{"podcast":{"title":"Endurance Gap with Dani Aravich and Zachary Friedley","slug":"endurance-gap-with-dani-aravich-and-zachary-friedley-7864921","podcast_index_feed_id":7864921,"rss_url":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/616875/rss","website_url":"https://sites.libsyn.com/616875","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/a/f/b/f/afbf9b27236ddcc5d959afa2a1bf1c87/Endurance_Gap_Podcast_Artwork.png","author":"Chelsea Morrow","episode_count":5,"summary":"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 share the full story. This podcast changes that. Welcome to Endurance Gap with Zachary Friedley and Dani Aravich. Zachary is a trail runner, adaptive athlete, and the founder of Born to Adapt, a movement built around community, visibility, and creating spaces where para athletes can show up fully. Dani is a Paralympian and multi-sport athlete who has competed in both summer and winter sports. They're not just your hosts. They're insiders who have lived the complexity, the beauty, the humor, the frustration, and the evolution of para endurance sport from every angle. Born to Adapt exists because the para endurance community deserves a platform that matches the depth of the athletes within it. Each episode gives you direct access to the athletes, decisions, challenges, and breakthroughs sh…","last_synced_at":"2026-06-10T18:17:53.521180+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/endurance-gap-with-dani-aravich-and-zachary-friedley-7864921"},"episode":{"title":"3: After The Paralympics: What Athletes Need to Know About the Post-Games Blues","slug":"3-after-the-paralympics-what-athletes-need-to-know-about-the-post-games-blues","published_at":"2026-06-03T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/endurance-gap-with-dani-aravich-and-zachary-friedley-7864921/3-after-the-paralympics-what-athletes-need-to-know-about-the-post-games-blues","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/endurance-gap-with-dani-aravich-and-zachary-friedley-7864921","url":"https://dbe7a17d-e489-406a-8d37-bdae0700d5b3.libsyn.com/3-after-the-paralympics-what-athletes-need-to-know-about-the-post-games-blues","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/clean/secure/dbe7a17d-e489-406a-8d37-bdae0700d5b3/Endurance_Gap_-_EP_3_.mp3?dest-id=5380470","summary":"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 Endurance Gap, we talk through Dani's experience at her third Paralympics and what people rarely see after the Games are over. We get into the post-Games blues, what felt different as a veteran athlete, the race that felt closest to a breakthrough, why France could become a full-circle moment, and how Winter and Summer Paralympics feel completely different from inside the athlete's experience. From competing while sick to missing a race-changing shot, from climate concerns threatening winter sport to the way para athletes are still too often framed through overcoming adversity instead of elite performance, this episode looks at why the Paralympic story cannot end at inspiration. It has to include the pressure, strategy, disappointment, media gaps, and performance realities that make para athletes elite competitors. What's Discussed: (00:00) How Dani is feeling two months after the Paralympics. (01:05) Why the post-Games blues can hit athletes no matter how they performed. (02:08) What felt different at Dani's third Paralympics compared to her first two. (03:53) Why Dani is already thinking about another Paralympic cycle. (04:24) Why France feels personal, meaningful, and possibly full circle. (11:01) Why para cross-country and biathlon can feel like a full racing whirlwind. (16:00) How poor snow conditions and climate change are threatening winter sport. (18:42) Why para athletes st…","meta_description":"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 o…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1356,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/endurance-gap-with-dani-aravich-and-zachary-friedley-7864921/episodes/3-after-the-paralympics-what-athletes-need-to-know-about-the-post-games-blues/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/endurance-gap-with-dani-aravich-and-zachary-friedley-7864921/3-after-the-paralympics-what-athletes-need-to-know-about-the-post-games-blues.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}