3.44. The Brooks XC Nationals Bonus Episode
Nobody Asked Us with Des & Kara
Chris McClung
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🗓️ 13 December 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Des and Kara were live yesterday from the Brooks XC Nationals course. They preview all of the action which starts at 12:15 ET/9:15 PT today!
You can stream on Flotrack here: https://www.flotrack.org/events/14624321-2025-brooks-xc-championships-presented-by-fleet-feet.
Thanks to Brooks and Fleet Feet for keeping this race and its history alive! Good luck to everyone race!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everybody? Welcome to another episode of Nobody Asked us with Des and Kara presented by Brooks Running. |
| 0:18.5 | Give me some set and setting, Kara. Where are we at? What are we doing? We are in Balboa Park, in San Diego, California. Your old stomping grounds. Sort of. We're here for the Brooks Cross-Country National Championships, and I've got to say the weather could not be nicer. Yeah, this is the San Diego Daily. This is it. This is what I grew up in. That's why I'm soft. |
| 0:37.8 | Can only run in perfect conditions. |
| 0:41.1 | Yeah, that's actually kind of crazy that you're not soft. |
| 0:45.8 | I am not. |
| 0:47.5 | Like growing up here, it's like so gorgeous. |
| 0:50.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:50.5 | It's just like so mellow and beautiful and the weather's so nice. It's pretty crazy that you're |
| 0:56.3 | known for like charging through the wind and the rain. Yeah, well, I always find it funny because |
| 1:02.3 | like I went to Arizona State. Yeah, like, why would you go from San Diego to Arizona? And then you |
| 1:05.8 | like swing to Michigan. So I just have the range cover. You do have the rain. But I can promise |
| 1:09.8 | that this is the best. Knowing the range, this is where you want to be. Where did you fly in from? I flew in from Denver. Any troubles? Yes. Yeah, any challenges? Yeah, some challenges. We got on our flight. Yeah. And then they said they were having some mechanical issues. I know. So they were super nice. I got worried when they started handing out like water and stuff. |
| 1:30.7 | Survival. |
| 1:31.0 | Yeah. I was like, we're going to be here for a while. Yeah. Do you guys, does anyone need snacks? I was like, we're going to be here for a while. And then at some point the pilot came on and said, hey, guys, we're ready to go. but if you want to get off the flight, you can. |
| 1:42.4 | And Adam's like, then how are we ready to go? |
| 1:44.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:44.6 | So then he came on like 10 minutes later and told us we all had to get off. |
| 1:47.7 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:48.1 | And, but if you want to get off the flight, you can. And Adam's like, then how are we ready to go? Yeah. |
| 2:03.7 | So then he came on like 10 minutes later and told us we all had to get off. Yeah, yeah. And that there was a mechanical issue and they hadn't fixed it yet, but they were hoping to fix it. And in the meantime, everybody ran across the airport to the other San Diego flight that was taking off. And we did as well. And then we made that one. We got on that. Oh, that one ended up being delayed, but we knew it was a plane that worked. |
| 2:04.2 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 2:01.2 | And so we got on that oh that one ended up being delayed but we knew it was a plane that worked yeah yeah and so we got on |
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