My knee

Ran again tonight — one regulation course, twice. I took it easy the first trip, and it wasn’t bad. Just one dog and one class. Making up for Thursday night when our classes are cancelled.

We did an exercise in the barn that really required a front cross — for the non-dog people, that means you get in front of the dog and cross. To do them right, you have to plant your leg and change direction at speed, so that means you put a lot of force on your knee, and I always end up doing them on my right knee.

Then we went out and ran the regulation course again. I took it at full speed, and it went very well. The first 14 obstacles were gorgeous, both me and the dog, but you could see when I started running out of both lung and knee, things started to get a bit ragged.

Marcie is a fabulous little dog, even if she hasn’t got a hunting title referring to the fiasco this weekend. She was very happy to be a) first for a change, b) mom without a lot of pain, and ran REALLY REALLY fast. We call that border beagle, as she is running like a little border collie. She’s also a bit out of control that way. I don’t really want to see border beagle at a trial, I like nice solid little double Q beagle the best.

I really think I’m going to be up for the next trial. It’s the weekend after next.

FYI: The pump is on it’s way to Lexington and is due at school before 3:00 pm. I got the tracking number via email from Animas which always rocks, have the tracking number subscribed to via bloglines. and checked the shipping schedule via UPS.

I love the internet.