“When the mind is kept in the present it becomes calm.”
Defiantly going to have to keep my mind in the present this weekend! Remember in my last post how I mentioned that Diane and I were trying to MACh on the same day? Well that’s still a go for sure, but this weekend is stacking up to be quite a big one! Apparently I agreed to show my friends dog Chessie…which is fine I have been training her in class for the last month or so, I ran her once before in a show and she is Jenna’s cousin. So no biggy right, she is even in the same class so no conflicts! Well I also forgot that Oz is entered on Sunday and is going for his Novice Standard title. And I might have to run Flint again, I ran him this past June and loved him! Hopefully we can get his mom’s conflicts all sorted out so I don’t end up running three dogs in the 12” class :P that would be almost too much!
Diane and I were thinking that not only would a double MACh day be awesome but it’s also great practice!! I know right, figures Diane could find away to make a MACh run practice for something. This weekend it looks like that something will be team practice, do or die while keeping the team in mind. I have no doubts that Jenna and I can finish the MACh this weekend we just tend to be pretty consistent on two-day weekends, but with the add pressure of doing it tomorrow and thinking about that if we don’t double Q then this year’s plan for a double MACh party are pretty much gone, and of course keeping this hypothetical “team”, which just consists of Diane/Demon and Jenna/me, in mind defiantly ups the ante on tomorrow :)
But back to the whole present calm mind thing… tomorrow is going to be filled with mental management, yay!!! And I selected that quote off our quote wall, yes a quote wall…a wall that we covered in inspirational quotes. I have no idea who any of them are by, but I like some of them so anytime you see a quote you can bet that it’s on that wall in my kitchen too. Anyway the reason I picked that quote is because the one thing I really have to remember about tomorrow is to focus on each run individually. I have a bad habit of over thinking the day when I’m running lost of dogs, and usually when I get to the line with Jenna thinking “The novice jumpers walk through is starting soon, and Oz is first dog in! I got to finish this run fast.” Things don’t always go so well. So the main objective of tomorrow is keeping my mind in the present so that it can become calm, because I don’t know about you but I always run like 1,000x better if I’m focused on the moment.
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