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@runtechclub celebrates 6 years! 🎊

#runtechclub #runclub #running #grouprun

Thursday trails never disappoint.

#trailrunning #trails #runhappy #runoutside #mountainrunning

The plan was to run the first half comfortably and push the back half. That part mostly held: miles 1 through 6 felt controlled, miles 7 through 11 lived in that comfortably uncomfortable zone, and the last mile and a half was pure pain cave.

I felt like 1:45 was a good goal along with negative splits that's what happened. I love it when a plan comes together.

10/58 age group
260/1885 overall
219/1053 male

#venicehalfmarathon #halfmarathon #running #raceday #negativesplit

Curious where my fitness is at, so Venice Beach Half-Marathon tomorrow. Garmin and Strava think 1:52–1:53 is in play. I’m not so sure. We'll see what happens. 🤷🏻‍♂️

The gear:
🧢 @pathprojects saguaro cap
🕶️ @100percent hypercraft sq
🎽 @teamlcl @alwrld singlet
🩳 @pathprojects sentinel tights
🧦 @xoskinusa xotoes
👟 @asicsrunning Meta Speed Sky Tokyo

#garminpredicts #venicehalfmarathon #runla #raceday #halfmarathon

Why it's worth waking up early every Friday morning...

#FridayMorningRun #MorningMiles #RunCommunity
#RunnerLife #MovementIsMedicine

Leaders aren’t always the loudest in the room.

Victor Chen has been running with us since the beginning. Entrepreneur. Builder. One of the quiet anchors of this community. He doesn’t lead by announcement. He leads by presence.

There’s a version of Steve Jobs most people know — the relentless, demanding, uncompromising version. What people talk about less is who he became.

Jobs was fired from Apple in 1985. Partly because of his inability to lead with empathy — to understand where people were actually coming from. He spent 12 years away. When he came back, he came back different. He had learned to listen first. To understand before he challenged. To meet people where they were before asking them to go somewhere new.

That shift didn’t make him softer. It made him more effective. It’s what turned Apple into what it became.

The most valuable company in the world was built by a man who learned how to listen.

Before Jobs passed, he looked at Tim Cook and gave him one piece of advice.
“Never ask what I would do. Just do the right thing.”

He’d watched what happened to Disney after Walt died — a company paralyzed, constantly asking what the founder would have done instead of making their own decisions. He didn’t want that for Apple. He wanted Cook to lead as himself. Fully. Without imitation.

This year, Tim Cook announced he’s stepping down. Under his leadership, Apple grew from a $350B company to $4 trillion in market value. The iPhone alone now generates over $200B in annual revenue.

He didn’t do it by asking what Steve would have done.

Now he’s passing the same advice to John Ternus.

That chain — Jobs to Cook to Ternus — is what real leadership transition looks like. Not a legacy to perform. A permission to be yourself, anchored to the right values. Victor carries that same permission naturally.

He doesn’t try to be the loudest or the first or the most visible. He shows up. He listens. He holds the energy of the room without demanding it. And he runs — every week, every Friday, before the world wakes up — because that’s what the work requires.

That’s the kind of leadership that doesn’t need a title to be felt.

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Guess what day it is today...

#MayTheFourthBeWithYou #StarWarsDay #Chewbacca #maythe4th #running

Round and round.

#running #trackworkout #speedwork #runnersofinstagram #runtraining

Sunrise, marine layer, and downtown LA peeking through from the top of Westridge. Epic way to roll into the day.

#Westridge #LosAngeles #TrailRun #SunriseRun #MarineLayer

Another beautiful day on the Backbone Trail with the @trailrunnersclub! 🌄

Fitness rebuild in full effect—training low and slow like a good BBQ. 😅 Nailed 16 miles and feeling strong after.

#BackboneTrail #TrailRunning #LowAndSlow #UltraTraining #SoCalTrails

Early mornings on Westridge: twilight clouds glowing pink & purple, quiet trails underfoot, chasing that first sunrise glow 🌅🏃‍♂️ Pure magic before the world wakes up.

#Westridge #SunriseTrails #QuietMorningRun #SoCalTrails #TrailRunner

We came for the run…and stayed for the views - Thank you Victor 📷@groovc #trailrunning #ultra #runnerscommunity #marathontraining #sundayfun