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Podcast: The Runners Reunion Podcast
Episode: This week we are “On The Road” with Bob Hodge as he discusses his competitive running career that spanned the pre-running boom days growing up in gritty streets of Lowell through the early 1990s
Description: This week we are “On The Road” with Bob Hodge as he discusses his competitive running career that spanned the pre-running boom days growing up in gritty streets of Lowell through the early 1990s . During his youth Lowell’s famous textile mills were closing at an alarming rate with its population dropping just as quickly. Bob’s brother Billy went to Vietnam and never returned. It was a turbulent time with Richard Nixon elected to restore law and order only to resign five years later as a result of the Watergate scandal. Running became Bob’s escape from the disillusionm...