Nicole talks about parkrun challenges, what it takes, what it means and how you do it.

My favourite quote of the episode is "It's like a family, with so many different people that, yeah, and they're all, they're all happy to support you and I just love going and seeing all my friends that I'll probably have never met if I hadn't not gone to parkrun. That's incredible, you show up at parkrun, and can you. Pretty much you got 300 different friends then. Yeah, that's it. Conversation And then you see them down the street and you stop and have a conversation with them. And it's like, how do you know them? Oh, from parkrun? Don't know anything about them, like history wise or whatever, they work wise, but I know they're parkrun and we can have a full on conversation because we know each other. It's, you know, they're just your other friends, so you only see them once a week, but, they're your friends."

Gabby talks about being the Imperfect Painter, what it takes, what it means and how you do it.

My favourite quote of the episode is "Lots, lots of everything. A lot of persistence. That's I think, the most important thing actually. As I'm sure any artist or any small business owner knows, it's not always steady. It goes up and down, and the downs can be very down and the ups can be very high, but you need to just keep going. So there has been many times in my Imperfect Painter life where I have wanted to give up and I've come very close to giving up. The most important thing was just to keep going. Someone told me a few years ago to push yourself just past the point that you think you can take. When you, you get to the point where you think it's unbearable, just push yourself that little bit further, and that's been a very valuable life lesson."

https://www.imperfectpainter.com/

Lynette talks about setting up Black Swan Lake parkrun, what it takes, what it means and how you do it.

My favourite quote of the episode is "I'm gonna do it this week. I'm like, oh yeah, okay, you can run. Okay. And this is the first time I'd run it officially, with like the people, the community. I'm like, oh yeah. Okay. And I remember starting up onto the path and just as I'm going round the concrete bend and all these crowds of people in front of me and I just, I remember looking going, I did that. I did this and I remember going, don't cry. Don't cry, Lynette. Don't cry. 'cause if you start crying and you're not gonna be able to breathe properly and it's gonna be a struggle, and you go and I'm like, oh, I did this, I did this. And it's just, it, even though it's really hard. It is hard work. You've gotta be willing to, they've said no to me. No, no, no. I'm, I'm ignoring you. You don't tell me I can't do it. I'm gonna do it."

https://www.parkrun.com.au/blackswanlake/