As an adult, it can sometimes be hard to find community. We don't make friends in school

or at summer camp anymore, and today more of us work from home than ever before. There

are still ways to meet new people, but putting yourself out there can feel vulnerable.

Ashley Davies is a lifelong runner who's building community her own way. Ashley ran

competitively in high school and college, and she especially loved practicing with the team.

Now as an adult, Ashley's figured out how to make running social and fun again. In 2017,

she co-founded Club Seattle Run Division. Ashley and her co-founders intentionally made

the club as inclusive as possible, focusing on community rather than performance. Their

motto is all faces, all paces. The club encourages people of any background and fitness level

to come run with them, and maybe even make some friends along the way. I'm Shelby Stanger,

and this is Wild Ideas worth living an REI co-op studios production. Ashley Davies, welcome

to Wild Ideas worth living. Thank you. I'm glad to be here. Thought we'd just get

right into running. How did you find running? So I found running in middle school. My first

experience running was running on my own. It was the most accessible thing that I could

do at the time to be able to get outside and move my body. It wasn't just a fun, enjoyable

type of thing. It was a very rigid structure. I'm going out for this amount of time to

burn this amount of calories, and which trust translated into a really powerful and more

healthy outlet, I'd say today. I appreciate you being so honest and transparent right

out of the gate. How did your relationship with running change? How did you work that

out? So I went from using running as a vehicle to just like really tightly control my expenditure

as I was also really closely monitoring my input, monitoring when I was eating. And then

when it came to high school, I was like, well, I know how to run. Let me participate

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