{"id":13497,"date":"2020-10-13T21:19:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T01:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/?p=13497"},"modified":"2020-10-13T21:19:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T01:19:09","slug":"the-twit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/2020\/10\/the-twit\/","title":{"rendered":"The Twit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks ago, $5 Footlong put out an APB for Flatline Qs.\u00a0 YHC jumped at the opportunity to Q the high-octane AO and began surveying different pax\u2019s \u201cleast favorite exercises.\u201d\u00a0 Simultaneously, YHC was researching stats related to Twitter, our former virtual home, to share with fellow pax as a fond farewell.\u00a0 At 5:29:55, YHC let out a war cry and departed the launch point with nine pax in tow.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Warmarama:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pass.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Beatdown:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mosey to nearby parking deck.<\/p>\n<p>Fact 1:\u00a0 There are 300 million active twitter users, although there are a couple billion accounts.\u00a0 Journalists make up 24.6% of active users (74 million).<\/p>\n<p>Exercise:\u00a0 Pull-ups x 25 (rounding up from 24.6)<\/p>\n<p>Mosey out of parking deck and up Cherry Street.\u00a0 Pause along the sidewalk.<\/p>\n<p>Fact 2:\u00a0 48 million active users are actually bots.<\/p>\n<p>Exercise: \u00a0Monkey humpers x 48<\/p>\n<p>Long <u>PELOTON<\/u> run down 4<sup>th<\/sup> Street to Grace Court.<\/p>\n<p>Facts 3, 4, 5:\u00a0 36% of active users are identified as Democrats, 21% as Republicans, and 29% as independents.<\/p>\n<p>Exercise:\u00a0 WW2s x 36, Burpees x 21, Prisoner Getups x 29<\/p>\n<p>Mosey down Brookstown to West End; mosey on West End to Pilot View.<\/p>\n<p>Fact 6:\u00a0 29% of active twitter users are urbanites.<\/p>\n<p>Exercise:\u00a0 Hand-release Mike Tysons x 29<\/p>\n<p><u>PELOTON<\/u> run up Pilot View to Summit Street.<\/p>\n<p>Fact 7:\u00a0 17% of active twitter users are rural dwellers.<\/p>\n<p>Exercise: \u00a0Crab Cakes x 17<\/p>\n<p>Fact 8:\u00a0 10% of active users create 80% of the content on twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Exercise:\u00a0 Ten donkey climbs on wall<\/p>\n<p>Mosey to 500 5<sup>th<\/sup> Street courtyard.<\/p>\n<p>Exercise:\u00a0 80 squats (modified to 40 due to time contraints)<\/p>\n<p>Fact 9:\u00a0 Retweets make up 25% of all tweets<\/p>\n<p>Exercise:\u00a0 25 x Flight Attendants<\/p>\n<p>Mosey down Spruce Street to Hanes Brand Theater.<\/p>\n<p>Fact 10:\u00a0 Original character limit for a single tweet was 140 characters.<\/p>\n<p>Exercise:\u00a0 Shoulder taps x 70, Fast feet x 70<\/p>\n<p>Jailbreak home.\u00a0 Circle up with SSHs and burpees for 1 minute.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Announcements:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Zima has Q at Conspiracy tomorrow. Wobegon has Q at Mayhem tomorrow.\u00a0 Don\u2019t sack.<\/li>\n<li>Huck has Q at Flatline and WIB next week.<\/li>\n<li>Bevo has Q on Halloween at IS and promises a \u201cget out of jail free card\u201d for those who wear a costume. Zima noted that he has Qed Halloween 3 years in a row and he is the only one in the 3 years to wear a costume.\u00a0 Palin suggested everyone wear a costume this year since Zima is not Q.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>CoT:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prayer request for Drip\u2019s procedure today.<\/li>\n<li>The father and sister of the pastor of The H.O.G.\u2019s church are both very sick.<\/li>\n<li>Prayers for $5 Footlong\u2019s health and recovery.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>YHC took us out.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>NMM:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Solid work by everyone. People got tired of Twitter quickly but were quieter than expected considering the audience.\u00a0 Especially notable was the muted Palin\u2026.wait, he was just too far ahead of us on the runs for us to hear him.\u00a0 Burns was interested in the exercises associated with the political affiliations that were presented at Grace Court.<\/li>\n<li>Huck was really looking forward to this workout and contributed the crab cakes and prisoner get ups this morning. Huck and Zima lamented their banishment from Qing Mayhem at hearing the announcement for Wobegon\u2019s Q tomorrow.\u00a0 In other news, Turnover seemed to have slipped away during the announcements portion of COT.<\/li>\n<li>Zima started asking questions early in the parking deck about the Twitter statistics. YHC quickly pointed the sleeveless one to Pew Research for all of the stats used today:\u00a0 https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/internet\/2019\/04\/24\/sizing-up-twitter-users\/<\/li>\n<li>Zima and Huck appear to be carpooling into the city from WeFoCo fairly frequently, but Huck is always the one driving.<\/li>\n<li>Bevo thinks we need an another an option outside of the parking deck for pull-ups. He noted also that we were all essentially doing worm ups by the end of the set.<\/li>\n<li>Cheesesteak was doing his customary alternative version of everything this morning.<\/li>\n<li>Lamb Chop had a good time on the runs but seemed surprised when we arrived at the bottom of Pilot View. Queue Bevo: \u201cAre you kidding?\u00a0 Who didn\u2019t see this coming?\u201d\u00a0 We almost didn\u2019t make it to Pilot View for, as we were sprinting down Brookstown, a sweet Land Cruiser circa 1978 revved out of a driveway with at least 3 pax in its path.<\/li>\n<li>Pharaonic Dr. Toot made the helpful suggestion to continue on Pilot View after we reached Summit Street because it was \u201cflatter.\u201d Yeah, all right.\u00a0 Was like being told that I needed a crown, but I could have a lead one that was less expensive.<\/li>\n<li>The H.O.G. got a good three mile EC run in and considered running Marshall solo more challenging than the Pilot View Peloton.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks fellas.\u00a0 Great to be with you this morning.\u00a0 YHC handed Huck the keys as he chauffeured Zima out of the parking lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks ago, $5 Footlong put out an APB for Flatline Qs.\u00a0 YHC jumped at the opportunity to Q the high-octane AO and began surveying different pax\u2019s \u201cleast favorite exercises.\u201d\u00a0 Simultaneously, YHC was researching stats related to Twitter, our former virtual home, to share with fellow pax as a fond farewell.\u00a0 At 5:29:55, YHC let [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":472,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flatline"],"acf":{"q":"Greenspan","date":"October 13, 2020","pax":"Palin, Lamb Chop, Burns, Zima, Huckleberry, Root Canal, The H.O.G., Turnover, Cheesesteak, Bevo"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/472"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13498,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13497\/revisions\/13498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}