BKC , Day 2

Last night Miley must have been really tired. It was about 7pm and I was talking to my parents when I realized Miley wasn't around. My mom went to look for her and she was sleeping in my bed downstairs. Very unusual for her. She slept until 6am this morning when I got her up. Also unusual, she is the one always up and ready to go. Then she wouldn't sit when I had her food bowl. I had to make her sit. I put the bowl down and she wouldn't eat. Wow, not Miley at all. I took a shower and when I came back , she was eating. Then after that she seemed back to normal.
We went to the trial. I didn't go early so I missed the Open Fast run. But that was ok. Ok here was the problem. I had to walk Open Standard and Exc. Jww at the exact same time. So I was stressed. I guess I'm not in good shape because it was hard for me to run both the courses. I tried to give equal time to both courses and it wore me out. How pathetic is that. First was Open Standard.



I thought Miley broke her start line but looking at the video I cant tell. I think I didn't trust my dog and gave her the release. So after the second jump , she was off course. I should have done a two jump lead out with a call to heal to the teeter. We got back on course after the tunnel and then everything was great. I wanted to get in front of her after the dogwalk to pull to the left so she would take the correct tunnel entrance. It worked. Great weaves and then the touch and go on the table but I just kept going. So at least no circling.

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So after that run I went over to the Jumpers ring. I was up in 4 dogs. Just not what I needed. She broke her start line for sure here. She just kept creeping until she broke. Then I wasn't in the correct place and we were off course. She took the pinwheel backwards and I'm not sure why she didn't get into the weaves. Everything else is on video. It was a bad run. I don't know how all these people run all these courses and conflict's. Ugh! I cant handle it at all. What I should have done was concentrated on the Standard run. Then in Jumpers , when she scooted all the way to the bar, I should have pulled her from the course.
I probably shouldn't be posting all these bad runs but maybe it will make someone else , who had a bad run, think hey my run wasn't to bad.




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And then after all that, I broke my crate.

BKC trail

I can't believe I was worried it was going to be cold. It was a beautiful sunny day. I was probably over dress. I could have used a short sleeve shirt. Our first run was Open fast. She was awesome.




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She earned 71 points. WhooHoo! 1st and Q. But to be fair there were only two 12 inch dogs. My plan was to take the a-frame at the end but she took the tunnel instead. O'well, it still looked good.

Then the wait started. Ugh! 4 1/2 hours later our second run, which was Open Standard. Sorry I don't have it on video. It started out great. She was on fire. The surface was very deep sand and hard to run in, but she was flying. I did a precue at the double to turn her into the tunnel and she didn't drop the bar. She got the correct tunnel entrance. No stopping us now. But she did a touch and go on the table and took THREE HUGE LAPS around the ring. Ugh!!!! I think the judge was getting ready to blow the whistle and I sent he into the tunnel ,skipped the table and went straight to the weaves. Once again she was on fire. All the way to the end. I couldn't have pictured a more perfect run if I tried except for the table crap.


Last was Exc JWW. I really didn't get much of a walk thur. I walked it a couple of times at the general walk thur but it was packed. After our Open Standard run, I went to cool Miley down. When I came back they were doing small dogs walk thur. I handed my dog off to someone and got to walk the course once when they whistled everyone off. For some reason Miley and I weren't connected. I couldn't even remember what happened during the run. She just didn't feel like the dog I usually run and I'm not sure why I felt that way. When I watch the video , she doesn't look slow. Someone told me she couldn't get lift because of the deep sand and it caused her to drop some bars. The whole run just didn't feel right and it shows. To bad , I was really looking forward to my first time ever in Excellent.



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I decided I'm not going to do open fast tomorrow. I'm visiting my parent in Savannah and I'll just go for the last to runs. That way we don't have to wait so long. Will see if that makes a difference with Miley's run.