{"id":1966,"date":"2010-07-14T11:31:06","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T16:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/?p=1966"},"modified":"2010-07-14T11:31:06","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T16:31:06","slug":"twitter-encouragement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2010\/twitter-encouragement\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Encouragement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may recall that the 2010 Get in Gear was held on a rainy (and stormy) morning. \u00a0I saw some of my friends on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/crossn81\">Twitter <\/a>saying how they were having issues with the rain and running the race. \u00a0I wished Jennifer good luck and she asked if I was running. \u00a0You can see my response below, but it was in Joe&#8217;s response after the race that you can truly see the power of Twitter. \u00a0This happens all across the Twitter-sphere with people encouraging each other. \u00a0The crazy thing, I&#8217;ve never met Joe or Jennifer in real life!<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/GetinGearTweets2010.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1967\" title=\"GetinGearTweets2010\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/GetinGearTweets2010.jpg?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/GetinGearTweets2010.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/GetinGearTweets2010.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/GetinGearTweets2010.jpg?w=648&amp;ssl=1 648w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>They both completed the race!  Jennifer ran a 33:13 and Joe finished in 49:51.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have a story about when Twitter provided the extra bit of encouragement you needed to do something? \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/crossn81\">Follow me<\/a> and I&#8217;ll try to offer encouragement! And you can offer me some!<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?w=625\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may recall that the 2010 Get in Gear was held on a rainy (and stormy) morning. \u00a0I saw some of my friends on Twitter saying how they were having issues with the rain and running the race. \u00a0I wished Jennifer good luck and she asked if I was running. \u00a0You can see my response [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[45,10,7],"tags":[573,574,455,125],"class_list":["post-1966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5k","category-races","category-resources","tag-online-communities","tag-social-networking","tag-sport","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4iaAv-vI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":415,"url":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2008\/twitter-tagging\/","url_meta":{"origin":1966,"position":0},"title":"Twitter Tagging","author":"crossn81","date":"August 21, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Last week I wrote about the great tool, Twitter. 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