Episode 275 - palm22

Welcome

00:00:23Oliver Spake: For those that have been to a Palm before or follow the podcast, you'll know that there is a curse associated with Palm. It struck once. This is the fifth Palm. Will it strike again? Is it a 20% or a 40% success rate? With press record, you may be the only ones to hear this podcast. Please remember that. And when giving your feedback, remember that no one else had that opportunity. Should we get underway? Yep, let's do it. Okay. Well, everyone, welcome to episode 275 of the parkrun adventurers Podcast. We've got it live at Palm 2022 from Bellerive parkrun. I am Ollie Spake from Shellharbour parkrun.

00:01:11Melissa Ellis: And I'm Mel Ellis from Toolern Creek parkrun. Yay! We'd like to begin by paying our respects to the traditional owners and original owners of the land that we are gathered here today, the muwinina people, and acknowledge today's Tasmanian Aboriginal people who are the custodians of this land.

00:01:35Oliver Spake: And of course, we would like to acknowledge and thank the fantastic Bellerive parkrun volunteer team. And we can see some of them in there. So thank you, Bellerive parkrun volunteer team. Thank you for having us. Thank you for your help. And to everyone that's a part of this fabulous parkrun community here. And of course the team, Fiona and the whole team at Hurricanes Cafe for allowing us all to come here and get friendly together.

00:02:06Melissa Ellis: So we've made it somehow between floods, pandemic and all of the other events our adventurer family have been impacted by over the last few years. This is the fifth consecutive year of Palm. Can we see a show of hands for who has been to Palm before? Now starting with who's first Palm this year?

00:02:25Oliver Spake: Number one. Okay, so for the audio visual, that's a bit less than 20%, maybe, or about 20%. Okay, so who's come back for their second? Number two. Okay, slightly higher number there. Three. Three palms. Good representation at the back. Thank you, Nathan. Four. Four palms. Excellent.

00:02:48Melissa Ellis: And five. Yay! Okay. So that's us, Toc and Jacqui, and Brendan. And Chris. And Chris. Oh. Okay.

00:03:00Dawn: All right.

00:03:03Oliver Spake: I suppose we should talk about the episode. I don't know if we call this an episode. It could be an episode. Today's episode will include a few special features. And that's just to cap off the special features we've already had today, namely a parkrun and much, much more. We will hopefully make up for the fact that this live version doesn't allow for some of our favourites. So we do apologise that we do not have the informant live on site for you. So your informant stats can be found at theinformant.me, I think it is. I'll share it, but check the blog. Check the blog. I don't have it in my show notes and I go way off track when that happens. My apologies, everyone, and that probably won't be in the podcast unless back at level two with the view they managed to insert it when we get back to the office another favourite missing from our live version is Abby so uh let's all just yell out a big uh hello to Abby we do have abby's mom So, yeah, I think that's a pretty good alternative. Sorry, Abby, but we enjoy having Abby's mum with us here today. And, look, we're also at a different cafe, so we hope Dazza forgives us, but we haven't brought Dazza's with us on the road. Look, there has been a bit of parkrun excitement this morning, so I'll recap on that in a minute. We're also looking forward to speaking with a few people. So our RD today, Brooke, we're hoping to have a few questions with Brooke shortly. We do have our palm quiz, a bit of palm madness, and we will be looking for volunteers. If you would like to be a part of the quiz, we will seek four participants for the quiz. And then we will have another special feature a bit later on, so just to keep the fun going this morning. Look, briefly before we move on, it's probably appropriate we recap. So, firstly, Mel, how was your morning?

00:05:10Melissa Ellis: The highlight might have been the finish today, the proposal. CHEERING But I was able to have a little small part in. We wish to extend our warmest congratulations to Mr Brendan Peel and his lovely new fiancée. CHEERING

00:05:16[applause]

00:05:25[applause]

00:05:29Oliver Spake: Congratulations, Jodie. Congratulations, Brendan. I was honoured to scan both of your barcodes when you finished, so thank you for sharing that.

00:05:37Melissa Ellis: And I protected the chisels best I could. I was one second off a bingo number, Ollie. It wasn't to be today. It wasn't to be to call bingo. Never mind.

00:05:50Oliver Spake: Such a thing is too much excitement now.

00:05:52Melissa Ellis: Yeah. It wasn't my day. And how was your run, Ollie?

00:05:58Oliver Spake: Look, it was a beautiful course out there. The out and back course was fantastic. Who enjoyed the out and back course today? Yes. I think there was a lot of support and so wonderful to see so many familiar and new faces out there enjoying parkrun. A lot of parkrunners, which I'm not accustomed to, and the view the view though I need to go back out because I was running so I need to go back out and take a photo so I hope the weather holds off um that we we are predicted to have a little bit of rain later I think so I'm gonna re-walk the course yes look and to paint a picture I mean you've all got a pretty good picture here but for anyone listening later on um the course is a fantastic out and back mostly along a solid path a little bit of gravel uh there's a bit of a hill I think Not sure everyone kind of expected the hill to be the level of hill that it was, but, you know, we've got hills and we've got hills, right? And the volunteers were fantastic. The spectacular finish by the stadium here. I'm not sure I can add much more.

00:06:59Melissa Ellis: No, it's been a great venue. Really happy with everything. And thanks again, TOC, who organised this all for us today. And the colour. Thank you for everything. Yes. Thanks to everybody who has joined in with the theme, the purple theme. You all got the memo.

00:07:13Oliver Spake: That's excellent. And so fittingly, there has been obviously parkrun promotion around the fact to celebrate that it is International Women's Day. So a big shout out to all of the wonderful women, in our community in our podcast world in our lives um we hope you've enjoyed this parkrun day as much as the rest of us and we always appreciate it um and look to wear purple look there's so many reasons that's a good one in there um thank you we've said it before to the wonderful volunteers in the team uh what else happened uh Eman did you come first did anyone come second or was that just you know blank space Yes, that was a yes, yeah. Milestones and birthdays. So we have a birthday.

00:08:00Melissa Ellis: We do. I believe our friend Nadine Crawford is celebrating a real birthday today. So happy birthday, Nadine.

00:08:09Oliver Spake: Happy birthday, Nadine. Do we have any other birthdays? Oh, but we do have some milestones. We have a 100 milestone. Bec Bailey, congratulations. Well done.

00:08:28Melissa Ellis: Was that it?

00:08:29Oliver Spake: Do we have any other milestones? Have I missed anyone? Paul. Oh, yes. Shultzy. Oh, Shortsy. 450. Oh, 450. 450, yes. That's right. We have been having some discussions. I mean, Shultzy's 500 is next year. Peel Club today, yes.

00:08:46Dawn: Oh, that's right.

00:08:52Oliver Spake: No. Oh. And Juno joined us as well. So that's fantastic to have you along, Juno.

00:08:59Melissa Ellis: Yeah. I've got cuddles later.

00:09:05Oliver Spake: That's as far as our script goes, Mel, for the intro.

00:09:08Melissa Ellis: It is.

00:09:09Oliver Spake: I suppose before we move on, are there any other highlights and observations from the morning that we've missed? No. No. Okay. Okay. We'll move along. If there's an opportunity to speak with Brooke, our Run Director today, we're going to have a short interview with Brooke before she needs to head off. This is where we might play music, usually in the podcast.

Meet the ED

Interview Brooke Van Nooten — Founding Event Director and Run Director, Bellerive parkrun (Tasmania)

00:09:44Oliver Spake: We're now joined by Brooke Van Nooten, Run Director today and Event Director at Bellerive parkrun. Founding Event Director is my understanding. Thank you, Brooke, for having us and welcome to the podcast.

00:09:56Brooke Van Nooten: Hey, thanks, Holly. Thanks, Mel.

00:10:00Oliver Spake: Firstly, we've said it many times, but it can't be said enough. Thank you to yourself and the wonderful volunteer team this morning. It was a fantastic turnout and a credit to the volunteers. I think everyone had a splendid time.

00:10:10Brooke Van Nooten: Thank you to all of you guys for coming because it really, everyone's been telling me how amazing it was out on the course with all the extra support and cheering and that kind of thing. So thanks for choosing Bellerive.

00:10:21Oliver Spake: I suppose it is a wonderful parkrun, but you've got some history with this parkrun. You might have some valuable insights into how it got started. So could you share with us briefly the story of Bellerive and how it became to being?

00:10:33Brooke Van Nooten: Yeah, sure. So I moved over from Victoria down to Tassie in 2015, joined the crew over at Hobart, which is now Risdon Brook Dam parkrun. And we were getting to our capacity over there. We were getting about 175, 200 people per week. We had limited parking. We just weren't really coping. So I'd eyed off with a mate that now lives up in Queensland. We'd eyed off this course here for a while and decided it was time to set it up. So we... We launched in April 2018, the 28th of April, and we're about to celebrate our fourth birthday coming up soon. And it's just the most amazing community here at Bellerive. We just have a huge turnout every week, a great group of local volunteers, an amazing group of Run Directors, and we're really lucky and we reckon we've got one of the best courses in Australia. What event number was it today, Brooke? 173. Yes! LAUGHTER And how many people did we have on course? We had 294. And our very first parkrun proposal, we've had a wedding. Oh, really? Well, we've had a wedding day celebration. We've had people run dressed as a bride and groom on their wedding day, but we've never had a proposal. So huge milestone for us today.

00:11:29[laughter]

00:11:53Melissa Ellis: We didn't break a course record, did we, by any chance? No, no course record today.

00:11:58Brooke Van Nooten: Sorry, you'll have to bring another, you'll have to bring about maybe three times your group next time. Oh, okay. And then we might catch the course record.

00:12:06Melissa Ellis: Well, our next question was going to be that you have a great number of parkrunners each week. You are a large event and you have a great community spirit. So what makes you so special? Would you say the view? Yeah.

00:12:19Brooke Van Nooten: I think it's just the atmosphere and the fact that all of our volunteers, all of our Run Directors are so welcoming. It's like a family every single week. No matter what kind of weeks we've had, we get along here and we catch up. We go for a run, but it's not even about the running and walking, really. It's just about the social time and catching up with people, seeing how your friends are at the end of the week, and it really sets you up for the weekend. So I think that it's... Yeah, it's just a big family here at Bellerive. It sounds like a cliche and it sounds a bit ridiculous, but it's actually true.

00:12:53Oliver Spake: Yeah, it shows. It's a vibe that's really apparent in the morning and it shows when there is that connection and that spirit. And there were many first timers out there that were saying that they were going to come back. So, yeah, it's really apparent. It's nice to hear about Bellerive, but yourself, you've done several parkruns, well up in the 100s, heading towards 200, if I'm not mistaken.

00:13:14Brooke Van Nooten: Yeah, I've headed towards 150, I think. So I've had a lot of breaks with volunteering and that kind of thing.

00:13:21Oliver Spake: Yes. Yeah. Well, would you please share with us a bit about your own parkrun journey, where you began and what have been your highlights?

00:13:27Brooke Van Nooten: Yeah, so I heard about parkrun when I went to the UK in 2014. My sister-in-law and brother-in-law said, we're going to take you to parkrun tomorrow and I didn't know what it was and I thought it was just a run in the park. And I turned up and used someone else's token, which is, yeah, not something we do. But I, yeah, for the first, while I was in the UK at that time, having absolutely no idea what parkrun was at all. Anyway, I came back after three months to Victoria and decided I was going to try and start one in my own community in Gippsland, which is, or in Traralgon, which is east of Melbourne. And called the council to say, how do I start a parkrun? And they said, oh, funny, we've already got some people looking into it. Here's their contacts. So we launched Traralgon in 2015. And then I managed to stay with them for eight weeks before getting moved down here for work. And yeah, it was on my list of pros and cons of moving to Tassie was whether I wanted to leave my parkrun. So I've been really grateful to be able to find a parkrun community down here to become a part of.

00:14:30Melissa Ellis: You've also just answered the next question pretty much, which is back to the volunteers and how you got involved. But you started a parkrun. So that was the start of your volunteering journey. What do you enjoy most about volunteering?

00:14:46Brooke Van Nooten: Just the – it's easier than running most of the time, especially when you're a shuffler like me it's like it's um yeah so volunteering just the camaraderie and the friendship um and the yeah it really is just yeah it really is about that it's um it's seeing people be involved in parkrun you know it's not about PBs it's not about um how fast you can walk or run the course often volunteering is as fun if not more fun um than than running and taking part out there and yeah I just love seeing people that come every week that have become hooked I suppose on volunteering and taking part but who yeah just continue to put their names down all the time and we're just so lucky down here that we have such a good core group of volunteers and we try and get people other people to come in and join us and then they do it they do it once and they realise how how great it is And they come and do it again.

00:15:40Melissa Ellis: Yeah. And probably for the listeners at home, it's evident to all of us here that Brooke is actually pregnant. Is it your first? It is, first. Two weeks to go.

00:15:49Brooke Van Nooten: Wow. Yep. Yeah. Exciting. So I've been off. I haven't ran since the Bruny Island Ultra in December, um which I did in a team we had to up the team at the last minute because we had a pregnancy and a few injuries so I've had a little break from running but I'm hoping to be back um maybe in around july that's excellent and we wish you all the best and and a great experience welcoming the new member to your family and your parkrun community of course and um yeah the little one already has its own parkrun t-shirt because one of the volunteers here um made it one and presented me with it a few weeks ago so I think that'll fit it till it's at least maybe two or three.

00:16:30Oliver Spake: Oh, that's fantastic. Look, Brooke, you just said something and I've just got a personal interest here. Bruny Island, can you tell us a bit about that event, please?

00:16:38Brooke Van Nooten: Yeah, it was my first time, but it's hugely popular down here in Tassie. It's in December. Bruny Island Ultra, you can do it individually, you can do it in a team. And it's one of the most well-organised events that you'll see. You go from the tip of Bruny Island at Dennes Point to the other end and you run in increments that suits you. So our team just did the two and a half Ks and then Your car follows you, picks up the people, and then you just keep going. So it's just like a relay ultramarathon, 64Ks. Amazing, great way to see Bruny Island if you haven't been there.

00:17:16Oliver Spake: Excellent. So we'll be having a frond in southern Tasmania later this year.

00:17:20Brooke Van Nooten: Yeah.

00:17:22Oliver Spake: Now, thank you very much for sharing. I'm not sure if we had any more questions, Mel. We will let you go. We thank you so much for your time and for having us, particularly at this exciting point in your life. So thank you, Brooke, and thank you to your family and your team for having us here and having us enjoy your parkrun.

00:17:42Brooke Van Nooten: Thanks, guys. Thanks for coming. Thank you.

palm quiz

00:17:49Melissa Ellis: It's quiz time. Yes. Time to ask, so our reigning champion, would that be Brendan from last year? Brendan, I assume you're willing to come and join us again? Yes. Okay.

00:18:03Oliver Spake: Yes.

00:18:05Melissa Ellis: Now, I also believe that perhaps Dawn was interested in taking on Brendan in the quiz. Is that correct, Dawn? Yes. Come on, Dawn, you did tell me. I don't forget these things.

00:18:20Oliver Spake: So just to inspire those that are still thinking about it, for anyone, I'm sure you're all familiar with the quiz. Does anyone have any questions about the quiz?

00:18:33Dawn: How do you win it? What are the answers?

00:18:37Oliver Spake: What are the answers? That will all be revealed very soon. We do have some prizes and I believe there's a prize for everyone who participates.

00:18:46Melissa Ellis: We've got four prizes.

00:18:47Oliver Spake: Four prizes.

00:18:50Melissa Ellis: But just bear in mind we don't have a budget.

00:18:54Dawn: Yes.

00:18:54Melissa Ellis: So don't set the expectations too high.

00:18:57Oliver Spake: Yes.

00:18:58Melissa Ellis: They're novelty prizes. Why?

00:19:00Oliver Spake: So we'd love to welcome up two more participants to the quiz.

00:19:05Melissa Ellis: Excellent.

00:19:06Oliver Spake: Okay. We will need to ask our quiz participants probably to stand here. So just to navigate the audio with the microphones here. Our quiz master will set you up just across to the side. So we'll just pretend we're playing music while we do a bit of an interlude. If I walk in front of this microphone, I think everyone's gonna be, sorry, in front of this speaker, everyone's gonna be unhappy. Quiz master. I will give you a microphone.

00:19:44Dawn: So you actually need to get right up in the microphone. It's very direct.

00:19:51Oliver Spake: Yeah.

00:19:51Dawn: Okay.

00:19:54Oliver Spake: What I will do, I'll bring it over. Yeah. Okay, bringing this around. Quizmaster, this one's for you. Do you need a microphone person to hold the microphone? Just don't hold the audio part towards that way. So we can stand you over here if you like. Are you able to keep score, Chris? Yep, we have a scorekeeper. You've got a spreadsheet, Chris? I do. Excellent.

00:20:22Dawn: How big is it?

00:20:24Oliver Spake: I don't know. Not as big as some. Not as big as some. We need to introduce the contestants here, so I'll pass the microphone around if you'd like to introduce your name, your home parkrun, and your favourite... Oh, and your buzzer, and your favourite thing about today too. Let's start at this end. Michael Schultz, Kedron parkrun.

00:20:50Dawn: Yay!

00:20:51Brendan Peel: Just being here was good today.

00:20:53Dawn: I'm Dawn. I'm from Chelsea Bicentennial Park in Melbourne. That flat bell is my buzzer. It's all been wonderful and the proposal, of course.

00:21:13Leonie: I'm Leonie. My home parkrun is Brightwater. I have this little sleigh bell scenario. And I think just being with all these like-minded crazies.

00:21:26Brendan Peel: I'm Brendan from Alberts. I have the triangle, which I tend to use every year. It's worked for me so far. The highlight is just my lovely Jodie. She knows who she is, so she's my highlight. Yeah.

00:21:43Oliver Spake: Well, that's set it up. Over to you, Quizmaster.

00:21:47Lyndell Murray: Thanks, Ollie. It's Lyndell here once again as a stand-in Quizmaster. I have not written the questions. I will credit Simon Mackley, our actual Quizmaster. I'm just here to take the glory and look good in my lovely purple coat. So... So just before we start, just a reminder, because you're sharing a microphone, please wait for your name to be called before you answer the question, just in case there's more than one people that buzz in. We will have a score check halfway through. I'm just looking at the score checker to make sure that that will be okay. Excellent. And I do have a tiebreaker question if needed. Okay, so we've done the intro of the contestants, haven't we? So we are good to go into the questions.

00:22:34Oliver Spake: We're good to go.

00:22:34Lyndell Murray: All right, I have already opened the envelope. Okay, question number one. This is a where am I question. I am an out and back parkrun course. Although undulating throughout the course, I only rise 10 to 18 metres across the five kilometres. I'm about 30 minutes walk from the nearest train station. I'm named after the park that I start in, and not the suburb that I am in. I'll be celebrating my 300th event next week. I average about 75 participants per week, and have an average finish time of 36 minutes and 28 seconds. Brendan. Sean Craig. Yes, that is correct, I am there. I am the second most talked about parkrun on the parkrun adventurers podcast. And I am the home parkrun of Mel. I am, of course, Toolern Creek. Okay, the next question is a who am I? I have volunteered 138 times at 40 different locations. In 2019, I ran 47 parkruns. My personal best time was set six years ago at 19.54 when I beat my previous PB by just one second. My average parkrun time sits at 28 minutes and 14 seconds. I've been parkrunning since December 2013 and have an almost palindromic athlete ID of A772279. My nickname rhymes with the parkrun that I'm the Event Director at. I'm in the room to talk.

00:24:42Brendan Peel: Tony O'Connell.

00:24:43Lyndell Murray: That's correct. The rest of the clues were I'm in the room today and have a sunny disposition. And I'm one of the Channel 5 news crew and I go by the name of TOC. Okay, question number three. This is a multiple choice. Which of the following surnames is registered to the most parkrunners? Answer A is Bellerive. Answer B is Hobart. Answer C is Derwent. And answer D is Tasman. I think that was a Shultzy.

00:25:24Dawn: Derwent.

00:25:27Lyndell Murray: Incorrect.

00:25:29Brendan Peel: It's still open. Bellerive.

00:25:33Lyndell Murray: Incorrect. It's still open. Hobart. Correct. Fun fact for that question. Tasman is registered as a first name for parkrunners most out of that list of four options. Next question. Which Australian parkrun is closest to Antarctica?

00:25:56Dawn: Geeveston.

00:25:58Lyndell Murray: Geeveston? That's correct. Okay. Can we get a score check, please, score checker?

00:26:07Chris: Here we are. Albert Park, 2. Chelsea Bicentennial, 1. Kedron, 0. And Brightwater, 1.

00:26:20Oliver Spake: Anyone's game.

00:26:21Lyndell Murray: Anyone's game. Next question. In episode 253, our parkrun adventurers interviewed Adrian Hon. What is the name of the app that he developed?

00:26:35Brendan Peel: 5K app.

00:26:38Lyndell Murray: Incorrect. Shultzy.

00:26:42Chris: Running achievements.

00:26:43Lyndell Murray: Incorrect. Tourist tool. Incorrect. It's still open.

00:26:50Unidentified speaker: No.

00:26:56Lyndell Murray: I'll give you a hint. I'll give you a hint and you're all back in. Think apocalypse and end of days. Who dinged in first? Did we have a ding?

00:27:13Brendan Peel: My ding doesn't make much sense.

00:27:16Lyndell Murray: Zombies. Close, but no cigar. Keep trying. Dawn. Running with zombies. Close, but no cigar.

00:27:26Leonie: Zombie runner.

00:27:29Lyndell Murray: Still not quite right.

00:27:31Dawn: I'm trying to leave it open here.

00:27:37Lyndell Murray: I was waiting for someone to go, zombies, run! No point. No point. Sorry, I'm a bit of a stickler. Okay, in the last episode, or the latest episode of the parkrun adventurers, how many registered parkrunners were on the parkrun adventurers Consolidated Club List? And there's an extra point if you know how many members there were.

00:28:10Dawn: 110? Yeah.

00:28:17Lyndell Murray: And is that your guess for consolidated club list?

00:28:21Dawn: Yeah.

00:28:22Lyndell Murray: Lower. Still open. 102. Lower, still open.

00:28:30Leonie: 87.

00:28:31Lyndell Murray: Higher, still open.

00:28:34Leonie: 90.

00:28:37Lyndell Murray: The correct answer is 100. And the number of members was 119. So all of us have got a pretty good record of running a parkrun, 100 out of 119. So no point for that question either. Okay, next question. What is Abby's catchphrase when she signs off?

00:28:59Brendan Peel: Brendan? Goodbye, Ollie. Goodbye, Mel. No. No. No.

00:29:05Chris: Stay safe.

00:29:06Brendan Peel: Yes.

00:29:10Lyndell Murray: A point to Kedron parkrun. Next question. What sort of car does the informant drive?

00:29:22Leonie: Thank you. Pulsar.

00:29:26Lyndell Murray: Pulsar. I'll give a bonus point for anyone that can buzz in for what year model it is. 2016. This is way too new.

00:29:39Chris: 2007. Way too new.

00:29:40Dawn: 2000. Way too new.

00:29:52Lyndell Murray: It's a 1991 Nissan Pulsar. So we have one point to Brightwater and one point to Chelsea.

00:30:04Oliver Spake: How many questions do we have left?

00:30:06Lyndell Murray: There are three questions left. Maybe it's time for a score check. Okay.

00:30:13Chris: Brendan is on two, Dawn two, Shultzy one, and Leonie two. So we're very close, everybody.

00:30:21Lyndell Murray: Okay, three questions left. What is the collective name for a group of ugly singlets or T-shirts?

00:30:28[laughter]

00:30:28Dawn: LAUGHTER It's a tinsel. That's correct.

00:30:44[laughter]

00:30:44Lyndell Murray: LAUGHTER Technically, there is some outside assistance there, but I've given outside assistance in this quiz before, so I'll pay that one as well. Next question. What is the name of the junior parkrun that takes place in New South Wales?

00:31:06[laughter]

00:31:06Unidentified speaker: LAUGHTER

00:31:09Lyndell Murray: Brendan. That's correct. Okay, last question. Score check, please.

00:31:16Dawn: Brendan, score check.

00:31:19Chris: Brendan on three. Dawn on three. Shultzy, one. Leonie, two. Okay.

00:31:27Lyndell Murray: Final question. Sorry. Final question. Which two parkrun countries are yet to open since the COVID pause? Dawn.

00:31:36Dawn: Singapore and Malaysia.

00:31:38Lyndell Murray: That is correct. Okay.

00:31:42Chris: Does that mean we have a clear winner in Dawn? Official results. Final results. Brendan, three. Dawn, four. Shiltsy, one. Leonie, two.

00:31:56Lyndell Murray: Okay, so we have a new champion in the parkrun adventurers podcast quiz. Dawn from Chelsea. So it's in Victoria still.

00:32:08Dawn: Oh, thank you. I'm thrilled to... LAUGHTER

00:32:10[laughter]

00:32:17Lyndell Murray: Okay, so we're over to the awards ceremony. Shall we pass over to Mel to present the prizes?

the Obi Award — Dawn (palm quiz winner, Chelsea Bicentennial parkrun)

00:32:25Melissa Ellis: We've got a special one-off award today. And much thanks to our adventurer friend, Stephen Davis, for assisting us to create our very first real-life Obi.

00:32:44[applause]

00:32:44Dawn: CHEERING

00:32:48Melissa Ellis: So for those listening, it is a 3D printed gold Buddha that says palm22. We also have, so Dawn is posing for photos. We also have some consolation prizes. Who came second? Who was second?

00:33:11Dawn: Okay.

00:33:12Melissa Ellis: Okay. So we can have, Brendan, you can choose. We have a packet of the blue frog granola. We have a copy of On Every Saturday, and we have a Ferrari.

00:33:29Oliver Spake: Disclaimer, it may not be a real Ferrari this time. We've been downgraded. It's just a red convertible.

00:33:34Melissa Ellis: Right, okay.

00:33:35Dawn: Okay. Congratulations.

00:33:38Brendan Peel: Congratulations.

00:33:42Oliver Spake: Thank you to David Crook, by the way, for donating that edition.

00:33:47Melissa Ellis: Third place getter was Leonie. What would you?

00:33:51Leonie: Murray the girl.

00:33:54Oliver Spake: Shultzy gets a new car. And it's not a 1991 Pulsar.

00:33:59Melissa Ellis: Okay. Thank you, everybody, for participating. You may take your seats. Thank you.

00:34:07Oliver Spake: And please continue the support for our official scorekeeper, Chris. Thank you for all your help, Chris. Okay. For Simon Mackley once again, our quiz master for the questions. Yes, they were very good. And for Lyndell the legendary once again for another legendary dose of palm madness.

00:34:30Melissa Ellis: Okay, are we ready for our next segment?

00:34:33Oliver Spake: This is where we dance and sing to prepare for the next segment. Yep, okay. Just before we get started, does anyone need a break? Do we need to pause or should we roll straight into the next segment?

00:34:50Melissa Ellis: No, let's keep the momentum going.

00:34:52Oliver Spake: Okay. I've got the wrong notes, Mel.

00:34:54Melissa Ellis: Yep.

00:34:54Oliver Spake: Yep. So as we said, the next segment is a bit of a surprise. We hope you all enjoy and we hope it makes up for the missing favourites from the podcast. But please bear with us while we get underway.

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00:35:22Unidentified speaker: Stop.

00:35:22[28 seconds of audio that could not be transcribed]

parkrun vow renewal ceremony

00:35:50Tony O'Connell: Welcome everybody. Today we're gathered to witness two peas in a pod renewing their vows of love and parkrun. Thank you Mel and Ollie. We're here to celebrate a milestone, the purple wedding anniversary, 25 years registered together. Before we begin, is there anyone here present who knows why these peas should not remain joined until their next milestone? Speak now or forever hold your peace. In that case, do you P1 and P2 take each other? Wait for the car. P2 and P1 as your Co-Event Directors? If faster or if slower in PBs or DNF. Whether your barcodes be digital, printed, laminated or tattooed. With one lap or two or more. On those weird shaped courses possibly like a flaccid balloon. On those out and back with a bit of squiggly bit courses, in the sand or on concrete, wearing shoes or not, to walk, jog, run, volunteer and spectate together? Do you promise not to cut corners with coffee and cake, with sausage rolls or pasties, even if you never complete your alphabet because there's no X, as long as your barcodes both remain active? I do. I do.

00:37:29Oliver Spake: We are the Co-Event Directors of our personal parkrun. We have checked the course and set up our life events. We have founded two junior events together.

00:37:41Unidentified speaker: We will continue to marshal our attention and be as attentive as we were at our first time as welcome. We will always be scanning for each other and help with funnel management.

00:37:51Oliver Spake: We will keep good time, but we'll also accept a 59-59. We will not shy away from the difficult conversations and we'll work through any incident reports together.

00:38:03Unidentified speaker: We will hand each other tokens of affection, check the numbers that matter and sort things when we pack up each day. And we'll share our joys and sorrows with our community. We look forward to walking at the back, keeping a good pace and making sure that no one comes last.

00:38:25Tony O'Connell: So let's process this and get the results posted. I'm sure there's a report to be written. Can the groomsmen please step forward?

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00:38:52Tony O'Connell: With this exchange of barcodes, may you continue to adventure together. By the power vested in me by the Channel 5 News crew, I now pronounce you P1 and P2. You may seal the milestone with a kiss.

00:39:14Dawn: Well done, guys.

00:39:17Unidentified speaker: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

00:39:28[music]

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Sign-off

00:39:40Oliver Spake: Little did we know, little did we know that this palm, number five, would be all about what the parkrun adventurers is all about, which is love. So to those embarking on the next adventure, to those celebrating their adventures together, we thank you for sharing that with us, and we thank all of you for sharing your adventures with us. This wouldn't be possible without everyone's love and affection towards this community. And it means the world to us that you've all been able to make it down here. But I suppose, Mel, we do like to do an outro.

00:40:19Melissa Ellis: We do.

00:40:19Oliver Spake: We do. We do have a few thank yous. Probably just in case anyone's missed any context along the way, we've had proposals, we've had 25th milestones.

00:40:32Melissa Ellis: In case you haven't cottoned on, it's about to be their 25th wedding anniversary, hence why you were wearing purple because 25 context.

00:40:42Dawn: Yes.

00:40:44Oliver Spake: So I apologise. There's no surprise visit to the Cadbury factory.

00:40:48Melissa Ellis: If anybody would like to assist afterwards in picking up off 200 fake rose petals, that would be appreciated. Okay, what have we got next, Ollie? We have a few thank yous. Again, to the Bellerive parkrun team for welcoming us into their parkrun family today.

00:41:08Oliver Spake: As I've just said, to all of you for being a part of this wonderful community, this adventurer community. This wouldn't happen without you all.

Roving reports & the Channel 5 News crew

00:41:15Melissa Ellis: to the Channel 5 News crew, a huge part of the parkrun adventurers and always bringing us their experiences, laughs and achievements and meeting the challenges that we throw at them. Some challenges have been harder than others and I know better than anybody when we get a difficult challenge, but this year we did induct Two new Channel 5 News crew members. We had Alison, who can't join us today, unfortunately, from over in New Zealand. But we also have a new, we have one of the other one, Tracey. Tracey in a Tutu here today. And would you like to come up, Tracey?

00:41:51Oliver Spake: Yeah, it is a bit of a parkrun adventurers podcast. Listener meetup tradition to present the Channel 5 News crew in attendance with their press passes.

00:42:01Melissa Ellis: So here is your microphone and here is your press pass. May you continue to adventure.

00:42:10Oliver Spake: Thank you, Tracey. And as Toc has just demonstrated as an impeccable celebrant, that press pass gets you into a lot of places, yes and uh yes and thank you to third TOC and Lyndell also for your role in uh backing us up today yes okay um we'd also like to think to thank our team behind the pod and this is fitting Chris our artistic director our pod inspiration and kidnapper extraordinary Thank you, Chris, for always keeping us going, bringing the ideas and never failing with a late deadline with the art. So we apologise for all of the late photos and thank you for all of your help too.

00:42:59Melissa Ellis: And the photoshopping of Dazza, not when I get a crazy idea for a last-minute theme and I say, I want Dazza to be the ice cream man.

00:43:06Oliver Spake: Dazza's wardrobe is not as big as it looks. Yes. I will also jump in. No, I'll pass to Mel.

00:43:12Melissa Ellis: Oh, okay. Yes. Where are we up to? Abby. We'd like to say a special thank you to our Abby for always lifting our spirits and sharing of her own experiences with us, even if she's not happy, Jan. LAUGHTER

00:43:24[laughter]

00:43:27Oliver Spake: Well, we're sad that we can't have the informant here, but to the informant and his entourage, the intern and everyone else that supported the team, we might not sound like happy family, and we may not be, but some things are worth it. We love you even when we can't understand you.

00:43:45Melissa Ellis: To Dazza for always being open on time and being there to listen to our park faff without ever talking over us.

00:43:52Oliver Spake: Our party planner, Toc. Also known as this weekend, moneybags. Thank you to you and to Jacqui for sharing your love of palm and amazing efforts to make this fifth parkrun adventurers Listener Meetup possible. We thank you.

00:44:16Melissa Ellis: To our families for sharing, aka putting up with our parkrun adventurer life, recording night, uploading night, and constant messaging. And thank you, Ollie, for joining me and bringing the podcast out every week, for putting up with all the questions that I ask you and all the interruptions and always doing it with this smile on your face and apologising.

00:44:45Oliver Spake: Thank you, Mel. And sorry I don't always respond quickly to the questions, or to the script, but... He just apologised again. But thank you for your tireless efforts and tired efforts when it's tiring as well. We had a lot of fun doing this. I never realised how enjoyable and hard this would be, but it's all worth it and enjoying this weekend, enjoying every Monday night, catching up for a podcast and hearing people's adventures is just a great way to extend the Saturday morning refresh of the week. So... Thank you, Mel, for making that possible. And thank you for editing.

00:45:24Melissa Ellis: You're welcome. All right.

00:45:29Oliver Spake: I'll also throw in a couple of other thank yous. We have thanked, but we can't thank enough, Fiona and the team at the Hurricanes for having us. Special mention also to Paul and to Eric from Hobart Open Air for this equipment that we are recording on. Thank you to them. Thank you to the guys in the cricket nets. If you've heard that come through on the podcast, we are, in fact... We're all dressed to go and play a game, so hopefully we can squeeze that in. And before we sign off, I haven't mentioned, but I'm from Tassie. I haven't been back in 22 years, and thank you all for giving me a great excuse to come back. It was a bit of an effort to make it possible, but it's been an amazing way to come back and rediscover my roots with Mum and with all of you. So thank you for giving me that experience.

00:46:17Melissa Ellis: That wraps up our recording time. But the Palm Fund will continue shortly. We'll sign out from pod mode now. So, as always, you can – oh, oh, oh, hang on. We've got a last-minute message. Let me just press play on this.

00:46:38Abby: Hi, Mel and Ollie. I can't believe you have gone to Palm without me. Not happy. I do hope you have fun. Stay safe, adventurers. Do we even need to sign off now?

00:46:57Oliver Spake: How do you sign it?

00:46:59Tony O'Connell: We miss you, Abby. Ladies and gentlemen, they've given a lot of thank yous, but these guys give us so much time. They give us so much joy each week. And I'd just like a really big hand because they put a lot of hours into this podcast and these guys are just awesome. So big hand for those two, please.

00:47:08[applause]

00:47:26Melissa Ellis: Okay, we'll sign off for now. We'll say what we always say. As always, you can contact us via Facebook or our email, which is parkrunadventurers at gmail.com. And that's it for another week. We'll see you all next week or at the Freedom Run this afternoon for more adventures.

00:47:41Dawn: Thanks, everyone.

00:48:43Unidentified speaker: Bye.