Trail Running with a Blade with Zach Friedley

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🗓️ 9 July 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Zach Friedley is a professional athlete who is changing the sport of trail running. Zach was born without most of his right leg, and is often the only adaptive athlete at the starting line of some of the world’s hardest races. There aren’t a lot of running events with categories specifically for adaptive athletes, but Zach is on a mission to change that.

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0:00.0	Exciting news you guys, wild ideas worth living is now available on YouTube.
0:07.0	You can find our latest episodes uploaded their weekly, plus video clips with some of our guests that give you a peek behind the scenes.
0:14.1	Check out all the content at YouTube.com slash REI. I'm racing some of the toughest races out there and I think just the drive of like I might be the first person showing
0:37.2	up to these events with a blade and just opening the door and like starting this
0:40.9	conversation because I know there's other people out there like me
0:45.0	that are just waiting for an opportunity like this
0:47.0	and nobody's inviting them to these things
0:50.0	and I think I'm working on creating those invites and I think once I show up to these
0:54.9	events hammer out these hard courses then they can't avoid me.
1:00.3	Zach Friedman is a professional athlete who is changing the sport of trail running.
1:07.0	Zach was born without most of his right leg and is often the only adaptive athlete at the starting line of some of the world's hardest races.
1:16.0	There aren't a lot of running events with categories specifically for adaptive athletes,
1:20.7	but Zach is on a mission to change that.
1:23.0	I'm Shelby Stanger, and this is wild ideas worth living,
1:27.0	an REI co-op studios production brought to you by Capital One.
1:31.0	When Zach runs he wears a prosthetic called a running blade.
1:37.2	If you haven't seen one a blade is lightweight and springy. It almost looks like a ski bent into the shape of an upside down question mark.
1:46.0	Zach tried a blade for the first time when he was in his 20s. He was at his prosthetist's office and as as soon as he put it on, he started running down the hallway.
1:56.0	That moment was a turning point, and Zach immediately set his sights on making the National Adaptive Running Team.
2:02.6	Zach Freedley, welcome to Wild Ideas Worth Living.
2:09.6	You've had a lot of Wild Ideas,
2:11.4	so I'm really excited to speak with you.
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