Sadie had a trial in CT today. The just missed Q'ing in T2B (2 seconds over time) and Standard (missed dogwalk contact), but got a beautiful Q in Jumpers.
Sorry for the dark video on Standard. Not sure what the video camera was doing....
T2B was a Holy S#!t run. I left to get Sadie just after the 20" dogs started. By the time she had peed, 24" was already done and we were marked absent! Luckily they hadn't moved anything out yet, and the judge was kind enough to let us run. Between the rush into the ring and the massive adrenaline high from thinking I'd missed the run, I was afraid it would be dicey.
A group of women were laughing about it a bit, and offered to cheer for us. I figure why not! So we set off like our asses were on fire, and they were clapping and cheering. Sadie has never, NEVER run so fast or so focused in her life. We flew through that course, hugging turns and neatly avoiding a 'trap' jump. Our downfall was the weaves... 12 of them. She's so used to 6 poles in class and trials that she decided she must be done at 10. Having to use up all three attempts put us 2 seconds over maximum time.
We got lots of compliments on that run. One person said they thought we might have won, if not for the weave issue. All I can say is, it was a heck of a ride.
A friend got video on her camera, so hopefully I can post it later!
You guys rocked that run! :)
ReplyDeleteOK, what's with the foot (yours!) in the Awesome Jumpers run?? I've never seen you do that before in class or in any of your posted or in-person trial runs before. See ~sec.27 (2nd jump after tunnel) and ~sec.33 (2 jumps before tire)... Are you developing new, super-secret signals to Sadie? Or maybe you're sympathy-psuedo-jumping with her? I used to find myself "air-jumping" with Cody a lot (and, of course, got laughed at a lot for it too!) but Cody didn't mind :) It was a great run for Sadie anyway - give her an extra treat from me (when she can have one again)!
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