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Episode 333 - Corgi Butt Buns · 2023-05-11
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[intro theme playing]
Welcome
Simon Mackley: Welcome to parkrun adventurers podcast episode 333. I'm Simon Mackley and I'm coming to you from Quandamooka Country.
Melissa Ellis: And my name is Melissa Ellis and I'm coming to you from Wurundjeri Country. And it's 333 Simon, it's a Nelson and welcome. It is a Nelson, yes. Thank you for having me back. It's good to be here. You're very welcome for our special triple three. Three's a lucky number too. It is. I'm supposed to be paying attention for my numerology of repeated numbers, so I'll have to run back in after the recording and see what three threes mean. Okay. Hopefully it doesn't just say nine, but nine's lucky too, so that's okay. Fair enough.
Simon Mackley: How goes things in Quandamooka Country? Quandamooka Country has been very cold today, unseasonably cold. So, yeah, it doesn't feel like Queensland. It feels more like my old stomping ground of Sydney. But other than that, it's going well. How about you?
Melissa Ellis: Wurundjeri Country is also cold and a tad rainy, but we need the rain. That's okay. It means I didn't have to water the garden when I got home. So not complaining.
Simon Mackley: Home from your big adventure.
Melissa Ellis: Yes. But tell me about your parkrun day and what you got up to on Saturday.
Simon Mackley: My parkrun day did not eventuate, unfortunately. So unfortunately, I had planned to go to Madrabah for 444 because I knew this was going to be episode 333. But, yeah, that didn't happen. I amended it to go to Scribbly Gum instead and meet up with some friends. That happened on Friday when they reached out to me. And then we had a little medical emergency here at home and I didn't get to parkrun. Oh, you didn't get at all. I didn't get to parkrun at all, yes.
Melissa Ellis: That's okay, but is the medical emergency sorted?
Simon Mackley: The medical emergency is in hand. Yes, it's much better than it was on Friday night, that's for sure.
Melissa Ellis: Okay. Tell us about your adventures. Okay, well, this weekend I was adventuring interstate again to catch up with friends Chris and Kerry Fraser in Wollongong. Lucky for me, I swapped the rain in Victoria for sunny blue skies in the Harbour State. So I did actually see that WA was also a little bit chilly, so it seems like it was the place to be. Chris was kind enough to pick me up from the airport Friday and take me on a spectacular clifftop walk from Bundeena to Marley Head, which had fabulous views of the coastline, including Wedding Cake Rock. After that, we also stopped to admire the view from Bald Hill Lookout, one of Illawarra's most well-known lookouts, as well as being internationally known as a major hang gliding point. Incidentally, it was on the beach below Bald Hill that Lawrence Hargrave, an Australian pioneer of flight, made a successful flight on the 12th of November 1894. Bald Hill overlooks the iconic Seacliff Bridge, which extends along the Grand Pacific Drive, a 140-kilometre award-winning coastal drive. Must rival our Great Ocean Road down here. Yeah. Beginning 45 minutes south of Sydney International Airport in the Royal National Park. We were also lucky enough to view the full moon from the lookout, which was apparently a flower moon, but I don't know enough about lunar phases to comment any more on that. But I was in town for parkrun and parkrun we did, with Kerry also joining us for the 8am start at Sandon Point. 206 finishes, completed event 461, making Sandon Point easily within the first 50 events launched in Australia. To my surprise, as well as the adventures I was expecting, I was privileged to meet Darwin, the parakeet, with the lovely Karen backing up last week's visit with Ralph and Kayleigh too. We were also joined by Sam and Luke, Michael Gentle and the lovely and very cheeky newest RD at Schla Barbeck Bailey, who came across for brunch after she wrapped up at the farm. I had to fly home Saturday evening, but not before a walk along the Sea Cliff Bridge and a Freedo at Cronulla to finish off an epic, albeit exhausting, visit to the Gong.
Simon Mackley: Fantastic. While you were talking, I looked up what a flower moon was. Oh, good for you. And? So it's nowhere near as interesting as it sounds. It just means that it's a full moon in May.
Melissa Ellis: Oh, okay. Yeah. Well, there you go. So my friends who are interested in such things did point out that it was going to be one of the biggest new moons or full moons or it was something special about it that I had to check. So I did get a very good view from Bald Hill of the lovely full moon.
Marion: There you go.
Melissa Ellis: Nice. But what else was happening around the traps apart from my – Very busy trip to the Gong. Now, I'm sure you know most of those places that I mentioned.
Simon Mackley: I know quite a few of them. I've heard them by other names, though. Oh, really? When you're talking about the hang gliding, I don't know why I know it as something else. Stanwell Tops? Unless I'm in the wrong area.
Melissa Ellis: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Stanwell is the area where Bald Hill is, isn't it?
Simon Mackley: Probably. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, I think I know it as Stanwell Tops and not Bald Hill, but it makes more sense that it actually has a name.
Melissa Ellis: There was definitely hang gliders taking off. We stood and watched them. It's also very interesting.
Simon Mackley: Pretty spectacular with those cliffs, that's for sure.
Melissa Ellis: But there was other things going on on Saturday. Simon, crowns and tiaras?
Simon Mackley: Crowns and tiaras are plenty, or is it a swather?
Melissa Ellis: Well, I've got it on good authority that the Office Lady loves the new word and has given her blessing for us to induct it into Adventurer Lexicon.
Simon Mackley: Wow, that is amazing because it was certainly a slip of the tongue by Mr Oliver Spake last week. Yeah, so... Crowns and tiaras are plenty because of the whole coronation of the new king, King Charles III. So there was lots of photos of people in gowns and tiaras and crowns and things like that.
Launches and anniversaries"Where is the cake?"
Simon Mackley: But along with that, we had two Australian events, numbers 26 and 27, celebrate their 10th anniversary. And I've been to both. So Cleveland in Queensland, which is just up the road from me, celebrated 10th. And so did Curl Curl, which is one that was very close to me. And I was actually at their inaugural 10 years ago. And I looked after it when I was ambassador in Sydney. So congratulations to both of those.
Melissa Ellis: I've been to Curl Curl.
Simon Mackley: You have been to Curl Curl. It's a lovely flat parkrun. Actually, Cleveland is not that hilly itself, but yeah, very nice along the water on Moreton Bay. And then what have we got? Event 302 celebrated their fifth birthday, which was Nulkaba in the Hunter Valley. So it notched up their wooden anniversary. And Elliott Heads Beach celebrated their very first year of parkrunning. So that's event number 443. So in that five-year period, there's, yeah, quite a number of events launched, but then in that next four, there's not that many more, obviously because of COVID.
Melissa Ellis: So are they all in either Queensland or New South Wales?
Simon Mackley: They are, yes.
Melissa Ellis: Well done, Simon, bringing us the news from north. Excellent.
Simon Mackley: And then, yeah, across the grounds, we had 450 events with 53,415 participants, and that includes volunteers, and a whopping almost 2,500 first-timers. So, yeah, still a lot of first-timers out there.
Melissa Ellis: That is a very healthy number. Hopefully some of those people enjoying some of the festivities that came with the coronation and all the fun and games. Good one to start.
Roving reports & the Channel 5 News crew
Melissa Ellis: But some other people that have been out and about having parties, Simon, are our intrepid Channel 5 News crew who we're still catching up on. We're nearly caught up. But this week we've got three more for your listening pleasure. So let's have a listen.
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Roving report Lyndell Murray — Naracoorte Lake parkrun
Lyndell Murray: G'day parkrun adventurers, it's Lyndell here and I'm going to do just a quick roving report light. I'm coming to you today from Naracoorte Lake parkrun on the lands of the Boendik people.
Talking to Marion — Naracoorte Lake parkrun team member and parkrunner
Lyndell Murray: And I just had a quick chat to Marion on the finish line and she started to tell me her parkrun story. So I thought I'm going to just capture this. Marion thank you for today what a wonderful event you have here thank you lindell we are really fortunate we think it's a great parkrun it's nature at its best and it's early morning what more could we want not much more it's really nice I really enjoyed this course out and back a couple of hills all on trails beautiful trees I even saw a wallaby or kangaroo so there's nature here as well Anyway, Marion, over to you. Tell me your parkrun story.
Marion: My story, when I went to Warrnambool a couple of weeks ago, got out of bed, thought, yep, I can do it, I can do it. So away I went. There was 106 people at Warrnambool and I thought, oh, I don't know anybody. Anyway, lined up next to a lady who had said to her husband, don't go home without me, you know I'm slower. And I thought, yep, that's me. So lined up and we ran a couple of hundred metres and then I looked at her and I said, you seem familiar. And she said, yes, we've just moved from Hamilton to Warrnambool. And the penny dropped. Seven years ago, I ran with Jane. My daughter was nine months pregnant and we were trying to make her have a baby. And Jane, we got halfway around the lake and I said to Jane, I'm going to walk. She said, no, you're not. You're going to run all the way.
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Melissa Ellis: And I went...
Marion: Okay. So I ran all the way. I said, Jane, it's still my PB. And she said, it's still mine too. But after seven years, and I was with Chelsea when she had Max. And to meet Jane, you just feel like you're welcomed. And the family involved us. They looked after my very pregnant daughter. And she had a baby on Monday. And I ran with Jane. And seven years later, I found her again.
Lyndell Murray: Isn't that incredible? So you went to Hamilton, you thought, I'll drag my nine-month pregnant daughter out of bed to get this underway.
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Marion: She was trying to have a baby. Yes, she was trying to have a baby. And, you know, the people of Hamilton were wonderful, but her husband was in hospital. So we just did parkrun. And Jane sort of took me under her wing because I was the anxious granny-to-be. Yes.
Lyndell Murray: And she got you your PB, you got her her PB.
Marion: And five years, no, seven years later, we're five minutes slower, but we did a lot of talking.
Lyndell Murray: Yeah. That's what parkrun's for. It is. Walking, running, talking, volunteering, just being part of a family.
Marion: That's right. We had a wonderful time and it was great to catch up. And we've swapped numbers and if I go back to Warrnambool again, we'll catch up. So, yeah, life's good.
Lyndell Murray: Life is great. Thank you, Marion, for sharing that story. Thank you and the team here at Naracoorte Lake for everything that you're doing for this community here as well.
Marion: Wonderful. It's why we get out of bed. Sometimes it's hard, but other times you just think, no, it's great. It's why we do it.
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Lyndell Murray: It's a beautiful day today.
Marion: Okay, thank you.
Alison Fraser (King): Thanks.
Roving report Alison Fraser (King) — Ekebergsletta parkrun
Alison Fraser (King): Kia ora koutou, it's Alison here reporting in for the Channel 5 News crew. And today I'm at parkrun on a Monday. I've been to Ekebergsletta parkrun, I think it's pronounced in Oslo. [Te Reo Maori: "Hello / greetings to you all (addressed to three or more people)"]
Talking to Nigel Dawson — Event Director, Neckarufer, Esslingen parkrun, Germany; parkrun tourist in Viking…
Alison Fraser (King): And I've actually found a Viking known as Fluffy the Destroyer. So welcome to the show, Fluffy.
Nigel Dawson: Thank you very much.
Alison Fraser (King): Shall we tell everyone your real name?
Nigel Dawson: Yeah, yeah, I'm Nigel Dawson from Neckarufer, Esslingen parkrun in Germany.
Alison Fraser (King): And what brought you to Norway?
Nigel Dawson: Well, we have a lot of friends in parkrun around the world, people who visited our parkrun because I'm the Event Director there. I don't get around a lot doing a lot of different parkruns because being an Event Director, I'm kind of stuck. But when there's things like the double, it's a chance for us to get away. And of course, Norway this week, it's a double, Saturday and a Monday parkrun.
Alison Fraser (King): And why did you dress up today as a Viking, Fluffy?
Nigel Dawson: I guess the answer to that is why not? I'm in Norway, and as most of the people who know me know, I have a lot of costumes. So I almost, I would say 90% of the parkruns I do, I'm wearing some type of relevant costume.
Alison Fraser (King): And did it make you go faster today?
Nigel Dawson: I wouldn't say it made me go faster. It kept me warm in the snow. I can't believe we were parkrunning in May in the snow. But I know everybody was quite cold but with a big beard and a lot of hair and a helmet on I was pretty warm. So it kept me warm but it didn't particularly make me go any faster.
Alison Fraser (King): Can you remember the course enough to describe it to listeners?
Nigel Dawson: Yeah, absolutely. So it's a pretty wide open space, a lot of mud today, a bit of grass, wet grass, actually big puddles, and some paths. It's a two-lap course. On the top of, actually, Ekeberg Hill here in Oslo in Norway. So when it's not snowing, apparently the views are very good over Oslo, but we've had some incredible snow this morning.
Alison Fraser (King): It was pretty epic.
Nigel Dawson: It was pretty wet, yeah, yeah. I wasn't prepared. I think it gave us like the the real Norway experience though to have snow absolutely I mean I've been here all weekend we parkran at Nansenparken in Oslo on Saturday and it was bright sunshine a little bit cold but bright sunshine and then today we have I mean at one point really thick snow yeah but um but yeah the course is very nice the uh the Run Director did a brilliant briefing all in english um and I know what she's like because I have to do my briefings in german of course so doing it in a second language is never easy and she uh she did a great job and I think the team were fantastic yeah and a national record national record yeah I just got the results through on my phone and we have 190 runners uh Ekebergsletta so not just a course record for Ekebergsletta but actually a course record for the whole of Norway so they've never had as big a parkrun in their history which is great and also can you let us know where in Germany your parkrunner so if we were travelling over from Australia New Zealand what airport should we be aiming for well um the nearest airport to us is stuttgart airport we're in south baden-wurttemberg state so it's Stuttgart but you can also fly to Munich and Frankfurt and it's about two hours from those two and there's good good train connections and we are south of Stuttgart Esslingen is a medieval city in the Neckar valley so Neckarufer parkrun Neckar is the river Ufer means river bank so it's a flat course it's a fast course it's an out and back but we start in the middle So we go one way, come past the start again, turn around, come back. Very fast. And we're between Stuttgart and the Swabian Alps. So very picturesque. We have seven of the oldest timber-framed houses in Germany, in Esslingen, and a very beautiful medieval town to look around as well.
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Alison Fraser (King): Cool. One final question, Nigel. We like to ask people on the podcast what their top three parkrun events would be, not including their home parkrun.
Nigel Dawson: So the ones, you mean the ones I've done, of course.
Alison Fraser (King): The ones you've done.
Nigel Dawson: OK, so as I mentioned, I don't get around so much. I've been parkrunning for 10 years and I'm only at 153. But my volunteer ratio is off the scale, of course. I would say my favourite number one, has to be mount etna parkrun in sicily which we went for a weekend and running around a volcano is epic and the views of etna are fantastic and the sea of course um number two I would say is um I'm going to say Largs Promenade parkrun in Scotland, running along the seafront. Although I would say we had beautiful weather, so that helped. I would imagine it would be terrible. And number three, I'm going to say, in Scandinavia, I would say Amager Strand parkrun in Copenhagen. Epic parkrun. And a two-lap course, but the second lap... goes the other way than the first lap. So it's really unusual. And the crew there are also fantastic.
Alison Fraser (King): Thank you so much.
Nigel Dawson: No problem.
Roving report Paul Kitching — Edithburgh parkrun
Paul Kitching: G'day, it's PK checking in for a roving report from South Australia. I have decided to come over with the family to Edithburgh. Edithburgh is on Yorke Peninsula. It's about 2 hours 45 up around Port Wakefield, not as the crow flies. If the crow was to fly here, I don't know how long it would take, but it's pretty much straight over from Adelaide. Look on the map, you'll see it, beautiful part of the world fantastic Yorke Peninsula is stunning uh so keep seeing all the signs that say Walk the Yorke today I decided to do both walk and jog the Yorke um Edithburgh and um so I better get out there and do that and check it out let's go and do this awesome parkrun here at Edithburgh Love it. I'm now out on the amazing course. And wow, it is beautiful out here. A bit windy. You can probably hear that in the background. But I'm with some regulars here.
Talking to Doreen — Edithburgh parkrun regular and parkwalker
Paul Kitching: G'day, Doreen. How are you?
Doreen: I'm good, thank you. How are you? Excellent.
Paul Kitching: And Nora, hi. Hi. Cracking pace here. Loving it as the parkwalker. Looking good there, Dore, in the parkwalker. What does parkrun mean to you?
Doreen: I think it's introduced more people to parkrun because a lot of people didn't want to get involved in I think parkwalker is a fantastic addition to the occasion.
Paul Kitching: Yeah, absolutely. How long have you been a parkrunner for? About five years. Fantastic. Always here at Edithburgh?
Doreen: I've done three. I've done one in Clare, I've done one in Seacliff Esplanade and I've done one at Palmerston.
Paul Kitching: Oh, well done. Northern Territory. Gosh, that sounds amazing. Well, look at this stunning view. I mean, obviously, those listening to the podcast can't see this, but we are on a track hugging the ocean, hugging the rugged ocean, and just walking around next to a golf course, just having a stroll. It is pretty special, isn't it? What a fantastic part of the world. Thank you so much for everything you do for parkrun.
Doreen: Thank you. Thank you for coming.
Paul Kitching: No, we're loving it. Thank you. Have fun. I'll let you guys go. You're cracking along. Well done. Thanks, Nora. Thanks, Noreen.
Talking to Danielle — Founding Event Director, Edithburgh parkrun, South Australia
Paul Kitching: And now I'm with Danielle, who's doing the awesome job of scanning. How are you going?
Unidentified speaker: Good.
Paul Kitching: Fantastic parkrun. How long have you been doing parkrun? I think you were telling me before you started this one. Five years.
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Danielle: So five years this year. Founding ED.
Paul Kitching: Fantastic.
Danielle: So I think I've done, I just did my 50th event.
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Paul Kitching: Wicked.
Danielle: 90-ish volunteers.
Paul Kitching: Nice, nice. Here comes someone. We don't want to interrupt doing the important job. That's okay. Thanks, Kerry. Well done, Kerry. How was it for you today, Kerry?
Lyndell Murray: A bit slow.
Paul Kitching: That's okay. But you're out. Your laptop's on the couch. Yeah, and you're rocking the parkrun merch. Look at that hat. Yeah, I know. It's a good hat. Fantastic. Beautiful course. Was it always going to be here? You were like, oh my gosh, we've got a beautiful course. Let's make a parkrun here.
Danielle: Well, I had a friend say to me, he was the Event Director, John Lang. He founded Cleland.
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Paul Kitching: Yes, beautiful job.
Danielle: And he was over here, and he said to me, Danielle, either thing needs parkrun.
Paul Kitching: Yeah.
Danielle: And I went, what's parkrun?
Paul Kitching: Yeah, there you go.
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Danielle: And so I Googled it and saw what it was and I went, yes, we need parkrun. Here I am. That's all right. Oh, you've got to wait for mum.
Paul Kitching: Oh, of course.
Danielle: Yeah, and then originally I was running towards Sultana Point. So I thought, oh, we'll do that track. But then I looked up all the guidelines and stuff and it's by a road. You know, you need course Marshals and all that sort of stuff. And then I went, nah, we'll do it this way.
Paul Kitching: Awesome. Oh, it's perfect and beautiful. I've just been walking slash running, jogging, jiggity jogging. Here come my family. And it's so good because the views are amazing, the scrub land. I love the fact that there are all different elements of it and you're walking past a beautiful golf course and a beautiful way to celebrate the community.
Danielle: Yeah, yeah. And we get dolphins. We spotted a couple of sharks. No way. A few people have and swans and lots of...
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Paul Kitching: Thank you so much. No snakes today. Hey, thank you so much for everything you do for parkrun. That's all right. Thank you. Thanks, Danielle. Well done. There you go. So that was Danielle and just one of the awesome volunteers here that make parkrun, happen at Edithburgh as I can hear my wife saying in the background one of the most stunning parkruns that she's done and I totally agree done a few and totally recommend coming over to Yorkes over to South Australia if you're from interstate if you're ever here or even if you are in South Australia and you want to get over to Yorkes come and do Edithburgh it's fantastic PK signing off for another roving report
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Simon Mackley: All right. We had three wonderful roving reports there. We had Lyndell at Naracoorte Lake catching up with Marion, who had a lovely story about meeting up with Jane after seven years. We had Alison at Ekebergsletta. So that's southeast of Oslo in Norway, where she spoke to Fluffy the Destroyer, a.k.a. Nigel Dawson, E.D., from Germany, and did he set the course record for Norway?
Melissa Ellis: No. So there was, I think it's an attendance record, Simon, on that date.
Simon Mackley: Ah, okay.
Melissa Ellis: For Alison's special day. Well, I'm sure Alison was having a special day, but I mean Norway's special day. Indeed. For their Ascension Day, is that correct?
Simon Mackley: Exactly, Ascension Day. And then the last one was PK at Edithburgh on a family holiday.
Melissa Ellis: Yes, thank you, PK, for letting me know how to pronounce that word that I always look at and never know how to say properly. So we've got a bit of a theme there, Simon, with the Bergs.
Simon Mackley: It's certainly the Bergs, yes. We'll just call it E-Berg. E-Berg, okay, sure.
Melissa Ellis: So, yes, no, thanks for those guys. Obviously we're – well, Alison's was more recent, but, yeah, the others we were playing catch-up with.
Dazza's
Melissa Ellis: Um, that's right. So we were going to do some notable mentions from Dazza's. We still don't have a full Dazza's for you. We're dragging that out a little bit longer. But you found some highlights for us, Simon.
Simon Mackley: I did. So some of the ones that jumped out to me were Catherine Green Street with an amazing opening bridge. And I think that was in Whangarei.
Melissa Ellis: I saw their photo. She said we happened to catch the bridge up or something like that. And I'm like, wait, what? Yeah, amazing. And the middle of the bridge just raises.
Simon Mackley: It goes in a really weird angle. Yeah, that was amazing. What else did I see? Susan Roddick had zoomies aplenty. So there was... four or five people in that photo.
Melissa Ellis: In the adventurers shirts too, I believe.
Simon Mackley: In the adventurers shirts, exactly.
Melissa Ellis: Are you spotting them out in the field yet?
Simon Mackley: I can't say I've seen one in real life yet.
Melissa Ellis: Oh, okay.
Simon Mackley: No.
Melissa Ellis: Well, they're definitely popping up in Dazza's.
Simon Mackley: I'm definitely seeing them in Dazza's, yeah. If I had have been at Scribbly Gum, I know that there was two people wearing it I saw in Dazza's at Scribbly Gum on the weekend.
Melissa Ellis: Uh-huh. So you're only not seeing them due to unfortunate circumstance.
Simon Mackley: What else do we have? Tanya Bailey. She was looking very regal and she dressed Brunner up as a corgi, which was quite amusing. Then we had Jackie Hancock. Now, this one was an interesting one because it was triple trouble down there. I think it was Pegasus because it was Star Wars Day on Thursday, May the 4th. And they were an event that was ending in tutu. So they were wearing tutus as well. And they were celebrating the coronation.
Melissa Ellis: Oh, very good. Well, I'm very glad. That's good thinking of them to give people an option. If they didn't want to be involved in coronation celebrations, they had a different avenue to go down.
Simon Mackley: Exactly. So Jackie had dressed up as R2-D2. So that was interesting. And she was handing out tokens, I think. So that would have been A very interesting finish to people's parkruns.
Melissa Ellis: Do you know what I did on May the 4th, Simon?
Simon Mackley: What did you do?
Melissa Ellis: I messaged Mel Erbacher and I said, I always think of you on May the 4th.
Simon Mackley: Because of that beautiful picture of her and the kids.
Melissa Ellis: Yeah, but not only that, do you remember when she did the live cross for With Me Now and she dressed up as Princess Leia?
Simon Mackley: Yes. Yes, I do remember that. Yes. She's good, that Mel Erbacher. She is. We miss you. We do. And the last one that I've got to say notable mention was Holly Pleasance with the Corgi Butt Buns.
Melissa Ellis: Oh, this one. I had a double take when I saw Corgi Butt Buns written. Yeah. And I think I had my sunglasses on and I had to go, hang on, what? And zoom in the photo to see what was going on. How cute are those buns? Do you want to describe what they look like for the listeners, Simon?
Unidentified speaker: Yes.
Simon Mackley: Well, they look like cute little sweet buns that are meant to look like a corgi's butt. But I know that that one is actually from the Corgi Cafe up here in Brisbane because we turned up there a couple of weeks ago when it had just been raining and unfortunately the corgis from the Corgi Cafe had been sent home because of the rain.
Melissa Ellis: So I believe this is a corgi cafe much like the cat cafes that you hear of.
Simon Mackley: Exactly. Exactly. So they have three resident corgis that are normally there. But I'm guessing due to their delicate nature that they're sent home when it rains.
Melissa Ellis: And is it a general theme in the cafe, corgi theme?
Simon Mackley: The whole cafe is, yeah, there's a lot of corgi related things in there. But I mean, the food is apparently amazing as well. So it's a bit of fun.
Melissa Ellis: It's on my list now. So what parkrun do I need to go to? Ashgrove.
Simon Mackley: Ashgrove, yep.
Melissa Ellis: Right.
Simon Mackley: So I don't know how far it is from Ashgrove, to be honest, but... Holly went there after Ashgrove, so it can't be that far.
Melissa Ellis: I wonder if they have low-carb corgi butt buns. Ooh. Because I just want to have, I just want to experience it but not eat the carbs.
Rachel: Fair call. Hmm.
Melissa Ellis: But anyway, thank you for bringing us that wrap. And, yeah, well, corgis are, you know, royal related, so that would be the perfect Coronation Day cafe of choice in my book.
Simon Mackley: Yeah. It would have been the crowning glory.
Melissa Ellis: Wow.
Club Corner
Melissa Ellis: But now it's time for us to throw to Rachel, who's bringing us also a special edition of Club Corner this week. So let's see what Rachel's got to say.
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Rachel: This is Rachel with Club Corner, where we talk about the what and why of Eurovision, and I am coming to you from Arrernte Country. Yes, Eurovision. It's perfect for parkrunners because it doesn't clash with any event times and provides endless Fodder for chatting and listening as you go around the course or volunteer. And since I refuse to let Ollie have all the fun, these are 7 favourites for the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest. The Brits have a solid entry and a good message with, I wrote a song, don't get mad, get even through song. Spain has something unpronounceable spelled E-A-E-A, but it is catchy with traditional poly rhythms and is a great earworm. Norway is a banger and who wouldn't want there to be a, Queen of Kings. France brings the combination of chanson and four on the floor disco and after 40 plus years it would be nice for them to win again but it won't be this time now these are what I think will be the top three and it will come down to mood on the night be it solidarity excitement or nostalgia we may see Europe solidifying behind ukraine in support of their heart of steel this is the broad political option and one which could come to fruition if most countries include them with eight or ten points each Excitement will see Finland driving the crowds wild with a not-so-traditional cha-cha-cha, who doesn't love someone wearing peak Eurovision fashion and drunkenly boxing their way onto the dance floor. Nostalgia will bring the return of the barefoot Eurovision queen Loreen with an almost-perfect pop song. The two-melody construction and repetition of line makes for something that's somehow already known by the time you get to the chorus. Phew, I will resume normal programming next time, but until then, remember, in parkrun life, all non-milestone clubs are unofficial and unsupported by parkrun, so stay tuned for future Club Corners.
Simon Mackley: And another great Club Corner, in inverted commas, from Rachel about Eurovision. Some interesting predictions there.
Melissa Ellis: What do you think, Mel? I think we're not the qualified ones to comment, Simon.
Simon Mackley: Correct. I am 100% on board with that.
Melissa Ellis: I think we need to defer this next week to Ollie for his, I don't know, his opinions or his wise comments, whatever.
Simon Mackley: Yes. I'm sure he has a swather of them.
Melissa Ellis: I like what you did there. The Office Lady will be so pleased. I know. Using swather again. All right.
Emails
Melissa Ellis: But Simon, we've got mail.
Simon Mackley: You've got mail. We do have mail. So we've got the final installment of the Jackson's World Tour. So they said, hello, Mel and Ollie and team. I'm not going to put my own name in there. Firstly, condolences for your loss, Mel. We've both had similar losses to Chico and feel your pain hugs from both of us. From Wales last week to USA this parkrun day, what an obsession we have. We flew from the UK to New York on Thursday, so we'd have time to check out logistics for this week's parkrun. After some research and a lot of walking, plus chatter with the ED Mike Driscoll at Delaware and Raritan Canal parkrun, we've got our ducks in line. Definitely duck weather. Pouring rain, but nevertheless, we set off at 6.30am for the first train heading towards New Brunswick, about an hour away. We had real concerns covering the 14 kilometres or so from the rail station to parkrun. But as soon as we came out of the station, a cabbie called out of his car window, are you doing that running thing at the canal?
Unidentified speaker: Sorted.
Simon Mackley: Can you imagine that? He looks for likely fares every week. That is awesome. That is very resourceful. So out to parkrun with Stuart Barton, a Pommie parkrunner we met on the train and got to parkrun at 8.35 for a 9am start. Still raining sideways, windy and 9 degrees Celsius, but a small cheery cohort at the start. A beautiful course, very flat, out and back on the trail next to the canal. Once done, we cheered everyone in, then arrangements made for lifts to the cafe for the five visitors, a highly recommended place halfway back to town, with a big table put aside just for parkrunners every week. Really one of the prettiest and friendliest parkruns with the nicest park faff afterwards. To top it all off, I managed to be the first finisher, and even better, Gem was right behind me as the first female and second finisher outright. Our very first, and likely only, Cornela. Third was Stuart from the train, and fourth was Tom Coyd, who, with his wife Geraldine, both UK tourists, joined us for the trek back to New York City. A brilliant closing parkrun for our tour, and in many ways we saved the best parkrun ever until last. Seven parkruns and four volleys. Magic.
Melissa Ellis: And, Simon, that's not all. I wonder if they've got some steak knives. But, so their final instalment of the final instalment, entitled World Tour Wrap-Up, And it reads, what an amazing trip we had. Running and volunteering at parkruns around the world made for brilliant backbone to many other activities all over the place. Every one of our seven different parkruns had a different facet of magic that certainly makes us want to explore even more parkruns, from our first junior parkrun on the Isle of Wight to an all-time top three favourite at Delaware and Raritan Canal with a breathtaking course and a super supportive team, to parkrun in Norway, getting organised just so we could get our parkrun fix, to the spa before Amsterdamse Bos parkrun in the Netherlands, more on this one later, and indelibly... Indel... Oh!
Simon Mackley: You got it right, indelibly.
Melissa Ellis: Okay, thank you. Imprinted in our memories. Back at our home parkrun in Bathurst yesterday as RDs to make up for our absence, a cold zero degrees morning, but welcome homes and the smiles and community we all have come to value at all parkruns. Now to a little housekeeping. Thanks for setting up the Punished team, the adventurers. Anyone joining that team can use the code ADVENTURER for a $5 discount. Sorry, Ollie, we will apply your discount some other way. Well, you can try, but he probably won't let you. You mentioned the Jacksons as a musical band. My middle name is Michael. I used to go to Japan regularly for work and almost every time customs there would look at me and say, Michael Jackson, I would always explain that I am the white sheep of the family. You have to see my hair. On the Eurovision front, we met up with a friend at parkrun, of course, who is a journalist with the BBC and she is heading for Liverpool to cover Eurovision. I mentioned Ollie's interest and our band Voyager and she will now make sure we get good coverage with the BBC at least. And while Dazza is hyping Naked Gardening Day, we haven't mentioned the Naked parkrun Eve park faff session in Amsterdam. The hotel nearest Amsterdamse Bos is also a massive spa facility with indoor and outdoor pools, a range of saunas and spas, and all sorts of wellness facilities. And five days a week, including every Friday, it is a Naked facility. With some trepidation, we joined about 80 others for a delightfully relaxing few hours in the facilities and even spoke of the next day's parkrun. No naked gardening, but plenty of naked testing of spas, saunas and pools with both indoors and out. An interesting option for an international palm. Knock. And yes, Mel, Hive Mind is a thing, made popular by Star Trek's Borg. So now we are listening with interest as to where Mel is adventuring next as we plan our next parkrun excursion, and currently New Zealand is high on the agenda. Cheers, Stephen and Jen. And I should also mention the list at the end says Bathurst, Edes, West Coast, Singapore, Amsterdamse Bos, Holland, Løvstien, Norway, Medina I.O.W., England, Medina Juniors, England, Severn Bridge, Wales, Delaware and Raritan Canal, USA. That's an extensive list.
Simon Mackley: That is. It's a massive journey.
Melissa Ellis: I don't know what the R and the V, Simon, what would that signify? I was trying to work that out.
Simon Mackley: Running and volunteering, I'm guessing.
Melissa Ellis: Oh, of course. Well done.
Simon Mackley: It literally just came to me because I was thinking the same thing and I'm like, oh, hang on, they did say they volunteered.
Melissa Ellis: We're not going to have naked palms, no.
Simon Mackley: No. No. Might only be attended by both Stephen and Jen.
Melissa Ellis: And probably Dazza. He doesn't mind a bit of nudity.
Simon Mackley: Fair enough. And we've got one more email. So this one's from Russell Johnson. So he said, adventurers. And this is very clever what he's done here. He said, I did King George V parkrun, better known as St. George parkrun Queensland three weeks ago. Then coincidentally ran at his son's event, King George VI or Bertie parkrun, better known as Albert parkrun last week. So it's quite neat to run at King Bertie's grandson's parkrun in Charleston South Australia on Coronation Day, as I'd rather be running parkrun than attending the coronation ceremony. Russ Johnson, parkrun adventurer, A815695.
Melissa Ellis: And Russ also sent us a photo of a shirt. He must have had it made, Simon. It's a white T-shirt, and on the front it's got a picture of a crown, and it says, Long Live the King. And on the back it says, Charleston parkrun 2023.
Simon Mackley: That's a lot of preparation.
Melissa Ellis: I know, but good on you, Russ, because, yeah, that's nifty. I like the link between the three kings.
Simon Mackley: Yeah. And St George parkrun is a long way out of Brisbane, five and a half hours, I think, to go from Queensland to Melbourne to then on to South Australia. That is phenomenal.
Melissa Ellis: He is one of Victoria's most prolific parkrun tourists, though, so not surprising.
Rachel: Fair enough.
Melissa Ellis: But thinking ahead, my little mind's racing, Simon, and it's thinking, do we have a William, can we link a William parkrun anywhere? Bill Rose Sports Complex?
Simon Mackley: Yeah. Is there one at Williamstown in Melbourne?
Melissa Ellis: Yeah, but it's Cyril Curtin.
Simon Mackley: Yeah, okay. Yeah, don't think that'll work.
Melissa Ellis: But anyway, that was a bit of fun. And so ends the connection to The Coronation. Did you watch it? Were you interested at all?
Simon Mackley: I was sitting there and watching who was coming in and where Harry was going to be sitting and that sort of thing. And I saw Sam Kerr come in with the, with the Australian flag and I was very impressed to see her.
Melissa Ellis: Well, I was sitting in the airport in Sydney watching a little bit on my phone with the free Wi-Fi. Okay. But I didn't see a lot. I thought Kate looked very pretty. That's my only comment.
Simon Mackley: Oh, yes. I didn't see, actually, I didn't even see her until the end. Sorry, until the next day, I mean. I hadn't seen her at all.
Melissa Ellis: And how well behaved are those children? I mean, seriously. I know that they're probably very highly trained to be obedient. Yes. Still, it's a big call. It is. The eyes of the world on you.
Marion: Exactly. Destined for greatness. Yes.
Melissa Ellis: Yeah, anyway.
Consolidated Club Report
Melissa Ellis: All righty, moving swiftly on, would you like to know about the Consolidated Club Report?
Simon Mackley: I would love to.
Melissa Ellis: I thought you would. So on Saturday, the 6th of May, 2023, of a total of 417 members, 320 took part at 172 locations. There was 24 locations in the UK, five in South Africa, two in the USA, and one each in Germany, Ireland and Italy. Locally, we had adventurers at 38 events in New South Wales, 37 events in Victoria, 31 in Queensland, 10 in WA and SA, 5 on the North Island, ACT and Tassie had three, and there was one on the South Island.
the Frond — Sandon Point parkrun
Melissa Ellis: The largest frond was this week at... Sandon Point. Yay. With seven adventurers, which were me, Chris and Kerry Fraser, Michael Gentle, Sam and Luke Schroder, and Karen Hamilton. Would have been more if we can get Ralph and Kaylee on board. And runners-up this week was Shellharbour with six.
Simon Mackley: That's because you took all the Shellharbour people to Sandon Point. Yeah.
Melissa Ellis: Maybe. We had also some launches this week. My eyes dart frantically for where I wrote it because I've skipped a line. Yes, so we had two launches in Australia this week with one in South Australia at Parkindula Reserve with 108 runners and Parkindula Reserve is in the Mount Barker vicinity, I believe, Simon. Yep. Two and a half or 2.3 k's from Mount Barker parkrun, it seems. Very good. And the other one took us all by surprise down in Tassie, O'Connors Beach, with 117 in attendance. And that is located in St. Helens, filling in a nice little gap there in northeast Tasmania. Yeah.
Simon Mackley: beautiful part of Tassie as well.
Melissa Ellis: Now I did my homework from last week Simon I was a bit curious about who was winning the launches in Australia so far this year and of course at the top with three launches so far is the greater state With Queensland, a healthy second. Yeah. South Australia also has two. So I guess they're equal second, really. But they only came equal this week with their new launch. And there has been one launch each in ACT, New South Wales, WA and Tasmania.
Simon Mackley: How far is Victoria off taking New South Wales as the second biggest parkrun state in the country? After Queensland, of course.
Melissa Ellis: Well, well, well. Funny you should mention that, Simon. So the informant informs me that both Victoria and New South Wales have each 104 open 5K parkruns.
Simon Mackley: Wow.
Melissa Ellis: Clearly making Victoria superior with their added military event and two junior parkrun courses to boot. Do you have... correctional centre ones in Victoria?
Simon Mackley: Absolutely do. And are they included in that number? Nope. Oh, okay. Wow. Because I didn't think New South Wales has any.
Melissa Ellis: Oh, well, there you go. Case closed.
Simon Mackley: Interesting.
Melissa Ellis: Hang on, just hang on, hang on, hang on. I'm just casting my fishing line. There it goes.
Simon Mackley: There you go. Okay, well, that is very interesting. I've actually been thinking about that for a couple of weeks. And yeah, I'm glad I asked the question.
Melissa Ellis: I like to come good with the stats. And yeah, the informant has been helping me behind the scenes.
Simon Mackley: Wonderful.
Melissa Ellis: So you thought they were gone, but no, they're still around.
Simon Mackley: I've seen them make little posts on Facebook occasionally. So I knew they were around. Probably on a deserted island somewhere, though.
Melissa Ellis: I wonder. Yeah, I'm still trying to find that out. If they're listening, I know they listen. They listen in the car. Oh, okay. So they'll have to send us some audio soon so we can get an update. But who we do have some audio from, Simon, is Cam. Now, Cam was very busy recently at UWA for Palm, interviewing lots of people, and he sent us all the files all at once.
Unidentified speaker: Okay.
Melissa Ellis: And we've got so many. I was like, hmm, how are we going to deal with all these little snippets? So I thought what we might do is at the end of every episode, after the finished music, I might just chuck one in so that we can just have a little bit of a sample, if you like.
Simon Mackley: That'd be awesome, especially for those of us that weren't there.
Sign-off
Melissa Ellis: Yeah, so look out for those over the next couple of weeks. They'll get thrown in. But next parkrun day, Simon, what's your plans?
Simon Mackley: I'm a little unknown at the moment. I have a little bit of a quandary. Yeah, my little quandary is that I've got a tourist streak going since the 1st of January. And those events are getting further and further away. Happens to the best of us. I'm sure it does. I'm sure you've had this problem many a time. So I'm in two minds. I could go back to Redland Bay, which is only two and a half k's away, or I could go somewhere that's close to Jackson's soccer game, which is a little later on Saturday morning. So I don't know at this stage is my answer.
Melissa Ellis: But are either of those two a new event for you?
Simon Mackley: No. Redland Bay would be a return and a return during this touristing streak. But one closer to the game could very well be a tourist one.
Melissa Ellis: So your touristing streak doesn't have to be a brand new event. It can be a repeat as long as it isn't included in. Yes. You haven't done it for ages.
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Simon Mackley: Yeah. So I started it with Lota on the 1st of January. And I went to, I think, Scribbly Gum or – so, yeah, I've been to events that I've been to before, but within the tourist streak, it only has to – you can't repeat one in that streak.
Melissa Ellis: Oh, no, no. That sounds like cheating. Why? Because how can it be a tourist streak if you're going back to an event you've already done?
Simon Mackley: But you're still touristing to it.
Melissa Ellis: Yeah, I'm not convinced.
Simon Mackley: Mel, I looked up your stats for your tourist streak.
Melissa Ellis: Oh, wow.
Simon Mackley: Really? Because I wondered how far I was behind you.
Melissa Ellis: I probably haven't got a streak.
Simon Mackley: You do. Your streak was 35.
Melissa Ellis: Oh, is that my biggest one?
Simon Mackley: You didn't go back to another, yeah, the same event.
Melissa Ellis: But that was years ago, wasn't it? That probably was.
Simon Mackley: Probably was.
Melissa Ellis: Yeah, that would have been when I was chasing statesmanship. Yeah. Spent a whole year travelling Victoria.
Simon Mackley: And it also depends if you include your volunteering in there as well.
Melissa Ellis: Okay. I've got that switched off on my 5K app.
Simon Mackley: Ah, okay. Fair enough.
Melissa Ellis: Interesting. Well, I actually don't know where I'm going this weekend. I have a pretty strong feeling I will end up at Tallangatta Station.
Simon Mackley: Oh, that's a new one for you, right?
Melissa Ellis: Yeah. It should be event three, so I won't get another two. Okay. Yeah, so anyway, that's about it. I don't have anything else to add. But I would like to say a very thank you, a very big thank you even to you, Simon, for stepping in today for Ollie.
Simon Mackley: My pleasure. I always like to do it. Excellent. One day I'd like to do it with Ollie, though. That's not going to happen.
Unidentified speaker: No, no, no. Okay.
Simon Mackley: I only get the good half every time.
Melissa Ellis: Pedaling, pedaling, pedaling. Yeah, but see, the problem is that I do all the editing.
Simon Mackley: I know. Exactly.
Melissa Ellis: When I can't do it, it tends to be no pod.
Simon Mackley: Yeah, fair enough.
Melissa Ellis: But maybe one day I'll be gracious and step down and just do the editing and let some other people have the fun.
Marion: I'm only kidding.
Melissa Ellis: Anyway, all right. Well, you have a good week. I hope you have no medical emergencies.
Simon Mackley: Me too.
Melissa Ellis: Enjoy your parkrun day and as always, everyone, you can contact us via Facebook or our email, which is parkrunadventurers at gmail.com. That's it for another week. We'll see you all next week for more adventures.
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Alison Fraser (King): Well this morning I'm here with Alison and Axel.
Cameron Drake: Nice to meet you gang. Now Alison, where are you hailed from?
Alison Fraser (King): My home parkrun is Puarenga parkrun in Rotorua, New Zealand.
Cameron Drake: Wow, so you've travelled a bit to get here today?
Alison Fraser (King): Just a little bit.
Cameron Drake: Now you told me earlier that you were up for a bit of a special kind of accomplishment that you don't think anyone else in the world has actually done. What was it?
Alison Fraser (King): I've run all four of the parkruns in the world that start with the word university.
Cameron Drake: That deserves congratulation. Big clap everyone. Come on.
Alison Fraser (King): Thank you.
Cameron Drake: Love a bit of audience participation. Well done. So I guess that means Axel's done all the university parkruns as well?
Alison Fraser (King): No, he's done this one and none of the others. No, I've done the Waikato one. Oh, he's volunteered at University of Waikato.
Cameron Drake: Totally counts. Yeah. Oh, well done, gang. All right, well, we'll see you inside for Palm and I'll let you get on with a bit of running like you said you were threatening to do.
Alison Fraser (King): Thank you.