3.10. On Des Going Out on Top

Nobody Asked Us with Des & Kara

Chris McClung

Running, Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

"People say you should go out on top, and that's what I am doing - because getting to race my final professional marathon in Boston is indeed going out on top." - Des Linden

Those are the words she shared via an ad in the Boston Globe placed and paid for by her and released on race morning. Then, she did indeed go out on top... running 2:26 (as she predicted) and finishing as the first masters finisher against a stacked 40+ field. In this episode, Des gives us the breakdown of her final professional marathon in Boston including the reasons for the decision, the emotions of the weekend, how the race played out, and how she feels now in the aftermath.

You can feel the emotion through the mics/camera in this one. Kara navigates the questions perfectly, and Des (somewhat reluctantly) shows us her heart. I could give you more, but you really just need to go listen.

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0:00.0	What's up everybody?
0:11.0	Welcome to a very special edition of Nobody Asked us with Des and Kara.
0:15.0	This is Kara talking to death.
0:17.5	This is all presented by Brooks Running, which... If you can't see her, it is Kara Goucher. Now this is all presented by Brooks running.
0:23.6	If you can't see her, it is Kara Goucher.
0:26.1	Now this is Deslin speaking.
0:30.8	Just say if your first timer is here, a voice check, a little voice check. We didn't interview today and it was awesome.
0:33.9	But the person kept saying with Kara and Des, and I felt so confused. And I even was looking at you because that's just that. This doesn't feel right. It's not, it doesn't flow right because we are does and Kara presented by Brooks Running. Not Karen does. That's not right. That's not right. Alphabetical order. But order but yeah i mean i feel like we've worked
0:55.4	so hard on that intro that it was like no bro we would laugh you off the show
1:01.1	imagine if you said them backwards i know i know it was it was catching me off guard but still
1:08.6	nobody told you with Chris Karen.
1:11.9	You don't really listen with Karen Dess.
1:15.5	You're not a true fan with Karen Dess.
1:20.3	Okay, well, this is a special episode because you've had so many people wanting to interview
1:25.3	about your decision and your race at Boston
1:28.1	and you've kind of been pushing them off. And I'm so grateful you did that so that I get to be the
1:32.8	one that talks to you about it and that we need to talk about on our pod first. And then you can go
1:36.2	on all of the other pods. But that's really what we're going to dive into today. And are you,
1:42.1	are you ready for this? No, not at all. We might have a lot of
1:48.5	edits. You might just have to shut it down. But we'll do it. Give it a try. The old college try.
1:55.4	See what happens. I think it's going to be great. Well, it's not, well, it's not all about me.
1:59.8	You also had a really great Boston and got to run a race, got to do the. Well, it's not, well, it's not all about me. You also had a really great Boston
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