3.5. The Introspection Episode

Nobody Asked Us with Des & Kara

Chris McClung

Running, Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

It was Adam Goucher's birthday last week. He turned 50. Happy birthday Adam(!) and thank you for prompting the introspection that is a theme throughout the episode.

It starts with the introspection of hitting age milestones as Kara and Des discuss how it felt hitting 30 and 40 and how they might feel hitting 50. Then, they talk about the introspection of retirement, including how it felt for Kara to retire from running and how she might think about retiring from this latest phase of her career. Des joins in with some hilarious conjecture about disappearing altogether once she is done with the sport. Along the way, they also reflect on journey of their friendship evolving from competitors to podcast cohosts who share a similar perspective on the sport.

Next, the episode turns to introspection on the state of the sport after the latest slate of world records in the men's indoor mile and the men's half marathon. What does it all mean and what are the sources of these jumps in time across the board? Does sodium bicarbonate have anything to do with it and how should we think about the push for professionalism at younger and younger ages? Des and Kara struggle to understand it all but don't just bring the doom and gloom to this one.

Finally, the episode wraps with an UPLIFTING top 5, sponsored by Lever Movement. To get 20% off on your Lever Movement system, use the code NOBODYASKEDUS at levermovement.com. Support them and support the pod!

Transcript

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0:00.0	What's up everybody?
0:11.8	Welcome to another episode of Nobody Ask Us with Des and Kara, presented by Brooks Running.
0:18.8	I love the snaps there.
0:20.2	What's up?
0:20.5	I got you. are you doing?
0:21.4	It's been to death festive. So I just went for the snap. I like it. How's it going over there?
0:28.7	It's good. We are recording this early because I have a lot of travel in the next seven days. So it's actually my husband's 50th birthday today. Happy birthday, Adam. We're not going to sing.
0:40.1	Maybe we'll cut some music from the CJ episode. You can plug it in and change the name.
0:47.4	Yeah, we had a little party Saturday with his family, so he kind of feels like it already happened,
0:52.3	but today is the official day. So. Nice. Yeah. It's kind of feels like it already happened but today is the official day so nice yeah it's
0:56.3	kind of funny because adam has all these milestones before me like he turned 30 first and then he
1:01.6	turned 40 first and then he like retired first and then he like went into the real world first and so
1:06.2	he i'm always like so grateful because i get to see him like navigate everything but he's always
1:11.4	like you suck leadership that's hard yeah he's doing great I mean he's handling you well he's
1:19.7	chipper he walked through the the screen a little earlier I mean he's not happy about being 50 but
1:23.7	it's funny because it's like I'm going to be there in three and a half years but he in general
1:27.7	in life he's doing great like he started coaching in the last year which has really filled his cup
1:32.6	he's I mean he's going to hate this because he listens to the pot but like he's lost a lot of weight
1:37.2	he's looking pretty sexy he's like doing great I mean if this is 50 it's pretty good I have to
1:41.5	I don't think that he'll be mad about that i think i'm pleased with my comment
1:44.6	he's looking good he's like around and he's just i don't know i think if i hope i'm that happy when i'm
1:52.7	50 he's doing great do you think are you nervous about 50 at all is that scary were you nervous about
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