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Episode 330 - palm23 · 2023-04-18
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[intro theme playing]
Welcome
Oliver Spake: Okay, thank you everyone for your patience this morning. Thank you everyone for joining us. We are now officially recording. Thank you, Mel. And look, I suppose we will do our best to make this feel like a real-life podcast recording. So we'll try and do all the talking bits a little smoothly because the ability to edit these kind of live episodes is amazing.
Melissa Ellis: Not as... Problematic.
Oliver Spake: Not as high as the Monday night episodes. So we might have a few segments in between where we pause the recording, but as much as possible, when we get underway, we will, yeah, we'll sound like a real life podcast. But we would like to begin today by acknowledging the traditional custodians on the land of which the University of Western Australia parkruns sit, the Whadjuk people of the Noongar Nation. We pay our respects to elders past, present and emerging and we extend our acknowledgement to everyone here today and to all the lands from which you have all adventured to join us or might be listening from today if you're listening to this podcast at some point in the future.
Melissa Ellis: Welcome to episode 330 of the parkrun adventurers podcast. I am Melissa Ellis and I am adventuring from Wurundjeri Country.
Oliver Spake: And I'm Ollie Spake and I am adventuring from Dharawal Country.
Melissa Ellis: And welcome to palm23, the sixth of its kind. APPLAUSE
Oliver Spake: So you might be wondering what we're actually going to do on a live recording different to a normal podcast. So we'll give you a bit of an outline of what we hope to cover in today's palm23 episode. So, of course, we do want to chat about our parkrun morning. That's essential for park faff time. So we'll have a bit of a chat and we are hoping to have an interview. If there happen to be, you know, an Event Director or two around, we might want to ask them a couple of questions. So we look forward to having an interview very shortly with our RD from today and our poetic co-ED as well.
Melissa Ellis: We also have Palm Madness, the return of the quiz, and we'll invite four of you to be today's contestants in And we've got a little bit more chat because, well, you know, that's what we do at brunch.
Oliver Spake: That's right. But we don't have Rachel with us this week. And our roving reports, which have actually been coming in while we have been taking a bit of a break. So if we seem a bit rustier than normal, we've been on a bit of a break. We have a few roving reports. So they'll be coming up in other episodes in the coming weeks. So thank you to everyone that has been sending in roving reports. But first, we'd obviously like to say a couple of thank yous.
Melissa Ellis: Yes. Thank you very much to the University of Western Australia parkrun team and volunteers for hosting us today.
Oliver Spake: And thank you also, of course, to the wonderful staff at the University Club here for the venue and the support today.
Melissa Ellis: We'd like to make special mention to our wonderful party planners, our organising committee, TOC, Sarah, Tracy and Sam.
Oliver Spake: Today's equipment is brought to us by the Power Audiovisual team. So thank you to the local business to here for providing us that support. And look, I'll keep going. Thank you also to all of the supporters of the pod. So the team, including our ever-present Office Lady, makes everything possible. So thank you, Office Lady. Where is she? Oh, up the back.
Melissa Ellis: There she is.
Oliver Spake: APPLAUSE The Channel 5 News crew, the providers of effort, ideas and inspiration throughout. So thank you to our Channel 5 News crew. Thank you to everyone else that contributes those ideas. Thank you to the Buddha-shaped brewers of coffee who unfortunately aren't with us today. And even those who have helped with other financial support.
Melissa Ellis: And thank you to all of you. It's great to see so many adventurers, adventurer shirts and singlets. Thank you for the support with those. So many familiar faces here. It's wonderful to get to meet new people that we haven't met before. The WA parkrun community has been fantastic this time around in coming and joining in with all our adventurers. Some of you may not even know what this... podcast is all about. So should we? Yeah, let's start there.
Oliver Spake: Let's start there. So look, we're very mindful that we have listeners that go right back to episode one. We have listeners that are in the process of going right back to episode one, either in chronological or reverse chronological order. But to do the backstory, a little bit of justice, on January 5th, 2016, two very lovely people named Mel, not this one, she's lovely too, but another Mel, and Scotty launched a parkrun podcast. It wasn't the first podcast about parkrun. It wasn't even the first Australian podcast about parkrun. But this podcast, which is now over seven and a quarter years old, and 329 or is that 328 I don't know I've lost count there's a few technicalities in the episode ordering should be 329 329 yep 329 episodes on on has um managed to share an incredible number of parkrun stories um so from the feel-good experiences that can be found across thousands of parkruns worldwide to some of the most incredible parkrun and broader stories um The parkrun adventurers podcast has connected us all to the inspiration, the entertainment and the community across parkrun that we have grown to love. And Mel and I have been very fortunate to be able to take the reins two years ago and to continue to support what we see. is what this podcast is all about. So connecting our community, sharing the stories, encouraging, inspiring and celebrating the many parkrun communities, the many wonderful characters and individuals across this parkrun movement. It is, of course, a completely unofficial podcast. We do this for anyone who wants a bit of company on their adventure, an idea for the next crazy trip or a bit of lighthearted fun.
Melissa Ellis: Okay, but through Dazza's and our roving reports, we're really excited to share your stories and we're very excited to see the number count, the number, oh, sorry, are we going to count people? We are, yes, yes. So how many do we have? That's right.
Oliver Spake: So this is palm six, palm number six.
Melissa Ellis: Oh, I thought you meant we're going to do a head count. Oh, yeah, we do need to do a head count. No, no, no. Okay, all right, no. No, we're going to, what we're going to do. We're going to have a show of hands. Is it your first palm? Please raise your hand.
Oliver Spake: Okay. So for the visual, for the listening medium, we're looking at, I'm saying 40%, 40, 50%. Okay. 50%.
Melissa Ellis: Now, who's on their second palm?
Oliver Spake: Excellent. I'm saying 10%.
Melissa Ellis: Okay. Are you adding this up so that it equals 100? It's going to add up to about 170, yeah. Three? Do we have three? Okay, we've got two hands. Three hands. Three? Excellent. Four palms. Nathan, up the back there? Five. We've got a couple.
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Oliver Spake: And I'm grouping those last three as about 10% as well. So I don't think my maths checks out. Sorry, everyone.
Melissa Ellis: We've got 65, 67, 67 of us. That's wonderful. Anyway, six palms. Who has been to every single palm? There is six, six originals. So that's myself and Ollie, Tony and Jacqui O'Connell, Chris Fraser and Caro Vos.
Oliver Spake: And Brendan.
Melissa Ellis: Oh, and Brendan. Sorry. They're all over there and you're there. Okay.
Oliver Spake: Yep. So it's wonderful to have everyone here, whether it's your first palm, whether it's your sixth, whether you've just stumbled in for a coffee. So thank you all for joining us. And look, a shout out and a hello for those of you that may not be aware, there's a JOMO frond going on across the country. Been and gone.
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Melissa Ellis: Been and gone. I think they had roughly 16 adventurers over at Varsity Lakes this morning. Yeah. Yeah. They were sad not to be here but they made their own fun. They were having their party.
Oliver Spake: That's right. But we had a party here and I think probably a couple of notable milestones or notable events this morning. So we did catch one milestone and thank you to our Run Director for calling that one out, a 250 milestone this morning.
Melissa Ellis: Congratulations, Lynne. Lynn got the special treatment with the gown, the university gown for her 250th. We've got photos that we can share. A 25. It was a 25. Excellent. Somebody here did their 25th event.
Oliver Spake: Well, congratulations to our 25th milestone. Well done. Any other celebrations?
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Unidentified speaker: Caro. Peel Club.
Oliver Spake: Peel Club.
Unidentified speaker: Peel Club. Peel Club. 350th. 350th.
Melissa Ellis: Excellent. Well done, Caro. University challenge. So would you like to explain the university challenge, Alison? Do you want to give a quick?
Alison Fraser (King): There's four parkruns in the world that start with the word university. University of Waikato, University of Western Australia, University of Stirling and University Parks. And I've run all of them. Congratulations. Congratulations.
Oliver Spake: Congratulations.
Melissa Ellis: Okay, no wedding proposals? Nobody wants to? Nobody's doing that this year? Shame, never mind.
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Oliver Spake: And look, it's not a race, but I think we had a couple of fast parkrunners in our midst. Ingrid, you were one of them.
Unidentified speaker: I took a break.
Oliver Spake: You took a break, yes. Well done, well done. Was that hand about anything else? No, but congratulations. And well done to, yeah, some of our very fast finishers. I was looking at Eman. Eman finished first at the last palm. But, yep, Phil was our first. Phil finished in second, if I understood correctly. Congratulations, Phil. Yep. In a blistering pace of 16 minutes, if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, yep. Yeah, but look, it was a lovely morning, and I think we're going to thank you several times. Thank you to the event team for what is just a stunning parkrun, and the sun has come out now. It was a little wet this morning, but I suppose because it's habit. Mel, how was your parkrun? I don't know.
Melissa Ellis: I had a really good run, thank you, Ollie. Yes, I ran a nice quick, well, quick for me, quick for me. I'm still coming back from my injury, my foot injury. So I had a nice two laps and I'm quite happy with my time. Very picturesque. There was a koi pond apparently, so I didn't notice it.
Unidentified speaker: LAUGHTER
Melissa Ellis: Sarah, can we go back past there on the way home? I was concentrating.
Oliver Spake: Yes. The Koi Pond was a highlight and I've got to thank Rodney. Somehow I managed running near TOC and Johan and Rodney who gave me the complete guided tour of the University of Western Australia parkrun. So highly recommend it. It's a great experience and it was wonderful to see all of those highlights.
Melissa Ellis: And we had a lovely group photo at the end.
Oliver Spake: We did.
Melissa Ellis: In front of the building.
Oliver Spake: Yeah, and seeing so many of you out on course was really quite enjoyable. It's amazing to see how many blue shirts there are, which is just stunning. So thank you to everyone that has supported us with the adventurers blue shirts. I'm glad that so many of you were able to wear them today, and you looked spectacular in them, even more so now that the sun has come out. But, yeah, look, it is a beautiful course and the campus is just stunning. So, yeah, huge congratulations to the team for everything they have done here.
Meet the ED
Oliver Spake: But I suppose rather than us talk about it, would it be better to get the event team to stand up and give you the real story?
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Interview Cameron Storey — Co-Event Director, University of Western Australia parkrun
Oliver Spake: So may we please invite Cameron Storey and Rodney Glossop to the parkrun adventurers podcast? APPLAUSE Not that I'm paranoid or anything, but I'm just going to pause and double check that I'm recording. So I'll be right back. We'll do our best to share microphones here. Actually, I'll give you this. So with us today on the podcast, we have Rodney Glossop and Cameron Storey, who between them have a healthy number of parkruns. I tried to do a count. I think it's somewhere between 600 and 700. It could be a bit higher. But these two individuals... have really done so much for the event here. So firstly, thank you very much for having us today and welcome to the parkrun adventurers podcast. So firstly, I suppose, Cameron, we'll start with you. We always like to hear a little bit of our guests' parkrun stories. So how did parkrun enter your life? And I believe you have been parkrunning for a few years, plus 400 parkruns. So can you tell us a bit about how it came to being?
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Cameron Storey: Yes. So I started parkrun when I was about eight years old in 2011 in Manchester in the UK. And once my family moved over in 2012, my dad set up Claisebrook Cove parkrun in the centre of Perth. So since then, I've been running. Pretty much every week. And just before I turned 18, I joined an event team over at Perry Lakes parkrun and was a co-Run Director with someone else who could take the over 18 title with me so I could unofficially run direct. And then soon after I turned 18, Rodney was starting to set up UWA parkrun. And I joined him, helped him out, and we started this. And we've been co-EDs since, and our parkrun is almost a year old now. So I'm up to 430-something parkruns, I think. I'm up to... Yeah, maybe 85-ish volunteers as well. 93. 94. Oh, okay. I think that might be multiple ones on the same day, though, so I think it's officially about 87, I think. So the aim is to try and get 100 volunteers, hopefully by the start of some point next year, and get 100 different events by the end of the year.
Oliver Spake: That's very impressive, and in there is a junior parkrun as well, of course, along the way.
Cameron Storey: Can never beat that PB. Can never beat that PB again. My parkrun PB stands at 8 minutes and 40 seconds. I think that would be impossible to ever beat.
Oliver Spake: Well, that's a title for sure.
Interview Rodney Glossop — Co-Event Director, University of Western Australia parkrun
Oliver Spake: We'll flip over to Rodney, and we'd love to hear the same thing, how parkrun came into your life, and, yeah, a bit about your parkrun story.
Rodney Glossop: Yeah, sure. I guess this sounds a bit like a Facebook stalking, but obviously parkrun stalking. You know more about our own stats than we do. Yeah, I absolutely love parkrun. I was looking for something to do after playing football and trying to stay active and had a couple of mates that were doing parkrun at Canning River. And as parkrun do really well, that promotion just by having your photo taken and tagging people in there. So I saw them on Facebook and it wasn't until they started taking their girls down, I thought that would be a really good opportunity for me to be active with my kids. So taking particularly my younger girls down and doing parkrun. So unfortunately I couldn't be here today, but I've got five children. So our weekend's obviously very hectic, going to different sports, um and my youngest who's 10 she's over 200 parkruns um yeah so we absolutely love as a family just getting around doing as many parkruns as we can uh I was fortunate enough I wanted to start a parkrun where I live in thornley so if you're hanging around love to see you at homestead perhaps next week I know we've got a couple of people coming in a couple of weeks time um So, yeah, bringing that to the community. And I know parkrun, they're all about trying to get an event within walking distance of where you live. And I thought it would be so good to be able to bring that to my community. And I also wanted to get a parkrun up here because I work at UWA Sport. But parkrun said you could only get one event up at a time. So I did the home one first. That took me two years through COVID, trying to get sponsors and then trying to get sponsors again. And then once that was up and running and all going smoothly, then it was perfect timing with Cameron starting at university. And I knew his experience and said, do you want to join the team? We'll get a parkrun up and running here. And it took me six weeks. So yeah, rolled it out. And we hit the WA state record for attendance last year with our launch 566. So had an awesome day. And the, yeah, as Cameron said, the last eight months have been fantastic.
Oliver Spake: Yeah, well, I mean, you've covered the next question quite well and really did want to hear around the history of UWA parkrun. It sounds like, firstly, it's been well supported by the university, which is great, well embraced by the community. So I suppose, you know, were there any highlights or challenges each of you experienced? And secondly, how has it been embraced by the university community? I'll hand over the mic so you can both speak if you like.
Rodney Glossop: I'd love to share just a quick story about the colleges. So we have 2,000 students that live on campus just over the road. So it's been great to get them involved. And we have had a couple of takeover events. We've had Uni Hall takeover towards the end of last year. And we had a St. Cat's takeover at the start of semester. And that was our biggest... attendance for this year so far. And it's great, as you said, to get the support, but particularly it's about engaging students and getting them active and involved. Yeah, so that's been really good. In terms of the challenge, I'll give you a quick snippet of what my week looks like. I have to have a walk of the course every week because there's usually some paving ripped up or a tree that a branch has fallen down and we have an obstacle and we're hoping that it's taken care of by the weekend or have to move things out of the way to make sure things happen.
Cameron Storey: My personal favourite story was I was finding out on a Thursday night there's a concert had been moved to the middle of the parkrun course by which point I decided I was Run Director that day and I'd get there at about quarter to seven so quite a lot earlier than I should have been and there was a still a stage in the middle of the course, to which our brilliant group of volunteers, including moving some fences out of the way, helped make that possible. It was a tricky morning, but it turned out to be a brilliant day in the end, as it always is here.
Melissa Ellis: Thank you very much to both of you.
Oliver Spake: And before we let them go, what I'd really like to understand, because I suppose you each have a little bit of adventuring under your belts, the essential question. I'm not sure who would like to go first. Top three. Top three. Top three. Would you like to pick it? What are your top three favourite parkruns, favourite parkrun experiences or just memorable experiences?
Rodney Glossop: Usually not including your own. Okay. Okay. Okay. Margaret River is easily my favourite parkrun. The trail run and also just the cafe right there afterwards. So I've always loved when I go to Margaret River. Probably the favourite experience was we had a local WA parkrun legend, Caroline Vandermeer. She was the first person in WA to reach 500 parkruns. I was proud that she picked Homestead to come and do that milestone where I was Run Director and I organised a Caroline choir, if you like, so we printed out replica photos of Caroline's face and had a group to wear those faces and you'll know that I like to do a poem that's come a bit of a tradition of mine and rather than a poem, we actually, I sang Sweet Caroline but changed the lyrics.
Unidentified speaker: Oh, okay.
Oliver Spake: um and had it written on a big cardboard sheet so everyone got to sing along um so that's definitely my um favourite uh memory and to buy you some time to think I just have to say that poem at the start of this morning's event was fantastic uh we appreciate the uh you know the creativity that went into that but um yeah for anyone that that didn't get to hear that I think there might have been some recordings so uh yeah I want to enjoy
Rodney Glossop: I'm glad you enjoyed it. I really am proud of the fact and honoured that you chose to come and do your official parkrun at UWA. So I wanted to make it as special for you as you've made it for us.
Oliver Spake: Oh, thank you.
Rodney Glossop: And the other two. Thank you. Yeah, honestly, I can't think of another one that really stands out. It's probably just with my family. We really celebrate milestones, so I could pick any number of those milestones when they're achieved. Uh, getting, uh, family and friends to come and support those events is always really, um, rewarding. I was proud of the fact that when my youngest, as I said, she's done the most parkruns over 200 now, I think it was her 100th parkrun. Um, we went to Pioneer because that was her favourite parkrun. Um, much to some, my other girls, um, yeah, to their, they didn't like all the hills there. Um, But one of her trademarks, she takes a teddy everywhere she goes for parkrun. So we got everyone to bring teddies and it was great to see family and friends and particularly people who've never done parkrun before came to that event. And we actually beat the pioneer record attendance for that day. So that was a very good memory as well. Wonderful. No, thank you.
Oliver Spake: Well, happy to leave it there if that's the highlight. But, yeah, thank you again and certainly well done for all of your contributions and for having us here, including on your lawn. Thanks, Rob. But, Cameron, your turn for a top three. And also, I should also thank our co-RD, Bark Runner, this morning, Tilly. So, well done, Tilly. But your top three parkruns.
Cameron Storey: So, I probably won't go into as much detail as Rodney did. Just go with nice courses, I think. I have to acknowledge Margaret River, just as he did. I think that's a brilliant course down south. One of my favourite ones here. I'm sure many people heard of the mythical parkrun Mundy Regional, arguably the hardest one in the world with the, what is it? What, 150 metres elevation at least, I think, or something like that? It's a lot. It really is a lot, and it's one of the most amazing courses in the world. It really is. It's just one of our local ones. I'm going to give a shout-out to the Eastern States and one of my favourites over there, Blue Gum Hills. I think mainly because that was the only time I've actually finished first at a parkrun. But... That's, I suppose, a special memory. And another one for unique parkruns. I'm sure every parkrun in the world is unique, but I'd say one of the most unique ones that I've been to is, I'll probably mispronounce the name, but it's Cieszyn in Poland. The one that starts in Poland, at about a kilometre in, crosses into the Czech Republic and finishes back up in Poland. So I think that's a bit unique of crossing an international border during your local 5K run, but... Yeah, those are just three of some of my favourites.
Oliver Spake: Absolutely, some highlights. And thank you very much, Cameron, and thank you, Rodney. I think you've done both a fantastic job in selling the West to us now that we're allowed back in. And I couldn't have thought of a better place and team to spend the time this morning. So thank you both so much for being a part of the podcast and palm23.
Melissa Ellis: Thank you very much. APPLAUSE
Palm Madness — Sarah Jefferson
Melissa Ellis: Okay, so now it's time for madness.
Oliver Spake: That's right. I don't think we've actually had a quiz on the podcast since last Palm.
Melissa Ellis: No.
Oliver Spake: So those of you that might be unfamiliar, this is trivia time. This is the opportunity for four contestants under the instruction of our quiz master, who today will be Terrific TOC. Yes. With thanks to our quiz master, of course.
Melissa Ellis: Yes, thank you, Simon. He sent the questions under lock and key to TOC. We are going to invite one of our regular quiz participants, Mr Brendan Peel, to take part today. We are also going to invite the lovely Sarah Jefferson, who is a representative from West Australia. We're going to invite Alison to come and join in. And traditionally we have four people, so do we have another volunteer?
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Oliver Spake: We might have a couple of contenders.
Melissa Ellis: Do we have another volunteer? Cameron. Cameron put his hand up. Excellent. Okay, that's it.
Oliver Spake: We got four.
Melissa Ellis: We got four. Now, you need to hold it. Brendan always has a triangle.
Oliver Spake: So what we will do is we'll give TOC one microphone and I can be a mic runner. Okay. I'll hand over to you, TOC, and you can give the instructions, but welcome to Madness.
Tony O'Connell: Thank you, and once again, loving the podcast, loving the annual palm. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the trivia part of our show. The rules for today are I'll ask the question. It is the first one that makes a noise, and we'll do a sound check in a minute to make sure all the dingers and dongers are working. I'd ask the contestants not to answer until they get a microphone so that the audience can hear the answers. I shouldn't wave the questions around. You might be able to read them if you've got good eyes. And we have Jacqui doing the scoring, so we'll do a couple of score checks to find out where we are. Last year's carryover winner was Dawn. Dawn's not here this year. Last year, Brendan came in second, and Brendan has a very big tradition of coming in first. So, guys, you've got a bit of pressure. But we can do a sound check, please, Ollie.
Oliver Spake: Okay. It's the triangle. The chicken. What noise? Rattle. And the bells.
Tony O'Connell: Beautiful. The judge's decision is final. There is some interesting questions in here from our quiz master. He's worked fairly hard on it this year, and I believe he's had a little bit of input from somebody else. But we have some great questions here. So I'll start off with question one, which was a really good place to start, I suppose. Thank you. It's a who am I? I have an athlete ID that is five digits long. The next time I go to an event, it will be my Cowell. I've officially volunteered 150 times at 19 locations. My name is well recognised to many of you out there. My PB is 1825 and it's a... Is it Eman? No. Incorrect. My average time is 26.32. And you could say that I'm Mr. parkrun in Australia.
Cameron Storey: My name is... Is it Tim Oberg?
Tony O'Connell: Bingo. First points to Cameron. Well done. Question two. Where am I? My course is 5,000 metres long. The course takes in grass, boardwalk, concrete and asphalt. Peter Bowle holds our male record in 14.40.
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Cameron Storey: Is it Claisebrook Cove?
Tony O'Connell: That's two up for Cameron. We have a definite Western Australian theme in our question. Question three. Name two of the four parkruns starting with a U in Australia.
Alison Fraser (King): Who was that first?
Tony O'Connell: Oh, I think it might have been Alison.
Alison Fraser (King): Underwood Park and Urunga? Urunga? Urunga?
Unidentified speaker: Urunga?
Tony O'Connell: I'm going to take that as correct. Yeah, so the four that we had were Urunga, Umbagong, University of Western Australia and Underwood.
Unidentified speaker: I saw that name once I saw it. Well done.
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Tony O'Connell: So can we get a score check, Jacqui? We've got Cameron.
Jacqui O'Connell: Sorry, we've got Cameron on two points and Alison on one and Sarah and Brendan yet to score.
Tony O'Connell: Righto, question four. And this is a multiple choice, so just hold off on the... the dings and the dongs until we get through the four answers. How many registered parkrunners have the given name West? A, 9, B, 13, C, 20, D, 31.
Sarah Jefferson: I'm going to go with C. I think it was 20.
Tony O'Connell: Well, Sarah is on the board straight away. Well done. Points count. There is 20 with a given name of West.
Unidentified speaker: Sarah from the West Side.
Tony O'Connell: Sarah from the West Side gets the West bit right. Question five. If I was standing on Cottesloe Beach and looking west, which parkrun country is closest to me? And this is multiple choice, so wait for a sec. Is it A, South Africa, B, Malaysia, C, Singapore, or D, New Zealand? South Africa. Incorrect. South Africa, Malaysia, Singapore or New Zealand? Singapore. Brendan's on the board with a point. APPLAUSE That was a bit of a trick question. Even though you're standing on the beach looking west, it's which is the closest park-run country? Our quiz master was very clever there. That one tripped me up too. Question six, multiple choice again. So give me a sec to read through the four answers. Junior parkrun currently operates in how many countries? One, two, three or four? Brendan? Four. Incorrect. Three. Three is correct. Alison gets another point. Junior parkrun currently operates in Australia, Ireland and the UK. And time for a score check.
Jacqui O'Connell: Okay, we'll start from the bottom up. We've got Brendan and Sarah both with one point, and then we've got Alison and Cameron both on two.
Tony O'Connell: I can see the tiebreaker could come into play today. Question seven. In the past 12 months, WA has added five new parkruns to the map. Name them.
Cameron Storey: Newcastle Park, University of Western Australia. I think it's called Jurien Bay. Correct. There's one in Carnarvon, but I'm trying to figure out the name of it. Baxter. And there's one more, but I am struggling to think of it. I'm actually going to stop there. I'm actually going to pass.
Tony O'Connell: Okay, so that was four of them, so I need the five named.
Unidentified speaker: I know. Pressure. Can I jump back in? No.
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Tony O'Connell: I will give the other three contestants a quick second to either sound their horn or we will take Cameron. I'm Sid. Incorrect. I think we'll go back to Cameron. Cameron. Give Sarah a go.
Sarah Jefferson: Is it Lake Claremont?
Tony O'Connell: Yes, but you need to name the five, so you need to run through that.
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Sarah Jefferson: Baxter parkrun, Newcastle Park, Lake Claremont, University of Western Australia and Jurien Bay parkrun. Correct. Point to Sarah.
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Unidentified speaker: Well done. Good job.
Tony O'Connell: Okay, question eight. Putting on your Marty McFly hat and name the event that will have the largest frond today.
Alison Fraser (King): Today the largest frond will be University of Western Australia. Incorrect.
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Tony O'Connell: Is it Varsity Park?
Sarah Jefferson: Correct. Varsity Lakes? Sorry, Varsity Lakes.
Tony O'Connell: This is Palm. It's not a frond.
Sarah Jefferson: Varsity Lakes.
Tony O'Connell: Correct. Point to Sarah. Harsh, I know, but it's palm, not the frond. The fronds are the little sub-outlets. Question nine. Name an event in WA starting with W and an event starting with an A. Wanneroo and Applecross. Correct. Point to Brendan. Correct. Time for a score check.
Jacqui O'Connell: We have Brendan on two, Alison on two, Cameron on two, and Sarah has hit the front with three.
Tony O'Connell: And with that, ladies and gentlemen, I declare Sarah the winner because there is only nine questions on my sheet. Well done, Sarah. Thank you.
Unidentified speaker: Thank you.
Tony O'Connell: We have, oh, this is pretty spesh. We have the golden Buddha with palm 2023 on it. That's for Sarah. Now, as far as second and third, I think we'll use our tiebreaker question to work out second at least. So if the other three contestants want to grab their... Okay, the tiebreaker question. And with this one, we will do a higher and a lower until we get to someone that's obviously gets it correct. What is Ollie's volunteer ratio?
Unidentified speaker: 150%. Lower. 120%. Higher. We'll work through the order now that we've got.
Cameron Storey: What was that? Was it higher or lower? Higher. Okay, 140.
Tony O'Connell: Lower.
Cameron Storey: 133.
Alison Fraser (King): Lower. 129. Higher.
Rodney Glossop: 130. Higher. 132.
Tony O'Connell: Correct. So Brendan is officially our second winner.
Melissa Ellis: Okay, well, we've got some prizes here. So we're going to let Sarah take pick of the prize box. So you've got that, but you also get a prize. So we've got a selection of things. So we've got, I'll let everybody know, we've got a parkrun visor. I think you've got a visor. Yep. We've got a parkrun cap. Yep. We've got a copy of Alison's book. Thank you, Alison. We've got a pair of Goodrs. Midnight Ramble at the Circle Bar, donated kindly to us by Goodr. Ollie might hold this up. We've got a ladies singlet. It says adventurer on it and it's a size medium. Okay. We've got a copy of Born to Run and a copy of On Every Saturday. Thanks to David Crook. So what would you like? Sunnies. The Goodrs for Sarah. Brendan. Oh, well, I don't think Brendan's going to take the lady singlet. The grey cap for Brendan. Okay. Alison and Cameron. Would you like to choose?
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Alison Fraser (King): Can I get the singlet?
Melissa Ellis: The singlet?
Alison Fraser (King): I'm going to give this to Sarah, one of our adventurers. I'm giving this to Sarah, one of our adventurers who's in Auckland, and she's actually completing her countryman again today. Oh, that's awesome.
Melissa Ellis: Thank you. That's lovely. And Cameron, would you like to have?
Unidentified speaker: I'd love the coffee on every Saturday.
Melissa Ellis: Sure. Excellent. Great. And the rest we're going to save for another palm. So thank you. Thank you to our contestants today.
Oliver Spake: Thank you once again to the Quizmaster for today. Terrific TOC. Thank you, Jacqui. Jacqui for the timekeeping. Thank you to the Quizmaster OG for the fantastic tricksy questions. And thank you to the providers of the Obi award itself, the Golden Buddha.
Melissa Ellis: Oh, yes, which is Stephen Davis, Stephen and Helen Davis, who organised that for us for the second year in a row. That's right.
Oliver Spake: So that was madness. I hope you all enjoyed. I hope that you all scored at least seven or eight out of nine in the crowd there. I will just check that the recording is still recording.
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Melissa Ellis: Okay, yeah, sound check. Most people will be aware that there was one palm when... We didn't end up with the recording.
Oliver Spake: We could always have another one of those. It says it's recording. Okay.
Melissa Ellis: Yeah, well, you never know.
Oliver Spake: You were all here. You all enjoyed it. So should this not make the airwaves, then I hope it's been worth it.
Melissa Ellis: So the next...
Oliver Spake: There, that's right. We did promise a bit more chat, but there's probably a couple of individuals that we did particularly want to have a bit of a chat with.
Roving reports & the Channel 5 News crew
Oliver Spake: So we mentioned earlier the parkrun adventurers has long been supported by an intrepid group of roving reporters who, let's face it, have a lot of the fun, they bring us a variety of personal stories and parkrun Day experiences from around the parkrun globe. And every Palm, we like to take the opportunity to acknowledge our Channel 5 news crew and to hand out the badges and the microphones to those who haven't received them.
Melissa Ellis: So could we have up the front, please, Cameron Drake, Alison King, Sarah Jefferson and Johan. Hello.
Oliver Spake: And maybe we should invite TOC back up as our other roving reporter here on the spot to give us a hand and to help induct our members of the Channel 5 News crew. No more challenges. Sorry.
Melissa Ellis: Okay. First up. Oh, we're going in order. Hang on. Yes. Let's go with.
Oliver Spake: Here we are.
Interview Cameron Drake — Roving reporter, Channel 5 News Crew
Melissa Ellis: Yep.
Oliver Spake: So first up, Cameron Drake. Thank you. So congratulations, Cam. So just a couple of quick questions. Firstly, we'd like to say that we're sorry that you were locked away from us for some time, and perhaps that the name Caveman Cam seems to have stuck. But I suppose the question, what about a new one? How do you feel about charismatic Cam, field correspondent Cam, Q&A Cam?
Cameron Drake: Well... We should probably bring you over here to... I'll take whatever you feel is worthy. Whatever's worthy? Yep.
Oliver Spake: Go for it. Go nuts. All right. So show of hands, who wants charismatic cam? Field correspondent cam? Q&A cam? Or caveman cam? Yeah!
Cameron Drake: My favourite. Excellent. Good choice.
Oliver Spake: And, look, in the spirit of changed times, if we could fly you anywhere for a parkrun existing or imaginary, where would it be?
Cameron Drake: Oh, I'd have to say Bushy. But somewhere closer, probably not Melbourne. Somewhere nice like that.
Melissa Ellis: Toolern Creek.
Cameron Drake: Toolern Creek, says Mel. Toolern Creek? Yeah. It's just another one of those things where we have to say Toolern Creek a number of times. That's right. That's right.
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Oliver Spake: Okay. We've got a healthy count today. But no, thank you for all of your roving reports, Cam. It's always a pleasure. And somehow you managed to canvas the field like no other. So I look forward to hearing the next from this morning.
Cameron Drake: Thank you very much. I'll try and get to the rest of you later. I have only so much space in my phone, though, so I may not get to everyone.
Unidentified speaker: I'll try.
Oliver Spake: No, thank you. But we will move on to our next individual. Mel, I'll hand you the notes.
Melissa Ellis: Okay.
Interview Alison Fraser (King) — Roving reporter, Channel 5 News Crew; author of the Runs with a Barcode blog, book and…
Melissa Ellis: Next, we've got Alison.
Unidentified speaker: Welcome to Alison.
Melissa Ellis: Okay. So, Alison, your Runs with a Barcode blog book and e-zine have been a fantastic advertisement for parkrun in New Zealand. What inspired it?
Alison Fraser (King): I don't know. I think I just got bored. I started keeping stats in New Zealand and it was just before we went into lockdown. And I had the idea for the book in January of 2020. So it just started from that really.
Melissa Ellis: Thank you for coming on board as an adventurer. Did you, had you listened, how long have you been listening to the podcast? Had you been an early adopter?
Alison Fraser (King): I'm going to be honest and say even though I was interviewed on episode, was it 26? I didn't actually start listening until like 2020. And I think it was with you and Ollie that I really, really started gelling. So thanks, guys.
Melissa Ellis: And the really important question is, What's your view on one day having a palm in New Zealand?
Alison Fraser (King): I would welcome that with open arms. And I've already got a few things sussed, so if we come to New Zealand. Can we have a show of hands?
Melissa Ellis: That's a good show of hands. Okay. Well, we're not going to announce any future locations today, but you'll have to stay tuned and see what we can do.
Interview Sarah Jefferson — Roving reporter, Channel 5 News Crew (Western Australia)
Melissa Ellis: agree on but uh thank you very much Alison for all your contributions to the pod and uh yeah enjoy your official parkrun adventurers pass thank you so much okay am I Sarah okay all right next up we have Sarah from the West Side And, yep.
Unidentified speaker: Too much.
Melissa Ellis: Like I'm double parked. Don't talk into the wrong one. Okay. Sarah, thank you for all your help, especially. We should acknowledge all the effort that you've put into helping us get Palm in West Australia off the ground, all the groundwork that you've done as our person on the spot. Thank you.
Sarah Jefferson: Yeah, round of applause. Thank you all for coming this long way.
Melissa Ellis: So I guess we wanted to know what motivated you to becoming a roving reporter and was it hard?
Unidentified speaker: Yeah.
Sarah Jefferson: I think the first few were probably the hardest. I'm trying to even think who I interviewed first. I can't even remember. I don't even know what motivated me. I think we were locked in the state for over two years and we couldn't go and see any family and friends over east. So we thought we've got a heap of Qantas points. Let's just start flying up to Port Hedland and Karratha and Kununurra. And then we started doing some cool adventures and thought maybe people want to hear about that. So I guess from there we just, yeah, started venturing and, yeah, reporting back a bit. Yeah.
Melissa Ellis: Well, we really enjoyed having more engagement because obviously we already had Cam over here, but we were very excited to get even more engagement over on the west, which was a big part of why we've come over here, so that we could meet the people on the other side of Australia. Because obviously all the other palms were... Pretty much on the eastern seaboard. I know South Australia isn't technically on the eastern seaboard. So, yeah. So, thank you. And we've got another question here, Ollie. Which is better, the east side or the West Side?
Sarah Jefferson: For anyone who's got more than one child, which child is your favourite? I'm going to have to say the West Side for now. Good answer. Good answer.
Melissa Ellis: We'll take that. All right. Okay. I'm going to hand over to Ollie.
Interview Johan Duvenhage — Roving reporter, Channel 5 News Crew (South Africa)
Oliver Spake: Thank you very much. And we do have one more individual standing up here. So, Johan, welcome to the Channel 5 News Crew. Good morning and thank you. Thank you. Firstly, and this is a question that I was particularly keen to ask, your photos are amazing. What tips can you give us?
Johan Duvenhage: Just take your phone and point it in the general direction.
Oliver Spake: Excellent. I might have to pick your brain a bit further later on, but... As a part of your visit to palm23, you've certainly been making the most of the opportunity to travel around Australia. I'm doing myself to shame in terms of some of the spectacular spots you've covered in that time. So would you like to share some of your highlights from your journey, your adventure to Australia so far this time?
Johan Duvenhage: I think what I found most interesting is how it's totally different, but also exactly the same. And how fast everyone is. We are well known for being relatively slow in South Africa. Then everywhere has been beautiful. Coober Pedy has been special just because it was so totally, totally different from anything else. And I really enjoyed every single one that I've done so far. And I was very surprised with University of Western Australia. The campus is fantastic.
Oliver Spake: Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. And I suppose we've talked international palm, so I'm going to add another question. You know, Palm South Africa, is that?
Johan Duvenhage: I thought it was previously called the Contiki Tour. Contiki Tour.
Oliver Spake: Johan's been investing a bit of time in the back catalogue and is here to keep us all accountable to the promises of hosts of the parkrun adventurers podcast. Mel's up for it. Excellent. Look, again, thank you. And thank you in particular for sharing your insights from South Africa and obviously everywhere else you've managed to travel in that time. But as always, thank you to our wonderful Channel 5 News crew. And I suppose before I stop, is there anyone in the crowd here with questions they'd like to ask the Channel 5 News crew? But if not, we'll let them sit down. Ah, we do want a photo of the Channel 5 News crew. So, we'll quickly take a photo.
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Melissa Ellis: Thank you. Office Lady? Yeah, I want them to get in close.
Unidentified speaker: Okay, yep.
Melissa Ellis: Let's get them to move over, shall we?
Oliver Spake: That's right. We'll pause proceedings and take a quick photo.
Melissa Ellis: Take one of just them and then we'll jump in. You got their passes?
Oliver Spake: Have you got your pass, Mel? No.
Melissa Ellis: No, I didn't bring it.
Oliver Spake: All right.
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Tony O'Connell: Thank you.
Sign-off
Oliver Spake: Thank you once again to the wonderful Channel 5 News crew. And with that, it is actually time we wrapped up, I think. That's an hour. That's close to an hour. No extra laps around the block to be done on this podcast. But as we said earlier, I suppose, you know, before we finish up, we should say a big thank you once again to everyone who's helped make palm23 possible, to our podcast team, to our Channel 5 News crew, to the parkrun team here, and to all of you, our adventurers community. So a huge round of applause for everyone. Thank you. Is this the part where we ask, where are you going next week, Mel?
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Melissa Ellis: Yeah, ask me, ask me.
Oliver Spake: Where are you going next week?
Melissa Ellis: I'm going to Margaret River.
Oliver Spake: Well done on the marketing campaign team. And what about you, Ollie? I plan on going to Shellharbour. I'm not sure I'm down on the roster yet, but we will see.
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Melissa Ellis: Why don't we ask the crowd to just yell out where they're going to be next week?
Oliver Spake: Yeah, everyone, where are you going next week? Excellent. We're definitely some WA parkruns in there. So doing a bit for the WA economy. Well done in the parkrun community here. We hope to hear more about all of your adventures and journeys while you're across here and, of course, from all of your locals from the West Side too. But... Yeah. I'm not sure with all of the roving reports to catch up and the fact we haven't done a podcast in a couple of weeks, how quickly we'll get back into Dazza's, but keep it coming. It's great for people like me that adventure vicariously through all of you.
Melissa Ellis: I can't guarantee either when this episode will be released. I am in WA for at least another week and I'm not sure when I'll get the editing done, but I'll do it as quickly as I can.
Oliver Spake: That's right. And yeah, look, it has been a bit of a disrupted month for podcast releases, but we appreciate the opportunity to come and see you all in person, to have a lot of fun and yeah, really make the most of things.
Melissa Ellis: And all suggestions for next year's Palm to Ollie, please.
Oliver Spake: Look, for those, I mean, the benefit of coming to Palm is we do have an opportunity for a quick Q&A afterwards, but we won't do it as part of the recording. I think this is the time we wrap. Yep. I've said thank you a few times. So, Mel, would you like to finish up?
Melissa Ellis: Okay. That's it for this Palm 2023. You can contact us at our email, parkrunadventurers at gmail.com or social media, as you all would well know. We hope to see and hear from you all soon for more adventures. That's it.
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Oliver Spake: Now, everyone, hold on while I press this button.
Poem Zone
Rodney Glossop: Adventurers to UWA, it should be a great morning to kickstart your day. If you're an adventurer, give us a cheer. Gee, you're a rowdy bunch.
Unidentified speaker: That is clear.
Rodney Glossop: I'm told we can stick around to watch you record a live podcast. All are welcome at the Uni Club. No need to run fast. Give us a shout if you're visiting from interstate. Trust me, our parkrun is well worth the wait. Anyone here from Perth doing their first one at UWA? There's plenty to see on our course, so make sure you look around. We have beautiful buildings, gardens, sculptures, and a koi pond to be found. Winthrop Hall is arguably our biggest feature attraction, or maybe it's the peacocks who always get the reaction. Head through the tunnel if you'd like to see them today. They live in the new Fortune Theatre where we used to host a play. There are plenty of places perfect for your zoomies. Yes, of course, I've heard all about you loonies. Follow the signs to ensure you stay on track. Whilst it's fun to explore, we want you all to come back. We do two laps, so make sure you don't finish after one, especially if you want to tick off your letter U and a different parkrun. Start and finish right here at Glossop Green. We named it after a guy from the WA parkrun scene. A big thanks to all the volunteers. There is no parkrun without you. This includes our core event team, who are a great crew. Okay, that's enough from me. My poem is done. I hope you enjoy UWA parkrun.