Episode 193 - Podding in the Rain

Welcome

00:00:23Melissa Erbacher: Welcome to episode 193 of the parkrun adventurers podcast. My name is Melissa Erbacher. I have a co-host this week who also goes by the first name Melissa. Her last name though is Ellis. Mel, welcome back to the pod.

00:00:40Melissa Ellis: Thank you. Very happy to be back and I've dodged the intro again. What is this? Four for four? It is. I know. Okay.

00:00:49Melissa Erbacher: I'm feeling rather proud I'm going to have to be a little bit more manipulative of the episode numbers that you join me for in the future I think I don't know what it's like weather-wise where you are, but I have got thunderstorms happening. It's thunderbolts and lightning, parkrun adventurers won't know this, but we've had a couple of late-ish episodes released in the last few weeks, and it's actually been a result of storms, would you believe? I have been the victim, and I'm going to use the word victim, of of blackouts repeatedly and unexpectedly, obviously, and very inconveniently because it has impacted my ability to record a podcast. When it rains, it pours, as they say. Fingers crossed that there is no blackout tonight while we're recording. We have had surges actually destroy electrical equipment that we're going to have to get replaced. There's a computer that's dead. There's a television that's dead. Not that we used it much anyway, so it took us a little while to realise. But yeah, fingers crossed that all goes smoothly tonight. What is the weather like where you are, Mel?

00:02:09Melissa Ellis: It's actually quite pleasant. I've been either melting in scorching temperatures or freezing in lovely Puckapunyal but it's quite mild tonight and there's actually nothing to complain about so that's all good and I've got to say I am I'm sorry, I'm a bit happy to hear it's raining because we need the rain to put out all those fires.

00:02:32Melissa Erbacher: Oh, you don't need to be sorry whatsoever. I'm loving it. Yay for the rain. Apart from the inconvenience of the blackouts. But I'm glad to hear that you have got beautiful fine weather and you're still in Pucka. I am. How is that all going?

00:02:47Melissa Ellis: It's going good. We're nearing the end, I think. So it's been a bit hard. People have been asking me, when are you home, when are you home? Well, I don't know. But it looks like. That's not up to me. Yeah, it's not up to me. I'll be home when they say I can be home. When the work is done and the people are helped. Yes, I did. I did get to parkrun last week, though. I had leave, so that was a bonus. Yay.

00:03:17Melissa Erbacher: Yay.

00:03:18Melissa Ellis: And where did you choose to bestow your presence? Well, I saw Mark Scarborough was potentially going to be at Frog Hollow on Saturday, and I thought, oh, I need Frog Hollow to up my P-index. That looks like a good idea. Plus, it's out in the side of town where my older kids live. So, yeah, we headed out there. Sadly, Mark didn't make it there. But we'll hear about where he ended up later. So, yeah, it was event 299 at Frog Hollow. So we've just missed their arbitrary milestone of 300 by a week. But, no, it was a good day. The weather was fine and it all went well, so. That's good to hear. And I, yeah, upped my P index to seven, so.

00:04:09Melissa Erbacher: That's very impressive. I don't think my P index is ever going to get past. I think it's three or four. I'm not sure. It's, yeah. Maybe one day, maybe one day when parkrun has grown as much as it's ever going to grow. But you have got the benefit of having been to a copious amount of events in your state. So you can just start retracing your steps. Whereas I've got heaps and heaps that still need to be visited.

00:04:36Melissa Ellis: Yeah, that's true. But most of mine are out in the southeast side. So I've really got to do some work to start building them out in the west because otherwise I'm just doing a lot of kilometres. I need to stay home a bit more often. Yes.

00:04:51Melissa Erbacher: And here I was thinking that perhaps you'd chosen Frog Hollow because it's a leap year. And Frogs Leap. Oh. And it's February. I know it's not the 29th.

00:05:02Melissa Ellis: Wouldn't that be a good event for the 29th though? Possibly.

00:05:05Melissa Erbacher: It would. Do you reckon they're going to get some kind of course attendance record? I think we should start a movement. Get everybody out there. Possibly we should have got in touch with the event team before we just brought everybody's attention.

00:05:20Melissa Ellis: Oh, no, they're fine. They love celebrations. They'll be all for it. Oh, they've probably already thought of it. Possibly.

00:05:26Melissa Erbacher: Maybe we should check the Facebook page. They might already have an event planned. Do you know if – oh, no, I guess you don't. You don't even know where you're going to be and when you're going to be there at this stage. So I'm not going to ask you what your plans are for the end of the month. I am hoping that you will still make it to palm20 in March.

00:05:45Melissa Ellis: Yes. Fingers crossed. I definitely will. Yeah, yeah. No, it's going to be – Pretty confident the operation is going to be wound up by then. I will be at palm20. Can't wait.

00:05:57Melissa Erbacher: Okay, cool. Well, we'll talk a little bit more about that later. But I want to tell you where I went. Tell me. Because I had an adventure and I haven't had a proper adventure in weeks and weeks and weeks. Oh, fabulous. Where was it? I went to, as Wesley calls it, Queensland Switch. Can you guess where that is?

00:06:20Melissa Ellis: Tell me. Ipswich, Queensland.

00:06:22Melissa Erbacher: Now, it was event number 310, so I'm roughly in the ballpark of parkrun age as Frog Hollow as well, heading to Ipswich, Queensland. I have been trying to get to this event for a very long time. It's been a combination of trying to avoid it in the summer because the area it's in is fairly notorious for being very, very hot. And then also the anniversary, which I have been invited to many, many times, coincided with Golden Beach parkrun's anniversary. And formerly when I was an event ambassador, I always went to their anniversary. So I missed anything else that was happening on the same weekend. And having hung up my event ambassador hat a couple of years ago, I'm somewhat more of a free agent, however last year I was also very heavily pregnant and in the summer, so that wasn't going to happen. This year the stars aligned and we finally made our way to Ipswich, Queensland parkrun. And it was awesome. It was so good. Dave, and I used the word warned with inverted commas, he warned me that it is surprisingly hilly. And I was like, okay, well, I'm not going to be surprised about the hills then if he says it's surprisingly hilly. Adam was surprised because I didn't pass on that information to him. Did he have the pram? Yeah, he did. He had the bobsled and both boys, I won't say in tow because they were in front, but it's a two-lap course all through one fairly open, green, undulating, hilly park. It's all paved, but there had been some rain, so there was bits of mud across the ways and all the paths were quite wet. We were a bit worried actually that it was going to rain and I think I've mentioned previously that we only have a rain cover for the single pram. But we discovered that it fits on one side of the bobsled. So it's like, okay, pick your favourite child and they're the ones that doesn't get wet this week. Yeah. It's not that bad. The bobsled actually has a really good canopies, which pretty much extend over most of the boys. So we put the cover on Wes's side because his feet are longer, his legs are longer than Emmett's.

00:08:55Melissa Ellis: I feel like we need to take up a collection so we can get the Erbacher children suitably covered for the winter period.

00:09:04Melissa Erbacher: It's totally not a money thing because I'm pretty sure we only spent about $8 on the existing cover that we have. It's just a disorganisation type thing. So no collection necessary. We will be making our way to Kmart or wherever it was that we bought the previous one and we'll get a second one now that we know that we don't have to go get a schmancy double one or anything like that. And, of course, once we do it, and this is also why I'm kind of avoiding it, the rain will stop and everybody knows everyone needs the rain at the moment. So I think my unpreparedness is what's bringing the rain. Good point. Yes. So but oh, my goodness, it's it's a two lap course. I said that before, didn't I? But it's very, yes, very undulating and which is brilliant because I at the moment am relying on things like trees and lampposts and benches to go, OK, I'm just going to run to that and then I can stop and have a walk. And then, you know, you find the next one in the future and you just go, OK, run to that and then I'll have a walk. But on this course, the deal I made with myself was I'm going to run all the downhills and then I can walk up the uphills. So it was the perfect course for interval training. And there are so many downhills. It was just brilliant. And I had such a good time. I did negative splits all the way until the very last kilometre, which was never going to happen because I was just tired by then as much as there's one last kind of pinch of a hill before you get to do the blessed downhill run to the finish line and was super close to getting my stopwatch bingo, though I didn't realise it at the time. And if I had just run the last section that I allowed myself to walk, I probably would have missed my stopwatch bingo by only one second because that's what I tend to do. Mm-hmm. But it was a great morning. I felt I had that buzz after you've run and after you feel like you've worked, even though, I mean, it was a 45-minute-something parkrun. But for me, that's still... you know, progress and moving forward. So I had a great morning and had the big red face to prove it.

Launches and anniversaries"Where is the cake?"

00:11:18Melissa Erbacher: Wes, it was their anniversary. It was their sixth anniversary. And Wes made a beeline for the cake. And he ended up having two pieces. So well endorsed was the cake at Ipswich Queensland parkrun. The event team did a brilliant job. There was lots of parkrunners out there. And I also ran around you know sort of what's what's it called when you overtake somebody and then they overtake you and you know

00:11:48Melissa Ellis: Oh. It's not leapfrogging. Well, I was going to say leapfrogging, but then we're a bit stuck on leap years.

00:11:54Melissa Erbacher: Yeah, and I was going to say cat and dogging, but I don't even think that's a thing. What the hell is cat and dogging? I think that's just my brain making things up. Anyway, I was doing that, whatever that is, with a gentleman who was accompanying four young boys. I think two of them belonged to him and then two were just friends from the local footy team. and he was doing such a good job of encouraging them. One of the kids in particular was really struggling but he was so patient and I just love seeing those moments at parkrun where, you know, people just are getting it and they're doing it for all the right reasons and they're doing it with all the right people and, yeah, I gave him as much encouragement as I could while I was going around. Cannot rate it highly enough. It was also, and I know I'm just like practically rambling, but I was very excited. Kay Sherlock was there, who is the incoming event ambassador. And Kristen McGuire was there, who is the outgoing event ambassador. I didn't realise they were doing like a changing of the baton, as it were, this weekend. But it was super awesome to catch up with both of them. And yeah, brilliant morning. Absolutely perfect. You've sold it for me.

00:13:13Melissa Ellis: Awesome. I think I have to go and visit. You do. So how's it placed, Ipswich?

00:13:21Melissa Erbacher: It's about – see, this is the part where I get myself into trouble with the geography – Let's put it in the drive. It's south of Brisbane. It's about 45 minutes. No, it's kind of really an hour south of Brisbane. It took us two and a half hours to get there from the sunny coast. So it's not a short trek from where I live, but it's much shorter if you live in Brisbane or the Gold Coast, to just pop down and say hi to the team.

00:13:54Melissa Ellis: And it's an I, and there's not a lot of them around.

00:13:57Melissa Erbacher: It's the only one in Queensland. And apart from Inverloch, sorry, TOC, I made [it] Ipswich Queensland. So you can't use that as a draw card to get to Inverloch. However, I am also a fan of other things that happen to be at Inverloch from time to time. So I will still come visit at some point. Okay. Yeah, I don't know how many. I haven't looked. I'm not sure how many I's are in Australia. But yes, that ticks off another letter of our alphabet, which leaves us with just an E to go. So that's a bit exciting too. Are there plans? Not sure. No, nothing yet, although it's got Adam talking about, you know, going to Singapore or going to New Zealand because they both have E's and I have pointed out that we also have E's in Australia. Yes. However, who am I to discourage adventures overseas if they're to be had? Nothing planned or certainly set in stone at this stage. So we'll just have to wait and see.

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Roving reports & the Channel 5 News crew

Roving report Mark Scarborough — Braidwood Showground

00:15:17Mark Scarborough: Hello parkrun adventurers, this is Mark reporting in for the Channel 5 News crew and today I'm coming to you from Braidwood and we're actually post parkrun at the Albion Cafe in Braidwood and we've just completed a very unique Braidwood showground run and I'm here with Event Director Kelly. Good morning Kelly, how are you?

00:15:41Kelly: I'm well, thank you. How are you?

00:15:43Mark Scarborough: I'm good, thanks. So you've had an eventful couple of months here in Braidwood with bushfires. What can you tell us about that experience?

00:15:51Kelly: It's been absolutely terrifying, to be honest. We've had, I think it's been about three months now, and we've been completely surrounded by fires. Braidwood was pretty much blocked off. We were a cul-de-sac for the last two months, and we haven't been able to have parkrun for, we couldn't hold it for 10 weeks. So it's been awful.

00:16:11Mark Scarborough: So last week was the first week back for Braidwood Showground parkrun. How was the turnout last week?

00:16:19Kelly: Yeah, yeah, it was amazing. We had people from the Gold Coast, Newcastle, Sydney, Canberra, Queanbeyan, Batemans Bay. It was amazing. And the vibe was really, everyone was really happy and really chuffed. It was really exciting. And the support and that from everyone was so overwhelming. Like it was actually really quite humbling. It was amazing.

00:16:39Mark Scarborough: So today I commented that it was probably the most intimate briefing that I've ever been to. We had a large group of parkrunners under about six umbrellas. So we've gone through bushfire, smoke, and today we had rain in Braidwood.

00:16:56Kelly: We have. We've had drought, fire and flood, I think. But yeah, we like to feel the love a bit in Braidwood. So there's nothing like all huddling together for a pre-run brief.

00:17:06Mark Scarborough: Yeah, no, very intimate run brief and some good numbers out there today. Do you know what the final numbers were today?

00:17:12Kelly: I actually don't. Does anyone know what our numbers were today? 27, I think. Yeah, considering the rain, that was pretty good.

00:17:22Mark Scarborough: Yeah, we brought a few people up from Canberra for you and injecting some dollars into the Braidwood economy.

00:17:27Kelly: I know, you guys are amazing. Thank you so much for coming out to support us. It's brilliant.

00:17:32Mark Scarborough: Thank you for today and we'll see you again at Braidwood.

00:17:35Kelly: Cannot wait. Thanks so much, guys.

00:17:39Mark Scarborough: That's Mark reporting out for the Channel 5 News crew. We'll talk to you next time on the parkrun adventurers.

Roving report Tony O'Connell — Bright

00:17:46Tony O'Connell: Howdy, parkrunners. TOC reporting in for the Channel 5 News crew. Today, Jacqui and I ventured up to the lovely mountain town of Bright up in the Alps in Victoria. And I'm with Jill. Jill's the Run Director today. How are you, Jill?

00:17:59Jill: Oh, yeah, I'm well, thank you. Great day for it.

00:18:02Tony O'Connell: Jill, for the people that haven't been up to Bright, give us a bit of a description of your course.

00:18:05Jill: Look, we've got a beautiful mountain course, flat, although. It goes along a rail trail. We run out through past a creek. And, yeah, it's beautiful.

00:18:17Tony O'Connell: Turn around at Wandiligong?

00:18:19Jill: Yeah, oh, not quite. Not quite Wandi. If you miss the flag, you end up in Wandi and you've gone too far.

00:18:23Tony O'Connell: Is there a pub there?

00:18:24Jill: Oh, there is a pub, really good pub, yeah.

00:18:27Tony O'Connell: It's probably a bit early for that anyway. Never too early. Jill, we tried to get up to Bright over Christmas and with the fires being as close as they were, the town was basically evacuated. There was heavy smoke. Bright's had to cancel a few events. But I'm sitting here today and I'm looking up at Mystic Peak and the mountains and it is clear, it is perfect. This would be a great place to get back to for a holiday. Yeah.

00:18:50Jill: Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, we went through a bit of a tough, tough patch in the fires over the summer holidays. Yeah, the town was evacuated a few times and we were under watch and act a lot. So, you know, as a precaution, we did have to cancel our parkruns, which was a shame. When we got back, back into the town, unfortunately, the smoke situation was... quite heavy as well so we had to cancel for that but now things have improved a lot so we're you know we're all safe and sound now and smoke's cleared cleared away and it's as crisp and clean as as any any other day so yeah it's a great spot to come back to it's a great friendly course really small numbers we get so you you've got a great chance of getting that top 50 finish if you're after it

00:19:38Tony O'Connell: Now I'm sitting here, we're looking at a mountain, a range, I don't know how many kilometres away, but you can actually count the individual trees up on the mountain. So it's really beautiful and clear up here. And just wandering around the main street last night, the town's got a bit of a vibe again. There were a few people around. It'd be great to see a few more people and people coming up, bringing empty eskies, taking a full esky home.

00:19:58Jill: Yeah, that's right. So great thing to do. Yeah, the town's really hurting financially for Bright. Summer is one of the peak tourist seasons, you know, and it would really mean a lot to people for you guys to come up. Put those running shoes on, visit all the pubs and great eateries we've got around, great cafes. Gee whiz, you can get just about anything here. Local produce, we've got beautiful oils and we've got fresh apples and we've got great things that you can you can buy to fill in your pop in your esky or pop in your shopping bag so and if you're a bit of a runner the part of the uh rail trail here you can run all the way to Wangaratta I suppose yeah you could yeah so there's um lots of different options for runners um you know we we've got flat rail trail that you can run on we've got the mountains and the the steady tough climbs whilst we've got some nice gentle climbs and absolutely beautiful running for whatever reason you like and just yeah if you chat to one of the locals they'll soon point you in the right direction for what you feel like.

00:21:05Tony O'Connell: Yeah looking at a lovely little hill in front of us called Mystic Peak and I'm thinking I'm going to run up that a bit later and it looks like a bit of a climb so it's got a bit of something for everyone.

00:21:13Jill: Yeah it's a bit of a I think it's a It's a 2.5km climb, I think, straight up. Lots of vert in that.

00:21:19Tony O'Connell: Sounds like fun.

00:21:20Jill: Almost killed me when I did it.

00:21:22Tony O'Connell: All right, Jill, thanks for your time today. And, yeah, as I said, everyone, get on to Bright. It's a great place, beautiful place to come to. A couple of great breweries as well. So, yeah, support the local breweries. Good spot to drink.

00:21:35Jill: Absolutely, yeah. Fantastic.

00:21:36Melissa Erbacher: All right, see you soon.

00:21:37Tony O'Connell: Cheers, Jill.

00:21:39Melissa Erbacher: It was great to hear from Mark and TOC again. Mark at Braidwood Showground showing the love to the Braidwood community and having a chat with Kelly, the ED there, which was awesome. So good to hear that even on the wet and woolly weekends, which I'm sure they're very grateful for, People are out there to support them from other parkruns. And I don't know if you saw it, Mel, Glen Turner, who's parkrun Australia's health and wellbeing lead, was actually there last week too. Not this weekend, just gone, but the weekend before. And he wrote a really wonderful newsletter article about his experience and what's been going on in the town. So if you missed that one, I highly recommend you go and look for it on the parkrun blog or dig it out of your email inbox. And if you don't subscribe, you should. There are lots of good stuff happening in those things.

00:22:29Melissa Ellis: Yes, I did read that and saw that Glen was there. And I liked how they were describing how they were huddling under their umbrellas because that rain, again, that rain, fabulous that it's coming down.

Statesmen update

00:22:41Melissa Ellis: Absolutely.

00:22:42Melissa Erbacher: And then TOC was up bright. Now, he was being a little bit humble about all this, Mel.

00:22:48Melissa Ellis: Oh, he was because it was a big day for TOC and Jacqui, they finally achieved their goal to become Victorian statesmen.

00:22:59Melissa Erbacher: Now, I know how incredible that is, but just for those people who aren't aware of how many events are in the state of Victoria, can you share some more of the finer details?

00:23:11Melissa Ellis: Well, there's 82, 82 in Victoria. And TOC and Jacqui recently... Over the New Year period, they had planned to pick up Bright, but because of the fires, the town had been evacuated a few times due to the fires, which, as TOC mentioned, so they'd actually been directly affected and their Christmas holiday plans had been thwarted. So they made the 500-odd kilometre trip back up to the Alpine area so that they could tick off this and achieve it. And we're very proud of you guys. Well done. It's a big achievement.

00:23:55Melissa Erbacher: It is a big achievement. And if I remember correctly, it's, you know, you say 500 plus Ks. That's not a short distance for starters, but also you can't just do 100 kilometres that entire time per hour. So there's a lot of windy kind of roads and things like that, which are a lot slower. I expect that was quite a big trip to make it out there. So well done, guys. And congratulations on making your statesmanship. I hope it lasts for a long time. I've got a sneak suspicion it's not going to last for very long, but that's all right. It's all about the chase, isn't it?

00:24:34Melissa Ellis: Yes, and it's the journey. I mean, I know when we were going on that, it took us all around the state and to so many little towns, visiting so many places that we just wouldn't have been to otherwise. And the people that we've met at all the parkruns all around the place too, having friends dotted everywhere. It's just really good, really positive thing to have done. It is.

00:25:02Melissa Erbacher: we kind of failed to mention that it was a bit of a cracker of a chat with Jill that TOC had as well, who was a Run Director in Bright on the day. And it is an absolutely stunning part of the world to be in, and I have it on my bucket list as well. We've been there in the winter. I'd like to check it out in the summer or the spring when all the trail running is good for the having rather than being covered in snow. We'll have to head out that way sometimes.

00:25:31Melissa Ellis: I'll tell you, TOC and Jacqui got the best parkrun photo that day. I don't know if you saw it on social media, but with the Mystic Mountain in the background, it was the money shot. Like a postcard. Yes, it was fabulous. Worth going back just for that photo, in my opinion. And I have to say, when we went up there too, I know Paul, he absolutely loved it up that way. And I'll be happy to go back with our empty esky.

00:26:05Melissa Erbacher: Good plan. Speaking of cancellations, as it was earlier in the year, I have a habit of being sent random things that people think might interest me for the pod. And granted, most of the time they really do. And this one was actually sent to me by Dave who stumbled across it, in the cancellations list on the 29th of February this year when so many parkruns will be doing their fifth parkrun for the month and rejoicing in the fact that it's the last time for the next 20 years that you can do uh well no it's more than that is it no 2048 Oh, I can't remember the maths. We spoke about the maths last week. Anyway, it's not important. However, Eden Project parkrun is actually cancelled that weekend. So if you were planning to go to Eden Project parkrun on the 29th of February, don't go because parkrun's not going to be on. However, if you could do another parkrun somewhere close by, still go to Eden Project. Because the reason they have cancelled their parkrun is possibly the best one I've come across yet. And that is for the World Pasty Championships, right but what's a pasty well pasty is one of those little pastry things but without the r you know they that I'm I'm doing hand gestures now and I've I've got my hands so that my thumbs my thumb tips are together and in a straight line and then everything else is in an arch so it's kind of making a sort of semi-circle situation So you're talking about a pasty. A pasty? Where's the I-E on the end of pasty? No, no, no. It's pasty, like, you know, somebody who's pale. That's how you'd pronounce it. I have never heard of pasty. It's a pasty, you know what probably probably some of the locals or the brits might call them pasties as well so I will give you the benefit of the doubt you can represent our northern friends and I'm going to represent all the people in the world who are right so anyway the most important part of this conversation is that it is the ninth um annual world pasty pasty Championships. And I just want to read to you some of the guidance and terms and conditions for the World Championships. I'm so excited about this. As I said, the 9th Annual World Pasty Pasty Championships is in brackets, WPC, because that's what we're going to refer to them now going forward, take place at the Eden Project on Saturday, February 29th, 2020. The championships celebrate the traditional pasty pasty recipe and set the table for both amateur and professional bakers to parade their wares. There are Cornish pasty pasty categories based on the protected geographical indication, PGI guidelines, and open categories for pasties, pasties with creative fillings or pasties, pasties from outside Cornwall. So I'm going to stop. I mean, there's more, but I'm going to stop here. They have protected geographical indication guidelines when it comes to what can or can't be called, like, for example, a Cornish pasty, pasty, etc., I need to see a map of this, basically. I need to do more Googling. I'm just giddy at the thought of it.

00:29:55Melissa Ellis: Have you ever made a pasty? Oh, my gosh, pasty?

00:30:00Melissa Erbacher: Welcome to the right side of the world.

00:30:05Melissa Ellis: I've made pasties.

00:30:06Melissa Erbacher: I've... I've made Cornish pasties. Well, see, I've made pastries, so I haven't made Cornish ones. And Cornish ones, they're really particular, I think, ingredients as well. If you read further down into the guidelines, like really down, there's... literally like a percentage of introduced flavorings or um spices and things that you can put in but it can equate to no more than five percent of the uncooked um grammage like the weight the weight of the filling only five percent and no more can be these other introduced things otherwise I guess you're basically uh bastardizing what a cornish pasty is or pasty Um, yeah, just, it's, it's mind blowing, but I would like to extend their invitation. So I'll, I'll read the rest of it. Um, we're inviting pasty pasty makers across Cornwall, the UK and the world to enter the competition. And this is an open event and every pasty pasty entered will be judged. So we need to advise that there will be a limit on numbers. Yeah. How many judges do you reckon they have?

00:31:23Melissa Ellis: How do I get my pasty over there? I want to make one. Seriously. So I've got Cornish ancestry and I'm pretty sure there's an old recipe floating around somewhere that I've from the family to make a pasty.

00:31:43Melissa Erbacher: That could be a winner. I know. I'm going to have to scroll through and look at the different categories. Okay, so I wasn't going to read these out, but I am now because you've got Cornish history. So the first category is a Cornish pasty company. So I guess that's representatives from companies who make them for a living and Then you can do a professional and that one's open. So that's the Cornish pasty pasty professional. That's open to those who work as professional bakers or cooks. Then there's an amateur one, which is open to people aged over 16 over on the date of the competition.

00:32:23Melissa Ellis: Well, that's me.

00:32:23Melissa Erbacher: That's you. And then there's a junior for 15 and under. So Zoe could enter hers as well. Then there's open savoury categories. Then there's open, so there's an open savoury company, a professional, an amateur, a junior. And here we go. Here's the how to enter. It doesn't have have a mailing address. So I'm not sure whether or not you can post from Australia and it will still be considered. Here we go. Please note your pasties will be disqualified if they arrive at Eden warmer than eight degrees Celsius. For this reason, please bake your pasty the evening before the competition and refrigerate it overnight before transporting it to Eden in a cool container. Those that arrive after 1.30 a.m. will not be included in the competition.

00:33:11Melissa Ellis: I wonder if we have any listeners.

00:33:13Melissa Erbacher: So you could. You could freeze it and post it from Australia. Chances are it won't be over 8 degrees when it arrives because it's still February in the U.K., I think we need to find an address and we need to send an entry from the parkrun adventurers.

00:33:30Melissa Ellis: Where's Pippa? Is she anywhere near Cornwall?

00:33:33Melissa Erbacher: I'm pretty sure I just, now that I've digressed and I've read out all the different categories and we've established the fact that you're going to enter an entry on behalf of the parkrun adventurers, I just want to read the last little bit that I had popped in in the show notes for this week. In 2011, the Cornish Pasty Association won a long campaign, I don't know how long, it just says long, to gain European Union PGI status for the Cornish pasty, which means that only pasty makers based in Cornwall who make pasties to the approved recipe are able to label their products as Cornish pasties. Isn't that fascinating? Because they're kind of a big deal, aren't they?

00:34:19Melissa Ellis: They are.

00:34:20Melissa Erbacher: And I don't know what this means for, you know, now Brexit has happened, whether or not they no longer have the EU PGI status for the Cornish pasty.

00:34:32Melissa Ellis: Oh, it's got ramifications, this Brexit thing. It does. Did anybody consider the pasties? Well, the Eden Project is in Cornwall. You'll be glad to know.

00:34:42Melissa Erbacher: Oh, well, that makes sense because, you know, Cornish pasties.

00:34:46Melissa Ellis: It would be a sensible place to have a pasty competition.

00:34:51Melissa Erbacher: Yes, and if any event team ever had a reason for cancelling, that was good. It is this one. Now that we've talked a lot about pastries.

00:35:07Melissa Ellis: Since we're on the topic of amazing events, we should probably start discussing the upcoming palm20 plans, Mel.

00:35:18Melissa Erbacher: Yes, yes. The agenda's out.

00:35:22Melissa Ellis: I believe there's been some releases that – that are very exciting. They have.

00:35:30Melissa Erbacher: Some events have been created, giving people a little bit of a teaser for what's involved or what's going to be included in the weekend. Have you seen those? They're on Facebook under the parkrun adventurers Listener Meetup 2020 page.

00:35:46Melissa Ellis: I have seen them. I haven't had as much time on social media lately as I usually do. Well, that's understandable. I'm a bit excited about the dress-up, though, and I've got to get moving. because it's not just about the parkrun for me. It's actually about the dress-up party.

00:36:04Melissa Erbacher: Yes, I'm right there with you, and I have got my little Emmett coming with me this year, so he's going to be my fashion accessory. I'm not sure how or what that is going to manifest as. But there's a little bit of scope with the 1920s theme I'm looking forward to having fun with.

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00:36:28Melissa Ellis: Yeah, I've got to get on to it.

00:36:29Melissa Erbacher: So, yeah, it's very exciting. And next week actually we're going to have a special guest who has been involved in a lot of the planning and is representing the planning committee. We had a bit of a committee this year, making sure that the whole weekend is going to be planned to the nth degree, nth being the N in fun. Melissa, thank you for joining us this week as co-host on the parkrun adventurers podcast episode 193. It has been fabulous having you as always, even though it was an odd episode and you skipped the intro again.

00:37:08Melissa Ellis: Thanks for having me again. I always love chatting to you, Mel.

00:37:12Melissa Erbacher: I think perhaps maybe you listened to episode 192 and realised that I used some of the outtakes that Dave and I had when we were trying to record the intro and you've got some kind of intro phobia. There must be a word for that.

00:37:30Melissa Ellis: I do, actually. And yeah, so I thought, oh, I'll stick my hand up this week and get out of it again. And yay, I won. And yay.

00:37:43Melissa Erbacher: Well, you know what? I think we all won because I had a lovely time chatting to you as well. So thank you for sticking your hand up. And I do look forward to the next time you can join me on the co-hosting couch of the pod. Thank you. Happy parkrun next week.

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00:39:06Melissa Erbacher: Pasty, pasty, tasty, hasty, nasty, nasty, pasty. Oh, I'm in trouble.