Truckin to the Pound (TTTP) F3 Knoxville’s first CSAUP event organized by the PAX is in the books!
The idea was hatched months ago around a campfire at Junk’s place. You know the kind of campfire, somebody makes a joke about running from one AO to the next, one guy thinks it’s a great idea, two guys think he’s crazy, the rest of the PAX in attendance join in and the pack mentally revealed a CSAUP event… Of course it had to have a name, plus Swirlie said he’d only do it if he got a shirt, and TTTP was born.
Lots of planning, emails, text and GroupMe messages, and laughter later resulted in a route being created. Q’s volunteered and were assigned their AO, date was picked, swim was added then just as quickly discarded. You see the event was planned for all the guys who want to go do an OCR or Ragnar relay or some other crazy event but due to time, expenses, responsibilities, or adulting can’t always make that happen.
The morning of the event was here and we were greeted by a cold, windy, and rainy morning. Perfect weather for a CSAUP event. A little before the scheduled 0600 departure time, 28 PAX descended on the Truck Stop AO. Pulling into the Truck Stop it looked someone bought all the reflective tape in Knoxville and was working to create their own runway. There were guys in shorts and short sleeves, pants and sweatshirts, rain jackets, headlamps, hats, gloves, rucksacks, La-z-boy was sporting a poncho, and Ratchet had on a bra. But if nothing else we were ready.
THE THANG: Mosey from Truck Stop AO to Dog Pound AO about 8ish miles with 4 mini Qs along the way.
Kicking us off at the Truck Stop was Frosty:
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
Ssh x 20
Rockets
Windmills
Domo squats
10 squats, run to middle light
3 burpees, run to next light
5 thruster Perkins, Sprint back
3x
Mosey to Anchor Park where Swirlie steps up to Q
40 drydocs
Lunge parking lot
Bear crawl parking lot
Wheelbarrow parking lot
Mosey to the memorials on Evans Road
100 Merkins in honor of those who have sacrificed their lives for others.
Mosey to Anchor Park where La-z-boy lays the beatdown
Partner Workout
Partner A Lizard Merkins
Partner B Bear Crawls Reverse and Fwd
Imperial Walkers x 15 IC
PA – Flamingos
PB – Crab walks reverse and fwd
Merkins IC x 15
PA Mtn Climber
PB Gorilla Shuffle
Butt kickers for the win
Final mosey to the Dog Pound for Mayberry (who knew Concord Road had that big of a hill?)
Sandbag work, Pull-ups, Burpees, and squats
And it goes without saying that I think every member of the PAX was thankful we not only had vehicle support for waters, gear, and keys, but Junk patrolled the PAX shouting encouragement and blasting hair band music to keep us going.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
What stared as a crazy idea never would have happened without the help of my friends. God puts us where He wants us, and uses us as He needs us. What I also found out is how awesome the men who planned this are. Swirlie, Frosty, La-z-boy, and Toto all were instrumental in getting this thing going. This event taught me to count on your friends, He puts us where He wants us, but He also puts them into our lives too. Even with Frosty overly worrying about the details, none of this event would have been possible without good friends. I encourage each of you to go out and be the example of Jesus that He wants you to be, and allow Him to use you as He wants to use you.
We celebrated Swirlie leaving early to bring his baby girl home from the hospital after over a month in the NICU! Our God is good.
