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Nobody Asked Us with Des & Kara

8. Kara Interviews Des on Her Book: Choosing to Run

Nobody Asked Us with Des & Kara

Chris McClung

Running, Sports

4.91.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Kara interviews Des on her new book Choosing to Run: A Memoir

The book tells the story of Des's 2018 Boston Marathon victory, woven together beautifully with the story of her life. In it, she reveals harrowing details about the 9 months prior to the race and how she didn't even know if she would make the start line. You think you know the rest of the story, but you don't. Buy the book, listen to this conversation, and be inspired!

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, it's nobody asked us with Dez and Cara. My name is Cara Goucher and I'm joined

0:15.4

by Dez Linden. Dez, how are you today?

0:18.2

I'm doing great. That was a phenomenal intro. I think every week we get a little bit better.

0:23.9

So kudos. Thanks for everyone.

0:26.0

Everyone knows right before we hit record, I was told that Dez absolutely nailed the intro

0:31.6

last week and put a lot of pressure on me. And I was told I need to go back and listen

0:36.4

to it. So I will have to do that later on. As is the super professional when it comes

0:41.1

to the the intro, my name. You're really good at it. Okay, well, I'm super excited today

0:49.7

because we're going to talk about your book Choosing to Run, which here I got this kind

0:55.2

of advanced copy. And I have to tell you that I started putting sticky notes at the beginning

1:00.4

because there are so many things that I like related to and loved. And then I was like,

1:04.8

this is actually annoying. I'm not even enjoying the book. And so then I stopped sticky

1:08.1

noting and just enjoyed the book. But I just have to say because we're going to talk about

1:12.9

it today. But I just want to say how much I loved your book. I love how you laid it out.

1:18.8

It was so creative with being in the present, running the 2018 Boston marathon and then

1:24.1

looking back, I loved the way it was formatted like that. When you were in the present,

1:28.8

I felt like I could feel what you were thinking and feeling. And I just, I just like really,

1:36.7

really love this book. So I just, I know you probably are uncomfortable with, you know,

1:42.4

a little love or a compliment, but it is so, so good. And I'm really excited that we

1:47.6

get to talk about it today. Thank you. Yeah. My tactic, I generally deflect them like,

1:53.3

well, all the credit to Bonnie, I was just out there putting them in front of the other.

1:57.1

And then she made it super interesting. Right. Well, let's talk about that because it's

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