F3 Knoxville

Category: Asylum AM

Founding AO

Tour de Fun

AO: asylum-am
Q: Gibbler
PAX: Fabio (Joe Hamilton), Matlock (Bill Maddox), Tropicana, Hot Tub (John Muller), Bunny, Hands, Cat Gut (Mike Davis), Cinco (Scott McGuire), Double Wide, Gibbler, Kentucky, Love’s, Waffle House (Brady Greene), @Newton, @Archie, @Possum, @Backflow
FNGs: None
COUNT: 17
WARMUP: SSH and tempo squats and merkins and Grady corn and TN rocking chair with a mosey

THE THANG:
After getting over the disappointment of not having a Love’s Q we settled into the normal complaining.

Pickleball steps with merkins and dry docks and bear crawls down the steps. 3 rounds of fun

Turf baseball field for burps at each base and home plate with step ups and dips. 3 rounds of fun

Soccer field for shoulder taps and froggy squats on either side. 3 rounds of fun Soccer field

Junk science of sprinting 2x across the field. Adds years to your life. It’s science and can’t be denied.

MARY: mixed in after each station

ANNOUNCEMENTS: happy birthday Hands. Haw Ridge and Spring Break

COT: if you want to go fast go alone. If you want to go far go together.

Going Backwards at a Blistering Pace

AO: asylum-am
Q: Sawdust , Farley, Matlock (Bill Maddox), Gibbler, bluebird, Fabio (Joe Hamilton)
PAX: Farley, Sawdust, Matlock (Bill Maddox), Gibbler, bluebird, Fabio (Joe Hamilton), Jack-Jack 🦮, Rugby 🦮, Maddie 🦮
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
WARMUP: Wait for bluebird’s alarm to go off to start. This spring forward thing messed with our start.

THE THANG: Ruck for 4.7 miles. Again, if we’d gotten off to a quick start, we might have hit 5 miles. New :dart:?!?

MARY: The Tail of the Dragon might be considered Mary, but we pulled into the station at the start of Name-o-Rama.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Escape from Haw Ridge

COT: Hands provided us a word on getting the junk out of your life.

[mountainbiking] Back Out at Haw Ridge

AO: mountainbiking
Q: Imaginary
PAX: Sambo, Billy Goat, Gru Petr Hanousek, Hootie, Mahomes, Redwood (David),, Cripple (Hunter), Billy Jeans (Jayden), Rebound (Bryan)
FNGs: 5 Redwood (David),, Cripple (Hunter), Billy Jeans (Jayden), Rebound (Bryan)
COUNT: 10
WARMUP: Gathered up FNG’s.

THE THANG: Rode mostly Atomic Ring CW.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Need to fill up the Q calendar now that we have nicer weather and more daylight.

COT: Life is short. You never know how much time you have – both for yourself and those you care about. If you live to the average in the US of 77.4 years, you still only have so many times you will see your parents, siblings, children, friends, coworkers. Counting up the expected time left can be sobering.

My wife’s former coworker, Aaron, just lost his son tragically in a motorcycle accident. No one is promised tomorrow. Be the best leader you can and make the most of every interaction with those you care most about.

[virtuous-leadership-school] Q1.4 The Jester: A tough one to face

AO: virtuous-leadership-school
Q: Borg
PAX: Spinner, Spellcheck
FNGs: None
COUNT: 3
WARMUP: Prayer and hot coffee!

THE THANG: The toughest Q point yet, it hits the weaknesses we cannot make go away. We can only prepare and fail forward.
– We started off Subject because we discussed “How to step in to help a confusing or over-engineered Q?”
– The Jester – The tempataion of the flesh – “The Grind of Everything.”
– Law of Addition – If you add something good in spite of everything else being the same, then you are getting better.
– But the same can happen if something bad is added in by rationalization and the slippery slope begins.
– There are no plateaus!!
– Accelerating requires timing, strategy and patience – Prepare, Assess, Position yourself, hold, hold, hold, go.
– “Before you even do it, just don’t.”

Exercise: Name 1-3 people who you are impacting because you are where you are, now, instead of in the fantasy world of who you could have been.

COT: Got distracted, no prayer, and no picture. The Jester strikes again.

[lostpearls-otb] AO LAUNCH!

AO: lostpearls-otb
Q: Bail Bonds
PAX: Mermaid, Gmail, Spellcheck, Natty, Colonel (Alex Wallace), Appleseed, Biohack, Mathlete, Tom Tom, flyball, Double-Dip, Matt Slone, Bail Bonds, Strings, Jake Carpenter (Elbow Deep)
FNGs: 1 Jake Carpenter (Elbow Deep)
COUNT: 15
WARMUP:
Tempo Squats and Tempo Merkins

THE THANG:
Ruck Around and Find Out
Headed down the greenway into downtown to the gravel hill for a burnee. Squat hold for the 6.
Meandered our way through town to the 1st Baptist Church hill for Squats at the top and Merkins at the bottom, starting with 7 reps each working down to 1. With a run down the hill and burnee up.
Head back to the AO.

MARY:
No time

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
3/28 Escape Haw Ridge
5/17 Hardship Hill, volunteers are highly needed for setup and tear down, discounts re available to those who can help.

COT:
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
– Ariastotle

*Additional COT info in attached image from the Order of Man.