event, so drought is broken that fantastic yes uh I was very excited by that and uh great course it was I came 48 out of I think 50 participants which is totally fine um but it lovely lovely to have such a small community as well you know it's It's still in its early stages. I think you've been to Baringa. You possibly even gave us a roving.
Lyndell Murray: No?
Melissa Erbacher: I've not been to Baringa. Oh, okay.
Lyndell Murray: I'm sure we had a roving report from there. Perhaps Dave sent that one in.
Melissa Erbacher: Maybe. I should do more research about what's on my own podcast. Don't worry about that. It's a great little course. It's got multi-terrain. So you start on an oval, which is all grassy, and then it moves for a short period onto sealed concrete path before it goes onto like a service road, which is compacted gravel. And then the service road goes for perhaps concrete. 300 or 400 metres, maybe half a K, before it goes back onto Sealed Paths all through the estate. And they wind around. It was very well signed. They had chalk arrows everywhere that you needed to turn. Possibly if you were fast, you might miss them, but I had no trouble following the course. And beautiful morning, very friendly tail runner. Yeah, on the morning, which was great too. It's always nice to have good support on the course and not to feel too bad. You know, I was pushing Emmett. So it was Emmett's first parkrun. He is now, On the unofficial board because obviously he couldn't scan in. But he's done a full course. He's not just a volunteer at parkrun anymore. So that was a special. Well done, Emmett. Yeah, that was a special moment as well. He's finally been indoctrinated into the whole parkrun scene. So we had a great morning at that cafe afterwards. Oh, my goodness. We had the best breakfast. Yes. Yeah. Highly, highly rate the cafe. So, if you're in Baringa, let me know and I'll let you know what the cafe's called. I have trouble pronouncing it, so I'd probably have to send people a link. But awesome, awesome breakfast and a great park as well for the kids to play. And the… the actual eating area overlooks the park. So you can kind of sit down and relax and you don't have to go and, um, actually be in the park. I mean, technically you're supposed to be supervising your two year old child who doesn't know how to climb things yet. Um, but you know, that's, that's neither here nor there really. But we had a great morning, which was good. And, um, It didn't contribute towards my Wilson Index in the end, I don't believe. So pretty much running challenges-wise, all it contributed to was a brand-new event. I knew when I was coming in toward the finish line that I was not going to get one of my final two bingos.
Lyndell Murray: Have you finished bingo yet? Is that one thing that you're chasing? No. How many have you got to go? I've got about 10 to go, I think, and I'm not chasing it. Okay. I'm just being serendipitous about it.
Melissa Erbacher: Yeah. Well, we discovered that Adam's already got his bingo and we don't know when that happened because he didn't have it about six months ago and now he does. And it's like, damn it, he wasn't even trying.
Lyndell Murray: Wasn't even trying. This is what I think. I'm going to look one day and all of a sudden it'll be done.
Melissa Erbacher: Yes. Yeah, possibly that's the happier way to do it, just to discover that it's randomly occurred. But yeah, I knew it wasn't going to happen. And I was like, oh, I'm not slowing myself down or trying to do breakneck speeds over the last 50 metres to make the timing. Because they're both at one end of the clock. Of course they are. About four seconds apart. So I was like, nah. Yeah. But that's all good. We'll get there eventually. So, had a great morning. Is that the last one that you've got? Are you only after one more time? No, no. I'm after two more times.
Lyndell Murray: Oh, two more times. They're close together.
Melissa Erbacher: Yeah. Yep. Yes.
Lyndell Murray: But I'll get there eventually, I'm sure. You will. And so, a nice community at Baringa. I'm going to make a Scotty style wild generalization. Okay. Mel, do you find that... Smaller parkruns tend to have that closer niche community feel to it.
Melissa Erbacher: When you visit them?
Lyndell Murray: Yeah.
Melissa Erbacher: I think I wouldn't say it's a size thing so much as it's an age thing in terms of the age of the event. So Baringa has been going now for approximately six months. So it's had time. Yes, they're still small in terms of numbers, but they've had time for those numbers to get to know each other and the event team to get to know each other. So I think it's often the case that, yeah, any event needs just a little bit of time to get to know each other. The people, like the community, they need to get to know each other. And you can still find that community in the bigger ones despite, despite the potentially hundreds of people there. Like the community is still there in the bigger ones, in my experience anyway. It's just I definitely think it's an age thing. And some events, you can feel that community from event number one. Not all events, but some of them you can. And that's got a lot to do with the event team, you know, how long it might have taken them to get to that point of launching the event because they – Yeah, that's a good point. Because, yeah, if they've struggled to either get funding or landholder permission and it's been a long time in the works but they've built up a good core team of people that are driving it, then that really helps as well. So, yeah, but to be honest, Lyndell, I've never been to a parkrun that hasn't got a great community feel about it. It's kind of part and parcel, isn't it really, with the whole parkrun shenanigans?
Lyndell Murray: I think you're right, Mel. I think it is.
Melissa Erbacher: But still, the small numbers, yeah, I definitely enjoy the small numbers. Nambour is one of those events that has had, you know, less than 100 on average for a very long time, which is fine. But I think now their numbers are getting up there with a lot of extra adventurers every week. The fluffy factor.
Lyndell Murray: The fluffy factor. You can't underestimate the fluffy factor.
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Roving reports & the Channel 5 News crew
Roving report Tony O'Connell — Grand Ridge Rail Trail parkrun
Tony O'Connell: Howdy parkrunners, it's TOC reporting in from the Grand Ridge Rail Trail parkrun. I'm here with Helen and Helen, I'm not sure what that thing is you're wearing because I just don't get the ugly top bit. Why are you wearing an ugly top?
Helen: I don't know, I think it's nice. It was Christmas, you know, now it's just after Christmas in July being August. I don't know, I just thought I'd bring it out again.
Tony O'Connell: Fair enough. I think there's going to be quite a few of them around Australia today and possibly even one or two in the UK. Helen, what do you think of Grand Ridge?
Helen: Oh, Grand Ridge is lovely. Beautiful track out and back, sheltered. So if it's windy or it's a bit wet, it's a lovely course.
Tony O'Connell: And I hear a vicious rumour you're about to run back to Boolarra. So what's that, another 13k on top?
Helen: Yeah, I'm actually doing New York Marathon this year.
Tony O'Connell: so yeah so this is a bit of training so yeah nice trail downhill now oh cool good luck with new York and uh yeah I'm slowly becoming accustomed to these tops I still don't get it but I'm becoming accustomed to them have a great run in new York thank you Tony all the best parkrunners
Melissa Erbacher: And, of course, TOC was at Grand Ridge Rail Trail where there was a sighting in the wild of the Christmas, the Ugly Christmas Singlet. I wore mine on the weekend, Lyndell. Did you get yours out? I know you've got one. I sure did.
Lyndell Murray: I had to attract Fluffy.
Melissa Erbacher: Ah, see, I don't know whether or not they've used colour tests to see if he's attracted to people in particular running clothes. I don't know. Who wouldn't be attracted to it? I know, right? It is a fashion statement by whomever wears it. And yeah, we were so excited. We saw lots of people, some posted on our original Facebook post, other people Instagrammed. I didn't Check Twitter, actually. I probably should have checked that to see whether or not we had any showing their Ugly Christmas Singlets on Twitter. But lots of adventurers got the word from the pod or either on Facebook last week and showed up. Christmas in August happened. Did you get any compliments on your show, Lyndell?
Lyndell Murray: Yes, so Melissa from Nambour recognised the singlet and remarked that I was wearing my Ugly Christmas Singlet. Awesome. Look, I don't think I've ever worn it where I haven't got a compliment, to be honest. I'm not just making that up. I get a lot of comments on the Christmas singlet when I pull it out. Oh, that's good.
Melissa Erbacher: I didn't get a single one. So, whether or not that was just because I was at the end of the field and the Baringa course, you don't, like, it is sociable, I think, more for the middle of the pack with the front of the pack. But if you're right at the back, a lot of those people have already moved off the shared sections of the course where they run back before you get there. So, maybe I just didn't give it the exposure that it deserved. That's probably what the problem was. Yeah. It was good to get it out, though, and test it out. It's been a few months since I was able to fit into it, so I am happy to report that I was able to fit into it. We don't know whether or not – I didn't see any Instagram posts from Scotty or a Facebook post from him, so whether or not that's got anything to do with him being the former co-host of the parkrun adventurers, I don't know.
Lyndell Murray: Well, I don't know. Look, you know, former co-host, current co-host, who can resist the singlet? I don't think that's it. Yeah.
Melissa Erbacher: And, you know, who knows? He might only be the former co-host until next week. We'll just have to wait and see.
Unidentified speaker: It's true.
Melissa Erbacher: He might come out of retirement.
Lyndell Murray: And you just need the boot again.
Melissa Erbacher: How has it been for you, the rollercoaster ride that is being the sometimes co-host of the parkrun adventurers podcast, Lyndell? Is it really messing with your mental health? No, it's fine.
Unidentified speaker: Good.
Melissa Erbacher: Good, because, you know, healthier and happier, that's what parkrun's all about. And that should extend to the parkrun adventurers podcast, I think, too.
Lyndell Murray: Yeah, yeah. Look, it's an honour and a fun time to be on the podcast. I love doing my roving reports and it's just as fun being the host or co-host. And, you know, I don't mind the late call-ups.
Unidentified speaker: Awesome.
Melissa Erbacher: Noted for future reference.
Ugly Christmas Singlet poll result
Melissa Erbacher: So now speaking of Ugly Christmas Singlets, we also put a poll on Facebook last week asking what people thought about the, well, obviously we haven't released a design yet, but we wanted to know where people stood on their plans for the future design for 2019, in terms of what did we actually ask? I can't even remember. I should go to Facebook and check what the poll says.
Lyndell Murray: It says, are you going to be as cool as Will? I don't know who Will is, but presumably he's the dude wearing the singlet in the photo on the post. Yes, that's Will Barlow in the singlet on the post. Modelling the singlet very stylishly. The question is, are you going to be as cool as Will and grab one for yourself? Yes, if they're out again this year? Or do you prefer your Christmas singlets are uglier? Ah, yes. No, so those are the two options. The two options, hell yes, count me in, I want to be like Will. The other option, I'm only buying one if they're uglier than ever.
Melissa Erbacher: That's right, that's right. And we are happy to report that approximately two-thirds, 68% said, hell yeah, count me in. And 32% said, only if they're uglier. I was a little bit surprised by this, I have to say, Lyndell. And you wouldn't have seen, but in the early stages of the polling, only if they were uglier was very quickly out in front. So, hell yeah, count me in, made a strong comeback.
Lyndell Murray: Excellent.
Melissa Erbacher: Yeah. And I thought, oh, okay, I'd be interested to see, you know, what the demographics are that are voting for the only if they're uglier poll. and there's a lot of men in there.
Lyndell Murray: Saying the uglier the better.
Melissa Erbacher: Yeah, they want their singlets uglier, which I thought was interesting. I think, I mean, there were certainly a whole bunch of women as well, but men were definitely in the majority. So, obviously, on a whole, women thought the singlets in 2018 were ugly enough. Still very encouraging to see so many people say, hell yeah, count me in, especially when you consider the design itself is sight unseen. Absolutely. It's exciting, but that also means pressure that we have to do a good job. So, I mean, effectively, though, there's no reason we can't make the singlets uglier.
Lyndell Murray: Well, it's a pretty attractive singlet now, so it's probably not that hard to make it uglier. Yeah.
Melissa Erbacher: We'll have to see. Yeah, we'll have to start dusting off the design skills and get that going because it's not long until spring. And spring is the season before Christmas.
Lyndell Murray: You know, there's got to be somebody out there counting down the days till Christmas.
Melissa Erbacher: I don't. I'm not quite there yet, but I'm a big fan. And we want to make sure that our friends in the UK and overseas have ample opportunity to order in time to receive theirs before Christmas this year. So it won't be too far away before we have the release anyway. Watch this space.
Lyndell Murray: Good news. Good news all round.
Melissa Erbacher: Now, Lyndell, there's something else that I wanted to talk about. A little bit spurred on by my situation last Saturday in that we – okay, so Baringa is only a 25-minute drive from my house, which Kawana, my home parkrun, is 25 minutes drive from my house. So it's not like we don't do that every week. But I have to say we struggled – big time to get out of bed this week. It was a combination of factors. I'd had a late night to start with on Friday night because for the for the week preceding Sunday, I was up late working on costumes for my family for the Sunshine Coast Marathon, which happened on Sunday. Which was spectacular, might I add. Thank you. Thank you. For those who haven't seen any pictures on Facebook or other social media or, you know, the media because Sunshine Coast Media is like to see costumes at these sorts of events. We went, my whole family, Team Obaka, we went as characters from The Wizard of Oz. So I was Dorothy, my husband was Tin Man, and our two little boys were the Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion. And the costumes took quite a bit of work, especially the boys' costumes because I made those ones from scratch. The other ones just needed to be altered. And, yeah, so the boys' costumes took a lot of time. So I was staying up late a lot during the week. And the sleep deprivation of having a two-month-old as well factored into that meant that my Saturday sleep was a cumulative of about three hours of broken sleep. So I was struggling. I think I snoozed my alarm twice. Apparently Adam's alarm went off. I didn't even hear that one, but he turned it off, decided that if I didn't wake up, he wasn't going to wake me because I needed the sleep. And then I woke him. And then I think we were playing a bit of getting out of bed chicken because I was sort of lying there waiting for him to be the first person to get up because once he gets up, I know it's going to happen. We have to go. And he was doing the same thing to me apparently. So we very nearly didn't go to parkrun again last Saturday. And Wes, he had to be woken up. So both the boys were asleep, which is another thing that never means, you know, you want to get up. to wake the children. But Adam, I eventually said, okay, we have to get up because, you know, I have a podcast about adventuring to parkruns and I haven't been on an adventure in ages and I cannot miss two weeks in a row. So thanks to this pod, I went to parkrun effectively. I didn't mention that when we were discussing it earlier but, yeah, it was a big struggle. But funnily enough, the only person in our house who was able And absolutely super excited was Wes because I heard Adam go down to wake him up. And, you know, he wakes up. It could go either way. He could either be really cranky when he wakes up or he could be a happy, normal, you know, kind of good mood. And so Adam woke him up and he said, hey, Wes, do you want to go to parkrun? And I could hear it down the other end of the house. He goes, yes. Yes. And it was very emphatic and very loud and zero hesitation. So, it was like, oh. And I just giggled to myself because I was still in bed. And I just thought, oh, well, I'm glad somebody wants to go to parkrun because I'm tired. But this leads me – and that was a very long introduction to where I was headed with this. So, my apologies, but –
Lyndell Murray: It's a great story.
Melissa Erbacher: Adventurers get up at stupid o'clock repeatedly to go to new events. The Nendies get further and further away the more you travel and the more you adventure. And so unless you travel the day before, it's not uncommon to get up really early for parkruns. I'm assuming you've had some early starts, yeah? Yeah. I've had some early starts. What would be your earliest start, do you think?
Lyndell Murray: So, let me see. I did Dalby in a day. I drove out to Dalby on the morning of Dalby and it's probably a three-hour drive, say.
Melissa Erbacher: Okay. So, what time? Are you one of those people who likes to be at the event, you know, an hour before it starts as well when you're travelling?
Lyndell Murray: Oh, no. Not at that time of the morning. Okay. Sleep is too precious. Yeah. Look, I try not to cut it too fine, but I try not to, you know, overestimate how long it's going to take and then be standing around for an hour. So what I usually do is have a look on Google Maps and figure out how long it's going to take. And if it's going to take an hour 35, I say to myself, well, it's an hour 45 travel time. Okay. So add a little bit more, maybe. Pop a buffer in. Yeah, just put a bit of buffer. Yeah, so I'd probably, if it was a 1.35 drive, I'd want to leave somewhere between two hours and an hour 45.
Melissa Erbacher: Okay, so you add your buffer and then you add like 15 minutes. You want to be at the event 15 minutes before it starts so you don't miss the pre-event brief and all that sort of thing. Exactly.
Lyndell Murray: So that's sort of my theory. Look, I don't get up early and blow dry my hair and make a three-course breakfast or any of that kind of stuff as well. I eat on the go. I pretty much get up and get dressed and go because the further you push back that getting up
Melissa Erbacher: time the harder it is to because then you've got to drive back you know so yeah yep this is true too so I try to be very economical with my uh getting up times have you ever had any um instances where you just you know you you were going to travel somewhere further afield and it just wasn't going to happen I'm sure I have but I can't think of any
Lyndell Murray: So, because I also, I mean, I'm habitually a bit of a, you know, late decision maker. So, I'll quite often decide on Friday night where I'm going on Saturday morning, which probably isn't great.
Melissa Erbacher: No, well, that's where we were last week. You know, you get like when you have an opportunity for a proper adventure and You've got all these options there.
Lyndell Murray: It's hard to decide sometimes where you want to go. Yeah. So, yeah, I think the ones that I've been really super committed to because I'm meeting someone or I need it for – Dalby was an example of where I needed to get it in because we'd already booked our flights to – Melbourne to go and get gels for my last letter. Ah, okay, and you needed the D first. I needed the D first. So, you know, on those kinds of occasions where I've got something really hard and fast, I don't have trouble getting up. But they've been in summer or spring or, you know, winter.
Melissa Erbacher: Winter, and it's an extra factor, doesn't it?
Lyndell Murray: All the other things. Absolutely.
Melissa Erbacher: And because I'll let you in on a bit of a secret. Baringa, 25 minutes away, it was not actually where we were going to go. We were going to go to an event an hour and a half away. So we had our alarms set for, oh, I think it was only for 4.30 or something like that. But this was part of the conversation that we had. When we decided that, like when those alarms went off, we went, okay, we're not going to go, to parkrun in Brisbane we will go to Baringa which is much closer and that and I said okay we'll reset our alarms what time are you resetting yours for and Adam was only resetting his for like in half an hour and I said what do you mean we just cut more than an hour off the drive how is it that we only get another half an hour sleep that even at this time of day that maths doesn't add up but I think because we had been snoozing and deliberating too long it had all you know, eaten into the amount of actual time we could get more sleep. So...
Lyndell Murray: Yes.
Melissa Erbacher: Yes. But it's always good to have a backup option, I guess, as well, isn't it?
Lyndell Murray: Yeah, that's true. Absolutely. That's being prepared as a parkrun adventurer. There's lots of perils to being an adventurer. Yes. Lack of sleep, not the least of them. Not the least of them. So...
Sign-off
Melissa Erbacher: Well, it's been another adventure having you on the podcast this week, Lyndell. Thank you for co-hosting once again. You're very welcome, Mel.
Lyndell Murray: Thank you for thinking of me and having me back.
Melissa Erbacher: Oh, only natural. And who knows? We'll see whether or not Scotty wants to show his voice again next week.
Lyndell Murray: We'll see. We'll see.
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