Episode 287 - Rhubarb Lemonade

Welcome

00:00:01Unidentified speaker: Hi Mel and Ollie, thank you for my Obi award. And what do I win? Do I win my dollar back? I'd like to thank Junior parkrun for making it possible to win. And I'd like to thank my mum for taking me to Junior's. Bye adventurers, stay safe!

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00:00:18[24 seconds of audio that could not be transcribed]

00:00:42Melissa Ellis: Welcome to episode 287 of the parkrun adventurers podcast. My name is Melissa Ellis and I'm coming to you from Wurundjeri Country.

00:00:52Oliver Spake: And I am Ollie Spake and I'm joining once again from Dharawal Country.

00:00:56Melissa Ellis: How are you this week, Ollie? And have you ordered your ugly buff?

00:01:02Oliver Spake: I'm actually in the process of just placing my order, Mel. So I have had the note written on my hand to complete the order. I don't want to miss out and I'm looking forward to having an extra neck warmer because it is getting cold. I trust you've ordered?

00:01:17Melissa Ellis: I have, yes, and did actually pack a couple of my ugly buffs from previous years in my suitcase this last weekend when I travelled. They kept my wrists very nice and warm.

00:01:32Oliver Spake: It's funny that I had not typically worn the ugly buff on the wrist, but I found myself the last two parkrun days wearing it on my wrist. And I blame Monty.

00:01:44Melissa Ellis: Yes. Monty Slade.

00:01:47Oliver Spake: Yes.

00:01:49Melissa Ellis: He started a fashion trend.

00:01:51Oliver Spake: For those that haven't seen Monty's posts in Dazza's, they will pop up. And note the wrist, note the buff. Thanks for the inspiration.

00:01:59Melissa Ellis: It's funny how a wrist warmer can keep your hands warm.

00:02:03Oliver Spake: It keeps my whole body warm, Mel, and just on one wrist. I mean, that's all I need. It doesn't make sense, but nor do I that often.

00:02:11Melissa Ellis: Superpowers.

00:02:13Oliver Spake: Yeah, but to answer your question otherwise, I'm pretty well, thanks, Mel. I'm a little tired, but happy tired. What about you?

00:02:21Melissa Ellis: Well, actually, I'm quite good. Not so tired. I am becoming accustomed to long drives on weekends.

00:02:31Oliver Spake: You are. You are. I don't feel that I'm ever in a position to complain about the long commute to a parkrun. That's for sure.

00:02:39Melissa Ellis: But Ollie, Shellharbour, last minute cancellation, which is sad, but this allowed you to adventure. So you need to tell us all about it.

00:02:50Oliver Spake: Yeah, so this wasn't some elaborate scheme. I didn't try and cancel just for my own purposes here. But due to a combination of circumstances, prior rain, wet ground, and a few vehicles that had been out totally innocently on one of our hills, the track was unpassable. I'd been out a couple of times the day before and I could barely stand up. So I think enough's enough and just had to make the call for everyone's safety. I know we've got a lot of dedicated parkrunners out there that can safely take on a course, but when you add up all those risks, I had to make the call. And difficult as that was, yeah, that gave me an opportunity to go and adventure to a course that I had been looking forward to enjoying for some time ever since I did it on the longest run last year. So I jumped in the car relatively early, nothing like... Your advance commute, Mel, but, yeah, just a bit over an hour's drive from my place up over the highlands, I suppose, up to the northwestern edge of Dharawal Country to lovely Camden and Cowpasture Reserve parkrun in Camden specifically, which... I can't recall who, if anyone, has profiled it. I'm sure we've talked about it on the pod before, but it is a gorgeous, simple out-and-back concrete path course with undulations. Not, I would say, as undulating as Bellerive. So there's a point of reference there, Mel, which I would call relatively flat. So- But I'm trying to change my terminology because I don't want to be misleading. And it was lovely. Modest number of parkrunners, a very colourful group celebrating a couple of milestones in rainbow colours. So it was great to jump in and take the photos and see them coordinate very well the colours of the rainbow and sing. The song always helps to work out what the order is. But had a great parkrun, managed my fastest time of the year. So that was a highlight. By one second. Oh, nice. I must add, wasn't, you know, wasn't that groundbreaking. Had a chat with a couple of volunteers, a few of whom, again, I had met at the longest run and... Just felt really welcome and it's lovely to see Cowpasture parkrun getting back on their legs after the floods of the last couple of months. Again, not as devastating as we've seen up with our Queensland and northern New South Wales cousins, but certainly they were hit and still some of the damage around. So great to see them out and enjoying their course after all of that damage.

00:05:31Melissa Ellis: How did you go with other things like bingo numbers or Wilson indexes?

00:05:37Oliver Spake: Zilch, really. Kind of failed in the long game. And I had a chat to Paul. So a shout out to Paul. So Paul Whelan. Hello, Paul. And my planning game felt very much underdone when I was working through his plan right up to 50 events, which... He does have a visit to Shellharbour planned. Unfortunately, I'm going to be away, but nonetheless. But yeah, he had the Fibonacci, the primes and everything. And my spreadsheet is much smaller than most others.

00:06:12Melissa Ellis: I know somebody that can help you with that.

00:06:14Unidentified speaker: Yeah.

00:06:15Oliver Spake: I think I need the help, Mel. So I look forward to that.

00:06:19Melissa Ellis: I can help you with that. Yes. Goodness me.

00:06:22Oliver Spake: So lovely time. Got to stop past the cafe. The cafe, I think it's Jelly's. I'll be corrected on that if I've gotten it wrong. Went there on the longest run for breakfast last year and it was good to be back there. Lovely. So shout out to the cafe too. Sounds good. What about you, Mel?

Roving report Melissa Ellis — Mount Ainslie parkrun

00:06:39Oliver Spake: How was your parkrun day?

00:06:40Melissa Ellis: Well, on Saturday, I took a mother-daughter road trip with Zoe to our nation's capital, Canberra, on Ngunnawal Country to run Mount Ainslie parkrun and become a capitalist at last. This had been my 2020 parkrun goal before COVID ruined all our fun. Long car trips are actually really great opportunities for conversations with your children as they are captive audiences and often open up in this non-confrontational environment. This is from my experience, so don't go looking for any controlled studies or systematic reviews. It was event 163 and I was one of 33 participants to show up in the wet conditions. The ACT has seven events and this was the last one I needed to tick off, which I had deliberately saved for last as word going around was that it was a fantastic trail event and it sits directly behind the Australian War Memorial, adding to its appeal for me. I had planned to encourage Zoe to the start finish line area and to perhaps support the event team. But as it was raining and she was recovering from a week off school with illness, I chose to let her stay in the warm car while I set off to find some familiar flags. Fortunately for me, I quickly discovered RD Arthur setting up a flag at the beginning of a short trail that leads to the start and happily followed him, grateful that plans were going along well so far. As the volunteers gradually arrived, it seemed numbers would be lower than normal due to the wet conditions and volunteer Skye happily obliged me with a photo in the selfie frame. The course is an out-and-back trail which, despite being undulating, has a general upward elevation on the way out, making for a less strenuous return. The overnight rain meant many puddles and a slippery surface which was stressed by Arthur, and although I tried to skirt the water, it was inevitable that some just required splashing through. And amazingly, I succeeded in keeping myself from joining the stack club. Towards the end, I chatted to local Elise, who I interviewed afterwards, along with Bec and Queensland tourist Steve Amor, and also adventurer Chris Ruse, who was also visiting from Karkarook in Victoria. So, Ollie, we might go straight to my audio now.

00:09:00Bec: Okay, I'm here at the finish line. I have found Steve, Elise and Bec.

00:09:04Melissa Ellis: Hello, everybody. Hello. I'll start with Steve. You are quite a well-known tourist from Brisbane, world tourist as well, I believe.

00:09:12Steve Amor: Yes, I've done nine countries, nine countries parkruns.

00:09:15Melissa Ellis: Excellent. What brings you to Mount Ainslie?

00:09:17Steve Amor: I was here for work, so I thought I'd stay an extra day and just do an ACT parkrun.

00:09:21Melissa Ellis: Is it your first one in the ACT?

00:09:22Steve Amor: Yep.

00:09:22Melissa Ellis: How did you find the course?

00:09:24Steve Amor: Muddy.

00:09:26Melissa Ellis: It was a bit wet underfoot, wasn't it?

00:09:28Steve Amor: It was a bit clay, very clay, but it was a good course.

00:09:30Melissa Ellis: Excellent. What have you got planned next week?

00:09:33Steve Amor: No idea. I don't plan ahead that far.

00:09:35Melissa Ellis: Ah.

00:09:36Steve Amor: Some new parkruns. There's a couple up north, sure. Sunshine Coast I haven't done.

00:09:40Melissa Ellis: Okay. And you got first finisher today?

00:09:42Steve Amor: Yes.

00:09:43Melissa Ellis: Well done.

00:09:44Unidentified speaker: Thank you.

00:09:45Melissa Ellis: And you saw a kangaroo?

00:09:46Steve Amor: Many kangaroos, yep.

00:09:48Melissa Ellis: I must have been blind. I think my glasses fogged up and I couldn't see very well. And I've got Bec and Elise.

00:09:55Elise: So, Elise, what was the group you told me you were a part of? The ACT Women's Adventure Group. And you're taking part soon in a... Relay, three-day relay event. It's called Capital to Coast. Nice. Yeah, so we're making a relay team because we don't want to do it by ourselves and we're going to have a lot of fun running all weekend. Do most of the group parkrun as well? It's a really diverse group so we're part of the running subgroup but there's ladies who kayak, ladies who bushwalk, ladies who ski and we all sort of post want to come to this and people join in and we all meet different people and we definitely go for coffee afterwards. And Mount Ainslie, your home parkrun? Yeah, at the moment. Though we tend to tourist a bit around Canberra.

00:10:36Bec: Is that the same with you, Bec? Yes and no. I don't tourist as much because I don't have a car and Mount Ainslie is the closest parkrun to me that I can get to on foot. But I started, my first parkrun was in 2016 at St Peter's in Sydney and it took me five years to get to 50 parkruns and the only reason that I got to 50 was that I met these lovely ladies and now it's the thing that keeps me coming back every week and I've been a consistent parkrunner since I started running with them oh that's really good to hear I definitely wouldn't have come today if it hadn't been for the other people coming because it's 10 degrees and pouring yeah so and Skye over there is part of our group she's volunteering today oh good I did talk to Skye at the start yes it was lovely to speak to Skye all right well thanks guys thanks for chatting to me enjoy the rest of your wet day thank you thank you enjoy your visit to Canberra

00:11:27Melissa Ellis: Okay, I found somebody else here. Would you like to tell your name to all the listeners?

00:11:30Chris Ruse: I'm Chris Ruse.

00:11:32Melissa Ellis: Chris Ruse. Coincidence to bump into you today here. So did you actually hear that I was going to be here? I did not. You did not? I had no idea. Wow. Because I just said right at the end of last week that I might come to Mount Ainslie. I'm a bit behind. So what brings you here to ACT?

00:11:48Chris Ruse: My son lives here and it's his birthday tomorrow.

00:11:50Melissa Ellis: Oh, very good. How old will he be?

00:11:53Chris Ruse: You shouldn't ask me that. They'll be 28.

00:11:56Melissa Ellis: It's hard when they get big. It is. It is. Yeah. So it was a wet start this morning.

00:12:03Chris Ruse: It was very wet, very slippery. I have not done a parkrun so slippery. But it was fun.

00:12:08Melissa Ellis: It was. Slip and slide.

00:12:10Chris Ruse: Yes.

00:12:11Melissa Ellis: Yeah.

00:12:11Chris Ruse: And everybody stayed on their feet, I think.

00:12:13Melissa Ellis: Which is surprising. I haven't been through such big puddles for a long time.

00:12:17Chris Ruse: No, no.

00:12:19Melissa Ellis: I've got to change the shoes for the drive home.

00:12:22Chris Ruse: Yes, I think I might be in trouble.

00:12:24Melissa Ellis: So you're from Karkarook?

00:12:25Chris Ruse: Yes.

00:12:26Melissa Ellis: So give the listeners a brief little spiel of Karkarook parkrun if they want to come visit.

00:12:32Chris Ruse: Karkarook is southeast Melbourne. It's a two-lap course around the lake. Beautiful lake. It's fairly flat. There's a little bit of an incline, but mostly flat. Yeah, incredibly friendly crew. Really great place to be.

00:12:47Melissa Ellis: Yeah, it sort of fills in a little gap out there in the southeast, doesn't it? You don't have really any parkruns close by. Chelsea, would Chelsea be one of your closest?

00:12:55Chris Ruse: Chelsea is probably my closest as the crow flies or Dandenong. But Karkarook's the place to be.

00:13:01Melissa Ellis: Fantastic. And you've got your family out here with you today?

00:13:03Chris Ruse: I do. They came out despite the weather and they're still out there with the Tail Walker in the rain and the mud.

00:13:12Melissa Ellis: Of course, pre-course brief, they didn't mention about the hill.

00:13:15Chris Ruse: Yeah.

00:13:15Melissa Ellis: I know this is in the name.

00:13:18Chris Ruse: Yeah, I did. As we were racing up because we were running a bit late, we did have someone say, oh, yes, it's a bit steep. So that was the only heads up I had.

00:13:27Melissa Ellis: Nevertheless, it was fun. Well, thanks for coming up to say hi. No worries. And it was nice to meet you today.

00:13:30Chris Ruse: Yeah, likewise.

00:13:39Oliver Spake: Well, thank you, Mel, and congratulations on becoming a capitalist.

00:13:43Melissa Ellis: Thank you.

00:13:44Oliver Spake: That's some effort.

00:13:45Melissa Ellis: A long-term plan finally seen to fruition.

00:13:50Oliver Spake: Yeah, it sounds like it was nice to enjoy that with Zoe. Good way to do the drive with, I'd call it the support crew, but, you know, you're supporting one another there. A bit of a frond.

00:14:01Melissa Ellis: Yes. Unexpected frond. Accidental frond, I think I referred to it as in my post. And yeah, although Zoe wasn't able to share the driving with me, it really was just nice to have company in the car. So it really did make the whole overnight trip a lot more enjoyable. Yeah.

00:14:19Oliver Spake: Yes, you put my adventures to shame, Mel. Not at all, Ollie. It's all relative. It is all relative. It certainly is. And, no, nice to hear some of the events of the morning. Stay tuned, everyone. We've got a few more roving reports a bit later on. But, Mel, I believe we've got some feedback from last week's episode, episode 286.

00:14:40Melissa Ellis: Yeah, I thought it was worth mentioning, Ollie, Corrine Glades, who were the location of the photo we used for last week's pod entitled 99 Apfelsinenblätter. I don't even know how you actually say it, but they shared our post. And I think we need to arrange a chat with their ED to learn more about their event.

00:15:01Oliver Spake: Yeah, I'm in full support of that. It was a gorgeous shot. I don't think I mentioned, but yeah, I was looking at the autumn leaves around Camden and just along the edge of the course with a beautiful long finish straight and picked up a leaf and it's become a little memento. So thanks for the inspiration, Corinne Glades.

00:15:21Melissa Ellis: And we should probably mention, Ollie, the title for last week's pod was a play on the 99 reference from Pippa White. Also the beautiful autumn colours in the photo from Corinne Glades and 99 Apfelstein Blatter, if that's how you say it. Translates in German to 99 orange leaves, which is a reference to the episode where Scotty sang 99 Luftballons.

00:15:49Oliver Spake: And if you haven't listened, we highly recommend you go and search that out. He's got a talent for that.

00:15:55Melissa Ellis: And it's episode 99.

00:15:58Oliver Spake: Thank you. Yes, that'll help. We hope to see a lot of extra downloads of episode 99 after this so we can all enjoy that. But thank you for clarifying that, Mel. I know there was some conjecture around our episode title there, a few different translations.

00:16:14Melissa Ellis: Well, you know, we're only as good as Google Translate.

00:16:18Oliver Spake: Yeah, I think nice to celebrate the season as we lurch into winter now.

00:16:23Melissa Ellis: Mm.

parkrun news bulletin

00:16:25Oliver Spake: What else is happening in the news of the parkrun world, Mel?

00:16:28Melissa Ellis: Well, we also heard this week from Adrian Hillyer out at Peppertree parkrun, and he let us know that he's updated the Western Wanderers Challenge to include Surrogate and Reserve and the Werribee Park Mansion. So if that's something that you're interested in in Victoria to become a member of the Western Wanderers Challenge, we can probably share the details of that information. Where are we going to share it, Ollie? We can probably share the details of that with the podcast post this week.

00:17:02Oliver Spake: That sounds like a good idea.

00:17:03Melissa Ellis: And Adrian also wanted to let us know that the 5K app this week has had a new update. Now, this new update allows you to actually create your own challenges. Yes. And you can do that by picking one of several templates on the app.

00:17:21Oliver Spake: And I am just checking that out now, Mel. So I can see, yeah, specific names, names starting with or containing event numbers and dates. So there's a few options in there. Finally, a solution that helps me come up with a way to actually tick off some challenges.

00:17:38Melissa Ellis: Create your own.

00:17:40Oliver Spake: Yeah. It's just going to be the Shellharbour Challenge. Now, what's this about a fine?

00:17:48Melissa Ellis: Well, after we recorded last week, Ollie, we did receive an email, a last-minute email from Johan with his roving report, but it was too late for us to include in last week's podcast. So we have included it this week, but that's a fine for Johan. I did do the conversion of an Aussie dollar to the South African rand, and it's 11 rand.

00:18:14Oliver Spake: That's a bit steep. It sounds like a lot. That's 11 rand for contributing to this podcast, parkrun Community. It sounds like good value. Oh, dear.

00:18:25Melissa Ellis: So, yeah.

00:18:26Oliver Spake: Thank you, Johan. We trust you've noted. Mel, that sounds like a bit of a segue. Is it time to have a listen to this 11 Rand roving report and the rest of our roving reports?

Roving reports & the Channel 5 News crew

Roving report Johan Duvenhage — Heidedal parkrun

00:18:47Johan Duvenhage: Good morning, goeiemorgen, doemelang, molwenni, parkrun adventurers, Johan checking in from Heidedal in the Free State of South Africa today. It's Heidedal's fifth anniversary. It's a bit wet, but that's not going to deter this bunch of people. I am going to be Tail Walker today and once I've done my duties as that, I will also try to speak to a few of our participants. I'm here with Edwin Jackwire. Edwin was the founding ED for Heidedal and today is our fifth anniversary. Edwin, how did it happen that Heidedal started five years ago?

00:19:27Edwin: Hi, hello Johan, hello everybody all over the place, all over the world. The parkrun started as a passion. I started running myself and I wanted to take some community children out of my community to run but which is plus minus 10 kilometres away from us. And eventually I've met somebody that said, but why don't you start a parkrun in Heidedal in our community? And that's how it all started. And that's the long of the short story.

00:19:58Johan Duvenhage: Thanks, Edwin. Thank you very much for everything you do for Heidedal parkrun. Hi parkrun adventurers. I'm speaking with Wuyoom Kumbani, who was our first finisher today. Even though the conditions were very wet and slippery. Wuyoom, what was your time today? My time today is 18.45. 18.45, that's excellent.

00:20:18Unidentified speaker: So Wuyoom, why do you like coming to Heidedal parkrun? He taught me a lot of things. He does this and he does that. What is this thing called? A grass. So it gives me experience how to run in a grass. Yeah, trail running. Yeah, trail running, yes. And what do you like about Heidedal? The people here? I like them a lot, and they're nice people, they can check each other and support each other.

00:20:49Johan Duvenhage: All right, thanks for you. Yes. Good morning, Abby. How's it in Heidedal today with our fifth anniversary?

00:20:57Abby: Oh, it's so nice. The weather played along and... The run was just perfect and everybody's just happy and colourful and we had a braai here and everything was just good.

00:21:11Johan Duvenhage: All right. What did you do today as a volunteer?

00:21:13Abby: As a volunteer, I was doing the tokens and I was doing the braaivleis.

00:21:18Johan Duvenhage: Ah, fantastic. That was awesome. Thank you very much. We had a nice hot dog and roll.

00:21:24Unidentified speaker: Thank you.

00:21:25Johan Duvenhage: Hi, good morning Cyril. What did you do today at Heidedal at our 5th anniversary?

00:21:31Cyril: I was a Timekeeper and I really appreciated it. And the first birthday of Heidedal parkrun, it was nice. And the weather, it played a part.

00:21:45Johan Duvenhage: How did you find the experience of doing timekeeping? Was it the first time that you timekept? No, I didn't. It's my 5th.

00:21:54Cyril: So my first and the first birthday. Fantastic. Thank you very much for your efforts. Thanks.

00:22:01Johan Duvenhage: Adventurers, I'm here with Rudolf Hofmann, today's Run Director at Heidedal's fifth anniversary. Rudolf, the event, we were a little bit scared that we may have to cancel because of all of the rain. We saw all of the events around in the region cancel. What do you think that we managed to get ahead or go ahead?

00:22:22Rudolf Hofmann: Today, the fortunate part is when we woke up today, the rain was gone. It was a little slippery and wet, but We were hoping that there would be more people, but actually everybody arrived. And we were about 35 people around here. But everything went well, no rain. And then the important thing is we came here for the fifth anniversary and everybody had a good time afterwards. We had some nice boerewors rolls and some sausages and some drinks, but everybody's in a very happy mood. And what do you think is going to happen to Heidedal in the next five years? Look, we hope that Heidedal will actually pick up. But the important thing is there's a core group of people who are always coming to run here. And what I also pick up is there's a group of young guys here. And that is actually what's going to keep Heidedal. Although they are regulars, but the younger ones that will actually come through, they are the ones that will pull us through.

00:23:22Johan Duvenhage: Thank you very much, Rudolf. And guys, happy fifth anniversary.

00:23:26Unidentified speaker: Yes, we enjoyed it.

00:23:29Johan Duvenhage: Well, the atmosphere is electric. The colours almost is electric. It was a very colourful and happy day here at Heidedal today for the fifth anniversary. Even though it was a bit wet and muddy and people's shoes needs a proper cleaning, I think everybody had great fun. And we really wish Heidedal all the best for the next five years. Happy parkrunning.

Roving reports & the Channel 5 News crew

Roving report Tracey Wood — Tamborine Mountain parkrun

00:23:53Tracey Wood: Good morning, parkrun adventurers. It's Tracey in a Tutu and I've taken my token to Tamborine Mountain parkrun this morning. I found the area. It's not far out of Tamborine Mountain itself. We've seen the flag, so it's quite exciting. And we're just close to start time, so I'm going to head off and see how we go. Okay, I'm out on Tamborine Mountain parkrun course now. It's a beautiful day as opposed to my dreadful experience last week in the 25k winds. It's sun shining, birds are singing. It's a really lovely course out here. I'm walking along the grass at the moment, a little bit wet. And I found a first timer. This is Louise. Good morning, Louise. Good morning. Hey.

00:24:39Louise: How are you? Good, thanks. No, you were saying it's your first time at parkrun? Yes, I've heard of it and, you know, a lot of friends have done it, but I've never bitten the bullet and done it myself. Oh, wow. And you were just telling me... that you refer people to parkrun as part of your job is that right yeah I work in cardiac rehab and teach people exercising after they've had a heart event so a heart attack or some heart surgery and when they finish the program I encourage them to find somewhere local to do exercise ongoing and um parkrun is one of the things I've mentioned to them, that they don't have to run, they can still do it as a light form of exercise and walk in the 5k course. So yeah, just encouraging people to exercise. And your first time here, do you think you'll come again?

00:25:32Tracey Wood: I could imagine so, definitely. I was just telling Louise about a beautiful parkrun up north called Kawana that she needs to check out. Anyway, I'll leave it up to her to explore. World's above opportunity out there. Anyway, we'll continue on. We're onto a trail now, so I need to watch my footing. Oh, creek crossing. Hold on. Okay, I finished Tamborine Mountain parkrun and I found Paul. Good morning. How are you, Paul?

00:25:57Paul: I'm good, thank you.

00:25:58Tracey Wood: And you're one of the RDs here?

00:26:00Paul: Yes.

00:26:01Tracey Wood: So how long has Tamborine Mountain been going?

00:26:03Paul: I think about... Five or six years.

00:26:05Tracey Wood: Okay, and are you a regular here?

00:26:08Paul: Every week.

00:26:08Tracey Wood: Every week, good for you. And you normally do a volunteer role or do you get out there and walk it or run it occasionally?

00:26:17Paul: I generally walk it occasionally, but we mow and do all those sort of things every week, getting the course ready.

00:26:25Tracey Wood: Yeah, brilliant. And why do you keep coming back to parkrun? Why do you like it so much?

00:26:29Paul: It's just the community. It's a great community of people. We've met a lot of people through it, and it's helped us here on the mountain once we moved up onto the mountain.

00:26:37Tracey Wood: Yeah, brilliant. All right. Yeah, it seems like a very supportive team here this morning, and I hear you're going for coffee afterwards. Would that be correct?

00:26:43Paul: That would be.

00:26:44Tracey Wood: Oh, that sounds good. All right. I might look into that. Thanks for talking with me.

00:26:48Paul: No problem.

00:26:50Tracey Wood: Okay, this is Tracey from Tamborine checking out and heading off for a nice breakfast in town. And then I might do a bit of shopping. And then I might go find a winery. Really recommend Tamborine Mountain area. It's a lovely place to come visit. I'm spending the weekend up here. Fantastic area. Looks great. Very popular with a lot of Brisbane people looking to get away for the weekend. Anyway, have a good weekend, folks. Bye from me. See you on the visa. Bye.

Roving report Cameron Drake — Jarrahdale Heritage parkrun

00:27:20Cameron Drake: Good morning everyone, it's Cam here. This morning I am at Jarrahdale Heritage parkrun in the picturesque and historic town of Jarrahdale and it is freezing bloody cold and I think my thumb's going to fall off and I'm going to need at least two coffees after this. Let's have a chat. I'm here with today's Run Director Carly. Carly, how's it going today?

00:27:44Carly: It's going really well, thank you.

00:27:45Cameron Drake: That's good to hear, so good turnout?

00:27:48Carly: Yeah, it's pretty good. It's gotten nice people out early in the morning.

00:27:53Cameron Drake: It's a bit fresh out here. Is that usually the case in winter? Is it going to get colder?

00:27:57Carly: It will get colder. It's pretty cold down here. The temperature drops a good 15 degrees when you come from Perth and drive down. Well, mine did today on my temperature gauge. Yeah, it gets really chilly and misty in the cold early mornings.

00:28:09Cameron Drake: I think by about 2km my thumbs were about to snap off. Oh dearie me. So have you been involved with Jarrahdale parkrun from the beginning?

00:28:18Carly: From the beginning, yeah, just coming along when we were sort of getting it set up. My stepdad actually set it up, so I was sort of helping along on the trail walks and giving him a cheer as he was getting his course. set up and ready. And ever since we've launched, I've been coming along. I actually work away. So I come and volunteer about two weeks each month and give out, do my time as much as I can while I'm here.

00:28:43Cameron Drake: Oh, that's great. So how did you get involved with parkrun? Did you just get roped in?

00:28:48Carly: I've been sort of involved in the community for a while because I used to do a bit of cycling and running and like triathlon and things like that so I used to come along but Saturday mornings used to always be my cycling morning so I used to miss my parkrun days but I had a little running group and every now and then we'd come along and do our best and now it's more my thing so I'm here all the time when I can.

00:29:11Cameron Drake: Oh, that's fantastic. Well, it's been lovely coming here today, Carly, and I hope to bump into you again someday soon.

00:29:17Carly: Cool, thank you for coming. We hope to see you again.

00:29:19Cameron Drake: Okay, I'm here with a whole bunch of people who've all completed Jarrahdale Heritage parkrun with me. How was everyone's run this morning?

00:29:27Unidentified speaker: Fantastic. Great.

00:29:30Cameron Drake: No one got lost?

00:29:31Unidentified speaker: No.

00:29:32Cameron Drake: Adequately marked?

00:29:33Unidentified speaker: Yes.

00:29:34Cameron Drake: Pretty good.

00:29:35Unidentified speaker: I see someone get lost. I saw two people go in the wrong direction. Oh, you yelled out, on the way! This way!

00:29:41Cameron Drake: Oh, good work, team. So no one got terribly lost. Well marked. Nice soft surface to run on.

00:29:47Unidentified speaker: Yeah, it was pretty good.

00:29:50Cameron Drake: Good spot if you like trees.

00:29:51Unidentified speaker: Yes. Nice. Cool in summer.

00:29:55Cameron Drake: Oh, yeah, mate. I hope it's nice and cool in summer. All right, gang. Well, I hope you all had a great time and we'll see you around.

00:30:01Unidentified speaker: Thank you.

00:30:03Cameron Drake: Well, that's it from Jarrahdale. I'm off to find a hot coffee and dip my fingers in it. Bye.

00:30:17Melissa Ellis: Another great bunch of roving reports, Ollie. I could really feel the joy at Heidedal. Yeah. So thanks for that, Johan. And we also heard from Tracey coming to us from Tamborine Mountain with first-timer Louise. who recommends parkrun to her cardiac patients.

00:30:34Oliver Spake: Yes, I think there's been some fantastic stories of patients and individuals going through different forms of treatment and it's great to see people recognising those health benefits and, yeah, kind of opening that up to those that can really gain a lot from it. So, yeah, great work and, yeah, welcome to parkrun Louise.

00:30:56Melissa Ellis: And Cam... Who was feeling decidedly cold out at Jarrahdale Heritage.

00:31:02Oliver Spake: The winter is here, Mel.

00:31:03Melissa Ellis: And speaking to R.D. Carly out there as well. So thank you, everybody, for those roving reports.

00:31:09Oliver Spake: Yes, lovely to hear from you all.

Emails

00:31:12Oliver Spake: And, Mel, it's also good to hear from our listeners that write in. I believe we've got some mail. You've got mail.

00:31:19Melissa Ellis: Yes, Ollie, this week we heard from Ingrid, and Ingrid said, Hi, adventurers. I wanted to share something I learned while discussing the acknowledgement of country a friend had done during their run brief. I'd mentioned that I thought they'd done a great welcome to country, and they kindly explained the difference between an Acknowledgement of Country and a Welcome to Country. As a non-Indigenous person, when I do my run brief, I do an Acknowledgement of Country acknowledging the traditional owners. I can't do a Welcome to Country on behalf of the traditional owners because I'm not an Indigenous person from the local area. I appreciated having it explained to me as I really didn't know the difference and I hope it helps others. Kind Regards, Ingrid. And we did appreciate the message, Ingrid. And I did realise that we got it wrong, or I got it wrong last week in the podcast. And I think maybe the confusion is with wanting First Nations people to feel welcomed and by acknowledging their country. That's probably where I get a little bit confused, but it is a really good reminder to be more mindful of such things as they do refer to different situations. So thanks, Ingrid. We really appreciate the feedback.

00:32:37Oliver Spake: Yeah, it's another great opportunity to take something away and promote the discussion as well, Mel. I know that I have certainly mixed my terminology and I appreciate the reminder as well.

00:32:51Melissa Ellis: But Ollie, we also had a message this week from Tyson.

00:32:55Oliver Spake: Yes. Yeah. So Tyson wrote to us and said, hi, team. Thanks for allowing me to follow your parkrun page. My family and I are from Canberra and we enjoy everything that goes along with parkrun. And Tyson did share also a photo with the family in the Yerunga selfie frame. And I could be mistaken, Mel, but I've seen Tyson on some pretty spectacular adventures over the last few months. He does travel quite a bit.

00:33:21Melissa Ellis: I think he was at Pambulla Wetlands this week, Ollie.

00:33:24Oliver Spake: I believe that might have been the case. And yes, yeah, getting in with the volunteering too, which is lovely.

00:33:31Melissa Ellis: But what is also lovely, Ollie...

Dazza's

00:33:34Melissa Ellis: is Dazza's.

00:33:35Oliver Spake: Yes. And at Dazza's this week, he said, be brave, make change. National Reconciliation Week 2022. Here at Dazza's, we acknowledge that reconciliation in Australia is unfinished business. The Reconciliation Week team ask everyone to make brave actions in their daily lives. Let's acknowledge that we all parkrun on land that always was and always will be Aboriginal land and Which country were you on at parkrun this morning? Come on in and share your morning with us. And someone who did share their morning with us, Mel, was Michael Gentle, who said, Hi, Dazza. After the shenanigans of the election parkrun day, I'll order a plain flat white, please, and won't mention outer Shellharbour this week. Wouldn't want to stitch Mel up. I couldn't go to my beloved Shellharbour parkrun again this week as it remains a bit too hilly for my current fitness. It was sad to see it cancelled this week after the course had been damaged. I had ventured again to collect event number three at the not Shellharbour parkrun at Southern Highlands Botanical Gardens on Gundungurra Land, progressing my Fibonacci, Primes and Wilson Index endeavours. This is my second visit, so a PB was on offer as well. To top off an amazing morning, I bagged a stopwatch bingo number, only one to go, and a position bingo number two. The course here is gently undulating on a sealed pathway. I think that means flat. Just incidentally, this isn't Michael's words, but that's just my interpretation, but Just perfect for an old hobbler like me. All going well. I will visit again next week to bring this event into my future P&X equations. And, Mel, dare I mention the photo that Michael shared with the backwards flag and what appears to be one of the fines rules printed on a sign that he and Patrick are somewhat proudly displaying. Yeah. which says the flag must not be backwards.

00:35:44Melissa Ellis: They're a pair of little tricksters, those two, Paddy and Michael.

00:35:48Oliver Spake: Yes, yes. But see, that's an example of someone who's clearly got their spreadsheet in order. Well done, Michael.

00:35:56Melissa Ellis: And we also heard from Steve Spike who said, This morning I ran on the lands of the Turrbal and Yagara people and I pay my respects to the elders past, present and emerging. As I was completing the parkrun, I noticed a number of adventurers had been paying their fines. Happy parkrun day all.

00:36:19Oliver Spake: That one's got me. I've got no idea. All right, moving on. Chris Ruse, location familiar to you, Mel? Adventured to Mount Ainslie parkrun today in Ngunnawal Country. Got wet and muddy, met Melissa Ellis and completed stopwatch bingo. What a day. And Chris did share a bit of photo evidence of the very same thing. So, yeah, nice work. I'm very jealous that he got stopwatch bingo. I was wondering if you'd take that away from that. Yeah.

00:36:54Melissa Ellis: And we also heard from Barbara Luther. She had the most likes this week. It was a lovely morning at Stones Corner parkrun in Brisbane with family and friends sharing parkrun and breakfast. It was an extra special day for my husband, Roger, as he joined the Cowell Club today. And we had a collage of photos of Roger with his 100 event shirt and the celebrations that followed.

00:37:19Oliver Spake: Yes. Congratulations, Roger. Now, coming in from Tassie, Val Warwick. In Devonport today, it was our seventh birthday, and so Steve and I donned our red shirts with black clothes and a yellow seven balloon, and of course, a festive red party rosette upon our parkrun caps. We walked parkrun together today with the seven swinging between us. We started in sunshine and ended in a small shower that skinned through. Our coffee was definitely welcome afterwards. As far as we can ascertain, we are on Tommeginne country. And Val did add, Dazza, I will give you a giggle while you sip on your latte. These old people decided to try a coordinated jump from a walking position for the photographer at Devonport today. P.S., I wasn't in anguish. I was just trying to get off the ground. Oh. That was a good jump shot, I thought.

00:38:16Melissa Ellis: Good effort.

00:38:16Oliver Spake: Yes.

00:38:17Melissa Ellis: Thanks for joining us at Dazza's, Val and Steve.

00:38:20Oliver Spake: Love the outfits. And I should have mentioned, yes, they did share a photo of them sporting their red rosettes and the big yellow seven.

00:38:28Melissa Ellis: And coincidentally, in the colours, the Aboriginal colours of the Aboriginal flag.

00:38:34Oliver Spake: That's right.

00:38:34Melissa Ellis: Now, our tourist this week, Lee Cabarita, who said, Sally, Bianca and I did this surprisingly traily Cronulla parkrun in Gweagal country this morning. Beautiful course. Lucky because it was a 7am start and hilly and an hour drive. Loved it. Loved the coffee at the Barefoot Cafe on the beach amongst the beautiful, friendly people with perfect little puppies. Love, love, loved it. And we had a morning shot photo from Lee.

00:39:07Oliver Spake: That is a nice parkrun. Now, Carol Pryle came into us on Kaurna land at the pretty Shiraz Trail parkrun, South Australia. We got given Caramel Slice. And Carol had a lovely photo in front of a nice sunny vineyard. So... Yeah, I do want to get to that one. Thank you for sharing, Carol.

00:39:29Melissa Ellis: And with an achievement, and coming to us from Europe, we heard from Peter Leroux. My 50th different venue this morning at Poznan parkrun in Poland. Not much of a coffee culture here, so make mine a rhubarb lemonade and St Martin's croissant, please, Dazza. And Peter shared a photo of the parkrunners gathered on the path in the woods. Congratulations, Peter.

00:39:54Oliver Spake: Yes. Well done on the 50.

00:39:56Melissa Ellis: Half Cowell.

00:39:57Oliver Spake: Yep. And whilst I'm a little disappointed to, I mean, rhubarb lemonade, I guess there's not a huge recipe for that. But at least Peter did share a link with a bit more information on the St. Martin's croissant as well, Mel, which I read is a croissant filled with white poppy seed filling, traditionally prepared in Poznan and some parts of greater Poland.

00:40:22Melissa Ellis: We're always learning here about cuisine.

00:40:24Oliver Spake: We are, especially baked goods.

00:40:26Melissa Ellis: We're practically MasterChef.

00:40:31Oliver Spake: And coming to us from the UK, now here's one that I am going to share with Zali later on. Graham Wilkinson had an awesome road trip to run the Pastures parkrun on Saturday morning. Ran three laps of their B course and was treated to a view of the castle on each lap. Alnwick Castle to some, Hogwarts to others. Latte and doughnut as usual afterwards. RD this morning at Sterling Juniors. The parkrun fun continues. And thank you, Graham, for sharing the photo of a certain castle on the hill.

00:41:06Melissa Ellis: My mind's racing to think if we should have something more Harry Potter themed for brunch. What's Harry Potter brunch? I don't know.

00:41:14Oliver Spake: I'll ask Sally. She'll know. Yeah. Yep, yep, yep, yep.

00:41:18Melissa Ellis: Also coming to us from Kaurna land is Anne Fry. I don't know that we've heard from Anne before, so welcome to Dazza's Anne. And she said Kaurna land at Pakapakanthi and shared a photo out on course with her barbershop. parkrunner.

00:41:36Oliver Spake: Well done, team. And, Mel, back in Europe with another bit of an achievement, Hendo Stew completed my 13th parkrun country, visiting Schoterbos parkrun in the Netherlands for my friend Robin's birthday. And thank you, Hendo Stew, for sharing the photo of the gang posing with the – I'm going to mess this pronunciation up, so find me now – "Let op — rennen" sign, which I thought meant let's go. But I would appreciate some guidance if anyone could give me the translation on that.

00:42:14Melissa Ellis: Maybe Stu can. Yeah. And, Ollie, we also heard from Janet. So let's listen to Janet now.

00:42:23Janet Reid: Well, hello, Dazza. I'm very late this week, so it will be a check-in rather than an order, as I'm sure the kitchen is closed by now. Well, I hope you're sitting down because I left the mothership and headed off on an adventure. Along with 11 others, we adventured to Broken Hill Racecourse parkrun, Wilyakali Country and ticking off yet another state. Red dirt as far as the eye can see, but just so beautiful. What a wonderful team of volleys. We were on the alternate course because the Ag Fair was on. Who knew that you could get your mammogram done at an Ag Fair? But I digress. The course is red dirt, pretty uneven in parts, but was superbly marked, which really benefited us as Tail Walkers. The surgeon told me I can walk for 15 minutes. but he didn't say how many times a day. So I did a very slow walk. My first parkrun in seven weeks, crossing the line 64 minutes later. The knee feels very good, so maybe I can avoid surgery for now. I also recruited four new members to the adventure club, no one less than Gordon and Julie Turner. Wishing all my fellow adventurers a wonderful lead up to the next parkrun day when I will be back aboard the mothership Lochiel. Until then, over and out.

00:43:48Oliver Spake: Thank you, Janet. Perhaps we should outsource all of the Dazza's.

00:43:52Melissa Ellis: Well, I would be happy to because that would save me being fined from mispronunciations. So if you want to submit your Dazza's via audio, please just send us an audio file to our messenger or our email.

00:44:07Oliver Spake: That would work lovely. Clarification, please, Mel. Did you say find for mispronunciations or find by mispronunciation, as in mispronunciation?

00:44:20Melissa Ellis: I don't know what you mean.

00:44:21Oliver Spake: Never mind. Never mind.

the Obi Award — Peter Leroux

00:44:25Oliver Spake: All right, but I believe, Mel, we need to award an Obi.

00:44:31Melissa Ellis: Yes, and I think there's an envelope somewhere on my desk. I think I saw it. Let me have a look. You usually have it, Ollie, so I was very surprised to see it on my desk.

00:44:44Oliver Spake: I think there were too many post-its on my desk this week. It would have gotten lost.

00:44:48Melissa Ellis: Here it is, Ollie. Ah, so this week's Obi goes to... It's Peter Leroux.

00:45:08Oliver Spake: Congratulations, Peter. I'm definitely going to chase up some rhubarb lemonade after that.

00:45:13Melissa Ellis: Rhubarb lemonade all around.

00:45:15Oliver Spake: That's right. That's the celebratory drink.

00:45:17Melissa Ellis: We can toast him.

00:45:18Oliver Spake: Yes.

00:45:19Melissa Ellis: Fantastic.

00:45:21Oliver Spake: Yes. Thank you, everyone, for joining us at Dazza's. Thank you to everyone who did provide some acknowledgement and share the Aboriginal country and, indeed, some of the other country across the seas that you were parkrunning on. We appreciate everyone being a part of Dazza's this week and celebrating that.

00:45:40Melissa Ellis: And we should also thank Sam for all her work in preparing pronunciation guidelines for us for all the Aboriginal countries that we needed to pronounce.

00:45:50Oliver Spake: Yes. Hopefully we're moving in the right direction with our pronunciation. I'm sure I can still butcher anything when it comes to trying to pronounce something. So thank you, Sam.

00:45:58Melissa Ellis: But the more we hear them, the more we learn how to say them. And that's what it's all about, isn't it?

00:46:04Oliver Spake: That's right.

00:46:05Melissa Ellis: We're helping to share the Aboriginal language.

00:46:07Oliver Spake: Yes. Well, Mel, that was a lot of fun. It was nice to take in some parkruns further afield once again. I suppose it's time also to catch up with the latest from our informant.

the Informant

00:46:29The Informant: This is The Informant, coming to you live from level 2 with a view. Well, actually not level 2. I'm on the road this week. Staying over on Wiradjuri Country at Tarcutta. Halfway spot for the truckies between Sydney and Melbourne. So this week, they're mobile unofficial stats. The only current at the time Bo's trousers collected them, and as accurate as his dodgy code was able to produce a spreadsheet. There were 445 runs held down under, which is up 8 on last week. 408 of these were in Australia, and 37 in New Zealand. There were 1,744 worldwide, which is up 34. Aussie New Zealand attendance was up 7,080 to 36,903. Worldwide attendance was down 2,000-ish to 205k-ish. There were three launches, all in the UK. I've got to interrupt these stats. Who was trying Caramel Cakey Pokey? So good! This is meant to get back to the office to share, but I checked the forecast and it's not looking great. So lush! Down under, we had 4,773 PVs, while 1,641 people participated for the first time. 77 juniors reached their junior 10 milestone, 148 people reached their 50 milestone, 131 reached their 100 milestone, 19 people reached their 250 milestone, and Jim Collard became just the second Australian parkrunner to claim the 500th milestone. 26 people called bingo. Taryn Johnson was quickest on 170 runs, while K.E. Chang was slowest on 404 runs. There were four new statespeople, or should I say Territorians since they were all from the ACT? Neil Scott, Tanya Pollard, Tim Hutchinson and the boss, Melissa Ellis. I wonder what caramilk would be like in hot chocolate. Maybe I can knock this report off and give it a crack. 63 people lifted their Wilson Index this week. This week's biggest mover is Jackie O'Brien, who moves up 16 to 45. In the Adventure of Challenges, once again we had no Peels this week. Roger Luther was the one Cowell clubber, but there were another 12 half Cowells. Now, if you want to see these stats in full, first get your caramilk and then find them at theinformant.me. That's www.theinformant.me. Or look for the caramilk on Facebook. This has been the caramilk, and my caramilk is caramilkier than yours.

00:49:28Melissa Ellis: And all the stats from our informant again this week. And, Ollie, I appeared on the informant's report. Yay!

Consolidated Club Report

00:49:36Oliver Spake: Well done, Mel. But, Mel, it's probably time we catch up with the latest from the Consolidated Club report. What's been happening in that side of things?

00:49:46Melissa Ellis: This week, the adventurers Consolidated Club report for Saturday, the 28th of May, 2022, we had a total of 205 members, of which 164 took part, at 107 different locations, comprising of 16 events at the UK, which were Wimbledon Common, Harrow, Lloyd Croydon, Vogrie, Marple, Victoria Glasgow, Hove Promenade, Cirencester, Bedworth, East Brighton, The Pastures, Queens Glasgow, Irchester Country Park, Great Yarmouth North Beach, Peel, and the Cinder Track, Whitby. In the USA, we had two events, Roosevelt Island DC and Joe Creason In South Africa, we had one event.

00:50:37Johan Duvenhage: Toboshane Valley Estate.

00:50:40Melissa Ellis: In Poland, we had one event at Poznan. And in the Netherlands, we had one event at, say it again, Ollie.

00:50:49Oliver Spake: I'm still going with my guesswork, Shodobos.

00:50:52Melissa Ellis: Locally, we had adventurers at 28 events in Victoria, 24 events in New South Wales, 15 events in Queensland, seven events in WA, three events in South Australia, three events in Tasmania, one event in the ACT. That was me. No events in Northern Territory, four events in the North Island of New Zealand and one event on the South Island. So that wraps up that, Ollie. Yeah. Just missing Northern Territory for the complete set this week.

00:51:29Oliver Spake: Yes, so close. But well done, everyone. Those numbers are absolutely screaming to the target, Mel. We're going to get a lot of weeks off.

00:51:39Melissa Ellis: Just quietly, although as of the Consolidated Club report, we had 205 members. I had a sneak peek tonight, Ollie. We have hit our target of 210 members in the Adventurers Club that we set for ourselves. I think we set it for the year.

00:51:56Oliver Spake: Oh, wow. Well done. All right. Well, everyone, we'll see you next year.

00:52:03Melissa Ellis: No, no, no, no, but the problem is we are still not appearing in the Australian largest clubs list. And why is that, Mel? Well, I think it could be because we made ourselves an international club. This was so that our friends in all the different countries could join us as international adventurers. But it's in Australia's largest club list. So I think that means that we would only appear on the world's largest club list.

00:52:37Oliver Spake: Yeah, that's quite possibly the case. But that's okay because it's far nicer to have all of our international parkrun adventurer family part of our club. Absolutely.

00:52:49Melissa Ellis: That's the goal, but I don't think you want to know how many we need to get onto that list. I just think heaps and miles.

the Frond

00:53:01Oliver Spake: But we do have a couple of fronds popping up there, Mel.

00:53:04Melissa Ellis: Yes, our largest frond was actually our travelling South Australian friends who went to Broken Hill Racecourse. That was Kate Corner, Gordon and Julie Turner, Janet Reid and Alicia Hopper.

00:53:19Oliver Spake: Yeah, great to see some familiar names pop up from my neck of the woods too, Mel. In fact, I mean, they didn't get a mention in Dazza's, but a couple of our beloved Shellharbour locals also popped up at the Beaches I saw. So, yeah, a bunch of travellers too.

00:53:35Melissa Ellis: Anyway, lots more mentions this week, lots more fines. So you're wearing all those, Ollie. That's on you.

00:53:41Oliver Spake: Yes, yep, yep.

00:53:42Melissa Ellis: And I think there was a couple more adventurers at Broken Hill Racecourse that aren't appearing in Dazza's, so... Hint, hint, hint.

Sign-off

00:53:49Oliver Spake: Well, we've got to have something to aim for, but it feels very satisfying to have reached our first goal. We'll adjust. That's the beauty of having goals. You can always change them. But on the subject of goals, Mel, what's yours for next week?

00:54:05Melissa Ellis: Watch this space.

the alphabet wheel

00:54:08Melissa Ellis: I'm going to refer to the spinning wheel again, I think, this week, Ollie. So the alphabet wheel will get a little spin from me later on. What about you? Have you got plans? Are you back at home?

00:54:22Oliver Spake: Yeah, as much as I'd like to. I'm not headed back to Tasmania or any other... Yeah, Interstate parkrun. I will be a little more local, enjoying, as per the plans for last week, which were dashed, the opportunity to run direct back at Shellharbour as our anniversary, our birthday approaches, just enjoying a bit of the fun there. And what will be even more fun, Mel, is it is the one and only M Scholar's birthday. So we look forward to celebrating and saying happy birthday, M. Happy birthday, M. Yeah, so here's to sunny skies and sunny hills too.

00:55:01Melissa Ellis: Brilliant. Well, I hope Shellharbour.

00:55:04Oliver Spake: Thank you, Mel.

00:55:08Melissa Ellis: I hope your event goes ahead this week, Ollie.

00:55:10Oliver Spake: Yes, as do I. And I look forward to seeing where the wheel takes you, Mel, but it has nonetheless been an absolute pleasure once again.

00:55:20Melissa Ellis: It has. Thank you, Ollie. And it's time for us to say, as always, you can contact us via Facebook or on our email, which is parkrunadventurers at gmail.com. That's it for another week. We'll see you all next week for more adventures.

00:55:35[music]

00:56:46Charlotte: Hello, adventurers. My name is Charlotte and I'm at Junior parkrun, Eynesbury. I came seventh with the time, I think, 12 minutes and 18 seconds. I love Junior parkrun. I have lots of fun. Bye, everybody.

00:57:17Melissa Ellis: Ooh, it's a J. Hang on, wait. How far away is that?