Episode 445 - Rainbows, Recordings and the Riesling Trail

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00:00:00[intro theme playing]

00:00:29Sarah Jefferson: Welcome to episode 445 of the parkrun Adventurers podcast. A podcast about life, if your life is all about parkrun. My name is Sarah Jefferson and today I am coming to you live from Clare Valley in South Australia. Clare Valley is on the lands of the Ngadjuri people. The local people are referred to the Peppermint Gum people or the Hill people. So everyone, welcome to Palm 26. I will now get our hosts to introduce themselves so you can all put a face to a name.

00:01:11Tony O'Connell: This is not the running order, but I'm going to go first. My name's TOC, for those that don't know me. I think I know most of the people in the room, although I have met a couple. I'm from Inverloch. Inverloch's always sunny. I'm from the greatest state, where we... Exactly the reaction I was hoping to get. Thank you, everyone. Yeah, that's probably enough about me.

00:01:32Lyndell Murray: My name's Lyndell, and I'm from Meanjin, Brisbane. I'm a newly promoted host, so thank you for having me. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

00:01:42Simon Mackley: And I'm Simon from Redland Bay parkrun, probably my closest, on Quandamooka Country.

00:01:51Tony O'Connell: And of course, we all know our other host, Melissa. Melissa's just done two weeks up in the Northern Territory and stretching it out for the third week is probably going to be a little bit difficult to be away from home. So a big round of applause for Melissa.

00:02:09Lyndell Murray: We have a few more formalities to get through, so I'd like to welcome up our office staff, Sam Schroeder.

00:02:14Tony O'Connell: No, that needs to come up, Sam. And Dave Bravos.

00:02:29Lyndell Murray: These guys do so much for us so that we can deliver the pod to you every week. I can tell you just from my few weeks in the office chat, these guys do a tremendous amount for us. I cannot thank you both enough for everything that you do for the podcast. I'd also like to thank Belinda for all the work she does on the Consolidated Club report. host Sarah Jansa who is here in person whenever we have to pronounce anything in German she comes in so hopefully we haven't forgotten everybody but thank you everybody for everything that you do for us to help us

00:03:25Simon Mackley: Alrighty, so we're going to bring up our one and only regular reporter in attendance today. So Tracy, could you please come up? Tracy Wood, otherwise known as Tracy and Tutu.

00:03:42Unidentified speaker: We've got Paul Kitching, otherwise known as PK from South Australia, David Messenger, WA, Bert Turner, ACT, Alison Key, New Zealand, Callum Burrell, UK, Ruth Perkins, UK, Johan from South Africa. And Ellie Shepherd from the UK. Can we give them all a round of applause?

00:04:00[laughter]

00:04:21Unidentified speaker: when they tell you you've got to jog two seconds before you have to do it. Office lady would like to thank the amazing Clare Valley parkrun team from this morning. I know a lot of us jumped on the volley team, but RD Sheridan and the rest of the locals who were the volunteer team. Hey, Sheridan. I can see her over there. You guys absolutely rocked. Thank you for making us all feel so welcome. Thank you for coping with what was an enormous influx of numbers this morning. We felt incredibly welcome. You have a beautiful community here. Thank you for sharing your parkrun with us.

00:04:57Dave: I've got a special one too. Big thank you to all the wonderful people who made the journey over to Palm. and another one for all the lovely listeners, everyone who's here in spirit and in ear, but not here.

00:05:19Tony O'Connell: Right, as is tradition at our palm events, we're going to do a bit of a show of hands of who's been to which palms and how many. As we all know, this is palm number nine, and I'd like to acknowledge the people that set it up. Principally, Gary Murphy set it up. So Murph set this up nine years ago with Mel and Scotty at the time, the original Mel, Mel Erbacher, and Scotty Trickett, who we all know. So can I have a show of hands? Who was at the 2018 Shellharbour Palm? Okay, that wasn't many. I thought there was more. 2019, we're at the beaches. A few more, looking better. 2020 was Mount Barker. 2021, we travelled up to Fluffyville, to Nambour. A bit of a drop off there. 2022 was Bellerive in Tassie. A few more in Tassie. 2023, we ventured over to West is Best, apparently.

00:06:11Lyndell Murray: LAUGHTER

00:06:11[crosstalk]

00:06:13Tony O'Connell: That was the University of WA. 2024, we went and visited Eman and Christine up at South Toowoomba. Yeah, a few more there. 2025 was Queenstown, a few more. Oh, a few there, that's good. And 2026, who was at Clare Valley? because if you hadn't put your hand up, I was going to worry about that. So we've had nine palms. I think there's only a couple of us that have been to all nine, but hopefully everyone has a great time at Palm and next year rocks along to Palm 10, wherever that's going to be. And that won't be announced for, It's not happening. Rightio, on with the show.

00:06:56Sarah Jefferson: All right. So I have the job today of describing our beautiful course this morning. So the Clear Valley parkrun starts on the Riesling Trail. Runners and walkers proceed north for approximately 200 metres and turn at a marker and then follow the trail south. to Sevenhill Cellars for approximately 2.7 kilometres. We ran past some beautiful sculptures and there were some grapes growing on the vine as well. We then returned north along the trail finishing back at the gate to the Clare Showground. So you could say that this course is nearly an out and back course and it is a mixture of gravel paths and trail. Some of the sections may accumulate mud, leaves and puddles after the rain. So fortunately that wasn't us today, but it is a very scenic course for sure.

00:07:41Simon Mackley: Okay, so today we pretty much doubled their normal attendance. So there was 105 finishers and 13 volunteers supported. So that was awesome.

00:07:50Lyndell Murray: And lastly from Clare Valley, I have a fun fact about Clare Valley. There is in fact one parkrunner registered with the name of Clare Valley. They are from the west side actually and their home parkrun is Mount Clarence. Okay, now we would normally go to our Dazza's section but Dazza is on holidays this week. But we do have a few people who have volunteered to tell us about their parkrun morning. So can I have our Dazza's volunteer number one please coming up?

Dazza's

00:08:23Helen: I'm from Yackandandah Rail Trail parkrun in the North East of Victoria.

00:08:30Tony O'Connell: The greatest day. Yeah.

00:08:32Helen: Debatable. This morning's parkrun I really enjoyed because I think I talked 90% of the way with the lovely Val. So that made a lovely parkrun morning for me. It was a nice trail, nice views, but mostly nice talk.

00:08:55Lyndell Murray: Thanks Helen. Okay, can we have our Daz's number two volunteer ready to go?

00:08:59Bianca: Hello, my name is Bianca and my home parkrun is Parramatta but I do prefer Wentworth Common and the parkrun today was beautiful and I took full advantage of going up and then turning around and coming down and got my parkrun PB today.

00:09:24Lyndell Murray: Okay, last but not least, our Dazza's number three volunteer. Good luck topping that PB effort.

00:09:30David: I can't top the PB effort. Bianca said she told me last night that she was tapering for a run. She can't really weather taper. But Bianca's right, it's a gorgeous parkrun. I'm the same. I love a gentle up because it feels like a really good downhill. We came here last year and did it as a green run, but this year it's a proper run now and I... I think I have to put this into my top 10, which is currently a 15, but I'm putting it in my top 10. I'm not sure where it ranks. Sonia and Peter may be in trouble, but the beaches might be under threat.

00:10:14Lyndell Murray: Thank you. And just lastly, where does the chap come from?

00:10:17David: I'm from Newy, sorry.

00:10:19Lyndell Murray: And your name? David, sorry. Thank you, David. That was David from Newy.

00:10:24Tony O'Connell: Well, we only had three per pan, but there's an extra gentleman here I'd like to call up. He did his 250 today, and I'd like him to come up to the front. Andrew. While he's working up, I'd like you to come over to Jackson. Jackson ran about four and a half. What's your name, your home parkrun, and what did you think of today, given you ran your 250 at the lovely Clare Valley? All right, I'm Andrew Blander. My home parkrun is Cooks River in Sydney. I chose this political location to do my 250th. I manipulated it slightly so I could do it this week and not last week, because I knew there'd be a bunch of my friends here that can all celebrate here with me. Congratulations, Andrew. It was great to see you come in, and I look forward to seeing you in Green.

Launches and anniversaries ("Where is the cake?")

00:11:15Sarah Jefferson: Okay, now it's time for launches. However, in Australia and New Zealand, it is obviously still Saturday. And at this point in time, we have checked the website. It looks to be no launches in Australia so far today.

00:11:28Tony O'Connell: And I should also add that makes it Australia, New Zealand, Japan and everywhere else. It's pretty close to our time zone. So it doesn't look like there's much happening in parkrunville other than palms.

00:11:40Lyndell Murray: Okay, we're going to take a little break now. So we would encourage you to also take a break. Please support the Clare Rise Bakery and also Greg Cooley Wines who are having us here today. So grab something and have a quick chat and we'll be back with you shortly.

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00:12:10Tony O'Connell: There's a little magic countdown there, something that we go through every week. We know not to speak over it and cut ourselves off, but inevitably it's probably me that does that. Righty-o, we're going to kick off. Today we're hosted by Clare Valley and we've got two of the team here and I'd like to call them up. Can I have Sheridan and Sue come up, please? As they're walking up, just a few background bits and pieces. Sheridan has 218 runs to her name at 27 locations and a whopping 215 volunteers. Sue, on the other hand, has 182 runs at 16 different locations with a whopping 304 volunteers.

00:12:15[laughter]

Meet the ED

00:13:05Lyndell Murray: Absolutely. A very warm welcome. Thank you so much, not only for having us this morning, but also for coming along this afternoon and for witnessing what is the parkrun Adventurers podcast recording. So firstly, Sheridan, you were today's run director. How did it go from your perspective this morning?

00:13:22Sheridan Laws: Well, I'm actually blown away by you guys. Like, everyone offered to help everyone was thanking me for hosting today you guys are so friendly we had hardly any locals there so thank you so much for coming i think it went really smoothly the results were perfect there was no no incidents so what more can you ask for i'll let you know a little secret at the pub last night i was talking to a local and he said oh my god there's gonna be a crowd i'm not going tomorrow

00:13:53Tony O'Connell: Sheridan, as event director at Clare Valley, can you tell us a little bit about your parkrun journey and how you got involved with Clare Valley?

00:14:00Sheridan Laws: My first parkrun was at Torrens in June 2014, way before Clare Valley started. I was training for a half marathon, just getting into running, and I found out about parkrun on the social media, like you all do, and took myself along and had an absolutely fantastic time. I think it's still my PB, actually, so I must have been super excited to be here. I then did a second parkrun at Rockingham in Western Australia when I was on holiday. Still, again, before Clare Valley started. And then I went along to the second Clare Valley event. So I wasn't actually involved in starting Clare Valley. That was organised by someone who doesn't live in Clare anymore. And then I took over as event director about 18 months after it started and I'm still event director. We've been event directors together since 2018. Brilliant.

00:14:45[crosstalk]

00:14:55Lyndell Murray: Now I'm just going to recap on Toc's excellent stats that he had on you and I just note that your volunteer ratio is very, very high. I'm not a mathematician but it's pretty close to 100%. What volunteer role do you enjoy the most? What do you really, what do you like most about volunteering and is there a role in particular that you love doing the most?

00:15:18Sheridan Laws: Obviously I love being the run director. Just a little bit of a control freak. I have no idea how many run directors I've done. I do enjoy it. I love chatting to people. I want to make sure that everyone who comes to Clare Valley has the best time, goes away, tells all their friends that Clare Valley is their best home. I love volunteering. I love giving back to my community. We have a very tight core people at Clare Valley who come to the bakery every week so I just yeah I love spending time with those guys. When I got involved my husband was a FIFO worker, had two small kids, sometimes Saturday parkrun was the only adult conversation I would have all weekend so these guys are like my second family, Sue is like part of my family. Yeah just love volunteering at Clare Valley.

00:16:09Tony O'Connell: OK, Sue, over to you. You're one of the run directors at Clare Valley. What got you involved in parkrun?

00:16:15Sue Mayfield: Probably through my other half, Alan, who's not here today because he's in Canberra at the National Australian... Athletics Championships and he would love to be here because as Sheridan said he loves talking to people especially people who run so he was the one who got me into it simply because he was and still is involved, very involved, with looking after the Riesling Trail; he's the chairman of the Riesling Trail committee — it's all done by volunteers, the Riesling Trail And I don't see him very much because he spends an awful lot of time out there on the trail making it look good for people like you. So I started at the second event in 2016 and I've been involved ever since. And then I got to a stakeholder. I loved volunteering because I just love to be out there helping people. And I really enjoy it. So I thought I'd just go for the... I'm heading towards 500, of course. It might take me four more years. Hopefully I'll get there. I can always sit down and do my job.

00:17:18Lyndell Murray: It's a great thing about parkrun, isn't it? There's always a place for everybody. So I'm sure we will be volunteering for many years to come. Please don't let age be a problem. Now, Sue, we noticed that you have run in a few different countries as well as international world tours. So Sweden, England and of course Australia you've run in. So one of the questions that we ask very frequently when we're out speaking to people at events is whether they have a particular form of memory, a particular event that really stands out in your memory as being really memorable for whatever reason. There was one that stands out and that was a paddock that we had to run through in England and it was full of cow pats.

00:18:12Sue Mayfield: There were actually cows there which on the bridge we had to go over a bridge and I had to get them off the bridge before we could actually go across it. But that was very memorable. It was just lovely. I've done several over there and a lot of the travelling that we do is to do with Alan's involvement in the Masters Athletics and he just competes all over the world.

00:18:39Tony O'Connell: Between the two of you, you have some really impressive volunteer stats. But Sue, volunteering 304 times in your local parkrun, what is it about volunteering that keeps you coming back? I mean, we've heard about almost family connections, and I think a lot of us experience that in our own parkruns. But what is it that draws you back to Clare Valley every week?

00:18:59Sue Mayfield: Well, it's the people who get involved and the people who run or walk, and they're also enthusiastic about getting their numbers up. And I keep thinking, well, I have to volunteer so that they can do it.

00:19:16Lyndell Murray: Great answer. Okay, this next question I'll throw up to the children. We have heard quite a bit about Clare Valley Park already, but as the locals, why should our adventurers who are at home listening to this podcast, and for whatever reason we're not able to make it here to be with us for the recording, and for Palm 26, why should they put Clare Valley on their list? Have a bridge. LAUGHTER

00:19:41[crosstalk]

00:19:46Sheridan Laws: I think adventure is like a bridge. We're small, we average 60 to 70 each week, and I think that enables you to come, get to know the team, chat to some of the locals, we can give you the hot tips on the wineries, where to go, yeah, and it's a railway trail. I mean, who doesn't love running on a trail? We've got it all.

00:20:08Lyndell Murray: Wine and trails, I'd sign up for that any time. How about you, Sue?

00:20:12Sue Mayfield: Yes, well, it's just such a beautiful place to live. I've lived here for over 40 years now, having been raised in Adelaide, and I couldn't go back and live in the city anymore. And I just love where I live, and I just want to tell people it's a great place. place to come and enjoy. Plenty of places for you to stay when you come and you'll be very much welcomed at our parkrun. We've been told so many times that we're very friendly and when I went to my first parkrun that wasn't the Clare Valley one I thought why aren't these people coming up and talking to me and saying welcome to our parkrun. where it doesn't happen obviously in other places they have too many people. But here, certainly back in the early days, we were just a very small group and we still are. And we'd love to have anyone from anywhere come here.

00:20:59Tony O'Connell: Thanks for that. I think we'd all have to agree it was a pretty stunning course out there. of a bridge and you almost live on top of the bridge Sheridan so you've got it all you've got the trail of the bridge and all that going on but if you had a magic wand or a genie in the bottle and you could pick a location and a parkrun wish anywhere where would you go outside of Clare Valley which of course is your home right where would you pick to go in the world for a parkrun and why? That is very easy for me. I want to go to Bushy.

00:21:33Sheridan Laws: Over a thousand people there each week. I mean, compared to 60 to 70, I've got to experience that. So that is on my bucket list. Hopefully, when my son finishes year 12, we are going. That's easy.

00:21:47Tony O'Connell: That's super. It's been your bucket list trip.

00:21:50Sue Mayfield: I would love to do a parkrun in Munich because my sister lives there. She's married to a German and I know that they have at least one there and they actually came and visited us last week. They're in Adelaide for a few months and I would really love to go there and do it with them because they haven't actually done their first parkrun yet.

00:22:10Helen: I got them to register that they haven't done their first parkrun yet.

00:22:19Tony O'Connell: up the front with us. Is there anything else you're busting to tell us about Clare Valley before we wrap it up? I don't think you've got enough time. We just love it so much here. I can understand that too. Look, on behalf of everyone that's run today and everyone that's run in the past and in the future, we'd like to thank you guys for what you do for parkrun. Sensational. Lots more community parkruns I feel a greater connection with them than some of the bigger city events. I just feel there's a really great, you know, people can sit around and talk afterwards and all that sort of thing. And I think that's a really important thing. We all recognise that with parkrun. So thank you guys for what you do for parkrun.

00:22:25[laughter]

Quiz time — Philstad (leading on six points at the final score readout; no explicit winner announcement recorded)

00:23:05Simon Mackley: so it's quiz time the time that i love of the year even if i'm not here before we introduce the contestants which we do have four of them i just want to give you some of the rules and what's coming up so there's a mixture of question types some of them are multiple choice there's a who am i there's a where am i some are a higher or lower and some are just a straight out answer that i'm needing there'll be one point for a correct answer in a multiple choice if the first person doesn't get we'll go to a second person but you'll need to buzz whatever we'll give the instruments out in a minute if it comes down to a tie i do have a tiebreaker question now for the audience no cheating It's really hard standing up here knowing the answer, but you just can't think of it. I've been in the position myself earlier on in the second palm. So yeah, please don't yell the answer out. Try and let the contestants actually do it. We do have a referee who will be watching out, and I think you're very well aware that Sam has a very loud voice. So be careful. For the contestants, please wait for the microphone to get to you before you answer because we're only going to have one microphone amongst the contestants. Without further ado, Sarah's going to introduce the contestant.

00:24:12Sarah Jefferson: Okay, contestant number one, representing the West Side. This person has completed 488 parkruns with the quickest being 20 minutes and 8 seconds. He has six country flags to his name and is also known as Philstad. Welcome to school. Contestant number two, representing New South Wales, we have someone who has run Bushy parkrun and at 75 locations in three different countries. This female has completed 264 parkruns and apparently has a porn name. It's Leigh Caprita. Representing South Australia, we have someone who was born in this state but now resides in a much more humid climate. She has a 50% volunteer ratio and has completed 223 parkruns at 124 locations. With a current tourist streak of 32, we welcome Cherie Martin. And our final contestant today, contestant number four, representing Queensland, we have a man who dedicates his life to parkrun quite literally. His best finished position is one and has a PB of 18.47. He has a current tourist streak of 146 and a Wilson Index of 205 and has his next few years mapped out, ticking off one parkrun at a time, is Ryan Stoddard.

00:24:55[background music]

00:26:02Simon Mackley: Okay, can we test the buzzers first, Chris? Yeah, that's nice.

00:26:06Sue Mayfield: Yep.

00:26:08Simon Mackley: Well done. All right.

00:26:09Unidentified speaker: Yeah, that's good.

00:26:13Simon Mackley: So, first question. How many SA statesmen were there as at last weekend? This is multiple choice. A, 100. B, 105. C, 106. Or D, 109. Okay. Incorrect. No.

00:26:32Bianca: Oh, well chosen.

00:26:35Simon Mackley: One and gone. Well done. Which was the last SA event to launch?

00:26:45[crosstalk]

00:26:47Sue Mayfield: Drave. Drave Reserve.

00:26:48Simon Mackley: Perfect. Okay, which roving reporter has a middle name that's spelt Clare, C-L-A-R-E? Is it Ruth Perkins, Calum Burrell, Tracey Wood or Alison Fraser?

00:27:04Tony O'Connell: Ali Fraser.

00:27:05Simon Mackley: It is Ali Fraser. Well done. What number token was taken by our tail walker, that's a lot of T's, at Collier Valley Park?

00:27:16Dave: 105.

00:27:17Simon Mackley: Well done. That was B. I was going to give you multiple choice. There are four parkruns in Australia that start with the letter V. Please name two of them.

00:27:28David: Victor Harbor in SA and Victory Hollows.

00:27:31Simon Mackley: Well done. The other two were Varsity Lakes and... is what is Clear Valley's attendance record? I think it's 145. Incorrect. 105. 105 is incorrect.

00:27:46Unidentified speaker: 146. Close.

00:27:47Unidentified speaker: 147. 147.

00:28:03Chris: Phil's dad on three points. Lee on no points. Cherie is on one point and Ryan is on two points.

00:28:11Simon Mackley: Thank you. All righty, we're going into, this is an under or over. It's just under or over. So hopefully first person gets it. So Madeline Heiner, who's the Aussie Olympian and Shell Harbour's own. is the fastest female on the Clear Valley course. Is her time over or under 17 minutes?

00:28:35[background music]

00:28:36Sue Mayfield: Under.

00:28:37Simon Mackley: Incorrect. So her time is 17.16. So all of you who ran that today, you can imagine how quick that is. On the male side, an elite distance runner, Wiley Cox, Under or over 15 minutes? Under. It is under. So he ran a 14.58 on that course. And as I say, elite distance run. How much are slash were the parkrun adventure buff not including postage? This is not for sure.

00:29:19Unidentified speaker: 12 bucks.

00:29:20Simon Mackley: 12 bucks.

00:29:25Helen: And Lee's on the comeback team.

00:29:29Chris: Phil's dad on four points, Lee on two points, Sheree on one point, and Ryan on two points.

00:29:36[crosstalk]

00:29:37Simon Mackley: Not very competitive there, Chris. Okay, we're going to a Who Am I? So jump in whenever you get it. I've participated in five countries. I've completed almost 400 parkruns at 225 locations. I have over 50 volunteers at 30 locations to my name. My home parkrun is The Ponds. I've not missed a parkrun day this year, including New Year's Day. I'm a regular at Dazzles. My name is an alliteration. While it's a different spelling, my first name is shared with today's event. My husband's name is Jack. I didn't have any more questions. So let's just move on. It was Claire Corkle. Alrighty, so we've got some bonus points up for grabs here. So those of you who are a little behind, you might make it up. I'll give you a point each for every correct answer. So currently there are seven parkruns in four countries around the world that contain the word Claire. So C-L-A-R-E in that order. Name a country that they appear in. Australia. Well done. So that knocks Clare Valley, Mount Clarence and Lake Claremont. There's three more countries. Well done. Ireland. Ireland, yes. Ireland has Claremorris. England. England, yep. So England has Clare Castle and Clarence. And there's one more. Wales. No.

00:30:15[laughter]

00:31:17Unidentified speaker: Scotland. No.

00:31:18Simon Mackley: America. No. Not New Zealand. It's another big parkrun country. South Africa. Well done.

00:31:34Chris: You can get those points.

00:31:37Simon Mackley: Before we go to the last question, let's do a score update.

00:31:40Chris: We have Sri on one point. Lee on two points. Rowan on three points. And Phil's dad on six points. Oh!

00:31:52Simon Mackley: Should I even go to this last question, which is worth one point?

00:31:56David: Maybe worth five.

00:31:59Simon Mackley: My course is 5,000 metres long.

00:32:02Unidentified speaker: I think I know it.

00:32:05Simon Mackley: I'm located in the capital city. I was the 18th event to launch in Australia. I'm an out-and-back course run on paved path. Sarah has recently been there and walked a dog. Torrens parkrun. It is Torrens parkrun. We're not going to a tiebreaker. So I just want to thank Stephen Davis, who made the trophy for today, the Dads' Trophy. So thank you very much, Stephen.

00:32:31Sarah Jefferson: We also have a few prizes for our contestants. Thank you for stepping up today. So you can all fight for which one you would like. But there is a range of Plant Valley tea towel. We have an Adventurers buff worth $12. LAUGHTER

00:32:46Tony O'Connell: Come and see me up if you want to vibe up.

00:32:48Sarah Jefferson: A local olive oil. Stubby cooler. And a Clare Valley fridge magnet. Yes, let's give all the contestants a round of applause.

00:33:00Tony O'Connell: Righto, guys, we're getting a little bit towards the end of the show. We've got a few thank yous. I would like to thank Mel and all the Roving reporters for the contribution that they do. I think we all agree, like, it was just us talking heads up there every week. I don't think we'd have some of the colour and flavour of parkrun that we get by having... Roving reporters come to us from Australia, New Zealand and all around the world. I think it's a really key part to the podcast. And I'd like to thank the people that send them in and encourage anyone, grab a phone, record and flick it in. We love to get reports from different places and different experiences. You know, if you run into someone that's got a really unique tale or something funny happens or something, give us a quick recording and shoot it in. We'd love to have them. And as I said earlier, a big thank you to Mel for all she does for the podcast.

00:33:52Lyndell Murray: And I'd also like to thank, once again, Claire Rye's Bakery for keeping us carved up and Greg Cooley Wines for keeping us hydrated and lubricated.

00:34:05Tony O'Connell: Right, just a quick one. We normally do a bit of an audience participation. Are there any burning questions out there that you've got about the podcast, life, the universe? 42 is the answer. Are there any questions anyone would like to come up and ask?

00:34:19Sue Mayfield: Just give us an idea how you do the podcast when you're not all together, that you're in different states.

00:34:24Sarah Jefferson: I'll answer for Simon and myself. So we have a two-hour time difference. So normally for me it's about five o'clock we meet and we probably chat for about an hour. before we think oh we better give the record button but we have video that we can see each other we often give each other oh dear we said the wrong thing fortunately we're able to also let our editors know if we do sort of make a blunder but we do also record in three different segments so just like today when we had an intermission we will have three breaks throughout and we use recording software that we've got up here called riverside so we've gone through about

00:35:01Tony O'Connell: we keep constantly staring at it because after last year where we had the internet drop out and it flatlined and we didn't realize we keep yes it's still recording one of the keys to what i think we do is we have a set of show notes and it's just bullet points we don't like to script too much we we're a little bit off the cuff but we have some show notes And I think everyone in the team jumps in and fills out bits and pieces on it. So it's a bit of a collaborative effort. Even on the weeks where you're not on, you're quite often, if something comes up that's interesting or, you know, sometimes different people jump in and do the stats. We've acknowledged Belinda for doing the consolidated club report. Belinda jumps in and does all that consolidated club report into the stats for us, which saves us a huge amount of time. We jump in and help each other out with things like launches and all that sort of thing. So it really is a team effort. It does take... Like if you're going to sit down and do a set of show notes, I'd hate to think how long it's going to take to do. But with the team behind it, it's pretty good. And we quite often, not too often, but occasionally put a little hook in for the team that's coming up after. You might put something in the show notes and hope that they accidentally read it out without knowing. It gets picked up a lot of the time.

00:36:10[laughter]

00:36:13Simon Mackley: It's always about the greatest state.

00:36:16Tony O'Connell: From there, we whack it into a folder and comes Dave's problem. But that's not the only thing that then goes on. Sam does the artwork for the pod release. We have show notes to this. You write up your little bit of a blurb and all that sort of thing. I find that's probably the hardest bit for me to do right under the show description because I'm not creative with that sort of thing. These guys are really good at it. Just things like that that are constantly going on in the weeks you record. We do it because we love it. You know, it's really good. We love things like this where people sit here and actually listen to us paddle on forever.

00:36:52Sarah Jefferson: you do it anyway i think probably there's about would you say about three to four hours prep before we record as well so the weekend and four hours of editing so there is quite a lot of work that does go into it behind the scenes so after last episode did thomas join you i haven't looked that's a great question i will let you know okay thank you thanks for the homework Any other questions while I do my homework? We all love the TV bloopers, so I'd just like to know if David has any bloopers here.

00:37:10[laughter]

00:37:28Dave: Let's just say that none of these people are going to give me any trouble.

00:37:41Sarah Jefferson: to dave because we just decided to redo it we did the whole first part again which there was a lot of indeeds in there i'll tell you right now so thomas hasn't joined the adventurers so if anyone out there knows thomas does anyone know thomas martin great that's giving a kick and getting to join the adventure not a physical kick and that probably goes for a lot of other people it's interesting to watch the numbers on the parkrun adventures we're actually one of the bigger

00:38:08Tony O'Connell: compared to some of the very active parkrun clubs that are out there. We actually have a bigger membership, which is quite interesting. We have a lot more adventurous members than we have people that download the podcast.

00:38:19Sarah Jefferson: All right, so if there's no more questions, Toc, where are you going to be next week?

00:38:24Tony O'Connell: At this stage, I'm looking at going to Victory Road, the new V in Victoria, the great estate, have I mentioned that?

00:38:31Dave: Going to catch up one more on statesmanship.

00:38:34Tony O'Connell: Yeah, we've got a couple to go, and there's always a few more coming up, so it'll be good to catch up on more. So we're off to Victory Road. Sarah, how about you?

00:38:42Sarah Jefferson: I will be back on the west side. I will either be back home at Cottesloe or South Beach Recreation Reserve parkrun to get my swim in. There's only a few more weeks, I think, that I'll be keen to jump in the ocean. Simon, what about you?

00:38:55Simon Mackley: Right, I'm heading to... Well, I was heading to Gainsborough parkruns when we wrote this, but the ambassador meet-up has been moved to Callanvale. So that's where I'll be next week.

00:39:05Lyndell Murray: And I will be on the bench next week. My officiating duties take me up to the middle of our triathlon and I will not get a parkrun in next week.

00:39:13Tony O'Connell: And I think it's important to mention that Lyndell is still on the tourist route, so she's still doing really well with that. Next fortnight, Mel and I are back working from home to produce another episode.

00:39:24Lyndell Murray: And as always, you can contact us via parkrun Adventures on Facebook or our email, which is parkrunadventures at gmail.com. That's it for another podcast. Thank you, everybody. And we'll see you all really soon for more Parkland Adventures.

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