686. 2023 in Review with Kara Goucher

Ali on the Run Show

Ali Feller

Fitness, Sports, Running, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

"If you have that heart of a lion, you will get back there. You just have to have patience."

It was a big year for Kara Goucher! Her book, The Longest Race, debuted and became a New York Times best-seller. She and Des Linden launched their podcast, Nobody Asked Us with Des and Kara. She called dozens of exciting races as a distance analyst for NBC's track and field and marathon broadcasts. She continued navigating life on the run with runner's dystonia. And today, she's here to recap all of it with us. Plus, we take a look at some of the year's highlights in professional running.

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What you'll get on this episode:

Kara attempts to sum up 2023 in one word (2:10)
Kara looks back at the success of her book, The Longest Race (2:50)
Kara's year on the run (9:00)
Kara's year on the mic: Kara talks about becoming a podcast host, and what it's been like co-hosting "Nobody Asked Us with Des and Kara" with Des Linden (16:15)
Kara's year on TV, and which races she enjoyed broadcasting the most (19:45)
2023 on the run, professionally: recapping the highlights from the year in professional running (26:45)
The one rule Kara would love to implement in professional running (53:30)
Kara's predictions for 2024 (1:04:40)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Alley on the Run show. I'm your host
0:07.1	Ali feller and this is the last episode of the year. So of course you know me I love a retrospective I love
0:15.4	being introspective the end of the year the start of a new year brings up all
0:20.2	kinds of things for me and I love documenting all of it. Does that come as a
0:24.7	surprise to you? I didn't think it would. So I thought it would be fun for this
0:28.6	one to bring back my friend Kara Goucher to talk about the best of 2023. In this episode we talk a bit
0:36.3	about Kara's year. She had a big one. Her book, The Longest Race, came out and
0:41.7	became a New York Times bestseller.
0:44.6	She had some ups and downs on the run, which we'll hear all about.
0:48.6	She was on a ton of broadcasts as a distance analyst. She became a podcast host
0:55.0	along with professional runner Des Lindman.
0:58.0	Carra launched, nobody asked us with Des and Carra,
1:01.0	which of course has been a huge hit.
1:02.0	My guess is that all of you are listening. I know I am too.
1:05.0	And she got a bearded dragon named Margo. So pretty big year for the Goucher family for Carra. We're talking about what tops the list. We're talking about
1:14.0	the highlights. We're talking about some of the tough stuff and then we're
1:17.0	talking about the biggest best and most exciting moments in running this year. So
1:22.1	buckle up. Why do I say that? I feel like I say that all the time.
1:25.8	buckle up. You don't need to buckle anything. Well, if you're in a car, you should buckle up. Otherwise, get excited because kara Goucher is here and we are about to recap
1:36.2	2023. Carra Goucher, I am so excited to see your beautiful, happy face. We are here to wrap up
1:51.5	2023. We were supposed to start this 32 minutes ago.
1:56.0	That's the us. We got to catch up first.
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