F3 Knoxville

For the Stats

AO: asylum-daybreak
Q: Choir Boy , Crawdad (Robbi Dickens)
PAX: Snaggletooth (Elijah Tafao), Honeydew, Farley, Pac-man, Wanderer, Butterknife, Choir Boy, Crawdad (Robbi Dickens), Dain Bramage (Will Olson), lebowski, Lulu (Greg Huddy), Mermaid, Mr Jinxy, Pele (Jon Lindberg), Pusher, Snitch (Cory Beilharz ), Steam, Swimmies (Nathan Chesney), Veggie (Rylen Huddy), Waffle House (Brady Greene), Right Said from Nashville and Chum Bucket from Illinois
FNGs: None
COUNT: 22
Stuff was done. See post by Crawdad above :point_up_2: because apparently Crawdad has not learned how to do a formal backblast in slack. First half by me, and the second have by Crawdad, who delivered two messages in the COT:

1. You can’t change your life without changing something that you do everyday.
2. If you come out and enjoy the BSIA, then you should be Qing 1-2 times per year, at a minimum.

Convergence next week, or, as Crawdad called it, a “Brovergence.” Crawdad will be there as a “Brovirgin.” I will not be there because my kids have a swim meet. Enjoy and don’t get hurt. It should help that the sun will be up at 7:00 since it is after the time change.

Ruck around, Find out.

AO: thequacken
Q: Gmail
PAX: FixerUpper, Z-Pack, Pushback
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
WARMUP:
Imperial Walkers
THE THANG:
Lap around FC park.
march to Central
few sets of merkins/ dips before a few stadium climbs
march back to AO
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Brolympics Nov 16
COT:
“If you Cannot embrace the pain of learning but must have instant gratification, you forfeit the greatest rewards in life” John Piper

Got The Led Out

AO: the-equalizer
Q: Bookman
PAX: Stripped, Smithers, Ice Cold, Cheney, Bookman
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
WARMUP: SSHs, LBACs, Cherry Pickers, Mosey to Splashpad

THE THANG:

Tumblin Dice

Burpees in the middle
XYs, Catalina Wine Mixers, The Bruce’s or The Caits, Dead Bugs, Upper Deckers on the outside

Roll the dice and use that number for the amount of reps at each station, always coming back to the middle after each outside exercise

Pax was nervous Q would make them do double the number of burpees in the middle. Like Danny Glover in Lethal Weapon, Q is too old for that ish.

We listened to Physical Graffiti.

MARY: none

ANNOUNCEMENTS: 11/16 convergence

COT: practice gratitude every day, even in the hardest of times

The Little Things

AO: asylum-am
Q: Charmin (John Willis)
PAX: Backflow (Wesley Hunt), Bunny, Cat Gut (Mike Davis), Charmin (John Willis), Cinco (Scott McGuire), Code Brown, Cosmo 2, Farley, Gibbler, Love’s, Matlock (Bill Maddox), P3, Pac-man, Patty Melt (Parker Greene), Sawdust, Waffle House (Brady Greene), Kentucky, Breaststroke (Will Duncan), Tecmo, Shotgun, Newton, White Belt
FNGs: None
COUNT: 22
WARMUP: SSH, Abe Vagodas, Tempo Merkins, lap @ the AO, ISWs

THE THANG:
Mosey to Circus Maximus for 25s with partner running (Merkins and BBS)

Mosey to loop at the dock for bump drill with stations of squats, merkins and BBS

Mosey to Cardiac with 25s of Carolina Dry Docks and Iron Mikes, at each stop, with a Bernie up the to the first curve.

Mosey back to the AO

MARY: no time.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: 2nd F lunch at Dead End BBQ

COT: take time to notice the beauty in the mundane. Say hi to a stranger. Wave to someone. Slow down and pay attention to the world around you. As Kurt Vonnegut says, we’re dancing animals.

Ode To 5K

AO: juco
Q: Butterknife
PAX: Guardrail, Zerolingo, Ike, Windex, Wanderer, Pelican, Butterknife, Love Shaq, Booster, Lt. Dan, Chuck Munsey, Zerolingo
FNGs: 1 Zerolingo
COUNT: 11
WARMUP:
SSH
Windmills
Tempo Merkins
Tempo Squats
Bear :bear: Crawls
Crawl Bears :bear:

THE THANG:
Run the greenway up to Valley Vista and back to campus.

Stopping for a rotation of the below exercises:
Flutter kicks
8 count Merkins
BBC
Squats
Flutter kicks
Monkey Humpers
BBC
Burpees

MARY:
Bear :bear: Crawls
Crab :crab: Walk
Walking lunges

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Brolympics/ 9 year anniversary

COT:
Man this has been a crazy week at the Bailey household. I imagine it was a little crazy for all of us. I was originally going to talk about the Presidential election 🗳️ but decided to talk about something different. Although the two things I want to focus on could probably be tied to that as well.

My wife signed up for the Indy race back in February and we were supposed to be leaving later this morning and head to Indiana. We were going out for dinner and then taking it back to the hotel. The plan was for her to wake up and run her marathon.

Plans have changed. My daughter broke her arm Wednesday and has surgery scheduled at 11 AM this morning.

So what I would like to talk about is sacrifice and compassion.

My wife has been training her butt off for months. Waking up early on Saturdays or Sundays to get in long runs to prepare for this race. We thought we were taking my daughter to get a cast yesterday and that’s when we found out she would require surgery. I was trying to make a way for it to work so that my wife could go ahead and run her race, like staying back with Rebecca while she went to Indiana. She couldn’t bring herself to do it because she knew she wouldn’t be focused she knew she would be worried about my daughter. that’s both sacrifice and compassion.

Doc McStuffins AKA Dr Keith Gray spoke at my church a couple of weeks back and he defined compassion.

Compassion is made up of these 3 things:
Seeing others with empathy
Listening without distraction
Bold & Sacrificial action

“I love the Lord because he hears my voice and my prayer for mercy.”
“Because he bends down to listen, I will pray as long as I have breath!”
‭‭Psalms‬ ‭116‬:‭1-2