Built by people who show up.
Jordan Ashe and Reni Volkov met on opposite sides of a boxing ring fifteen years ago. One came from strength, one from distance running, both from the kind of training where the room matters — where the people around you set the standard you rise to.
After their corporate years, they kept looking for that room and kept not finding it. The gyms were either too casual to push them or too precious to enjoy. So they took a lease on a derelict warehouse loft on Ash Street, kept the exposed steel and the concrete, hung twenty-four heavy bags, laid a sixty-meter sprint lane down the east wall, and opened the door.
Three years later, STRIDE is 620 members deep with a waitlist, and the thing they were chasing is the thing people show up for: a standard worth meeting, in a room that's glad you came.