Here’s how the pump is making my life better.
This weekend I competed in dog agility. Dog agility is a sport for people who like animals with too much time on their hands and not a lot of money — if you have money you do steeplechase or something similar.
It’s an obstacle course for handlers and dogs. They both have to run and the handler tells the dog which direction to go. Each course is different.
This weekend, we ran 4 courses. Marcie and I took 1st place each time we ran. Part of the reason we took so many firsts, is that we were only competing with one other dog, but we did make a perfect score on one run, ran two runs clean but slow, and she only made one mistake on one run.
The key to dog agility is to be fast enough as a handler that you are in place to show the dog where to turn, where to jump, or what type of obstacle you take.
We train every Thursday night that we can — we try hard not to miss.
Being on the pump is letting me lose weight, letting me exercise, and letting me get faster so I can be where my dog needs me.
She’s ALSO a very good dog — which means I’m a pretty good trainer.