Honeydew – Page 12 – F3 Knoxville

16 laps

July 29, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: shamruck
Q: Eliza
PAX: Mermaid, Flower Pot, Fabio (Joe Hamilton), Eliza, Lizzy, The Situation, Honeydew
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
THE THANG: try to get 16 laps (4 miles) in. I did r ruck 4/run 4/ruck 4/ run 4

COT: told a story about Rick Barnes on a recruiting trip.

You never know the impact you’ll have on someone by even the smallest thing you say or do.

Shady Tour de Asylum

July 29, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: asylum-pm
Q: Drum Major
PAX: Abacus, Welch’s, Lizzy, High Heels, Title IX (Christian Prescott), Honeydew, Pele (Jon Lindberg), Rooney(Carl Whipple), Pusher, Serpentine (Jason Pierce), CRISPR, Curveball, Mr Jinxy
FNGs: None
COUNT: 14
WARMUP:

15 side straddle hops in cadence
5 cherry pickers
10 baby arm circles each way
Little of this and that
10 rockettes
5 burpees

THE THANG:

Mosey to shady spot down by stop sign that leads up to AO
Run to tree and back before each exercise below:
20 merkins
30 squats
40 LBCs

Mosey to parking lot of winter flag spot, if not crowded and shady
Karaoke down and back and each exercise after lap:
20 lunges (each leg)
30 Dry Docks
40 Flutter kicks

Mosey up to Coliseum shady area in the middle
Skip to other tree and run back then do each exercise below
20 shoulder taps (each arm is 1)
30 Bobby Hurleys
40 Heels to Heaven

Quick stop at Admin Bldg stairs for 30 heel raises all together.

Still time hit hilly shady spot down from AO
Run up hill and back then do exercises below
20 Major Merkins
30 Big Boys
40 Hello Dollys

Run up Summit, down stairs by the AO flag and back up the summit a 2nd time before meeting at the flag.

MARY:

Back to AO for some stretching and broga.

Ended with 5 slow De-motivators.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

May get Asylum PM Fantasy Football going again, reach out to Drum Major for details

COT:

“He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.” — Confucius

Too often we focus on successes others can see or congratulate us on, when the mastery of ones self if the true test of success. It entails gaining control over one’s impulses, emotions, and desires. It means facing inner demons, doubts, and fears with unwavering resolve. It is the commitment to personal growth, self-discipline, and the pursuit of a higher self.

If that sounds scary and hard, that’s because it is both. But if done leads to a state of inner peace, wisdom, and resilience.
It is very easy to give in to your sense of worth being based on what others think or can see. Only you will know your true standing in life.

If you are lying to yourself you will know that before anyone else even has a clue.

You v You Junior

July 23, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: shamrock
Q: Stitch
PAX: Mermaid, Crawlspace, Dumpster Dive (Brad Burnette), Pool Boy (Jacob Thress), slappy, Inconceivable, Snaggletooth (Elijah Tafao), Honeydew, Lizzy, Drano, Streisand
FNGs: 1 Streisand
COUNT: 12
WARMUP:
1. Grady Corns slow
2. Tempo Squats
3. Twisties
4. Hairy Rockettes
5. Cherry pickers and lower back stretches

THE THANG:
Mosey to the coupon pile, grab a CMU

Bring around to the front long stretch and start the following with a lap down and back, and two burpees in between;

50 Bench press -> Lap and 2 burpees
45 Heavy squats
40 SSH
35 Curls
30 Dips on the block
25 OHP
20 Lawnmower Pulls (10 each arm)
15 Thrusters
10 Burpees
5 Blockees

Rack em

Played a 2 inning game of wiffleball in the Circle Lot.

COT:
Today’s Encouragement…

Thank you guys for being here. It really matters that you made the choice to get up, show up and be here at this place and time. If you didn’t do that, there would be zero connection. And I think that connection is the whole point to our existence. It’s why we were created. To have relationship.

“I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.” – Jesus teaching us something about being connected to him, from John 15:5

I’ve become more aware of this throughout my life. Much of life’s struggle and pain is magnified when I’m isolated.

I find that there is healing when I stay connected to God, through his word and truth about who I am. Through prayer and bringing myself to him. All my thoughts, my joys, my fears.

With others, in community. When we share, listen, and offer support, we can help carry one another’s burdens.

And when we do that, we can better connect our minds and bodies. We can have all the right information, know the rights and wrongs and the goods and bads, but until we learn to process and connect with what’s happened in our bodies, we are going to find ourselves stuck in those cycles and continue to open those old wounds.

I want to leave you with this too; there is not a sin you can commit or have committed in your past present or future that hasn’t already been covered by the blood and sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

We Rucked

July 8, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: shamruck
Q: Flower Pot
PAX: Honeydew, slappy, Flower Pot
FNGs: None
COUNT: 3
THE THANG: Gulf Park :arrow_right: Belmont West

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Convergence on Saturday

COT: I just finished listening to the audiobook “Supernatural: What the Bible Teaches About the Unseen World – and Why It Matters” by Michael S. Heiser. Other than a couple of points, it’s a fascinating view on texts concerning the divine council. Follow the One True God.

1 Corinthians 8:5-6
[5] For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”—[6] yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.

Fencing Footwork

July 2, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: shamrock
Q: Inconceivable
PAX: Anchorman, Flower Pot, slappy, Dog Bite, Drano, Crawlspace, Honeydew
FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
WARMUP:
Stretching (arm rotations, upper body rotation, cherry pickers)
1 lap running around the school

THE THANG:
Fencing steps forward, steps backwards, and lunges

Partner up fencing drills
2 × 2 min fencing steps (1 min each side leading)

5 touches bout footwork

Relays:
– fencing steps forward and running back

– running forward and back for each line, and running all the way back to the start line

MARY:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT:
Shared about my struggle with lustful thoughts after I and my girlfriend broke up 3 months ago. I started to put God on the side and try to overcome the disappointment and sadness of the breakup by looking at pornography. However, it was just a short time of pleasure, but not helping at all on the long term.

By going back to God’s Word and coming to F3, it helped me to be back on track and focus on God and the local community.

Some Scripture that woke me up and encouraged me:

Matthew 5:27-28
You have heard that it was said: You’re shall not commit adultery. But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Colossians 3:5
Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immortality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.

1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.