Endurance Gap with Dani Aravich and Zachary Friedley

For an amputee runner, wanting to run is only one part of the process. Before the miles, there is the blade. Before the race, there is the socket fit. Before performance can even become the focus, there are questions about access, pain, equipment, prosthetists, race categories, records, and where to find other athletes who have figured out parts of the path already. In this episode of The Enduranc...

There is a difference between getting into a race and showing up to a race that already has you in mind. For para athletes, that difference can decide whether race week is spent preparing to compete or explaining why they belong there in the first place. In this episode of The Endurance Gap, Dani Aravich and Zachary Friedley break down the 2026 para trail and road scene, including the UTMB Para Tr...

The Paralympics can look like the finish line from the outside. But for athletes, the end of the Games can feel a lot more complicated. After four years of training, sacrifice, pressure, sickness, travel, and emotional build-up, the moment can pass quickly and leave athletes trying to process pride, disappointment, exhaustion, unfinished business, and what comes next. In this episode of The Endura...

Para endurance is happening at the highest levels of sport, yet much of it remains invisible. Elite athletes line up and race iconic events while recognition, infrastructure, and systems trail far behind. In this episode of The Endurance Gap, we break down 10 things most people don't know about the para endurance community. We explore why para trail running still lacks official podiums, how elite...

Sport is treated as universal. But for many adaptive athletes, the gap starts long before the race itself. It starts with never being told that all sports, even those that require adaptation like running, are possible with gear and tech access. In this first episode, we share our journey and how each of us found endurance sport through chance, not design. A blade that came by mistake. An invite th...

In a world where endurance sport is celebrated daily, the stories of para athletes, their mastery, their strategy, and their relentless pursuit of possibility, have lived too long in the shadows. This world is extraordinary, but it's also misunderstood. The stories are powerful, but the systems behind them are complex. And for too long, the athletes driving the sport forward haven't had a place to...