{"id":27101,"date":"2023-06-27T13:41:14","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T17:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/?p=27101"},"modified":"2023-06-28T09:17:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T13:17:09","slug":"allenhurst-race-honors-former-borough-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/2023\/06\/27\/allenhurst-race-honors-former-borough-commissioner\/","title":{"rendered":"Allenhurst Race Honors Former Borough Commissioner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coaster Photo by George Ertle<\/strong><\/p>\n

This was the scene at the start at the Allenhurst 5K race Sat., June 24.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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By WILLIAM CLARK<\/strong><\/p>\n

Allenhurst hosted its first annual 5K race Sat., June 24 in honor of its former Commissioner Terry Bolan.<\/p>\n

Over 400 runners dashed and trotted through the borough streets\u00a0 to raise money for the Borough\u2019s first responders and parks department.<\/p>\n

Bolan was a longtime fixture of the town according to brother-in-law Bob Selden.<\/p>\n

\u201cTerry had a lot of friends,\u201d Selden said. \u201cHe was much beloved. A great guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bolan died last summer from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, something the avid runner discovered while he was out for a jog, Selden said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought a 5K would be perfect and serve its purpose of raising money for the first responders and borough parks,\u201d Selden said.<\/p>\n

Selden said when he was thinking of ways to honor his late friend and family member he called\u00a0 Mayor Dave McLoughlin and said he wanted to facilitate a 5K.<\/p>\n

The thought has also crossed McLoughlin\u2019s mind.<\/p>\n

With the help of Terry\u2019s wife, Eileen, Deal Fire Chief Scott Foley and the leadership of the Jersey Shore Running Club, Selden and his team got to work creating the race.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would call it a mosaic where a lot of different pieces came together and made this a nice race,\u201d Selden said. \u201cWe had the support of the police department and the Allenhurst Department of Public Works. We had great volunteers and the JSRC is just great. They basically can take over.\u201d<\/p>\n

The course looped its way twice throughout town, trying its best not to affect traffic too badly especially during a busy summer Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a fast course,\u201d Selden said.<\/p>\n

The event continued after the last runner crossed the finish line with a party on the Allenhurst beach. Selden\u2019s former law partner Tom Walters and his band played music while participants enjoyed the festivities.<\/p>\n

The organizers were happy with how all parts of the day shook out especially considering the threat of rain that loomed over the area but never came to fruition.<\/p>\n

Over $30,000 was raised for the effort<\/p>\n

\u201cIt couldn\u2019t have gone any better for our first try,\u201d Selden said.<\/p>\n

The organizers are hoping to make this a yearly tradition around the time of Bolan\u2019s birthday June 22.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a nice way to start the summer,\u201d Selden said.<\/p>\n

Next year he hopes to expand the course a bit so that runners are able to see more of the town. But otherwise, the only part that Selden would change is more people.<\/p>\n

Although this year Selden and his organizing partners wanted to honor Bolan, Selden can see this race taking hold in the future as more of the borough\u2019s race.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe this race will keep going on forever,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

A long lasting imprint of the man that served the community for so many years.<\/p>\n

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Coaster Photo by George Ertle This was the scene at the start at the Allenhurst 5K race Sat., June 24.   By WILLIAM CLARK Allenhurst hosted its first annual 5K race Sat., June 24 in honor of its former Commissioner Terry Bolan. Over 400 runners dashed and trotted through the borough streets\u00a0 to raise money […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":27102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27101"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27107,"href":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27101\/revisions\/27107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}