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The Return

December 15, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: asylum-am
Q: Hands
PAX: Cat Gut (Mike Davis), Tropicana, Waffle House (Brady Greene), Matlock (Bill Maddox), Hands, Aquafina, Cinco (Scott McGuire), P3, Rainbow, Fabio (Joe Hamilton)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
WARMUP: SSH, froggy squats, inch worm merkins

THE THANG: Jogged up and over Baby E. On the trail, did 10 Merkins, 10 2 count American Hammers, 10 jump squats then started to run after 4 good lunges. Skipped 2 light poles and repeated the exercises. Finished at the road. Wandered around until we got to the Overlook. Partnered up and one partner ran the loop while the other did inch worm Merkins – repeat x 1. The one partner ran down the walkway and back while the other did Captain Thors. Repeat x 1. Moseyed to the pav-a-lon for table rows, calf raises and tricep dips x 2 rounds. 1 minute of walk sit.

MARY: Planks with arm raise up and under 4 x.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Code Brown is coordinating the Winter Solstice hike. Sounds like all the details are super ironed out, just like the Donner Party.
Shovel Flag passing this Wednesday.

COT: Things I learned during the marathon process.

[the-pulpit] Jack Frost Nipped at Our Heels, Not Our Noses

December 15, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: the-pulpit
Q: Sawdust
PAX: Smoked Pickle, Ike, Voodoo, Jim Norris
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
WARMUP:
– SSH
– Stretching
– Tempo Merkins
– Cherry Pickers
– Abe Vigodas
– Rockettes
– Tie-Fighters
– X-Wings

THE THANG:
– Worked a circuit around campus, stopping every so often to work some exercises. In total we did:
– 30 Burpees
– 100 Imperial Squat Waklers
– 100 Big Boy Sit-Ups

MARY:
– SKSC (IYKYK)
– Flutter Kicks
– Gas Pumpers
– Hello Dollys

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– :shovelflag: handoff at asylum-am on Wednesday

COT:
– Charles Spugeon was asked why we needed to be continually filled by the spirit. His response is be cause “I Leak” Ephesians 5:18 says we should “be filled with the Spirit.” The Greek translation is not just a one time filling, but a constant filling. We need to find ways to allow ourselves to continually be filled with the Spirit.

The Longest Mile

December 10, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: asylum-am
Q: Swanson
PAX: P3, Coco (Sam Duzan), Matlock (Bill Maddox), Cinco (Scott McGuire), Tropicana, Cosmo 2, Gibbler, Cat Gut (Mike Davis), Waffle House (Brady Greene), Rainbow, Dung Beetle, Techno (I think)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
WARMUP:
SSH – 25
Baby Arm Circles – 10ea way
Squat & Reach – 10
Hill Billy – 10

THE THANG:
Longest mile

Inchworm merkins or Peter Parker Merkins/25
100m run
Bobby Hurly’s or Bonnie Blair’s/25
100m run
LCRC or triple V-up/25
100m run
8 Ct Body Builder or deconstructed burpee/25
100m run

Rinse & Repeat x3

Wild Card – Flip or Keep
– if you flip, the new exercise stays unless all agree and pay a penalty:
– 1 – 100 SSH
– 2 – 100 LBC
– 3 – 100 Squats
– 4 – 100 OH Claps

MARY:

No time

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Knoxville Region is star fishing in to two regions.
– Need a name for “east” (Asylum, Big Ball, Quaken, and future AO’s
– Volunteers for leadership positions she

COT:

Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of – throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

[juco-rush] Mile repeats

December 10, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: juco-rush
Q: Zippy
PAX: Trash Panda (JUCO), Tooth Fairy, Full Tank, Erector, Butterknife
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
WARMUP: jog to track

THE THANG: amrap 1600s with 400 recovery

MARY:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT:

[crossroads-vls] Q4.8 Accountability

December 8, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: crossroads-vls
Q: Otis
PAX: Spellcheck
FNGs: None
COUNT: 2
WARMUP: prayer and coffee

THE THANG: Q4.8 Accountability

Socratic
– Do Teams need Standards in the way that a man does?
– How important is it for the Q to enforce Standards within the Team?
– What does the Q do about a man who doesn’t meet the Team’s Standards?

It stood out to me that the word “standard” was in this chapter 29 times. We spent most of the morning talking about standards.
Do we have standards? Of course we do, but are they acknowledged and communicated clearly?

We discussed how much of a benefit it is to have high standards, to be fair but firm. It is very important to communicate these early and often.

There are different expectations of standards when it comes to the different TEAMS we are apart of: Home, Church, F3, Work. Especially in the enforcement of these standards.

Fact is you can’t have accountability without acknowledging, communicating and enforcing Standards.

Spur
– A Team needs collective Accountability just as a HIM needs individual Accountability
– Standards are meaningless if the Q will not Enforce them
– The Q does not quit on the willing

MARY: prayer

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Clinch Valley CSAUP Saturday Dec 20th at The Boathouse at 7am

COT: Yep