Even though we didn’t Q, I think we had 4 of our best runs. Sounds weird, but I wasn’t hurting and my blood sugar was in the best control I’ve ever had at a trial.
Marcie’s first run was very good — we missed clean by one weave pole, one of us wasn’t concentrating on what we were doing. Since we blew that, I was wiling to try some distance work like we do in class, and the end of the run was not only pretty but caused almost no stress on the knee. She was 3 seconds under time.
We were also clean until about jump 15 on the JWW course, but I got tired and pushed a little too hard and pushed her off a jump, we lost time as she circled it. We did nail the weaves, but I pushed too hard again, pushing her into an extra jump. My instructor and I both think that the 5 seconds over time were caused by the mistakes, and that she’d had made time.
Maggie is still extremely random. I couldn’t get good stays at the start on either run, but we still managed good work. Her JWW run was first, and she went into the wrong end of the tunnel, she also took an extra jump. I almost lost her at the weaves, but she did come when I called hard. She also bellowed less. One of fellows who has trained in most of Maggie’s class said — yeah, Kathleen, she doesn’t bellow as much if you keep up with her. She also did very nice weaves and only bellowed at the beginning and end.
I pulled her out of the tunnel on the opening — forgot I didn’t have perfect Marcie, and then she just couldn’t down on the table, and I don’t blame her, I wouldn’t have wanted it to either. Man it was cold. She also blew the weaves, which was weird, as there were only 6 poles.
Both dogs were with me most of the runs, I just lost Maggie for a few seconds, and both did what I told them to, most of the time. All of Marcie’s problems were handler caused.
It’s nice being tired because you had a long day, and not because you are sick from too much blood sugar.