F3 Knoxville

Category: Asylum AM

Founding AO

[the-pulpit] Hill Work

AO: the-pulpit
Q: Voodoo
PAX: Leland Robbins (Geiger), Commission, MessyHobbs, Rougarou, Smoked Pickle, Sawdust, Betty, Ike
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
WARMUP:
Check

THE THANG:
Mosey to hill behind the tennis court. Partner up. While one partner runs up the hill, the other stays put and holds an exercise. Rotate until everyone completes each exercise
-V Up
-Plank
-Wall sit

PAX claimed the grass hill was too wet so we moved over to the road to complete two more rounds.

Move to the CMU pile and completed three rounds of:
-Swings
-Rows
-OH press
-Tri ext
-big boys

MARY:
A few rounds on the turf before moseying back to the flag

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Lunch Friday (5/10) at the Creekside food park (corner of Schaad/Western). 11:30

COT:
Spoke about the F3 brother in St Louis who recently passed during his first beatdown and the need to focus on eternal things.

Another CMUesday in the books

AO: asylum-am
Q: Waxjob
PAX: Rainbow, Charmin (John Willis), P3, Sawdust, Tropicana, Matlock (Bill Maddox), Cosmo 2, Grandslam, Waxjob, Tecmo, Steak Knives
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
A lovely break in this week’s rain left us a mostly dry AO. Welcome to downrange PAX Steak Knives from F3 Cape Fear!
WARMUP:
15x SSH IC
5x KNOXVILLE Cherry Pickers IC
10x Tempo Merkins
15x Mountain Climbers IC
10x Travoltas each side IC
15x TN Rocking Chairs IC
10x LBAC each way
10x Overhead Claps
Nobody’s warmed up yet.
5x Burpees OYO
Still nobody warmed up
5x Burpees OYO
Still not warm
5x Burpees OYO
Now everyone’s warmed up!

THE THANG:
Extremely short mosey to the base of Baby Everest, where we find a list of 6 exercises:

Up/Over Merkins
CMU BBS
Thrusters
Curls (long way)
Twinkletoes
Lawn Mowers

All exercises 20 reps. Format is to do one exercise, followed by one trip up Baby Everest. Then 2 exercises and 2 trips. Then 3 exercises and 3 trips. Now, here comes the tricky part… 4 exercises, 3 trips. 5 exercises, 2 trips, 6 exercises and 1 final trip up Baby Everest.

Pax had the choice to start at the top or bottom of the list. Bottom was selected.

MARY:
30x Flutter Kicks IC
20x LBCs IC
30 Sec Plank

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill coming up!
Thunderhead Hike hosted by F3 Smokies
See Newsletter for details

COT:
Much post-event discussion about the recent GTE-46 – SEND ME! revolved around the time spent under an 800lb log. Not one man in the entire group quit. Everyone’s DFQ was different. For me, the DFQ started before I signed up. I’d already made the decision that no matter what came along, I was going to finish. I think setting my mind and making that decision so far in advance was a mental preparation for the darkest hours and the toughest challenge. Quitting had already been eliminated as an option about a month before. There are many decisions like this that you may have time beforehand to make the decision so that in the heat of the moment, you’re able to stand tall and DFQ.

Cinco de Rucko

AO: asylum-am
Q: Matlock (Bill Maddox)
PAX: Coolio (Greg Fox), bluebird, Gibbler, Rugby
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
WARMUP:get out of car. Look for Sawdust

THE THANG:turn left. Walk 4.089 miles

MARY: joined the boys

ANNOUNCEMENTS: there were several

COT:It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.

[mountainbiking] Outnumbered

AO: mountainbiking
Q: Tank (Chris DeFranco)
PAX: Abscess, Sambo, Billy Goat, Toebox, Tank (Chris DeFranco)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
Rain held out for the e-bikes to outnumber the real bikes. 😥

THE THANG:
Sharps Ridge: started out looping around Lincoln trail and then heading up Sharp Shin to bomb down Nightfall. Climb up SS again and take Firebreak east to the road. Take the road all the way to the overlook where they are building a new lookout that looks like an unbelievable drop with the city of Knoxville in the background. (See picture) there we had the BOM. And afterwards continued down the road where the ebikes split off I went down the connector trail where the real bikes stayed on the road and we met at the cul-de-sac. Once there th ebikes took Knightfall again down and looped around on the new extension of Lincoln to the parking lot. The real Bikes took Independence to the cars.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: none

COT: I told the story that I heard about a bike manufacturer that decided to sell most of their bikes online. They were having about a 60% damage rate during shipping. One of their employees had ordered a TV and it was delivered to his house and he noticed how well it was being taken care of. The people were very cautious with it. He went back to his company and they decided to put a picture of a television on the outside of their box. It did have a mountain biker on the television, but it still made the box look like a television. Their damage rate went down to less than 10% after that.
This makes you think of how people treat each other. If they think that we are valuable, they will treat us so, if we are thought of is not valuable, then we are treated often times poorly. God does not see us that way. He sees us as a valuable and lovable human being, no matter what we look like or where we come from or what we’ve done. Often times people think that they need to clean their life up before they can come to God. That is definitely not true. God will clean you up once you come to him.

[shamrock_running] Donuts & Coffee

AO: shamrock_running
Q: Mermaid
PAX: Mermaid, Anchorman, Freud (Eric Minton)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 3
An OTB run occurred from North Knox. We ran through the homeless streets near Karm, and then by Big Ball to say hello to the PAX mid workout. We traversed across the Henley Street bridge, then back across the Gay street Bridge, running all the way down Gay Street, through 4th and Gill, and then back to the Donut Shop. Good times were had by most.