Yep, it wasn’t pretty, it wasn’t graceful, I wasn’t where I needed to be all the time, but the dogs and I managed to make it through 1 1/2 classes of dog agility.
I did all of Maggie’s runs — they were pretty flowing and only a couple of front crosses — they hurt the worse — in front cross, you get in front of the dog and turn in front of them. As you might imagine, it’s hard on the knee. I do better with rear crosses as you drift behind the dog’s path to do those. Basically dog is ahead of you, and you move to the other side of the obstacle. Front crosses cause tighter turns than rear crosses, but like I said, you have to rotate on the knee and you are usually digging in and planting.
Marcie’s runs were tougher as they were in the barn, tighter, and almost all front crosses. We only did have the class, two courses, and the first one really bit us inthe butts. We both made mistakes. Marcie felt mama pain vibes and was running slow. Mother was behind all the time, even behind slow Marcie.
She’s a good dog though as she compensated for me on the second run and was perfect. Again not graceful, and I caused her some time wasting, but we got through it.
Best yet, is that even though I was still and sore when I got home, the hot tub releived most of the pain.
I love my PT!