4.19. The Marathon des Sables Recap
Nobody Asked Us with Des & Kara
Chris McClung
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
This is the episode you have been waiting for! Des gives us all of the incredible (and sometimes gory) details of her podium finish at the Marathon des Sables through the Sahara. From the hectic travel to exactly what self-supported means and all of the details of each stage, she holds nothing back (including the water to rehydrate her portable toilet paper). She carried all of her food and gear for each of the 6 stages, and still managed to crush it. The queen of Boston becomes the queen of the desert, and it's an amazing tale to tell.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everybody? |
| 0:11.4 | Welcome to another episode of Nobody Asked us with Des and Kara, presented by Brooks |
| 0:16.9 | Running. |
| 0:18.6 | What's with Kara? |
| 0:19.9 | Hey, we got jokes. Good job. That's what, Kara? Hey, we got jokes. |
| 0:23.0 | Good job. |
| 0:23.9 | That was solid. |
| 0:25.3 | What is with this one KG? |
| 0:28.6 | I don't know. |
| 0:30.2 | I don't know. |
| 0:31.0 | So, like, it just usually says KG, right? |
| 0:35.3 | When I log in, it usually just says KG. |
| 0:38.4 | But I don't know what happened. Maybe I hit the keyboard by accident because I logged it and Chris was like, why are you calling |
| 0:42.9 | yourself one KG? And I'm like, she's in metric these days. We don't do it up here. |
| 0:50.3 | I go by one KG now. Everybody adjust accordingly. |
| 0:54.4 | I like it. |
| 0:55.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:56.0 | That's good to know. |
| 0:57.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:58.2 | So what's up, one KG? |
| 0:59.4 | How are we doing? |
| 1:00.4 | What's new? |
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