{"id":24849,"date":"2025-03-24T16:23:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T20:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/?p=24849"},"modified":"2025-03-24T16:23:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T20:23:55","slug":"boone-nc-pop-19811-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/2025\/03\/boone-nc-pop-19811-and-counting\/","title":{"rendered":"Boone, NC: pop. 19,811 and counting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>YHC has spent the last two Saturdays in the high country, that lovely mountain town we know as Boone. Why? Squid (if your a FIA type person), AKA Mrs. Wobegon, AKA Molly, has signed a contract to be the Associate Dean for Collections at Belk Library at App State effective June 2nd. If you have not figured it out already, I married up. Our family is now a resident of both Winston-Salem and Boone, with a lovely two-bedroom, tiny-as-hell, furnished weekday apartment in Boone now on the books.<\/p>\n<p>No one is moving full-time yet, if ever, but first we get Bloodsport out of high school and decide our next move.<\/p>\n<p>That said, App State stats and facts were our theme today in celebration.<\/p>\n<p>I said it\u2019s great\u2026..<\/p>\n<p>Standard Warm-0-Rama followed by a parking low slowsy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stat 1: There are 21,570 students enrolled as of last fall.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So we\u2019ll do:<br \/>\n21 merkins<br \/>\n57 LBCs<br \/>\n0 burpess<br \/>\nParking lot lap<\/p>\n<p>Done OYO, plank for the 6<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stat 2: The school boasts a 16:1 student-to-faculty ratio.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So we\u2019ll do 16 reps of each of the trio below, do 1 burpee and plank for the 6<\/p>\n<p>Dry Docks<br \/>\nSquats<br \/>\nHeels<\/p>\n<p>Mountain Climbers<br \/>\nLef Lunges<br \/>\nPenguins<\/p>\n<p>Mike Tysons<br \/>\nRight lunges<br \/>\nFreddy<\/p>\n<p>Time to mosey around back and grab a block.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stat 3: 25 students is the average class size<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Circle up, class:<\/p>\n<p>Blocks: 25 reps each oyo, plank for the 6<br \/>\nCurls<br \/>\nBent Rows<br \/>\nOHP<br \/>\nSkulls<br \/>\nGargoyles (crowd pleaser and really should be used more. It\u2019s a monkey humper while squatting on your cinderblock)<\/p>\n<p>Two more rounds with 10 reps, then 5.\u00a0 Class dismissed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stat 4: Over 150 undergraduate major options. <\/strong><br \/>\n150 Dora with Merkins, LBCs, Squats.<\/p>\n<p>We didn\u2019t quite get done here\u2026.we Omaha, so we have time for\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The most important number\u2026<\/p>\n<p>34-32<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t know, ask somebody. Van Pelt (the real one) was quoted as saying, \u201cRemember this day, men, it will be yours for all time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In small lot:<br \/>\n34 shoulder taps<br \/>\nRun to the other end<br \/>\n32 low flutters<\/p>\n<p>X4<\/p>\n<p>A couple of minutes of Mary and we are DONE.<\/p>\n<p>COT: Q school is coming up; don\u2019t miss it. Zesty is taking the Q for the first time at Urban Assault, coming off his VQ recently.<\/p>\n<p>YHC took us out with reflections on leading from behind and adjusting to change.<\/p>\n<p>Great group of guys and I think Rubber Ducky knew all these stats already. We lost Tonka halfway due to foot injury, but he was rocking the boot and getting after it at Iront Throne today. I appreciate the support, good wishes and, well, all of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YHC has spent the last two Saturdays in the high country, that lovely mountain town we know as Boone. Why? Squid (if your a FIA type person), AKA Mrs. Wobegon, AKA Molly, has signed a contract to be the Associate Dean for Collections at Belk Library at App State effective June 2nd. 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