A deer checks out two-legged visitors enjoying a first-full-day-of-spring stroll in Rumson’s Meadowridge Park late Monday afternoon.
The post-winter thaw continues Tuesday, with temperatures expected to peak at about 55 degrees, and to climb as high as 68 on Wednesday, according to the Weather Underground. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)
Coaches Tim McLoone, in gray cap, and Henry Mercer, at center, mingle with supporters at Meadowridge Park before Friday’s dedication of a plaque, below, honoring the 2011 Rumson-Fair Haven girls’ cross-country team. (Photo by Wil Fulton. Click to enlarge)
By WIL FULTON
On chilly afternoon in January a month when many runners head for the nearest indoor treadmill Meadowridge Park in Rumson honored some hardy cross-country runners and their coaches.
A bronze plaque was dedicated Friday to memorialize the 2011 NJSIAA Meet of Champions win by the Rumson-Fair Haven Regional girls’ cross-country team and its coaches, Tim McLoone and Henry Mercer.
McLoone, a well-known local business owner and philanthropist, called the occasion a celebration of the sport itself.
Cross-country is such a tough, demanding sport, he said. And its really still under the radar. We really dont get a lot of press for what we do. So its nice to have this monument up for everyone to see. And personally, its a little overwhelming.
In-house here at WHIST HQ, we referred to last week’s Where seen at right with its doppelgänger as Fudgie the Whale.
But as a boatload of readers knew, our photo was of the running-and-walking track map at Meadow Ridge Park in Rumson.