1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,840 Speaker 1: It's pretty exciting stuff because tomorrow marks seven years of 2 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:07,720 Speaker 1: Nightcliff Park Run. It is a wonderful community event which 3 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:09,400 Speaker 1: happens every Saturday morning. 4 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:12,360 Speaker 2: It's five k's. It can either fun run or. 5 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:15,760 Speaker 1: You can walk, which actually takes place right It takes 6 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:18,400 Speaker 1: place right around the world, So just about everywhere you 7 00:00:18,520 --> 00:00:21,600 Speaker 1: go around the world, you know that on a Saturday 8 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:24,080 Speaker 1: morning there's going to be a park run, and there 9 00:00:24,239 --> 00:00:27,040 Speaker 1: is no better place to start your weekend than with 10 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:31,720 Speaker 1: a run along the Nightcliff Foreshore. I'll be there tomorrow 11 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:34,520 Speaker 1: and am encouraging you all to join me as part 12 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:38,160 Speaker 1: of Febfish. But it wouldn't be possible the wonderful park 13 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:40,879 Speaker 1: run without the incredible volunteers. And joining me on the 14 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:45,599 Speaker 1: line right now is Karen Strong. Good morning to you, Karen. 15 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:49,199 Speaker 3: Good morning to you Katie, and good morning to our listeners. 16 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:52,720 Speaker 1: Oh Karen, are you all pumped for the seven year 17 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:54,080 Speaker 1: celebration tomorrow? 18 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:56,560 Speaker 3: Oh? Absolutely, I can't wait. 19 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 1: Well, you lovely lovely ers are so happy every single 20 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:04,759 Speaker 1: weekend at park round. But what have you got lined 21 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:07,759 Speaker 1: up for the for the seventh birthday tomorrow? 22 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:12,400 Speaker 3: Yeah? So tomorrow our theme is the Mad Hatter's tea party. 23 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:15,560 Speaker 3: So we're encouraging people to come dressed for a party. 24 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:19,080 Speaker 3: And it's also the twenty second of the month, and 25 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:21,679 Speaker 3: everyone will tell you that that means we get to 26 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:24,720 Speaker 3: wear two twos for the twenty second. So if you've 27 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:26,679 Speaker 3: got your blue two tuo, bring it along. 28 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:30,320 Speaker 1: And so if what about if people don't want to 29 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:33,240 Speaker 1: dress up? Does it matter if they don't? 30 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 3: No, definitely not. We will be running on that path, 31 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:41,759 Speaker 3: walking on that path, volunteering, cheering, supporting everyone no matter 32 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:42,479 Speaker 3: how they're dressed. 33 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:45,400 Speaker 1: Absolutely, And Karren, this is the thing I love about 34 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 1: park Run is you know I Reckon. I started I Reckon. 35 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:50,920 Speaker 1: I did my first part run about five years ago. 36 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:53,520 Speaker 1: And I remember, and I'm somebody who's you know, who's 37 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:56,480 Speaker 1: grown up running and growing up going to the athletics 38 00:01:56,480 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 1: track and that kind of thing. 39 00:01:57,560 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 2: But I used to think, Oh, I wonder what you know, 40 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 2: I want what it's all about? 41 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 1: And you know, if I turn up, am I gonna 42 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:05,040 Speaker 1: have to run as fast as I can? 43 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:07,280 Speaker 2: What am I gonna need to do? But it's not 44 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:08,359 Speaker 2: like that at all? 45 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:08,720 Speaker 1: Is that? 46 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:11,640 Speaker 3: No? No? And you don't want to run really really 47 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:14,680 Speaker 3: fast for your first ever because then each week you 48 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:17,680 Speaker 3: can get a PB a personal best if you run 49 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:18,639 Speaker 3: a little bit quicker. 50 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:22,320 Speaker 1: That's a great way of looking at it, Karen, make 51 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:24,240 Speaker 1: the first one slow so you can do. 52 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:29,200 Speaker 3: It, and that's right, And you can start with walking 53 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:31,359 Speaker 3: and then you can build up to shuffling and then 54 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:35,799 Speaker 3: be a runner. But some of the walkers it's all good, 55 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:36,679 Speaker 3: and that's. 56 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:40,120 Speaker 1: Okay, right, because it's actually it's more about everybody getting 57 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:44,120 Speaker 1: down there starting your weekend in a really healthy way 58 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:48,000 Speaker 1: and a really positive like it's such a positive environment, 59 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:50,119 Speaker 1: that's exactly right. 60 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:52,920 Speaker 3: Everyone's there for the same reason. They're there to catch 61 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:55,520 Speaker 3: up with a friend for coffee after the run, or 62 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:57,880 Speaker 3: they're just there to get out and enjoy a walk, 63 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:02,959 Speaker 3: or even just to the foreshore as they're strolling along 64 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:07,040 Speaker 3: looking out at the water. Yeah, typical and mental. 65 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:09,360 Speaker 2: Absolutely by one hundred percent. Agree. 66 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:12,919 Speaker 1: Now, in terms of the way in which Nightcliffe Park 67 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 1: Run's grown over the last seven years, it's been quite astronomical, 68 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:17,720 Speaker 1: hasn't it. 69 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:21,799 Speaker 3: Park Run in general has been Things slowed down a 70 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:26,480 Speaker 3: little in those twenty nineteen twenty COVID times and then 71 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:29,840 Speaker 3: once they passed, everyone was just like they'd been trapped 72 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:32,440 Speaker 3: indoors and they just wanted to get out there, and 73 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:34,880 Speaker 3: even the doctors are saying, you know, it's not a 74 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:36,760 Speaker 3: bad thing to get out and go for a walk, 75 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 3: and so even they're encouraging people to come to do 76 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:43,440 Speaker 3: park run. But yes, you are correct, we've probably doubled 77 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:45,760 Speaker 3: our numbers in the last two to three years. 78 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:48,920 Speaker 1: Wow, that's pretty like, that's pretty cool when you think 79 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 1: that many people are just jumping up early on a 80 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:53,160 Speaker 1: Saturday to get. 81 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:57,840 Speaker 3: Active, and it is early, it's seven o'clock. We actually 82 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:01,640 Speaker 3: start walking and running forty five to be there to 83 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:04,040 Speaker 3: get the first time as brief or the first time 84 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:06,640 Speaker 3: at Nightclift park Run brief, so you kind of know 85 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:09,440 Speaker 3: where the track's going to be, what's expected, what's going 86 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:12,360 Speaker 3: to happen. Yeah, it's just it is. 87 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:15,800 Speaker 1: It's like it's so much fun and there's so many 88 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:19,159 Speaker 1: wonderful people that are there every weekend. So for tomorrow morning, 89 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:21,920 Speaker 1: anybody that's going to be trying park Run for the 90 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:24,480 Speaker 1: first time, try and get there about six forty five. 91 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:28,640 Speaker 1: Everybody congregates across the road from the Beachfront Hotel. 92 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 2: Is there anything else that first time as should. 93 00:04:30,839 --> 00:04:36,040 Speaker 3: Know, Karen, not really, they can get their photo taken. 94 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:38,359 Speaker 3: If they don't want their photo taken, they just cross 95 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:41,480 Speaker 3: their arms in front of their faces. But usually everybody 96 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:44,120 Speaker 3: wants this photo taken because if you haven't got a photo, 97 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:48,080 Speaker 3: did it really happen? So exactly, And they could bring 98 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 3: a water bottle if they want. But we'll have icy poles, 99 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:54,159 Speaker 3: and we'll have birthday cake and there'll be Lamington's and 100 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:56,360 Speaker 3: other cakes and stuff. So it's just going to be 101 00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:57,040 Speaker 3: a big party. 102 00:04:57,279 --> 00:05:00,479 Speaker 1: Hell good Karen, before I let you go. So what 103 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:03,800 Speaker 1: do you think makes Nightcliff Park Run so special? 104 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:07,839 Speaker 3: Oh? A few people will tell you it's the community. 105 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:10,760 Speaker 3: It's those that are on the path, those that are volunteering, 106 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:14,440 Speaker 3: the smiley people out the front. But yeah, it's just 107 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:17,440 Speaker 3: everybody that comes along because yeah, everyone's there for the 108 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:18,080 Speaker 3: same reason. 109 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:21,600 Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it is such a lovely, lovely event. 110 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:24,720 Speaker 1: And look, if you don't live in Nightcliff where if 111 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:27,440 Speaker 1: you you know, you want to go somewhere else. Theyrel's 112 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:30,320 Speaker 1: also a Palmerston Park Run. There's also one in Darwin 113 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:33,600 Speaker 1: City at the Esplanade. But tomorrow morning we are going 114 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:38,200 Speaker 1: to be at Nightcliffe Park Run for the seventh birthday celebrations. 115 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:38,760 Speaker 2: Karen. 116 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:41,279 Speaker 1: It is always lovely to catch up with you and 117 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 1: even better to see your smiling face out for a run. 118 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:47,360 Speaker 3: You will do that in the morning, Katie. I look 119 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:49,480 Speaker 3: forward to seeing you and all our listeners. 120 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:51,920 Speaker 1: Good on you, Karen. Lovely to talk to you, see 121 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:55,320 Speaker 1: you tomorrow morning. Thank you, thank you, thanks so much.