F3 Knoxville

Tag: Abscess

[mountainbiking] Gotta get 10

AO: mountainbiking
Q: Tank (Chris DeFranco) , Billy Goat
PAX: Abscess, Bling, Imaginary, Sambo, Murlock, Spicoli, Tank (Chris DeFranco), Billy Goat, Toebox
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
WARMUP: none

THE THANG: Aspire Park, Billy Goat led us around the horn and then climbed up to the ridge by way of challenger. Two options: Easy or Hard rocks. Met back up for everyone to head down the fast downhill trail Maverick. Climbed back up and took Dragon tail back down the other side. Looped around again for some extra credit. (Merlock and Tank went back out and hit Maverick a couple more times only to get a front flat and have to walk out)

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bentonville trip in Sept. vote on your preferred date

COT: Marriage is not a race or competition against your spouse. If you’re in a competitive race, you’re going to do things and have things that are better than your competitor. Better coaching, better nutrition, better shoes, bikes etc. It about how you can be better than them. In a marriage we can’t think that way. We have to think of our spouse like we are in a relay race with them on our team. You want your team to be the best it can be. If you have ways of competing better, you share it with your team, if you have shoes or a bike or anything that will give you a competitive advantage, you share it with your team. Treat your marriage the same. Help your wife be the best she can be and it will strengthen your relationship.

[mountainbiking] Monday Night at Aspire

AO: mountainbiking
Q: Imaginary
PAX: Bling, Sambo, Abscess, Frosty, Billy Goat
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
WARMUP / ROUTE: Warmup on way to trailhead, right to Around the Bend up Relentless Ridge, down the back on Challenger, Contender up and over to To-Hi and out Hustle.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Q calendar is open. Please signup – just pick a location, lead the ride and provide a COT of what is on your mind. If you ride by yourself, you are equipped to Q.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
There are also many other things that Jesus did, but if these were to be described individually, I do not think the whole world would contain the books that would be written. John 21:25

Which is more difficult to absorb—the infinite vastness of God’s work in Christ or the very small and personal ways he works? John wanted to write down everything, big and small, but realized he couldn’t because we carry the greatness of God in very tiny vessels.

Our lives, too, can be the books that tell the story of the things Jesus has done—more than can ever be written dwells in each of us. How are we going to do this? How are we going to show up?

[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.

[mountainbiking] Mod HAw loop

AO: mountainbiking
Q: Sambo
PAX: Abscess, Billy Goat, Borg, Imaginary, Sambo, Toebox
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
WARMUP:route explained

THE THANG:up and down and around HAW

MARY:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT:Micah 6:8 and 1 John 1:9

[mountainbiking] Type 2 FUN

AO: mountainbiking
Q: Sambo
PAX: Abscess, Billy Goat, Flashback, Frosty, Humper ( Sam Hartness ), Repeat (Todd Reynolds), Sambo
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
WARMUP:from the lot to the road

THE THANG:up,up and away to the water tank then downhill to the end

MARY:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT: Devotional on Philippians 3:13-14