Day 2 of the Trial.
We all slept much better than we did Friday night. 2 crates is better than 1 crate.
We can get right to the footage!
We started the day off with Tunnelers. I figured it was good, so he wasn't tired...turns out..it was good! We managed to get the Q! I never think it happen for him!
We just need 1 more Q in Tunnelers to get our Novice title.
Apparently I almost stepped on him..but if you watch..when he comes out of the orange tunnel, I was there at the same time..my running foot just startled him. But he kept on going! Going for the WIN!
I was ready for another shot at Regulars...too bad. You can see our home base was right by the start line. Oliver was focusing on his Dad from the get go. I thought we were OK, since he had a pretty good start..but as we came back around to take the weave poles, he stops to look for Jon. We had a series of unfortunate events at the end of the course..when he took the purple tunnel, he was suppose to take the dog walk. I brought him back around to try again..well we decided to tunnel a second time. Fine. So my plan was to just finish with the last hoop..Well Oliver had other plans. He went half way up the dog walk, backwards. The judge laughed. Wonderful.
I was excited to try Weavers again..since last time he ran off like a retard. We had a pretty good run. He had a little pause in the middle, I think someone barked or something. We had a bit of trouble heading into the 3rd set of poles...it was my fault. I was over too far..we're really lucky I didn't take the poles out myself. We would have had the Q if it wasn't for the pause, and the wrong placement on my part. I'm mostly just glad he's weaving in competition.
Jumpers was the last event of the trial. We had a great run. It felt good. The only hiccup was coming out the the tunnel into the serpentine pattern. I was a little close to the jump and he paused just a bit. Turns out, just a bit was the final nail in the coffin. We were 0.06 over time! I couldn't believe it. I'm a little disappointed. But we're still really new at this, and honestly we did pretty good considering where we are so far.
Now for the break down.
Novice Regular #1--NQ, 3rd place (yellow ribbon)
Novice Jumpers #1--NQ, 3rd place (yellow ribbon)
Novice Tunnelers #1--Q! (purple ribbon), 2nd place (red ribbon)
Novice Touch N Go--NQ, 3rd place (yellow ribbon)
Novice Tunnelers #2--Q!!, 3rd place (yellow ribbon)
Novice Regular #2--NQ, 3rd place (yellow ribbon)
Novice Weavers--NQ, 3rd place (yellow ribbon)
Novice Jumpers #2--NQ, 1st place (blue ribbon)
All in all it wasn't too bad. We got 1 Q each day, and I'm happy with that. We're on the lookout for more trials to attend. We're for sure going to the U2 Kan Du trial in November. We've got a lot of work to do before then.
Bring it on!
Oliver is really lucky to have such a great Agility Dad! We wouldn't have made it through the weekend without Jon..he's the best Agility Dad!
Jessica
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