4.4. The Trail Mix Episode
Nobody Asked Us with Des & Kara
Chris McClung
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
The buzz is real when it comes to Des's trail plans for this year. She just announced her first trail race of the season - the Black Canyon 50K - on February 15th in prep for the epic stage race Marathon des Sables (MDS) in April.
MDS is a self-supported, multi-stage ultramarathon, primarily held in the Moroccan Sahara, where runners cover ~250 km (155 miles) in six days, carrying all their own food and gear while facing desert conditions, and sleeping in communal tents with other participants. We know Des likes a sufferfest, so it shouldn't be surprising that this race has captured her attention. She gives a little preview of her prep and opens the floor for some help for her team name. Drop your ideas in the YouTube or Spotify comments!
Then, Des and Kara talk about the impending choice for the host city of the 2028 Olympic Marathon Trials. Phoenix and St. Louis go head-to-head for the opportunity to choose our Olympic marathoners for LA. What factors should be considered and which city might have the edge?
Finally (before a Top 5), they preview the indoor track action coming up at the NB Indoor Games and at Millrose. There are some fun and exciting races to watch in the coming weekends, and they give you some tips on what and who to watch! Track is back!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everybody? |
| 0:11.8 | Welcome to another episode of Nobody Asked us with Des and Kara, presented by Brooks |
| 0:16.4 | Running. |
| 0:17.4 | What's going on? |
| 0:18.3 | Kara Goucher, how are you doing? |
| 0:19.7 | I'm doing great. As you know, because |
| 0:22.3 | you are there live with me, we are recording an hour late because I'm having some technical |
| 0:26.5 | difficulties today. Yeah, last week we had these buttery, smooth audio tones, beautiful. They're |
| 0:34.1 | fine now, but they're not what they could could be they're not as good as they could be |
| 0:38.3 | yeah no my my microphone's not working it's hating me lately so i don't know i think you guys have |
| 0:42.8 | convinced me to try to get a new cord and see what happens when i do that hopefully we'll be |
| 0:48.4 | buttery smooth next week we got to do some troubleshooting the system i think well mine was for a long time too. And like the box would work and all the things would light up. And you guys were like, no. So I bought the most expensive, the second most expensive piece first, which is the box. And it didn't do anything. And then I was like, oh, I should probably start with a $9 cord. |
| 1:15.6 | And that's what picks it. That was what, yeah, that was it. But if you're on, that's my move. If you're on the YouTube, you'll notice Carrie Goucher's sporting different headphones |
| 1:20.4 | today that are capturing your audio. That's right. I'm spotting my purple Apple iPhone. |
| 1:27.3 | Are they purple throughout? Like, is it the purple, |
| 1:30.6 | like, pod and then headband? The top is white, but the rest is pink. Orp, sorry, purple. |
| 1:37.8 | I'm sorry, what? Um, okay, I wrote my brother-in-law bought me the white one. My sister and my brother-in-law |
| 1:44.0 | got me the white ones for my birthday last my brother-in-law got me the white |
| 1:44.5 | ones for my birthday last year and love them. They're great. But after like six months, I was like, |
| 1:51.3 | my ears are apparently disgusting all the time. So I bought blue ones. But everything else is |
| 1:59.5 | Is it because you wanted to clean this? |
| 2:02.6 | Yeah. |
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