F3 Knoxville

Pass or stay?

AO: juco
Q: Stye (Hal Phillips)
PAX: Butterknife, Booster, Guardrail, Mailbox, Stye (Hal Phillips), Wanderer, Pelican, Full Tank
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
WARMUP: side, straddle hops, cherry pickers, windmills, tempo squats, Moroccan nightclub

THE THANG: mosey to the courtyard, 11s with dips and flutter kicks. Mosey to parking lot near sophomore Hill, a card game of friendship? Draw cards if you’re the highest you do Burpee otherwise you do reps based on card and suit.

MARY: Freddie Mercury, box cutters, hello dollies

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT: as we approach Thanksgiving, we all must remember to have a servant heart. Just like Jesus washed the feet of his disciples. We should get joy out of serving others. We must not serve only those we love or agree with, but those that may not treat us well or disagree with us, it is not enough to know God’s word we must act out in our day-to-day lives.

Turkey Trot

AO: bigball
Q: Magic Mic (Jarrett Woodall)
PAX: G-6 (Rick Kuhlman), Postman (Scott Colby), Drive-thru (Mikel Towe), Proposal
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
WARMUP:
The usual

THE THANG:
Turkey Trot

T Merkins
Upperdeckers
Reverse Crunches
Knee Taps
Elevated Squats
Yul Brynner

Trot – Suicides

MARY:
Ab circle

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT:
Give thanks in all circumstances

Good ain’t Great!

AO: brickyard
Q: Natty
PAX: Gordie, Biohazard (Jay Shepherd), Gmail, Natty, Herbie, Simmons, Switchgrass (Stacy Clark), DUCKHUNT2005, Jim Norris
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
WARMUP:Thai fighters, t-plank arm circles, OH press, seal claps, OH claps, chinooks, army cherry pickers

THE THANG: run to lifehouse lot and hold plank, then tempo merkins
Run to backlot Pair up with 4 stations / 3 rounds exercises: 25 burps, BBS, Superman’s, 50 plank jacks, mkns, am hammers, 75 forward hop overs, toe taps & moguls; 100 Mtn climbers, high knees, SSH’s
MARY: gas pumps, box cutters, hello Dollie’s, Bruce lee’s

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Switch on TG or run the Regal 5K with Natty and Mr. Wedgie
COT: Good is the enemy of great. 2 Peter 1:5-7

No PT

AO: shamruck
Q: Steam
PAX: Mermaid, Snaggletooth (Elijah Tafao), Eliza, Dumpster Dive (Brad Burnette), Crawlspace, Tonka, Fabio (Joe Hamilton), Flower Pot
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9 + 2 dogs
WARMUP
Stretching OYO

THE THANG
Ruck Route: footpathapp.com/routes/3482D7F5-1E52-4E59-AD0D-DED96870D77D

MARY
Curb to curb stretching + COT stretching

ANNOUNCEMENTS
– Check out the announcements channel (or your email inbox) for the latest edition of the Send Me newsletter, in which all of the upcoming events Mermaid mentioned will be located.
– Rucksgiving Challenge + Service Opportunity: Saturday, November 30th, 2024
– Check out the asylum-daybreak channel for more info in the pre-blast
– 6am – 8am

COT
“It is dangerous to live without your heart being captured by awe of God, because awe of God is quickly replaced by awe of you. “”

It is a daily battle,
one that is free of
physical weapons,
political parties,
and national boundaries.
It is a battle that has ben raging
since the garden
and will not stop until the war
is finally won.
This battle is not fought
between people,
it is fought
within people.
It is a much greater danger
to each of us
than war between nations
will ever be.
It is a battle of awe.
We were created to live in
a real,
heart-gripping,
agenda-setting,
behavior-forming
awe of God.
But other awes kidnap our hearts.
Awe of creation,
awe of other people,
and awe of ourselves
shove the awe of God
out of our hearts.
So we need grace to see again,
to tremble again,
and to bow down again
at the feet of the One who deserves
our awe.”-Paul David Tripp (New Morning Mercies)
– For further study and encouragement check out Exodus 19

The great reversal

AO: the-project
Q: Mathlete
PAX: Biohack, Ocho, OBrother, Flying Dutchman, Munge, Patch Adams, Chicken Bone, Mathlete
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
WARMUP:
T-jacks, Tempo squats, blast off squats, tempo merkins, newtons cradle, cherry pickers
THE THANG:
Mosey to pool wall – Wall ups and handstand
Mosey to playground – pull ups and bobby hurley
Mosey to amphitheater – bear crawl/crawl bear + step ups + bear crawl/crawl bear + flutter kicks/dollys
Repeat playground
Repeat poolwall
Mosey to parallel bars – dips/rows + big boys/basilisks
Mosey to bell – (irkins/Derkins, lap) x2, irkins/dips x2
MARY:
No time!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
RoCo convergence Dec 7
Smokies convergence early January
Forg3 registration open
COT:
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

God has a tendency towards reversals. He defeats armies by turning them against themselves, makes kings from shepherds, uses treachery to bring salvation, and demonstrates covenant faithfulness through the outsider. He brings forth children from the barren and the elderly.

Jesus was the reverse of the Messiah that Israel expected. He taught that the last shall be first and the first shall be last, the humble will be exalted, and that an enemy should be loved. Then he completed the great reversal when he defeated death by allowing himself to be taken by it, punished as a sinner even though he was without sin so that sinners might not bear punishment.

Knowing how broken the world is, it should come as no surprise that God, perfectly good, would often be turning it upside down. But how do we cope when He is so confusing? By leaning not on our own understanding. Once we stop telling God what we need Him to do and start asking Him what He needs us to do, we can leave behind the default mindset of compromise and lesser evil and open the way for His dramatic reversal.