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A free, weekly, timed 5km walk/jog/run at 8am every Saturday. Open to all ages and abilities. Organised entirely by volunteers. Friendly and fun. Join us!

04/09/2026

Bright parkrun is cancelled due to the rain this Saturday 5 September. Go back to bed and we will see you next Saturday.

02/09/2026

You have to admire Aldi with their weekly specials, and each week is always a different theme. They’ve had snow gear, motorbike gear, gardening tools, nursery supplies, even kitchen and yoga essentials….the list goes on, it is amazing.
This week, I am most impressed, because the theme appears to be one that caters for single people, and folks that live on their own.

I just love the joy of sharing, and I could never live on my own. One of the best things to share I think, is a Dutch oven and it still brings me joy, warming up the bed and bringing back delightful olfactory memories of dinner, to unsuspecting loved ones.

Aldi is now selling the electric Dutch oven specifically for single folks, just so they don’t miss out on this fabulous, sharing experience.
You can dial in the temperature, depending on the season and size of your bed, and it looks like there are about a dozen different flavours and smells to choose from. There is a timer, so you can ‘set and forget’ -what a thoughtful surprise for a single person as they pull the doona over their head on a cold night.
This is the first model and it is 240 volts, so you will have to run an extension lead under the doona, but I have been informed that the next model will be cordless and a slightly smaller unit, suitable for camping and sleeping bags.

Aldi: Good…different

As my nostrils tingle with Dutch oven memories, I can’t help but think about Bright parkrun.
Saturday mornings at our course will tingle your olfactory senses. If it isn’t the smell of the bush on a crisp morning, it is the freshly cut firewood across the road, or the aroma of a freshly opened box of apples from you know who, from you know where. Spring is in the air now too, everyone comes up for leaf watching in autumn, but spring really is hard to beat with all the blossoms.

So come on down and get a whiff of us this Saturday morning. Welcome schpiel at 7:55 and we will let you rip a bit after 8. Mystic landing pad, Morses Ck road.
Bring a raincoat, looks like it might be wet.

Also, a bit of a reminder that one of the best events up here is on in October. The Harrietville half marathon with also 10, 5 & 2k distances. Great course and the energy and fun times at the finish line are the best. A lot of work goes into this, so please support our good friends right here
https://harrietvillehalfmarathon.com/

Okay, where was I?

Bright parkrun: gooder….differenter

21/08/2026

It is Alan awareness week.

We’ve had quite a few comments on some of the pics that we put up, and I feel we need to talk about it, as it has brought a contentious issue to the table.

What you see, is real; there is no editing, photoshopping or cheating. Every brace and plank is real, and if you can’t do one at 66 years of age, then you are soft. The apple floating in mid air, in front of the paraglider is real, that only took 3 throws and we nailed it.

The crazy thing about it all now, if you put something up that is special and might be out of the ordinary, people just say it is AI.
What is really confusing about AI, is it reads like the shorter version of my name; [Alan], as I am Al to a lot of my friends.
So if I put up a pic of me planking, are people saying it’s AI (artificial intelligence) because they don’t believe it, or it’s Al (as in me- Alan) ‘oh he does that all the time.’?

Very confusing

I would just like to say that I have had my name, along with a lot of other Alans/Allans/Allens/Aluns, way before artificial intelligence raised its ugly head, and stole our name. So I think AI needs to change its name.

As I wonder who I need to write to, regarding this change of name request, it is comforting to know, that at Bright parkrun, everything is real. There are real people walking and running, meeting other really good people and having a really good time, in a real good place, run by real volunteers.
Yes, come on down tomorrow- the mud has been scraped away and our course has been reopened.

RD Kate will analyse the data from Ron’s pre course check and present it in her schpiel at 7:55, so please listen carefully. There will be a lovely bunch of vollies and a box of apples of course.
We look forward to seeing you all there.
Mystic landing pad, Morses Ck road.

Bright parkrun: totally unreal in a real good way.

13/08/2026

Due to global raining, Bright parkrun is cancelled this Saturday 15 August. Hopefully we will see you all next week.
Thank you

09/08/2026

An apple a day keeps the doctor away, but we had 2 doctors at Bright parkrun yesterday. The health benefits of parkrun must be right up there with apples. 🍎

06/08/2026

It has been quite the week in sport, and just quietly, it is one of the best stories so far this year.
The Tour de France Femmes riders are facing allegations of gaining an advantage through the use of padded bras. It is claimed the girls are faking a larger cup size, to reduce their drag through the air. Apparently a professor of aerodynamics has published a theory that a rounder chest is advantageous in aerodynamic world. Obviously a larger chest disturbs, and cuts through the air easier, and this could mean a couple of seconds advantage, which could mean winning the individual time trial.
The term used is ‘chest fairing’ and yes, I have images of a ho**er wind tunnel testing session.

I could go on, but you might have to come to my next comedy show to hear the rest.

But I feel this hamburger and chips, could be the next big thing, in aerodynamic advantage.
If a rider was to eat nothing but hamburgers and chips, they would have the biggest outbreak of acne. Their pimple adorned face would resemble a dimple adorned golf ball, and would have a similar aerodynamic flight; flying twice the distance than a smooth faced ball, for the same energy expenditure. That pimple metropolis, constantly growing and multiplying on their faces, would just slice through the air, and could be the next big thing in athletic performance advancement.

As I sit here rubbing my chin checking for pimples, I can’t help but think of Bright parkrun.

In the dark of winter, we are still getting good numbers and people are posting some pretty good times in the sub zero temperatures. As they cross the finish line, their faces are pretty much covered in frost or ice, which is obviously just like a face full of pimples and slicing through the air, like a hot knife through butter.
So why not take advantage of this phenomenon and get yourselves down to Bright parkrun this Saturday?
Welcome schpiel at 7:55am and we will squeeze you onto the starting line a bit after 8.
Mystic landing pad, Morses Ck road.

Bright parkrun: your natural performance enhancing specialist.

30/07/2026

Technology really is going ahead in leaps and bounds, and more recently, I was thrilled to see that some manufacturers are now using materials that are more ethically sourced.

These new EarPods are noise cancelling and it was an accidental discovery that has led to this amazing innovation. For years, people that have had a build up of ear wax, have always reported a hearing loss. The wax was syringed out of the blocked ear by a doctor or nurse, and the hearing would return.

The wax was thrown in the medical waste bin for years, until a medical student saw a possible use for it. She saw the possibility of using the ear wax for natural noise suppression. She boiled up the wax and filtered it, then set a miniature speaker into it, allowing it to cool. The speaker was surrounded by a wax blob and once inserted into an ear, it resulted in a perfect noise reduction EarPod. The natural yellow ear wax colour wouldn’t have been a great seller, so it was bleached white and the rest is history.

Anti fog liquid for glasses has been around for years and this was also an accidental discovery. For years scuba divers, snorkelling enthusiasts and swimmers would spit into their goggles and masks before they swished them around in the water, to stop them fogging up. A young entrepreneur saw an opening and started bottling spit from his friends and sold it as anti fog liquid. It is still sold in shops and now teams of spit donors are employed around the world.

As I spray anti fog onto my glasses, listening to music through my noise cancelling EarPods, it makes me instantly think of Bright parkrun.
I really think it is our organic theme, that the punters keep coming back to. Good honest, down to earth ingredients; sustainable reusability at its best. Smiles, encouragement, acknowledgement and friendships; we have it all.
Yes we are back on this Saturday. Welcome schpiel at 7:55am and blast off a bit after 8. There will be no shameless plugs for comedy shows, seeing they were last week.
Mystic landing pad, Morses Ck road.
See you all there.

Bright parkrun: working on a possible use for belly button fluff.

18/07/2026

18 / 07 / 2026

09/07/2026

It’s amazing how people can twist figures and present a different perspective. There is the ole folklore that the Australian alps are larger in area than the Swiss alps. I’ve even heard that Australia gets more snow than Switzerland.
That is amazing.

But I have read that Lake Louise in Canada recently had a 188 day ski season with nearly 10 metres of snow, which was, and really is phenomenal.
Victorian ski fields are getting off to a slow start this season, but looking at this photo, we could say that we have 10 metres of snow at the moment too.

Canada measures their snow on the Y axis which is vertical depth. Whereas we could honestly claim that we have 10 metres of snow too, even if it is on the X axis and it is lineal metres; so you can effectively ski on 10 metres of snow, before you end up on the grass and rocks and wreck your skis.
So we could say that the Victorian ski fields are on their way to match a 188 day, Canadian ski season.
Amazing.

Bright parkrun, through its crazy run director, has manipulated the facts as well.
We blatantly claim that our course is flat on the way out, and downhill on the return. That works for most people, as they feel it might be a bit uphill on the way out, but they’ve been told it’s flat, so they just get on with it, and enjoy the downhill sprint at the end.

We have also told them that Chris Hemsworth got his break by running at Bright parkrun and not crossing his arms for the photo. The photo was published and he was noticed by a talent scout and the rest is history. We have less people crossing their arms now.

Yes my friends, the floodwaters have receded and we are back on tomorrow. The course will be inspected tomorrow but we have ridden it and we can avoid slippery bits.
Welcome schpiel at 7:55am with very important safety and course information, so please listen hard. We will set you off a bit after 8.
Mystic landing pad, Morses Ck road.
Come on down.

Bright parkrun: never letting the truth get in the way of a good story.

03/07/2026

Bright parkrun is in fact, underwater and is officially cancelled for Saturday 4 July. Hopefully we can see you all next week and the course dries out a lot. Enjoy the weekend and a Camelchino 🐫 ☕️
Bye now.

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