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Spontaneous chat with @groovc —
What are you learning, testing, or failing?
Find the limit and stay curious.

Miles x Conviction | Fridays | 3-5 miles taken in Moss Collective by @groovc

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Late to the ice cream run trend, but I made it happen this weekend with some #peipakoa trail ice cream. 😅🍦

Made the mix at home, quickly made it to the trail, and let the miles do their thing. Several miles in, I stopped at the Japanese Garden at Kenneth Hahn and built myself a cone right there.

Hot day. Cold reward. Zero regrets. Amazingly no issues in the way back. 😂

#running #trailrunning #icecreamrun #kennethhahn taken in Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area by @groovc

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13 days ago

Happy 250th America!

#run #4thofjulyrun #happy250thbirthdayamerica
#gpsart #longrun taken in Los Angeles, California by @groovc

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21 days ago

Miles x conviction.

Friday weekly reset.

#runwithit #startup #technology #momentum taken in Culver City, California by @groovc

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22 days ago

I’d been fighting some weird summer bug, and it feels really good to finally be healthy enough to sneak back out onto the weekend trails. Sullivan Canyon seemed like the right re-entry point - enough shade to make it feel gentle, enough dirt to remind me I’m not starting from zero.

#SullivanCanyon #trailrunning #weekendtrails #backontrails #runrecovery taken in Sullivan Canyon Trail by @groovc

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a month ago

Trail Thursdays and 🌅 with @coyoterunning

Los Liones to Parker Mesa Overlook is one of LA's hidden gems. Great views of downtown, Santa Monica and the Pacific Ocean, and even Catalina.

#runclub #trailrunning #running #pathprojectskrew #earlyriser taken in Parker Mesa Overlook Trail by @groovc

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2 months ago

Still running...
@runtechclub celebrates 6 years! 🎊

#runtechclub #runclub #running #grouprun taken in Culver City, California by @groovc

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2 months ago

Thursday trails never disappoint.

#trailrunning #trails #runhappy #runoutside #mountainrunning taken in Westridge Trail by @groovc

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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 taken in Venice, California by @groovc

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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 taken in Los Angeles, California by @groovc

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2 months ago

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

#FridayMorningRun #MorningMiles #RunCommunity
#RunnerLife #MovementIsMedicine taken in Culver City, California by @groovc

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3 months ago

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.

Continue in comments. taken in Los Angeles, California by @groovc

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