Chilterns

I can't believe Nat has blogged about the weekend before me!!!

Well this was the first time my two were on seperate teams which meant I got to run Elliot :)

Jem was in Extraset along with Jamie, Perry and Sonny, she did really well and ran all day, although our first two races were in red lane and when we then went into the blue lane she ran across to the red lanes box and came down their jumps!!! However I think this was because as I let her go there was some confusion in our lane so I probably wasn't looking where I was going and as Nat pointed out she wasn't being naughty because the other lane weren't warming up so she wasn't chasing anyone, she just got confused which lane we were in. When I let her go next time she veered towards red lane and then realised and came back to our lane (before the start gate) and was then fine when we actually started racing!! The team managed a best time of 20.16 and finished 4th :)

I also ran Sky on Sat in the Missiles and she ran well for me. The division was being filmed (we think for panorama) and they took a particular interest in Fraggle :)

Elliot was in Rockets along with Deifer, Smartie and Bunty. I was a bit worried about racing Elliot as I wanted him to run better for me than for other people but was really scared he wouldn't but I needn't have worried :) His box turns were however shockingly bad, the problem was that he just wasn't braking at all so was just throwing himself at it, later in the day when he was flagging slightly (I am working on his fitness) he did some better ones. He only had two legs all day where he coasted back, he is still not driving back but he tries more when I run him (I think this has something to do with the high pitched screaming which resulted in me having no voice on Monday!!) so all in all I was pleased with him. The rockets managed a best time of 19.00 and also finished 4th, loosing some races on speed and some on lights!!

I am now really working on improving both dogs fitness, but especially Elliot as he seems to tire more than Jem. I am also working on the two ball game with Elliot to try and get him driving back as the tuggy doesn't do it for him when he has a ball and he his getting good at this close up so I just need to keep working on the distance so we can start to use it at racing!!