Rhodyco Productions

We worked with them on KNBR’s flagship Bridge to Bridge Run. They did an excellent job with our event!

It was recently acknowledged that I had reached my 15 year milestone of working for RhodyCo Productions. Aside from my regular job I work on several RhodyCo events throughout the year. Usually it’s a weekend of setting up, monitoring and breaking down road race courses. Some of you may have seen me hanging from the tail of a pickup truck dropping or picking up orange traffic cones sometimes even with a police escort. For those who don’t know us, RhodyCo is a fitness event planning company that has been producing many popular running and bicycling events throughout the San Francisco Bay Area for over twenty years.
Among our 2007 events is the very popular Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Half Marathon and 5K which was held a couple of weekends ago and had over 8000 participants. Another event is the super scenic Emerald Nuts Across the Bay 12K which takes participants from east Fort Baker in Sausalito, across the Golden Gate Bridge, through the Presidio and the Marina to the finish line at historic Aquatic Park; this event takes place in March. The other events include the Workday Devil Mountain Run in Danville, Eden Medical Center’s Run to the Lake in Castro Valley, the Banana Chase 5K/​10K in San Francisco, and the California Academy of Sciences Run Wild 5K/​10K which was formerly the zany Run to the Far Side until cartoonist Gary Larson retired prior to the 2006 event. One event that I had the pleasure of working on for many years is the scenic Tour de Peninsula 33 mile bicycling tour which begins and ends in Redwood City, but I don’t get to do this one anymore because it conflicts with my contract work with ESPN’s Summer X Games.
Long before I began working for this wonderful company, I ran in many RhodyCo events. What I loved most then is still true today. All of the events serve as fundraisers for specific charities. Among the charities served this year are the Hemophilia Foundation of Northern California, Support for Families of Children with Disabilities, Koret Family House, Edgewood Center for Children and Families, United Way Bay Area, Children’s Hospital Oakland, Eden Medical Center’s Trauma Center, San Mateo County Parks and Rec, UCSF Pediatric AIDS Research and the California Academy of Sciences.
Even though I’m not taking part as a participant much anymore I still get a great feeling from watching others as they embark on a healthy physical challenge. Young or old, fast or slow, running or walking … it’s all great to see. Whether they’re out there to support the charity, to get a nice t-​shirt or just to collect on some of the post-​race sponsors’ goodies, it’s the participants who make the difference. It’s that fact that makes all of us go out to produce the safest, most enjoyable RhodyCo event possible.
I hope to see YOU at a RhodyCo event in the future.