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Episode 18 finds me in the City Of Brotherly Love – Philadelphia! Freedom of the body. Freedom of the mind!! I macked hard with the founding fathers, steaked out on South Street, raged with Marco Benevento and his new band…
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This week’s episode finds Jake Running For Rodney on the Asbury Park boardwalk with special guest Matt Caughthran, visiting Seaside Heights and rocking out with the Bouncing Souls at the Stone Pony and the Bronx and Marciahi El Bronx on…
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Episode #16! This one finds me running though Venice and Verona, Italy, though some ruins older than most of my jokes and to a David Gilmour concert at the 2,000 year old Verona Amphitheater. You know what would be a…
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It is with great pride and honour that we can now announce the Rodney Speed Memorial Scholarship at Berklee College of Music. Seriously. There’s gonna be a scholarship. Named after Rodney. At the Berklee College of Music!!! This will be…
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So what are the chances?!?! That my 43rd birthday happens to fall on the 243rd day of this year. And my 243rd straight day of running. For Rodney. 3 Miles. Every Day. It started as 31 days and then the…
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Running For Rodney Episode 14 chronicles my adventures at Glastonbury – aka the world’s biggest and wildest music festival. They have 120 stages at this thing – ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY! It makes Bonnaroo look like the Lilith Fair. No…
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