Day 3, my lucky day.

Today didn't start off too lucky. I went to bed about 11:30 last night. Miley was freaked out because of the fireworks. About 1 or 2am she kept barking. I finally turned on the TV to block out what ever noise she was hearing to cause her to bark. Then Stephanie came in my room at 4am to tell my she couldn't sleep. At 4:30am, thunder storms. At 5am I got up. So I was very tired. I'm on the road by 6am, its pouring down rain and Im thinking , "Why did I enter fast?". My ring started at 7:45. I was the 2nd or 3rd dog in Open Fast. There wasn't anyone to video. No one was in the stands, weird. Anyway, my goal was to practice weaves since she was having problems and opposite arm tunnel entrance cues.
I didn't plan a very difficult course but she ran beautiful and did everything perfect. We "Q"ed and got our open fast title. WhooHoo starting off 2010 with a "Q". See, our lucky day! Then we had a long 6 hour wait until our next run. So look what I found. This cool picture frame!

Isn't it neat, it looks like a PVC jump. I love it. Wasn't that lucky? Then, I was walking Miley and saw this.


I had to go all the way back to get my camera. I cant believe the bird was still there. See, lucky.

Then it was finally time from my Excellent JWW run. All the dogs were running great.
I planned my course. I was planning to do a front cross after #5 and that's how I walked it. But after watching people run and I never really felt comfortable with the front cross there. It would be difficult to make it. So I decided I would post turn it and tell her tight. Anyway then we ran. I was such fun. When we were coming down the line and she took #15 and I thought, man we might do this. And bam, off course. Man , so close. but still a fun run. LoL



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Next was our Open Standard run. I found a quarter on the ground right by the first jump. See, lucky. Today was table day.

(The video is at the bottom of the post. I couldnt get it to post right here .)





This was such a fun run too! I realize she didn't get right on the table. She jumped off and circled me. But I was able to stop her and get her on. WhooHoo. I know my table problems are far from fixed but here is a start. To bad we didn't do the weaves right. Not sure what that was about. But we got the right tunnel entrance. She really is creeping down the a-frame. I'm not sure what that's about it either. Something else to work on. But today was the most fun we have had yet.
Then the rain stopped and the sun came out and I got some great pictures.
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1st day of the trail

Its a beautiful, sunny , warm day. The drive to the trial site was great. I follow the water almost all the way there. I had to laugh. People were wearing hats and mittens at the trial. One lady had long johns on. LOL. I guess its all what you're use to. It felt great to me. I got there at 9am. Ring two started at 9. I figured that they would be done in 1 hour and then excellent would start. Well I missed judged that. So I think my first run was at 1pm. But it was such a nice day, who cares.
I was really nervous before my run. That's why I had signed up for the two USDAA trials.(which I didnt go to) I find that if I go to long between trials, I get ring nerves all over again. Ugh!

I worry about all the wrong stuff when I planning my run.

My plan was to do a slight lead out then front cross to take her over #3. But then I was so worried about her taking that tunnel that I didn't go into the pocket to support #4. So she missed #4 and #5. Crap. Then my front cross was so late after #11, it could have only been later if I had done the cross behind her, Lol. If I hadn't seen the video, I would have said she did all the weave poles. But she pulled out because I started taking off. I wanted to try to keep in front of her to again keep her out of the tunnel at the end of the run. So I did a poor job for my dog.



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At least they I didn't have a conflicts. I stuck to my plan of not doing the table. The table in the excellent ring was a square box, the sides went to the ground , straight down. Ive never seen it like that before. But they used a different table for Open. Not that it mattered for me. Our run went pretty well. It might be because I found a shark's tooth on the ground in the sand when walking my dog. Maybe it was lucky.


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On the way home I stopped at a rest area that was off the bridge, weird I know. I got some great pictures. I took a lot of pictures.
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