4.12. The Cosmo Episode
Nobody Asked Us with Des & Kara
Chris McClung
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
We missed you last week as Kara was on vacation, and the internets weren't cooperating for a recording session. So... we are back this week with a longer episode to catch up on all the latest in life and running news. Grab your favorite cocktail or mocktail and get cozy!
We start with extended life updates. Kara breaks down Colt's amazing race at New Balance Indoor Nationals in Boston, where he won his heat in the mile. You get all of the proud-parent moments from Kara and some great perspective on supporting your kids in their dreams. She then shares about her amazing spring-break vacation to St. Maarten with friends, where beach time was what the doctor ordered. Cosmos were served nightly as Kara channeled her inner Carrie Bradshaw. Who knew she was a Sex and the City fan?!
Des talks about her weekend in Oakland where she used a half marathon as a training race and did some final testing with GU Energy to dial-in nutrition and hydration for MDS. She also discusses the result from her VO2Max test there, where nerves and her heart rate went to the max. Shout-out to GU for their extra support of Des for her race!
Then, they turn to a long list of running news with some controversial topics, including:
- Jane Hendengren indoor NCAA titles
- DQ in the men's 3K at NCAAs
- D3 podium controversy involving Seth Clevenger
- 2:10 marathon debut for Fotyen Tesfay (and the associated chatter)
- Grant Fisher's half debut in NYC
- All of the action from World Indoors, including so many medals for Team USA, and another amazing battle between Hocker, Kerr, and Nuguse
As always, they finish with a Top 5 to round out the episode including a warm welcome to team Brooks for Clayton Young!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everybody? |
| 0:11.6 | Welcome back to another episode of Nobody Ask Us with Des and Kara, presented by Brooks |
| 0:16.4 | Running. |
| 0:17.1 | Oh, it felt so good to say that. |
| 0:19.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:20.2 | Now you're probably confused. Is Chris here? Is he not here? That sounded like so on point. Could Des manage that? It's a mixed bag. You'll have to listen. And we'll get into what's going on. But yeah, we took a little break last week and we're back. How you doing, Kara? You're looking tan. You're looking refreshed. You're looking |
| 0:37.6 | crystal clear than this Wi-Fi, I got to say. I know. That was rough. So if we tried to record last |
| 0:43.8 | week and we had a really good conversation going, but I had the weakest internet and it just kept |
| 0:48.4 | cutting out and cutting out and cutting out. So we might have an extra long show today. Who knows? But |
| 0:53.4 | I'm doing great. Yeah. Yeah. No, it was a good conversation. So we might have an extra long show today. Who knows? But I'm doing great. Yeah. |
| 0:55.7 | Yeah. No, it was a good conversation. And we pulled out all the stops, truthfully. Like, we really |
| 1:01.3 | tried to power through. Chris wasn't there to shut us down earlier because I think he would have |
| 1:05.6 | been like, nissing it, guys. Like, just try again later. But we turned off cameras we tinkered with audio we |
| 1:13.5 | didn't tinker with audio we just turned off cameras uh we were texting back and forth because i couldn't |
| 1:18.1 | see you i'm like are you frozen are you there what's going on and alas it was a bummer because we had a good |
| 1:23.5 | conversation going but it was like yeah this is it was going to take so, like Chris would |
| 1:28.9 | have quit. It would have taken so long to patch all that together and it was like, this is |
| 1:33.8 | just not worth it. We could have done micro episodes and dropped one every hour just to pad the stats. |
| 1:41.5 | We could have pulled the city is. Pad the stats. Pad those stats. Download, download, download. But no, we're not like that. We just want a good episode for everyone to hear. So this one, well, you know what's funny is whenever I think it's going to be long, it's not. Whenever I think it's going to be short, it's long. But I feel like today's going to be a little bit long. That's loaded. |
| 2:05.5 | Don't go in with expectations. Just feel the vibes. |
| 2:07.1 | Okay. We'll feel the vibes. |
| 2:11.4 | Oh, yeah. Okay. So we definitely need to recap. We need to go back to the beginning of time. We're going to talk about Colt. |
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