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Join parkrun adventurers Mel and Ollie as they seek free, weekly, timed, 5km parkrun adventures across the globe. Bringing you all the fun and latest news from the parkrun community as they navigate the Australian landscape, this is a parkrun adventure you won’t want to miss.
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Episode 378 - Run the World
It’s a blue moon pod – which means Olly is back to join Mel at Level 2 and bring us up to date on Disney princesses, Welsh launches and sailing. If that isn’t exciting enough – TOC slips in the back door to chat to Run the World creator, Travis Ireland, giving insight into how the innovative platform was created and his journey to find love for parkrun. Rachel dips her toes in the water, Dazza goes bat crazy, and Tassie seems to be the place to be. Tune in…
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Episode 377 - Purple Patches
Back to regular programming at Level Two with a View with Mel upping her p-index at Wilson Botanic parkrun while TOC was offering auroras with the sunshine over at the Stump. We chat about the new ED/EA volunteer credits, discuss the Voronoi map, cover May celebrations with the birthday boy, catch up on a swather of launches plus… Johan reports from Piggly Wiggly, Lyndell splits herself between Oakey and Capestone Lake and Marvellous Mark shuns Bushy for Gunnersbury parkrun. Tune in to find out why!
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Episode 376 - palm24
It’s PALM24 week, where Mel, Olly, TOC and Simon are joined by a crowd of listeners for a live recording of the pod. After a recap of the morning, Olly chatted with Eman, our on-the-ground PALM organiser, South Toowoomba RD and all-round-good-guy, while Mel interviewed Robbie Hawkswell, founding co-event director and video content creator extraordinaire. Simon was back at the helm of the annual quiz and TOC made a surprise announcement. And even though none of us saw her, somehow Rachel got hold of the mic…
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Episode 375 - Outback parkruns
Join Mel underground at Coober Pedy and TOC on the tree stump as we celebrate Nicki Clark in a yellow 1000 volunteer shirt, Shultzy stars on the radio and there are April Fools Day pranks. Lyndall joins us from Harris Avenue, Sarah visits Centennial Park, Tracey goes north to Mackay and the Local Weather Expert explains spinny-roundy things to us. Bec checks in from the remote Cobar parkrun and we chat through all things PALM24 and Longest Run. Our Obi this week is a bloke who walks on water!
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Episode 374 - details, details
This week, Mel was auditioning for the Tourism Tasmania Ambassador role in Launceston. Simon was very Scribbly. Tracey talked to Rory and Hilary at Des Connor juniors and PK was going all Radelaidean at South Parra Reservoir. Rachel Parked, Reserved and Oval'd. We celebrated John Day becoming the oldest person to reach 500 parkruns and the Obi went to ... (you'll just have to listen).
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Episode 373 - Geographical Inaccuracy
Q. What do you get when you cross a rodeo with a hot air balloon spectacular?
A. Mel’s amazing tourism adventure!
This week Mel visited Braidwood showground parkrun, which incidentally wasn’t the location for either. And TOC is backing it up and keeping the recording south of the Murray.
If that’s not confusing enough, Tracey is at Underwood Park parkrun for no particular reason at all.
Hopefully Rachel has her spreadsheet together!
Customer Reviews
Fabulous duo!
Love how genuine (and sometimes kooky!) they are! You can tell they really enjoy parkrun and the community it has created! Their enthusiasm is infectious! Now I really want to fly to Australia and visit ALL the events!
Awesome!
I've just got back from a run where I listened to this podcast and rushed inside to write a review. This is a great discussion about parkrun, the global running phenomenon. Based in Australia it also regularly features news from around the world. I particularly love Scotty's accents and always look forward to Mel's dress-up advice. The general banter is a particular highlight. Five stars.
Great community podcast
Good discussion about the parkrun community, mostly in Australia but also covering news from other countries. Banter is passable, cricket knowledge needs work