4.8. Des's First Trail Ultra

Nobody Asked Us with Des & Kara

Chris McClung

Running, Sports

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Your 50K world record holder - Des Linden - is now an ultra trail marathoner, and you get the full breakdown here first!

After a little catch-up time, Des and Kara go deep on the results from the Black Canyon 100K and 50K, with Des finishing 13th female in the latter race this past Sunday.

They start with an overview of the 100K, which both of them spectated virtually. The races at the front were FAST with the course records going down on both sides, plus Molly Seidel earning a golden ticket to Western States for her 4th place finish.

Then, Des shares her experience in the 50K race from start to finish including expectations, the trail community vibes, and a tough day that had her neck/back locking up on her in the final 3rd of the race. She got it done in spite of those challenges and is happy with the finish. Kara can relate b/c her trail debut at the Leadville Marathon was a tough day as well. All in all, this was a great learning experience for Des, and now she looks ahead to the Marathon de Sables.

Then, they talk about the expectations at the Winter Olympics, especially for top American hopefuls, and wonder outloud if it is too much or misguided. Finally as usual, they close the show with a Top 5 that you won't want to miss. Everyone show Des some love for putting herself out there on the trails!

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0:00.0	What's up everybody?
0:12.0	Welcome to another episode of Nobody Ask Us with Des and Kara presented by Brooks running.
0:18.0	Oh boy, what's happening?
0:20.0	You know it.
0:21.1	If you're a long-time listener, Chris is on vacation and we've got like peaches to the episode.
0:28.3	So.
0:28.6	I'm so pumped that you just did that.
0:30.1	Where this will go?
0:31.8	One of these times you're going to have to do the intro because I want you to,
0:36.2	you're going to have to be Chris because I want you to have the access to all the tools of the top. And there used to be more.
0:41.6	I accidentally deleted some. It's disappointing that he never just jumps in while we're recording
0:46.3	and hits us with a little sound effect.
0:50.5	Or you could add his touch for sure. He's like just hit me and got doing my things i know i know
0:56.6	it's like i actually don't listen to you guys you're annoying all right well i don't think so i think we
1:02.4	bring all kinds of entertainment to the running world all the top hitting news and behind the scenes
1:08.8	info and i think our listeners appreciate it i I think so too. You're right.
1:13.6	You're right. I'm happy to see you hydrating. I am hydrating. It's try in the desert, Kara.
1:20.0	Yeah.
1:20.7	And there's a lot of sun. I am, uh, apparently I'm looking very tanned. You look great. I was looking
1:27.3	at all your photos from the race and I was like, she, like videos. I was like she, it looks so healthy and just like tan. Like, I know you were racing a 50K and you weren't having the best day of your life. But I was like she looks amazing. Like it looked like you had been on vacation before you went there, even though I know you hadn't been. Yeah, that's great. It must have hit quick because we got in, I want to say Wednesday afternoon, maybe Thursday. I think, maybe I think it was Wednesday. Went for a run and we got in and then drove up to Sedona. So just a couple days of running outside. I've been, I mean, I've been on the treadmill
2:01.5	since December. I don't, I've tried not to go outside. I haven't seen this, I haven't had fresh air
2:08.3	once. So like when I hit that fresh air and got that vitamin D, just like, dude, you have good
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