3.28. Freshy Fresh from Tokyo: 10,000m and Marathon Recaps

Nobody Asked Us with Des & Kara

Chris McClung

Running, Sports

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

First of all, we have to give a special thanks to Brooks Running, our presenting sponsor, and to Ketone-IQ for their support of these Tokyo podcasts. If you aren't wearing Brooks shoes yet, then what are you waiting for?! And, to get your ketone fix, go to https://ketone.com/pages/nobody-asked-us for 30% off on your subscription order.

Now, check out this episode where Des and Kara recap the exciting finishes in the 10Ks and marathons, as well as the drama from the 1500m (men's and women's) and steeplechase (men's) heats. The US put two women in the top 8 in the marathon, both Brooks athletes! Plus, both marathons came down to finishes on the track with a photo finish in the men's marathon. With kick finishes in the 10Ks, Tokyo is off to an electric start!

Now, mark your calendar for the next YouTube Live episode which will be Monday night at 8 pm ET. You won't want to miss it because there will be special guest athletes joining!

Transcript

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0:00.0	What's up everybody?
0:11.3	Welcome to another episode of Nobody Asked us with Des and Kara, presented by Brooks
0:15.9	Running.
0:16.9	We're obviously out here in Tokyo.
0:19.6	And what a day for some Brooks athletes on these opening rounds. How you been, Kara? I've been good. I heard you got some good training in today. And that made me so happy. I did. I've been staying on like the East Coast time zone. So I'll wake up like 2 or 3 a.m. I have some food. And then I went for my run. Got 12 miles in. That's good. I had a nice place to run. I was like, okay, like I'm in my rhythm now. Yeah. Yeah. So that's good. So you've been crashing at night a little bit. Yes. Yeah. So any evening stuff that you want to go deep on, you're going to have to carry the load. But yeah, no, I have tickets in the first night.
0:54.6	I was like, oh, I'll see you guys there.
0:56.0	Like, I had really good, I didn't have good intentions. It's a lot. I'm going to say it. I was like, I'm going to sleep immediately. And then I set an alarm to watch the women's 10 and went back to bed. But last night, I made it to the track. Good job. I watched 100 meter prelims, and by the end of them I was doing the thing.
1:14.1	Yeah.
1:14.2	So. I made it to the track. Good job. I watched 100 meter prelims and like by the end of them I was like doing the thing.
1:14.1	Yeah.
1:14.4	So I zipped back.
1:15.7	I was like, I want to see the men's 10 but I like I can't do it here.
1:19.2	Like yes, can't.
1:20.0	So I got back, take a shower, turned on the 10, watched 23 and a half laps and then like woke up with my face on my laptop some time later and like
1:29.6	watched back the the final lap and a half and I was like oh that was so exciting like it was so
1:33.9	exciting but I was tired enough that I fell asleep during it it's hard because you're trying to
1:39.5	train you definitely care about the morning stuff yes you have to be up for the morning where like my
1:44.7	schedule is kind of the opposite. I'm not training. And we're not covering any morning stuff. Yeah. So it's like I have to just be ready for the nighttime. Right. But when you need to be on, you need to be on. But I need to be on. But I can't sleep. Yeah. I'm like so sleep deprived. I'm not going to lie. Like I get back here and I'm like on a high and I've taken caffeine for the broadcast
2:05.6	and like ketones and I'm like on a high and then I'm like trying to get to bed.
2:09.6	Like today my plan was to sleep to like 8 or 830 at 615.
2:13.6	I was like, hey, anybody want to go for a run?
2:16.6	And so I'm a little bit worried because it's
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