864. Love on the Run with Deena & Andrew Kastor
Ali on the Run Show
Ali Feller
4.9 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
"So we kissed, and then we spent every day after that together."
They're one of running's greatest power couples: Deena and Andrew Kastor are here for Love on the Run Week! In this conversation, the Olympic bronze medalist and the esteemed coach talk about how they met, how long they waited to call each other, and who made the first move. Today, Deena and Andrew live in Mammoth Lakes, CA, with their daughter, Piper.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Love on the Run week on the Allie on the Run show. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm your host, Allie Feller, and this is the week leading up to Valentine's Day, |
| 0:11.6 | where we celebrate love in its many forms. |
| 0:14.6 | Whether it's friendship or familial love or self-love or romantic love, |
| 0:19.7 | love is love is love and I love it all. My guests today are |
| 0:24.5 | running power couple, Dina and Andrew Kastner, Dina the Olympic bronze medalist in the marathon, |
| 0:31.0 | and Andrew the esteemed coach. They live in Mammoth Lakes, California with their daughter Piper, |
| 0:36.2 | and they are just the best. |
| 0:37.7 | These are two incredible people who make an incredible couple. |
| 0:41.2 | I loved hearing about all the ways Dina and Andrew worked together and support each other and are laughing and eating really good food along the way. |
| 0:47.9 | So please join me in welcoming the Casters to Love on the Run Week on the Allie on the Run show. |
| 1:06.6 | All right, Dina and Andrew Castor, welcome to the Alley on the Run show. |
| 1:13.3 | Not only is it love on the run week, but I understand that in the castor household, it's also a big week. |
| 1:15.3 | Dina, are you a Valentine's Day birthday? |
| 1:22.5 | I am, but I feel like it doesn't get, I don't like to celebrate it because Piper's birthday is a week after mine. |
| 1:24.8 | And you know, like you're all about your kids' birthdays. So I feel like I kind of like hurdle mine just to get to hers and make a big deal of her birthday instead. |
| 1:32.8 | And it's a very easy one for me to remember. |
| 1:35.3 | For you to remember. But what do you do? Does she get like does Dina get two separate gifts? How do you approach it? |
| 1:41.0 | She always gets a birthday card and always gets a Valentine's Day card. |
| 1:53.2 | And I always go to the grocery store early in the morning and bring back a dozen red roses for whether or not there's like a big gift exchange or something. |
| 2:17.8 | Sometimes last year he got me diamond earrings, which I never do, which is the first piece of jewelry he's bought me since proposing to me. I don't know about that, but it's... Yeah....for and few between. Wait, why? What was... What made last year the year to get diamond earrings? And also my birthday is May 6th. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, I had a kind of a rough year. |
| 2:19.7 | I had a kind of a rough winter last winter with an illness. |
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