4.14. The Boston Preview Episode
Nobody Asked Us with Des & Kara
Chris McClung
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
This episode was recorded on March 30th before Des left for Morocco. She is now in her 4th stage of the Marathon de Sables and absolutely crushing it across the Sahara. You can check the live results via the "LiveTrail" app. She's currently 4th overall female after 3 stages with the big 100K stage up next. The podium is within reach! Go Des!
In this episode, Des and Kara break down the start lists for the Boston Marathon and tell you what to expect at the front of the races - who are the favorites, who might win, and what to expect from the top Americans. They also talk Boston tactics and how those have evolved with the advent of super shoes. It's less than 2 weeks to Marathon Monday... let's go!
Note: Since the recording, Conner Mantz, Natosha Rogers, Megan Sailor, and Gabi Rooker have all withdrawn from the race.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everybody? |
| 0:12.1 | Welcome to another episode of Nobody Ask Us with Des and Kara presented by Brooks |
| 0:17.4 | Running. |
| 0:18.6 | We are on a roll. Oh my gosh. I, you're probably confused. Des is running in |
| 0:27.0 | Morocco. How could she be recording as well? We're wearing the same outfits as last week. |
| 0:31.4 | Who knows how this is happening? Magic. We've pre-recorded, spoiler, but we're going to dig in to some Boston fun. |
| 0:41.0 | Well, I'm out hopefully still alive, trekking through Morocco, and we're going to keep it short, |
| 0:47.1 | sweet, punchy, hit the highlights before we head into a big Boston week while we'll go |
| 0:52.9 | in depth into all of this, among other things. |
| 0:55.7 | But hey, this is exciting because we have podiums, top five finishes, champions, |
| 1:05.5 | Boston Marathon runners who know a thing or two about what it takes to be successful in Boston. |
| 1:12.8 | So Kerr Goucher, let's dig in and see who's going to have a good day in Boston this year. |
| 1:19.4 | Let's do it. |
| 1:20.6 | I mean, nobody knows it better than you, babe, but we'll all pretend like I know as well as you. |
| 1:25.7 | Should we start with men or women? |
| 1:28.6 | Let's start with the men, I think the women on the U.S. side are far more interesting. |
| 1:33.5 | Well, that's not true. But let's just start the men anyways. Get him out of the way. |
| 1:38.6 | Get them out. Okay. Men's division. |
| 1:42.3 | Defending champ coming back, just like high level, John career. |
| 1:48.1 | Coming back. |
| 1:48.6 | John career. |
| 1:49.1 | Really good. |
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