F3 Knoxville

Barkleys are Back

AO: asylum-am
Q: Charmin (John Willis)
PAX: Cinco (Scott McGuire), Jackson Palumbo, Dung Beetle, Matlock (Bill Maddox), Rainbow, Double Wide, Hands, Cosmo 2, Hot Tub (John Muller), Gibbler, Cat Gut (Mike Davis), Clipper (Ben McCurry), Pac-man, F3 Pluto ( Hugh Nystrom), Love’s, Waffle House (Brady Greene), P3, Charmin (John Willis)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 18
WARMUP: SSHs, Abe Vigodas, Tempo Merkins and Imperial SQUAT Walkers

THE THANG: Mosey to the gate below the Overlook for a history lesson: Many years ago, a young man had a dream of creating a brutally efficient circuit of running and reps. He called it the Barkley. That man was Zygote. He later learned that there was a slightly less famous race of the same name just to the north. Not as fun. Total coincidence.

Partner up and lap the Asylum hill, checking in at 4 stations for different reps at each lap.

3 laps, 4 stations:

1. Squats; Smurf Jacks; Iron Mikes;
2. LBCs; :flag-us: :hammer:; Hello Dollies;
3. Merkins; :diamonds: Merkins; CDD;
4. Burpees; Man Makers; Get Ups

Sweep and Mosey to the AO with one last sprint up Baby Everest and 5 burpees at the top

MARY: She was missed.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Somebody sign up with P3 for Escape From Haw!

COT: God has given us all gifts and tools to make an impact, but none of us have all the gifts and tools. God has put others in our path to cover our blind spots. Look to those closest to you for help.

Holy Monday Beatdown

AO: asylum-am
Q: Sawdust
PAX: F3 Pluto ( Hugh Nystrom), Cinco (Scott McGuire), Love’s, Trotline (Britton Carver), Waffle House (Brady Greene), P3, Fabio (Joe Hamilton), Snitch (Cory Beilharz ), Double Wide, Cat Gut (Mike Davis), Dung Beetle, White Belt
FNGs: None
COUNT: 13
WARMUP: SSH, Tempo Merkins, Cherry Pickers, Windmills, Rockettes, Tie-Fighters & X-Wings

THE THANG:
Two Times Each
Phase 1 – Each Light Pole Up the Dragon:
– 5 Big Boy Sit-ups
– 10 Lt. Dans
– 15 Imperial Squat Walkers
– 20 Merkins
– 25 Pickle Pounders
– 30 Sumo Squats

Phase 2 – Every Other Light Pole Down to Everest:
– 5 Burpees
– 10 LBCs
– 15 Iron Mikes
– 20 Monkey Humpers
– 25 Peter Parker’s
– 30 Star Jacks

Phase 3 – All the Way Up Everest:
– 5 Bear Crawl
– 10 Lunges Twist
– 15 Inch Worms
– 20 Murder Bunnies (no CMU)
– 25 Pogo Stick Hops
– 30 Side Lunges

Phase 4: Space Needle

Phase 5 – Working Our Way Back to the AO
– 5 Burpees
– 10 Lunges
– 1 Imperial Squat Walker
– 1 Merkins
– 1 Peter Parker
– 30 Squats Plus 2 Burpees

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Good Friday Q @Hands
Escape from Haw Ridge
GTE Ruck Event

COT:
Unburden Your Soul (Matthew 11:28-30)

A Promised Land

AO: asylum-daybreak
Q: Lilydipper
PAX: Lizzy, Pele (Jon Lindberg), Pusher, Jumbo(Carter Dickens), Glamper, Crawdad (Robbi Dickens), Qbert, Swimmies (Nathan Chesney), High Heels (Henry Ritchie), Grandslam, Dung Beetle, Lilydipper
FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
WARMUP: 20 Side Straddle Hops, 10 Burpees, 7 Twistees, Curly Stompers, 7 Cherry Pickers, 10 Rockettes, 10 Tempo Squats, 10 Baby Arm Circles Forward and Backward, Michael Phelps

THE THANG: Mosey to the parking lot with the nice restrooms. We will Bernie Sanders to other side of parking lot.
Mosey to parking lot by Soccer Field. We will be running counterclockwise around the parking lot, stopping at every crosswalk to do an exercise. When the leading rabbit reaches the last crosswalk and does the exercise, he should sweep everyone back. Then we will do the same thing but run the next exercise. Here are the exercises:
20 Bobby Hurleys

20 Baby Crunches

Mosey to the trail that goes by east and south end of the soccer fields. When we reach the area where the trail heads south, we will stop to do 20 Box Cutters.
Next, heading west on the trail, we will to Run Ten Tens. We run ten lights, stop to do ten of an exercise, then run ten more lights. The leading rabbit should sweep all men back to the six. There, all men will do ten more of the exercise. The exercise will be Jump Squats
In the area by the peer, we will split into 3 groups. The groups will go three to different locations, do the listed exercises, and then run clockwise to the next locations. Here are the Locations and exercises:
1. Picnic Tables: 20 Decline Merkins and 20 Bench Dips

2. Boulders: 30 Step Ups

3. Rock Pile: 20 Overhead Presses and 20 Curls with Boulder

Next, we will Run Ten Ten back to where trail is closest to soccer field parking lot. Here are the exercises for the run back:
· Big Boy Sit-ups
Mosey to Soccer Fields Parking Lot. We will do the run and sweep back on the parking lot again but go clockwise. Here are the exercises:
10 Merkins

10 Diamond Merkins

Mosey to the main roadway. We will stop to do 20 Rocky Balboas
Mosey to the parking lot with the nice restroom. We will stop to do 20 American Hammers. Then we will Bernie across the parking lot.
Mosey to bottom of Mini Cardiac. We will run up to the crosswalk and back down to the AO.

MARY: No time for it, baby!

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Haw Ridge on April 5 and GTE with Convergence at Asylum Daybreak on April 27.

COT: Prayers for Kathy Bailey and her family, for Jan that we sometimes see walking in the park and who has cancer, for Qbert’s father and father-in-law, and for safe travels back to LSU for Jumbo after his spring break.

Message
A Promised Land
On the Tuesday workout at Asylum PM I told a story about one of my patients whom I consider to be an “Every Day Hero”, someone who is not famous and whose deeds have not made it in the news, but who is a hero nonetheless. Today I will tell a story about another Every Day Hero. She is a 66-year-old woman named Kathy Bailey.
Not college educated

Lived a hard life

Married a man who turned into an alcoholic.

Divorced him.

Raised her one son, Lynn. on her own.

Blue collar jobs.

Made sure son grew up going to church and learning proper values.

Son married and had his own son, Austin His wife turned out to be irresponsible and unfaithful. He divorced her. Because she was gallivanting around town and being with other men, he raised his son with Kathy’s help.

Her son was an auto mechanic, growing in success until he got into a major auto accident.

He became and still is quadriplegic because of the accident.

Kathy and her partner, Jimmy, have cared for Lynn and Austin until Austin became an adult. Kathy still cares for her son, Lynn.

Difficulties of raising quadriplegic son. Hardships of life. Tired, fatigued and sometimes feels brokenhearted.

Kathy’s faith in God. She sees blessing despite the hardships. Believes in a hereafter.

Her story reminds me of the song “A Promised Land” by Bruce Springsteen.

The song is written from the perspective of a man but the words also spring true for Kathy. It talks about painful events that knock one down to their knees but the belief in something more that keeps one going:
Blow away the dreams that tear you apart

Blow away the dreams that break your heart

Blow away the lies that leave you nothing

But lost and brokenhearted.

Well, the dogs on Main Street howl cause they understand

If I could take one moment into my hands

Mister, I ain’t a boy, no I’m a man

And I believe in a promised land.

And I believe in a promised land.

Kathy Bailey’s belief inspires me. I tell her story hoping it will inspire you. And, like Kathy, I believe in a promised land.

Island vacation

AO: asylum-am
Q: Hands
PAX: Cat Gut (Mike Davis), Hands, Waffle House (Brady Greene), Double Wide, P3, Bunny, Dung Beetle, Love’s, p-nut, Grandslam (Trey Leake), Pac-man, F3 Pluto ( Hugh Nystrom), Fabio (Joe Hamilton), Rainbow, Gray Cup, Trot Line
FNGs: None
COUNT: 16
WARMUP: SSH, Froggy Squats, Tie Fighters, Tempo Merkins, TN Rocking Chairs
THE THANG: We travelers to the islands. Did a suicide ladder of various exercises and modes of transport. We ran, bear crawled, broad jumped, Super Mario’d, and hopped. Exercises were 10 reps of Merkins, jump squats, BBS, CDD, Iron Mikes, Supermans, dips. Didn’t get to the last 3 islands.
MARY: Gas pumpers
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: You can do all things through and with Christ, so invite him into your life and especially those things you struggle with. Tell a brother the same, it may transform his life hearing it from you (compared to him reading it or being aware of this verse). Prayed especially for @Fabio, @Tiki, Brandon, Kim.

Plunging Into the New Year

AO: asylum-daybreak
Q: Lilydipper , High Heels (Henry Ritchie), Charmin (John Willis)
PAX: OnStar, Rainbow, F6, High Heels, Veggie (Rylen Huddy), Crawdad (Robbi Dickens), Matlock (Bill Maddox), Choir Boy, Dung Beetle, Gibbler, Charmin (John Willis), Jumbo(Carter Dickens), Pusher, Pele (Jon Lindberg), Drum Major, lebowski, Tropicana, P3, Scully, Honeydew, Tenderfoot, Lilydipper
FNGs: None
COUNT: 22
WARMUP: Charmin had us doing all kinds of things that unnerved us before even getting to The Thang.
THE THANG: Charmin took us to three different pavilions where we were crushed with his mesmerizing and crushing exercises. We took CMU size boulders to the first pavilion and he made us raise and swing those things around until are arms could no longer take it.
High-Heels took over after the third pavilion of exercises by Charmin. High-Heels took us to the Caribbean parking lot where we ran from 6 o’clock counter clockwise to 9 o’clock stopping at 3, 12 and 9 o’clock to do various exercises. We did this about a million times until we were barely breathing. Lilydipper took us from there back to the 1st Pavilion to grab those doggone boulders that Charmin wore us out with. We had to go to the AO parking lot and team up for Doras. Partners did exercises with the dagnab boulders while the other ran around the parking lot, a heaving and a bursting with air until partners traded places. We weren’t done after we put the boulders back. Lily made us run various sprints (Bernie, High Knees, etc.) until we had stumble to the pavilion for the BOM.
MARY: We were so beat down what we didn’t have the time nor ability to do the Mary.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Convergence at Big Ball on January 20!!
COT: Message: Plunging Into The New Year
Why do we this F3 Thing for another doggone year
1. It is completely stupid
2. It involves community.
3. It is a line of demarcation.
4. It is acceptance of pain.
5. It is release.
6. It is invigoration.
7. It is celebration.
Also, prayers for F6 on vocational search, prayers for those heading back to school or college, and praise for the health of Matlock’s nephew, John.