F3 Knoxville

Chilly day at Big Ball

Big Ball

THE SCENE: 36* at the start according to Steve Jobs
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • BAC reverse then forward
  • Imperial squat walker
  • Cobra merkins
  • Tempo lunge

THA-THANG:
Quick mosey to the L&N parking lot just passed the war memorial for Kraken.  Eight cones set up around the middle parking lot island.  Split up for COVID purposes and start at different cones, perform the exercise then run a circle around the Kraken and move to next exercise.  Plank up in the middle when finished, exercises as follows:

  • 30 merkins
  • 20 jump squats
  • 25 BBSUs
  • 20 four count merkins (T-merkins)
  • 25 smurf jacks
  • 15 Freddy Mercury (four count)
  • 10 burpees
  • 15 lunges (15 each leg)

Everyone finished pretty close together, slowsey over to the coupon pile and grab a rock for a 12 minute AMRAP:

  • 10 curls
  • 10 Lion Kings
  • 10 front raises
  • Put rock on ground and spring the straight around the war memorial

Return coupons to the pile and mosey back to start point and find a bench.  OYO, two rounds through the following:

  • 10 dips
  • 10 derkins
  • 10 Bulgarian split squats (10 each leg)
  • 10 box jumps

MARY:
Laid back leg lifts
Leg scissors
20 seconds of stargazers
G6 requested some bus drivers, so we did sitting leg elevated bus drivers (a lot more difficult that way)
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
6 strong braved the cold: Drive Thru, G6, Livestrong, Passport, Postman, Abort
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
I noticed before coming out that evidently multiple countries have the US on a travel warning for at least this month, due to possible civil unrest following the election.  It is surprising and disappointing that our country has become so divided that one of the most basic things our country is founded on has caused fear of violence regardless of the outcome.  To us (myself most of all), what can we do to correct this issue?  Be understanding, be patient, and take a little extra time to react.  We owe it to our community and our neighbors to let them have their opinion (even if we disagree) and respect their choices.  Try to be conscious that we don’t know what’s going on in people’s lives, and that if we can give them just a little more patience and empathy that it could totally change a reaction.  A little bit truly can go a long way.

Prayers up for Passport with his back and also for his parents and his dad, for Swanson as he deals with some issues at his house, central Alabama from where Livestrong is from and the storm that rolled through, and for our community and nation this week.