F3 Knoxville

[mountainbiking] Aspider was in the Way (& a few trees)

Asylum AM
AO: mountainbiking
Q: Billy Goat
PAX: Spicoli, Tank (Chris DeFranco), Bling, Trolley ( Dan Shumaker ), @Gru
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
WARMUP: Up Carden Farm Rd across bridge to trail entrance

THE THANG: East on Vim & Vigor then back west on To-Hi. Then we climbed west to east up Relentless Ridge to the top. We took Renegade down the southside to Contender and then climbed back to the top. Then we went to the White House to see the Presidents and then took Ridge east to Renegade and down the north side to Hustle Flow back to the road where Gru Petr Hanousek assaulted some yellow jackets with his glutes! One even hung around for a while basting in his sweaty backside aroma. Gru Petr Hanousek also doubled as a full volunteer member of the trail maintenance crew clearing out a minimum of theee trails along the way! I did my part at point by clearing out 32 spider webs throughout the ride. Great to see Trolley ( Dan Shumaker ) back on the trail!

MARY:

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Imaginary on Q on Wednesday. Be praying fir Sambo’s daughter’s brain surgery tomorrow.

COT: Many of us struggle with faith. Is my faith strong enogh, genuine? How can we know? Another struggle for us is resisting temptation. Resisting sin can be like mtn biking, i.e., it takes effort and practice! In mtn biking we climb hills, jump, ride rocks, over and over again. What can resisting temptation tell you about your faith? It takes no effort to not resist. But the man who puts forth the effort to resist temptation for five min, one hour, a day, weeks, months is indeed showing evidence of his faith by putting forth the effort and practice to resist temptation. The man who isn’t putting forth effort to resist temptation is the one to be concerned about his faith.