F3 Knoxville

For the Stats

AO: asylum-daybreak
Q: Choir Boy , Crawdad (Robbi Dickens)
PAX: Snaggletooth (Elijah Tafao), Honeydew, Farley, Pac-man, Wanderer, Butterknife, Choir Boy, Crawdad (Robbi Dickens), Dain Bramage (Will Olson), lebowski, Lulu (Greg Huddy), Mermaid, Mr Jinxy, Pele (Jon Lindberg), Pusher, Snitch (Cory Beilharz ), Steam, Swimmies (Nathan Chesney), Veggie (Rylen Huddy), Waffle House (Brady Greene), Right Said from Nashville and Chum Bucket from Illinois
FNGs: None
COUNT: 22
Stuff was done. See post by Crawdad above :point_up_2: because apparently Crawdad has not learned how to do a formal backblast in slack. First half by me, and the second have by Crawdad, who delivered two messages in the COT:

1. You can’t change your life without changing something that you do everyday.
2. If you come out and enjoy the BSIA, then you should be Qing 1-2 times per year, at a minimum.

Convergence next week, or, as Crawdad called it, a “Brovergence.” Crawdad will be there as a “Brovirgin.” I will not be there because my kids have a swim meet. Enjoy and don’t get hurt. It should help that the sun will be up at 7:00 since it is after the time change.

Gratitude

AO: asylum-daybreak
Q: Lilydipper
PAX: F3 Pluto ( Hugh Nystrom), Brick, High Heels, Veggie (Rylen Huddy), Proton, Swimmies (Nathan Chesney), Waffle House (Brady Greene), Dain Bramage (Will Olson), Cap’n Crunch (Ted Ancelet), Pele (Jon Lindberg), lebowski, Pusher, Lulu (Greg Huddy), Doubtfire (Nick Bond), Back Flow
FNGs: None
COUNT: 16
WARMUP: 20 Side Straddle Hops, 5 Burpees, 10 Imperial Walkers, 4 Burpees, 10 Windmills, 3 Burpees, 7 Twistees, 2 Burpees, 10 Tennessee Rocking Chairs, 1 Burpee, 5 Pterodactyls Forward and 5 Backward

THE THANG: Mosey to the Caribbean. We will do a Candy Cane run stopping at every other island to do 15 Merkins. Those finishing first sweep everyone back.
Mosey to the Bidet. We will run clockwise on the inner circle to the benches on top. We will stop to do 10 Incline Merkins and 10 Decline Merkins. Then we will run clockwise back to the bottom where men will do Baby Crunches until the six arrives.
Mosey to Muscle Beach. Each man will do 25 reps of two different exercise machines.
Mosey to parking lot above soccer fields. We will so suicides to crosswalks. Each time a man comes back he is to do 15 Baby Crunches then run to the next crosswalk.
Mosey on the walkway to the baseball fields and stop about halfway to the large pavilion by the baseball fields. We will do 20 Hello Dollies.
Mosey to the pavilion. We will stop by picnic tables in the pavilion. There, will break into teams of two men each for Doras. While one partner does exercises the other runs around the pavilion. Then team members switch places. This pattern continues until all exercises are completed by the team. Here are the exercises:
100 Bench Step Ups

100 Bench Dips

100 Picnic Table Pull-ups.

Next, we will mosey toward the road leading to the Admin Bldg. We will stop at the rounded garden at the fork where Admin Bldg road hits the Main Park road. We will do 15 Rocky Balboas.
Next, we will run past the lower parking area below the Admin Bldg and to the closest rock pile. Break into teams of two for Doras again. Each team grabs a CMU size rock. Go back to lower parking lot. While one partner runs upstairs, then south to the cul-de-sac and then back down to parking lot the other partner does exercises with rock. Then partners switch places. Here are the exercises each team will do with rocks:
100 Overhead Presses

100 Curls

100 Rows

Place rocks back and run up to Coliseum. We will take a 30 second gander at the Best Sunrise in America.
Mosey to Haslam’s Rock. We will do 15 Tempo Squats.
Mosey down to the dragon tail and back to the AO. We will line up on curb and Bernie Sanders to other curb in parking lot. We will then sprint back to the starting curb.
Gather in circle at AO.

MARY: Stretches.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Brolympics November 16 at Asylum

COT: Prayers
Prayers for all those impacted by the two recent hurricanes. Prayers for Ms. Jan who we often see at the Asylum. She has cancer and is most likely in her last year of living – she is a woman of faith who will be sitting by God in the future.
Message
My message is a reading of the following poem by Carrie Newcomer from her book entitled A Permeable Life: Poems and Essays. The poem speaks for itself and is my entire message.

Three Gratitudes

Every night before I go to sleep
I say out loud
Three things that I’m grateful for,
All the significant, insignificant
Extraordinary, ordinary stuff of my life.
It’s a small practice and humble,
And yet, I find I sleep better
Holding what lightens and softens my life
Ever so briefly at the end of the day.
Sunlight, and blueberries,
Good dogs and wool socks,
A fine rain,
A good friend,
Fresh basil and wild phlox,
My father’s good health,
My daughter’s new job,
The song that always makes me cry,
Always at the same part,
No matter how many times I hear it.
Decent coffee at the airport,
And your quiet breathing,
The stories you told me,
The frost patterns on the windows,
English horns and banjos,
Wood Thrush and June bugs,
The smooth glassy calm of the morning pond,
An old coat,
A new poem,
My library card,
And that my car keeps running
Despite all the miles.
And after three things,
More often than not,
I get on a roll and I just keep on going,
I keep naming and listing,
Until I lie grinning,
Blankets pulled up to my chin,
Awash with wonder
At the sweetness of it all.

Travel through Time

AO: asylum-daybreak
Q: Waffle House (Brady Greene)
PAX: Dain Bramage (Will Olson), Veggie (Rylen Huddy), lebowski, High Heels (Henry Ritchie), High Heels, Pele (Jon Lindberg), Doubtfire (Nick Bond), Lizzy, Double Wide, F3 Pluto ( Hugh Nystrom), Proton, Pusher, Crawdad (Robbi Dickens), Lilydipper, Jason Sutton
FNGs: 1 Jason Sutton
COUNT: 15
Triple Q Fail, triple confessions:

1) I would like to say I was following in the footsteps of my predecessor Crawdad (Robbi Dickens) and I took the week to meditate on last week’s Q before posting the backblast. But the truth is I went home after the workout and immediately started working on the yard, which I do not care about. Spent all day on it and was too tired to post this.

2) I like to get a little chatter going when I’m Qing, you know? But we went up everest and were generally on the move so much that I was out of breath and couldn’t say a whole lot. And we didn’t even get to the Jack Webb I had planned 🙁

3) I forgot our FNG’s name. Little Roll? Double Wide his potential brother in law will have to remember if/when Jason Sutton comes back.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Proton! Great October surprise

COT: High Heels (Henry Ritchie) requested prayer for his write-in campaign to become Weasel Shaker

Stay Positive

AO: asylum-daybreak
Q: High Heels (Henry Ritchie)
PAX: Brick, Doubtfire (Nick Bond), Lilydipper, Pele (Jon Lindberg), lebowski, Dain Bramage (Will Olson), Choir Boy, Veggie (Rylen Huddy), Honeydew, Lulu (Greg Huddy), Swimmies (Nathan Chesney), Crawdad (Robbi Dickens)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 13
WARMUP:
Burpees – 50, Squats – 20, LACs-20, Lunges -10, Imperial Walkers – 15, Twisties – 10, Tennessee Rocking Chair – 10

THE THANG: O9 hundred, 60 SSH, 30 Merkins, 30 BBS, 9 Burpees,

DORA – 75 Merkins, 150 LBCs, 150 SSH

Over to Carkiac Hill – 60 Merkins up the hill, then ran back down, 60 Box Cutters, then ran to AO.

MARY: 20 Gas Pumps

ANNOUNCEMENTS: None

COT: Having a positive attitude is essential to being successful in anything you do. Work, marriage, health, and family. Positive thinking does guarantee success, but negativity almost guarantees failure.

Grass is always greener

AO: asylum-daybreak
Q: Qbert
PAX: Brick, Choir Boy, Crawdad (Robbi Dickens), Dain Bramage (Will Olson), Drum Major, F3 Pluto ( Hugh Nystrom), F6, Hands, Veggie (Rylen Huddy), Lulu (Greg Huddy), lebowski, Toby
FNGs: 1 Toby
COUNT: 18
WARMUP:
Mosey long way to top second parking lot.
Light stretching at the lot.

THE THANG:
Light stretch:
Downward dog
Calf stretch
Glute stretch

Lunge to one light pole
Run two light poles
Karaoke to the right one light pole
Run two light poles
Karaoke to the left one light pole
Run two light poles
Burney one light pole
Repeat to the road

Run to quarry on the way to base camp
Grab a rock
20 curls
20 Tricep extensions
Repeat 10 of each

Jog to base camp 2x
10 big boy sit ups
Run to second large tree and back
Repeat

Run the path to the overlook
BSIA baby!
Run the loop
10 calf raises at the stairs
20 American hammers at the start
Repeat

Jog to the parking lot
Rock around the clock
Start at 6 o’clock run counter clockwise
At 9 o’clock – 20 squat jumps
Reverse direction run to 12 o’clock
12 o’clock – 15 dead bugs
3 o’clock – 10 hand release merkins
6 o’clock – 5 manmakers

Run to rose bowl
25 dips at top
25 LBC at bottom

Muscle beach
Mini Murph
25 pull-ups
50 merkins
75 squats

MARY:
Get comfortable being uncomfortable.
Don’t be afraid to fail.
Failure means you have put yourself in a position to learn and grow through experience.
Put yourself in a position to fail…fail fast, fail safe, fail forward…learn and grow from the experience.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT: