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The Story of TTTP!

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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.

Big Ball rock stars

THE SCENE: 48* and clear, perfect weather
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Side straddle hops x20 IC
  • Tempo squats x10 IC
  • Merkins on 4 count, x20 IC
  • Imperial squat walkers, x10 IC

THA-THANG:
Begin mosey away from AO, pass bottom of Big Ball and pause just before Cumberland Avenue to wait on 6.  PAX perform 20 merkins and 20 squats OYO. Continue Mosey to Church Street parking lot right next to Henley Street Bridge.  PAX pick up pet rocks for rock circuit.  PAX who start with Colt 45s bump the group ahead of them to next exercise, 4 corners of lot with exercises:

  • Colt 45s – 15 rock curls from bottom to halfway point of ROM, 15 rock curls from halfway point to top of ROM, 15 rock curls full bottom to top
  • Big boy sit ups with rock pressed in the air.  Exercise until bumped by group behind
  • Squats with rock pressed above head.  Exercise until bumped by group behind
  • ABCs – Write the letters of the alphabet with the rock.  Exercise until bumped by group behind

Rotate through all exercises twice.  Replace pet rock and recover.  Mosey across Henley Street to hill at Walnut Street, and meet at bottom of hill.  Perform Lt. Dan’s all the way up hill (1 squat, 4 lunges, 2 squats, 8 lunges, etc maintaining 1:4 ratio until you reach the top).  Recover.

Mosey back towards AO, stopping at the Big Ball for Contra Burpees (increasing number of merkins in the burpee by each repetition until you reach 10 merks in the burp).  Recover. Mosey back to AO SP.

MARY:
Box cutters x15 IC
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
17 PAX, 0 FNGs.  Hang Tight, Steam, Blazer, Jenner, Savannah, Manwich, Cowbell, A-Rod, Frank, Passport, Outlaw, Uncle Rico, Quarantine, Eggo, Singlet, G6, Abort
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Workouts with F3 have been a game changer in my life.  I’ve tried doing workouts and rucks that we’ve done on my own, and there is no push and the workouts have no effect.  The men that join each morning are why I’m here.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Trucking to the Pount Saturday, Big Ball AO begins Saturday workouts on Saturday as well

Whirlpool

THE SCENE: Low 40’s, a bit nippy, clear
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Cherry Pickers x 10
  • Tempo Squats x 10
  • Happy Jacks (5, 4 count SSH followed by 2 squat jumps) x 5 sets
  • Tempo Merkin x 10

THA-THANG:

  • Mosey to the amphitheater for whirlpool instructions.
  • Whirlpool (timed exercise ~20 min AMRAP).  5 stations around World’s Fair pond.  #1 Box jumps x 10 on amphitheater stage.  #2 Derkins  x 10 amphitheater steps.  #3 Lunge across bridge.  #4 Carolina dry docks x 10 base of convention center steps.  # 5 Pull-ups x 10 on the Big Ball!  Mosey from station to station as many laps as possible until time called.  Big boy sit ups until last group arrives.
  • Recover to crosswalk under the bridge
  • Triple Nickel.  Run from crosswalk uphill to intersection of Clinch and World’s Fair Park drive.  5 merkins at the top, then run back down.  5 merkins at the bottom.  Rinse and repeat x 5
  • Return to AO for Mary

MARY:

  • 4 count Sweat Angels x 20
  • 4 count American Hammers x 15
  • Cash out with some ATMs

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

16 PAX strong.  No FNG’s, but second timer George Locken  forgot his previously  given F3 name.  It was agreed to rename him Mr. Magoo.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

  • Philippians 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord always.  Again I will say rejoice.
  • What do you rejoice in?
  • It is not in our circumstances we find joy.  Circumstances will often not allow it.  Joy resides in the Lord.

Curb Crawls and Dirty Hookups

THE SCENE: 52 and clear, perfect morning
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Side straddle hops x20 IC
Tempo squats x10 IC
Peter Protons
Michael Phelps
THA-THANG:
Mosey over to side street running beside park.  Start ascending curb crawls – bear crawl across street to curb, turn around and place feet on the curb and perform 1 derkin.  Bear crawl back to the other side, perform 2 derkins.  Repeat bear crawl across street and increase number of derkins until reaching lucky 13.  Flutter kicks and big boys waiting on the 6 to complete. Recover

Mosey to long parking lot behind Chemistry building, pausing at the halfway point for 20 big boys and 20 squats.  Continue to long parking lot where 5 cones are set up, 100 yards from SP, 75 yards, 50 yards, 25, yards, and 10 yards from SP.

  • 100 yard dash, perform 100 SSHs, mosey back to SP and plank waiting on 6
  • 75 yard dash, perform 75 mountain climbers, mosey back to SP and plank waiting on 6
  • 50 yard dash, perform 50 LBCs, mosey back to SP and plank waiting on 6
  • 25 yard dash, perform 25 merkins, mosey back to SP and all plank while Pfeiffer takes us shopping (holding varying heights of plank)
  • 10 yard dash, perform 10 burpees, mosey back to SP and plank waiting on 6.  Recover

Mosey back to underpass near AO.  All PAX plank facing wall for dirty hookups.  From plank position going through a 4 count exercise.  1 Count, place right hand on wall, 2 count place left hand on wall (now in horizontal plank), 3 count right hand down, 4 count left hand down.  Repeato x10.

Mosey back to SP for shoulder blaster and Mary. Shoulder blasters:

  • Forward arm raise thumbs up x10
  • Forward arm raise thumbs down x10
  • Forward arm raise thumbs up on up, thumbs down on down x10
  • Lateral arm raise thumbs up x10
  • Lateral arm raise thumbs down x10
  • Lateral arm raise thumbs up on up thumbs down on down x10

MARY:
Flutter kicks x20 IC
Hello Dolly’s x20 IC
Boat/canoes til time
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
13 Strong: Careless, Red Writer, Pfeiffer, Hooker, Doolittle, Passport, Singlet, Plunger, Filter, Uncle Rico, Quarantine, Green Card, Abort
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Make sure as HIM that we are remembering all the hats we wear, and are being present in all those areas.  Try not to focus too much on one area that you forget or neglect another.

Tammy Wynette at the Ball

THE SCENE: 64 degrees and clear
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Windmills 10x in cadence
  • Tempo squat 10x in cadence
  • Side straddle hops 25x in cadence
  • Tempo merkin 10x in cadence

THA-THANG:
PAX move as a group to 11th Street parking garage, stopping for Al Gore at crosswalk. Once in the garage, PAX partner up for Tammy Wynette.

One PAX performs 10 merkins, while the partner stands by his man and does 10 squats. Then partners swap and perform the opposite exercise. PAX then run to the next level and repeat until they reach the top of the garage and 100 of each exercise.

Recover and 10 count. Descend parking garage using same partner and same concept, this time stopping on only one end of the garage for exercises not both. 10 count of Big boys and 10 count Smurf jacks.

Recover and 10 count, mosey back to worlds fair park. PAX start on southern end of lawn facing four cones in a line. PAX go to each cone performing increasing number of exercises, mosey back and start next set.

Set 1 – lunge to cones, perform burpees 3/6/9/12 reps

Set 2 – bear crawl to cones, perform superman swims 5/10/15/20 reps

Set 3 – crab walk between cones, perform merkins 5/10/15/20

Recover to fountains

MARY:
4 count flutter kicks, 20x in cadence
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
26 PAX including 5 FNGs.  Hang Tight, Neutron, Noah, Jenner, Target, Madoff, Blazer, G6, Singlet, Gogurt, Steam, Pfeiffer, Jalen, Putt-Putt, Bessie, Snookie, Preacher, Quarantine, Commando, Savannah, Manwich, Red Writer, Careless, Sheldon, Anchorman, Abort
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.  Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.”