F3 Knoxville

THE Quarter Pounder

AO: asylum-pm
Q: Steam
PAX: Pele (Jon Lindberg), Drum Major, Pusher, Lilydipper, Rooney (Carl Whipple), Swimmies (Nathan Chesney), Glamper, High Heels, Abacus, Lizzy
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
WARMUP
– 10 (slow) Baby Arm Circles F
– 10 (slow) Baby Arm Circles B
– 10×4 Cherry pickers
– 10×4 Rockettes
– 10×4 Windmill
– 10×4 SSH

THE THANG
1 — 30 Rep Buy-In OYO
– 15 merkins
– 15 squats

2 — Rock Quarter Pounder
– Get a rock
– 25 curls
– Bear hug rock to the wall
– 10 rock squats
– Rifle carry back
– 25 overhead presses
– Bear hug rock to the wall
– 10 rock squats
– Rifle carry back
– 25 rock BBS
– Bear hug rock to the wall
– 10 rock squats
– Rifle carry back
– 25 rock tricep curls
– Bear hug rock to the wall
– 10 rock squats
– Rifle carry back

3 — Rock Quarter Pounder Part 1
– Same thing as Rock Quarter Pounder #1, but all 4 Xs are at 100 reps total, and you must make a rock rifle carry route 4x

(Mosey to the Overlook)

4 — Core 4 (Continuous)
– 50 flutter kicks
– 50 LBCs
– 50 Reach For The Stars
– 50 Gas Pedals

120 seconds to get back to the start point

MARY
5 — 30 Rep Cash Out OYO
– 15 merkins
– 15 squats

ANNOUNCEMENTS
– EFHR coming up in two Fridays
– GTE April 26-28 — knoxville-gte-2024
– EVEN IF you’re not doing the ruck/whole thing, I HIGHLY encourage you to show up for the King Builder (Saturday workout) convergence at the Asylum + Grow School afterward at Bearden High School. World-class leadership training.

COT
Word: A Lot Can Happen In 7 Days
Domino (F3 Smokies) shared this pic on Facebook and I thought it was really cool. Check out the pic in this message thread. I encourage you to read through each of these Scripture passages and realize just how much can happen in 7 days. From joy, to “how did we get here?!” to betrayal and death, to the ultimate example of love and sacrifice, to victory and the resurrection, truly, a lot can happen in 7 days.

www.bible.com/bible/116/MAT.21.1-22
– Joy
– Celebration
– Hosanna

www.bible.com/bible/116/MAT.27.27-31
– Pain
– Mocked
– Berated

www.bible.com/bible/116/JHN.19.16-42
– Betrayed
– Handed over to be crucified
– Sacrifice

www.bible.com/bible/116/LUK.24.1-12
– Death to life
– Victory
– “Why are you looking for the living among the dead?” -Jesus

Prayer Requests
– Pray for Ruby (Lilydipper’s mother-in-law) as she just went into hospice. An incredible woman who is closer to being on her way home.

No Child Left Behind

AO: thequacken
Q: FixerUpper
PAX: Z-Pack, fast-n-easy (Nate Votta), Lizzy, Gmail, Gordie
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
WARMUP:
Ruck a lap around the park

THE THANG:
Ruck up some hills and back down them. fast-n-easy (Nate Votta) brought a child to carry. Just in general, its best to check with the Q for the day before bringing children. Also, the child was female? (ok, actually, it was an awkward 50# bag of sand).

We carried her around until Gmail dumped her into the AO parking lot.

About a 2.8 mile loop.

MARY: nah

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Smokies Convergence tomorrow at SoKno (South Doyle HS)

COT:
There are some uncomfortable parts to the Psalms. However, we shouldn’t avoid thinking about them or trying to understand them.
Remembering these are important
the context of when and why Psalms were written
the “whole counsel of scripture” (i.e. Jesus’ teaching)
we should not attempt to edit the Psalms

Middlebrook Hike

AO: shamruck
Q: Eliza
PAX: Mermaid, Fabio (Joe Hamilton), Tailhook, Eliza, Voodoo, Lizzy, Lt. Dan
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
We rucked to the neighborhood off middlebrook and up the hill and back.

Find someone to encourage today.

Lucky’s Hangover

AO: shamrock
Q: slappy
PAX: Free Fall (Justin Whitaker), Stitch, Mermaid, Skidmark, Dumpster Dive, Anchorman, Tailhook, Nacho Libre, Crawlspace, Eliza, Lizzy
FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
WARMUP:
– fat guy in a little coat (renamed from twistys)
– reach for the sky-let it hang
– Tie fighters
– Tempo merkins
– Mountain climbers

THE THANG:
Lucky the leprechaun partied too hard last night and lost all of his gold. He needed our help collecting it and he left clues across campus on where to find it and what to do to retrieve it.
– 1 burpee per shamrock
– 1 set of stadium steps down and back
– 50 dips and 50 step ups
– 1 set of mucho CHESTO
– 25 – curls, OHP, squat thrusters, and KBS
– 7s at the hill with iron mikes and squats

MARY:
Flutters, dollys (2x), Freddy mercs, plank, big boys, something Lizzy led, pickle pointers

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Sign up for Escape from Haw Ridge

COT:
St. Patrick’s Breastplate Prayer:

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.