3.29. Freshy Fresh from Tokyo: Your Women's Marathon Team
Nobody Asked Us with Des & Kara
Chris McClung
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2025
⏱️ 55 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.
Also, it should be noted that all that all 3 of the women on this World Champs Marathon team are sponsored by Brooks Running - Susanna Sullivan (4th), Jess McClain (8th), and Erika Kemp (52nd). They join Des and Kara on this special episode from the Hyperion House in Tokyo to share their experiences from the race.
Susanna and Jess were both leading at one point, and Erika gutted things out on a tough day. They give you the behind-the-scenes info on the prep, the pre-race time in Tokyo, and of course, the race itself. The bond that these 3 women have is really special and inspiring. As Kara says at the end, if you want to see what it looks like for women to support other women, this is it!
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| 0:00.0 | All right. What's up, everybody. This is another episode of Nobody Asked us with Des and Kara presented by Brooks Running. Thanks for sticking with us. We're organizing. We have some special guests that we've been talking about all week. So it's been putting the pieces in play. But we're here. We're live. We're at the Brooks Hyperium House in Tokyo and getting excited for the day. |
| 0:30.7 | Very excited. My Uber driver dropped me off about about a mile from here, which is as far as it was from my hotel. But we're here now. We have three really exciting guests, and should we just bring them on out? Well, let's thank our sponsor right at the top. Thank you Ketones for helping support these episodes in Tokyo. I have one of my bag that I'm going to save until after the show. I'm doling out the ketones and the caffeine strategically today. |
| 0:56.3 | But yeah, that's been super helpful. |
| 1:01.2 | And I would also like to thank ketone for keeping me alert at night when my body wants to crash, |
| 1:02.3 | but I have to call races. |
| 1:04.1 | It's been clutch, absolutely clutch. |
| 1:06.1 | So thank you for that as well. |
| 1:09.7 | And go to the show notes for a little discount with your subscription. |
| 1:10.9 | If that's what you're into, can't recommend them enough. |
| 1:12.5 | We are like surviving on the night right now. |
| 1:14.9 | All right. |
| 1:16.1 | Well, I think we've chatted enough for now. |
| 1:18.5 | We have those three great guests. |
| 1:20.9 | If you're in the chat box, |
| 1:22.3 | try to drop some guesses in really quick while they organize |
| 1:26.0 | because we're trying to get them over here. |
| 1:28.6 | Three athletes raced recently. |
| 1:31.8 | We're at the Hyperion House. |
| 1:33.1 | Kara, give us some names. |
| 1:35.0 | Are they ready to come in? |
| 1:36.7 | We have Susanna Sullivan. |
| 1:39.4 | We have Susanna Sullivan. |
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