Tony has been running for over 45 years and has achieved many great accomplishments. Over the course of his running career, he has logged over 130,000 miles and has trained in and tested over 500+ pair of running shoes. His accomplishments include becoming the WIAA Class A state two miles champion in 1975, overall winner of the 1979 Al's Run, and has qualified for the U.S. Olympic marathon trials in 1980. Tony has also ran a personal best at the 1981 Boston Marathon with a time of 2:18:07.
Tony, as well as his store, were inducted into the Wisconsin Cross Country Hall of Fame on January 11, 2008.
With a successful masters career, Tony has 5 individual national track and field championships
Rodiez's Running Store has been opeb since 1986, with it's first store opening on the east side. It moved and has been in West Allis since 1988.