Last weekend was Jem and my first competition for the year and it felt good to be back! :) Sadly we only had the three teams in so I didn't get to run Elliot, I do however get that pleasure next weekend, and maybe even the weekend after if I am lucky :)
First race of the day was in red lane and I didn't get time to warm Jem up so we decided it wasn't worth the risk of running her in that lane (especially as she was completely off her rocker!) and so she sat out for that race. She then ran really well over the 12" (her first time at this height in competition) and my starts with her got better, I got a couple of 0.0somethings - it can be difficult to get her starts good because it always depends how much attention she decides to pay to the other lane on her way to the gate! By the last race of the day she had tired quite dramatically and so only ran one leg - she had been sick a couple of times early in the week before and has had a few weeks of light exercise due to my exams. But hopefully she should be back on form this weekend as I have upped her exercise in the week and she is 110% in herself again!!!
I can't really say much for how Elliot ran, apart from the fact that I did notice that he basically didn't spit his ball out at all for the tuggy, Nat did however admit (not that she has on her blog :p) that she kept getting quite into racing and so didn't have 100% of her attention on him when he came back - now who knows if this affected him or not, it shall be interesting to see how I get on with him this weekend!!
Both dogs box turns were pretty shocking to be honest - Jems I think may have been because she was running over the 12" rather than 9" and so her striding wasn't quite right, as for Elliot's, who knows!!
The team as a whole did well though finishing 2nd with a best time of 19.16 and I am really looking forward to doing it all again this weekend :)
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