Boone, NC: pop. 19,811 and counting

Boone, NC: pop. 19,811 and counting

QIC: Wobegon

Date: 2-22-2025

PAX: Draftee, Wooly Bugger, Rubber Ducky, Ziggy Stardust, Dr. Toot, Tonka, Spicoli, Sea Man, Wobegon

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.

No one is moving full-time yet, if ever, but first we get Bloodsport out of high school and decide our next move.

That said, App State stats and facts were our theme today in celebration.

I said it’s great…..

Standard Warm-0-Rama followed by a parking low slowsy.

Stat 1: There are 21,570 students enrolled as of last fall.

So we’ll do:
21 merkins
57 LBCs
0 burpess
Parking lot lap

Done OYO, plank for the 6

Stat 2: The school boasts a 16:1 student-to-faculty ratio.

So we’ll do 16 reps of each of the trio below, do 1 burpee and plank for the 6

Dry Docks
Squats
Heels

Mountain Climbers
Lef Lunges
Penguins

Mike Tysons
Right lunges
Freddy

Time to mosey around back and grab a block.

Stat 3: 25 students is the average class size

Circle up, class:

Blocks: 25 reps each oyo, plank for the 6
Curls
Bent Rows
OHP
Skulls
Gargoyles (crowd pleaser and really should be used more. It’s a monkey humper while squatting on your cinderblock)

Two more rounds with 10 reps, then 5.  Class dismissed.

Stat 4: Over 150 undergraduate major options.
150 Dora with Merkins, LBCs, Squats.

We didn’t quite get done here….we Omaha, so we have time for…

The most important number…

34-32

If you don’t know, ask somebody. Van Pelt (the real one) was quoted as saying, “Remember this day, men, it will be yours for all time.”

In small lot:
34 shoulder taps
Run to the other end
32 low flutters

X4

A couple of minutes of Mary and we are DONE.

COT: Q school is coming up; don’t miss it. Zesty is taking the Q for the first time at Urban Assault, coming off his VQ recently.

YHC took us out with reflections on leading from behind and adjusting to change.

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.