Real Life Runners with Angie and Kevin Brown
Angie and Kevin Brown are here to help real life runners to improve their running and their life through conversations about training, mindset, nutrition, health and wellness, family, and all the crazy things that life throws at us. The lessons that we learn from running can carry over into all aspects of our life, and we are here to explore those connections through current research, our experiences, and stories from real people out on the roads and trails, so that you can become a physically and mentally stronger runner and achieve the goals that matter to you. We are Kevin and Angie Brown, husband and wife, mom and dad, coaches, and runners. Angie holds her doctorate degree in physical therapy and uses running as part of her integrated fitness routine. Kevin is a marathoner who has been coaching runners for over a decade. Together, we want to help make running more accessible to more people, so that more people can gain the benefits of being a Real Life Runner.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 48 minutes
- Episodes
- 429
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
069: How Your Starting Line in Running Still Affects You Today
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068: What Are You Waiting For?
As we wrap up the end of the holiday season, and especially Christmas in this household, the idea of delayed gratification has been forefront in my mind. We were able to watching our two little girl…
067: How Gratitude Can Improve Your Running and Your Day
Gratitude is an incredibly important quality to carry with you throughout the day. It frames how you perceive everything around you and tilts the day in a much more positive direction.
In our busy…
066: Running and Eating Through the Holidays
The holidays can be so busy, with holiday parties, Christmas concerts, gift exchanges, and family and friend get togethers.
Where does running and health fit in?
First, let’s think about the benefi…
065: Running Gift Ideas
The best gifts are something that the recipient wants but does not want to buy for themselves. The gift is removing the barrier of spending money on something they they could live without, but don’t…
064: Treadmill Running Workouts (and Tips!)
The treadmill. I have heard it called many things. The dreadmill. A winter refuge. A shelter from stifling heat or powerful thunderstorms. A human hamster wheel. The long road to nowhere. Cardio. …
063: Fast Running and Fast Food
Life moves fast and sometimes we need to step back and enjoy the moment or expand our point of view and look at the big picture. That is not the point of this episode. That was last week.
Sometimes…
062: Why You Should Slow Down Your Running and Eating for Better Health and Performance
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it.” This quote from the iconic Ferris Bueller drives home the importance of going slow. There are plenty …
061: Are You Racing Too Much?
Do you have that friend who seems to run a race every single weekend? In this episode, we look into the good and the bad of constant racing. With a background in high school racing, Kevin has so man…
060: How Running Makes Us Greater In All Things
This episode focuses on striving for greatness. To understand this episode, I think that it would be helpful to know where it came from. We are coming up on the end of the cross country season and …
059: Who Are You Comparing Yourself To?
Perspective changes everything we do and how we do it. We naturally compare ourselves with others or with previous versions of ourselves. We judge workouts and difficult trials before they start. W…
058: Running Etiquette - How to Handle Those Awkward Situations
How can I be a better runner is a regular question for a coach, and we have spent many episodes discussing the mental and physical aspects of training. In this episode, we take a very practical appr…
057: What Happened in that Race? A Coaching Conversation between Coach and Runner
It’s time for a look behind the scenes of the Real Life Runners, and a chance to listen into a coaching call. The conversation this week is between Kevin and Angie about her latest 5k race over the …
056: Using Inspiration to Dig Deeper when Running
This episode dives into the world of the inspirational pep talk. We takes a few tangents along the way, but really try to view the pep talk from the perspective of both the coach and the athlete. W…
055: Our One Year Anniversary Episode! Tying Running and Health Into a Family-Centered Life
This episode marks the one year anniversary of the podcast, and it has been amazing. When we first started it was a little scary to think we would put this out to the world and people would actually…
054: How To Run a Half Marathon
The half marathon is said to be for those who are only half crazy. Angie and I both tried our first half marathon to see what was possible at that distance, while knowing that we were not ready for …
053: What Should I DO?
One of my least favorite questions to be asked is one that I also frequently get as a teacher, coach, and parent.
What do I need to do?
Except it usually sounds more like: Uunnggghhh, what do I do…
052: Key Running Workouts for 5k, 10k, Half Marathon, and Marathon Training
How do I get faster? The ultimate question for a coach and competitive runner. While there really is no magic workout or super predictor, there are some best practices.
Different workouts are de…
051: Are You A Real Runner?
Are you a real runner? Do you identify as a runner? What are some of the benefits of finally accepting this identity, and what can be some of the downfalls of identifying this way?
Over years of co…
050: Is Your GPS Running Watch Holding You Back?
As technology improves, and the amount of information available on your wrist increases, are GPS watches helping or hurting your running? As with most things in life, the answer is, of course, both.
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