F3 Knoxville

20 of this and that

AO: juco
Q: Mailbox
PAX: Lil’ Spice, Wanderer, Mailbox, Butterknife, Windex, Guardrail, Booster, Fetch, Lt. Dan, Tarantino, Love Shaq,
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11 plus 4 OTB runners
WARMUP: The usual stuff

THE THANG: Mosey to big parking lot for ladder work. 20 jump squats, then 20 merkins, then 20 box cutters and 20 SSH, stopping for exercises at each rung. Mosey to coupons for some CMU work with movement like farmer carry, rifle carry, lunges, snowplow in between. Mosey to first lot to repeat first ladder then circle back to return CMUs. Covered 2 miles

MARY: little bit left

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT: be men of action not just thought or intentions

4×4 corners

AO: juco
Q: Guardrail
PAX: Love Shaq, Wanderer, Mailbox
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
WARMUP: Usual: SSH, high knees, tempo merkins, mtn climbers, dealers choice (in a warm up, it’s allowed)

THE THANG: courtyard for dora style, but no counting. 2 ran various sized loops while the others did the exercise then switch:
Dips, BBS, Dirkins, Flutter Kick, Irkins and box jumps
Mosey to cmu for curls
Mosey to bars for 10 pull ups
Stop for some jump ups a the performing arts center

MARY: Hello Dolly, Freddy, other things with abs

ANNOUNCEMENTS: IPC week 0 Friday. Sign up.
Disc golf on Sept 14.

COT: “Who do you say I am?” – Jesus
Matt 15:16, the most important question for each person to answer honestly and to check to make sure our lives represent our answer.

Trip Down Memory Lane to the Road Less Traveled

AO: juco
Q: Love Shaq
PAX: Booster, Lt. Dan, Erector, Nadia (Aaron Jacques), Mailbox, Guardrail, Wanderer, Data, Butterknife
FNGs: None
COUNT: 10, but some took off sonewhere afterwards. Legend has it, they’re still running.
WARMUP:
SSH
Cherry pickers
Squats
Harry Rockets
Calf/Quad stretch

THE THANG:
The Road Less Traveled. Hardin valley forest loop that 5k showed me. honestly, I don’t know how to explain it any better than this.

Stop every now and then to get some various core work in. we got back to the campus a little sooner than anticipated so we rallied up with Booster and Lt. Dan to get a few more core exercise exercises in.

MARY:
Ring of fire merkins to 5 and then back down.
1 more standing ab exercise. Forgot the name.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT:

Butterknife had the word and I’m sure he’ll share that here later.

Burpin Bernie Throwback

AO: juco
Q: Mailbox
PAX: Booster, Erector, Mailbox, Waffles, Stye, Breadsticks, Ike, Love Shaq, Lt. Dan
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
WARMUP:

THE THANG:

Burpin Bernie

Run to first line do 1 burpee and Bernie back and do the first exercise. Run to second line do 2 burpees and Bernie back and do the second exercise continue through 10 lines, burpees and exercises.

10 – Getups
20 – Lunges
30 – Heels to Heaven
40 – BBS
50 – Monkey Humpers
60 – Side Crunches
70 – Squats
80 – Shoulder Taps
90 – Imperial Walkers
100 – SSH

Thoughts on events of the weekend and divide of our country. Pray for our country – nothing is too big or too broken for our God.

“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
‭‭Romans‬ ‭8‬:‭38‬-‭39‬ ‭NIV‬‬

MARY:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT:

15 Days Away…

AO: juco
Q: Windex
PAX: Guardrail, Mailbox, Love Shaq, Wheelchair (Jonathan Perelman)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
WARMUP:
15x SSH, LBAC Forwards and Backwards, Tempo Squats, Tennessee Rocking Chair

THE THANG:
Mosey to the big lot – stop, drop and do 1 Merkin w/ 4 Plank Jacks and progress through 2,8 – 3,12 – 4,16 – 5,20.
Mosey around a few islands and find a tree with some grass – stop, drop and do 1 BBS w/ 4 (2 count) American Hammers and progress through 2,8 – 3,12 – 4,16 – 5,20.
Mosey to the quad and find the brick wall(s) and get down on some 15’s. As follows:
1 Dip (one side of wall), 1 Merkin (on top of wall), 1 Dip (other side of wall). That’s :point_up:. Run to the covered area down the stairs and do 14 Squats. Repeat until finished with 15’s.
Mosey back the way we came and stop at the last stop sign before the flag – do 15 Burpees collectively (3 each). Mosey to the flag.

MARY:
Flutter Kicks, Freddy Mercurys, Hello Dollys, and LBC.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
UnCOVEred this Saturday. Dad camp in August.

COT:
Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord. Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
– The plans He has for us always exceeds our wildest expectations because it aligns with what we are meant to be doing, not what we expect we should be doing.

Proverbs 27:1
Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
– This does not forbid preparing for tomorrow, but presuming upon tomorrow

God’s Perfect Timing

On June 25th my daughter went about her normal Tuesday stuff, and Beki and I took my mom up to Cades Cove. The entire time we were up there, Beki felt stressed about not having cell service. The second that we got out of the park, and her phone got service, she got a phone call from a stranger who was with Maddie and stopped to help. She didn’t miss a call, there weren’t a bunch of voicemails…it was literally that the service bars came back, and the phone rang. Perfect timing. We rushed to UT and were there when the ambulance showed up. Perfect timing. Work was at a point that I could step away and be there the entire time. Perfect timing.

But in all of this, I’m looking for, and becoming more aware of God’s timing. My daughter has been struggling with anxiety and depression, and then, boom, throw this on top of all of that. I just have to keep remembering that there is a plan in all of this, because God’s timing for everything, no matter what, is never off.

When I think about Maddie’s accident, I can’t help but wonder “how does this align with what she is meant to be doing?” I don’t know the answer to that question, but I pray that Jesus would reveal the answer to her, because I know that she is wondering as well.

Thank you guys for all the prayers and support. I’m extremely happy to say that she’s coming home tomorrow!! 😃